Why does my baby think it's ok to wake up at 5.00am

[Lorddenning1]

Everyday he gets up really early!!!
His room has a black out blind, and it's warm and cosy, but that doesn't matter he still gets up early but then spends the morning being stroppy and hitting us because he is tired, he keeps rubbing his eyes and lying down on the rug, but he won't nap now until around 10.00, so now me and my 6 year old have to put up with his grumpy ass until then does he not realise it's the weekend

Cos babies have no manners.

My 7 year old still wakes at 5.30am, but at least it's not 4.15am anymore (he did this for TWO years).

I always think that at least with early risers they are asleep by 7pm so you get an evening!

Make some coffee and put the tv on!

I think somehow, despite the blinds, they know it's light out there!

Mine is 4.30 every day.

I could hear a really loud bird too this morning tweeting it's bloody head off, I love animals and wish them no harm but I could of took it's bloody head off currently sat drinking coffee while I tell the baby to leave the cat alone for about the 20th time this morning

This is the same with my 8mo! He’ll get up about 5am and will not go to sleep despite being absolutely bloody knackered. He’ll spend the morning moaning, rubbing his eyes, yawning the lot but won’t go back down until about 10am 🤦‍♀️ despite my best efforts there is not a lot of reasoning with him 😩

They want to show you who's boss

My nearly 3 yr old wakes every day at 5.18. I had been holding out hope that when she dropped her nap we would get an extra hour in the morning. But nope. She just goes down easier in the evenings and is less likely to wake in the night.
I have done a lot of reading on this. Most sleep problems seem to have a solution, except early waking. The only thing I haven't tried is the wake to sleep technique, where you slightly rouse your lo about an hour before they normally rise. The idea being to kick start a new sleep cycle and get some more time.

They're crepuscular like cats & rabbits?

My 5 month old is usually between 6/6.30 but I’m anyway

Because babies are antisocial sleep thieves.
This is likely to improve op- loads of babies and small kids do very early mornings. Either they get better or you teach them to put on CBeebies

I’m with ThrownMuse we have 2 early risers DD nearly 1 and nearly 5. We just accept it and are grateful that they are in bed by 6.45pm. A couple of quiet hours in the evening then early bedtime for us too makes it survivable.
We tried everything to get the first one to sleep later but it was futile. It is slowly improving she has slept until 6.30 on a couple of occasions 😂

Mine are now 6 and 7 and still get up at about 5.30 every day. Luckily now they can pretty much get on with it, but they're generally too loud to sleep through.

I'm counting down to when they are teenagers and I can wake them up at unreasonable hours like 8am

I have one of those! She’s unspeakably cheery at 5am. She also then spends the morning yawning and rubbing her eyes. There’s no reasoning with her!

Because babies are arseholes 😂😂

But yes, it is one of those things that is not easily changed but should improve. My two are only little still (nearly 2 and nearly 4), but I don’t think I could go back to babies again

What time do you put him to bed?

Apparently too late a bed time can cause early waking. We find even 30 mins makes a big difference.

I find if my 18 month old goes to bed a bit late she wakes early. It used to be 5am last year but she grew out of it. Have faith OP.

He goes to bed at 7pm, he got up today at 6.00,,, yeah a bit of a lie in!!!