Early wakeups

[OneGreatBeaker]

16 months old and wakes up at 5am every morning. He naps for 1hour 30- hours 2 waking around 145/230pm in the afternoon if he naps less he struggles getting to 6pm his bedtime routine is bath at 630, then book and milk and then falls asleep around 730 sometimes even later. Any suggestions to help less early wake up

Sorry to break it to you but ours has been a 5am starter since he was born pretty much and is in school now... we tried everything absolutely everything and will get an occasional 6am or 630am surprise but day to day its always 5.

So I have no advice sorry, but your body and sanity do eventually vaguely adjust... we are in bed early tho in order to function 😅🙈

I’ve been there too 😢 some things to try: capping the daytime nap, a slightly later bedtime and making sure he’s not cold. We have a plug in radiator with a thermostat in my daughter’s room. She’d been waking early due to being cold

One of my sons was an early riser, 4-5am. Out of all the sleeping struggles we have had over the years with our 3 kids, this was the worst! We never found anything that helped. If he had been a first child we would probably have tried leaving him for a bit to see if he would go back to sleep, although I think that's unlikely. We had to get him up before he woke the other kids and then we would have had eveeyone up for the day at that point!

Agree with making sure they’re warm enough, our DD liked to be really cosy.

I know it sounds a bit off but are they eating enough during the day? I only say this as I had a DFriend experiencing the same issue and her HV advised her to swap from 3 meals and two snacks to 5 or 6 small meals. So the snacks were more like cheese on toast with halved baby tomatoes or a sandwich with sone beg on the side.

The Caroline Walker Trust has a good guide here.