Help! Baby No 2 is still waking at between 4.30am and 5.30am every morning despite blackout blinds where ever we go. He goes down well at 7pm and sleeps through which is great but then wakes at 5am, crying. He's done this for sometime and we used to give him a bottle which put him back to sleep until about 7am. However, about a month ago, we stopped the milk as he was no longer going back to sleep and he has to wait untill 6am. For the first week, this was really hard as he would scream and you had to wander round and give him water to try and settle him which was sometimes sucesful. He then got better and would settle after a 5 minute cuddle and a quick drink. But, over the past 2 weeks, he's gone back to not settling and can spend the time screaming blue murder. It doesn't seem to be hunger as he isn't depserate for the bottle and is rarely interested in water - he just wants to get up. It also doesn't seem to be light as at 4.30 and even 5am, it's still pitch black ( it starts to get light at about 5.10am at the moment!)
Has anyone any tips on what to do with this as 5am ( or even 4.30 am ) is just too early for me to get up?
We don't want to resort to controlled crying as he has a great set of lungs and his 23 month sister is in the next room, who is a great sleeper but will wake up if he screams at this time and the last thing we want is two of them up at this time!