Early riser

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My DS (17 mths) has recently started sleeping through the night - largely because I stopped feeding him at night - which is great. But now he wakes between 5 and 6 every day, or sometimes earlier. I tend to feed him straight away when he wakes, which at least gives me 20/30 mins lying in bed with him before I have to be more awake, but he rarely feeds back to sleep (though occasionally - apparantly at random - he goes back to sleep till 8ish).

I guess the immediate feeding may be exacerbating the problem, but he sleeps next door to his 3-year-old sister, who sleeps through anything at night but wakes really easily at that time in the morning, and will then be cross and tired all day, so I'm desperate to keep him from crying.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Get up at 6am? :) My 10yo DS has woken at 6am his whole life, even before he was born strangely enough. Rather than trying to fight it and force a wide-awake child to go back to bed we've simply become an early bird family. Advantages are that you can get a heck of a lot done if you start the day early, you're not in such a rush and there's plenty of time to get ready for school/work. At least these days he can potter about and amuse himself if I don't feel like getting up quite that early :)

Seeing as my dd wakes more at 5 (sometimes earlier) and that is just too early birdish for me I wanted to bump this and see if there are any other suggestions

can't help - but can sympathise! DD (15 months) has woken at 4.30 EVERY morning this week!!She has always woken around 5ish, but would have a bottle and go back to sleep. For some reason this week she'll feed, go back to her cot but can't settle. She's been tired and grouchy every day - and so have i, which isn't great as i work full time. She only has one nap at 11.30am, but is often for 2 - 3 hours. I think I might shorten it and try and get her into bed half hour earlier to see if that helps. She's recently learnt how to walk and gets lots of outside walking in, so maybe overtired? Not eating well either ... but that's another story!

I posted a similar thread last week as we were having a nightmare with 22 month old DD waking between 4.15 and 5.30 every morning. We had a similar problem with an older sibling sharing a room, making takling it really hard. We decided to put DS in the dining room, as far away from DD as posible. Then when she woke in the morning, I went in, lay her down and told her it was still night time, and she had to go back to sleep. She shouted the house down the first morning (more anger than distress) and by the third day she was sleeping til 6. We have since put DS back in his room, and the last 2 mornings they have both slept til 7! I would never have believed it possible. We have also cut her nap, and only let her sleep for an hour. It may be worth a try?

Same same. My Dd has woken up between 5 am and 6.30 am(only later by chance) all her life so far. tried putting her to bed later etc....makes no difference, even when once she went to bed a 9 because we had been in the car all afternoon(big long nap). Am interested in this thread for advice.