Early to bed=Early to Rise?

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Does early bed = early rising? DD goes to bed at 7pm and wakes at 5am. I have been advised to keep her up later and to put her down earlier. She has one nap (2 hours) at 11.30am. Has anyone had success with earlier or later bedtimes? (She's 15 months).

Not in my experience, I'm afraid. You might get an extra hour if you put her down at 8pm rather than 7pm but, beyond that, I used to find that 'later to bed = grumpy child at 5am"

I stuck with the 7pm bedtimes and eventually they do grow out of the early waking. I learned to be very good dozing on the sofa when DD was early rising.

I agree with Chil, my two DDs are both early to bed & early to rise and even if we are out later in the evening they still tend to wake early and then complain about being tired!! DD1 who is now 6 has grown out of the habit a bit (since starting school) and will sleep until 8 so I look forward to DD2 starting school (in 3 years!) to get a lie in :)

Not IME either. I agree really grumpy child after 7 pm and really grumpy child at 5 am too. I'd rather have my happy babies.
But I have heard it worked for some people. start by pushing bed time by 15 min a day and see, if not working go back to what suits your child.
Mine are falling asleep standing so I have to wake them up to put them to bed later, not a good plan.

I'd try pushing the nap a bit later, could be overtired by bedtime and this will cause an early wake-up. At similar age my DS couldn't do more than about 5.5 hours between end of nap and bedtime without becoming overtired and thus waking early.

Read a book which suggested that you could try moving bedtime forward to improve an early riser ie try 6.30 pm

no idea if works as my dd is awake at 1am onwards - 5am would be a dream!!

hmm That sounds rude- did n't mean to reduce your issue, my sil children have both been early risers and I know how knackering it is for her and how it disturbs her life- ie she always has to be in bed by 9 to cope.

Hatescolds - not at all rude! I am very grateful she is (touch wood) sleeping through.. even if only til 5am. She frequently regresses to night waking so should really just appreciate what i have. Jazz - she's knackered by naptime so don't think I can push it back any.
Guess I should just go with the flow. My son woke early til he was 4yrs!

What an idiot! Why did I post this? She was awake last night 11.30pm - 2am . Bring back the sleeping through till 5am - why, why why did I think that was a problem!!?

I can't really add anyting helpful to this discussion but am reading with interest as we are in exaclty the same position (minus the 2 hour nap!!).

My little one is 14 months and is asleep between 6.45 and 7.15 and awake anythng between 5 and 6 (usually 5.15 precisely!). We had a week recently where she was sleeping beyond 6am (which was lovely!!) but it didn't last and it is a mystery to us as to what caused this change!)

We try to leave her inthe morning (not before 6am rule!). I usually go in and then put her back down. Sometimes she will re-settle but more often than not she gets in a right state and one of us gets up (we take it in turns). Guess I'm lucky that she's or only child.

Her daytime naps are completely random in length. She sleeps about 9ish and about 1ish (depending on length of first nap). Her naps can be anything from 30 mins to 1 hour 30...again no apparent reason!

I guess she shall always remain a mystery to me!! any ideas welcome!

Mine def sleeps later if later bed but only after persistent change in bedtime. Obviously does not work as one off. I found 7pm bed is 5 am rise. So 8pm bed became 6am rise. Far easier.

However he is outgrowing nap at the mo so waking early regardless!

She was sooo tired after last night that she went down earlier tonight. No way i could keep her up later. I leave DD in the morning too - try not to get her up til 6. I treat it like night, give her a bottle and put her back down - she sometimes sleeps a bit longer but more often just chats .. and then yells. After last night who knows? Be glad if she just sleeps through again...