Waking at 5:30am

[Ironmaiden]

I am very luck with my 5month old DD who has been a good night sleeper since she first slep thru at 9 weeks old. She goes down easily at 7pm but since I began weaning a few weeks ago tho she has begun waking up at 5:30 am instead of 7am which she's always done in the past. I know this is no great tradgedy as she is getting plenty of sleep and is very happy and rested but it's kind of effecting my ability to fall asleep. I lie there unable to switch off enough to drop off as I know I've only got a short window of opportunity to get enough sleep! It also throws off my day time routine as I am trying to establish a regular breakfast / dinner / tea routine with the solids but can't as breakfast is happening at 6am! Any ideas how I can get her to sleep a bit longer, just one more hour!!!!

my baby is 17 weeks and has been going through a phase of waking at 5.30 am, which is odd, as she also goes down at 7pm and usually wakes up at 7am, as you describe.

I ignore her, I'm afraid. She goes back to sleep (I put ear plugs in) and generally wakes up at 7.30 if she's been awake at 5.30. It's not that she's hungry, because she's never been terribly bothered about breakfast, takes a bit of milk at 8am ish. I think she's just jabbering to herself at 5.30, she doesn't cry.

Is your baby definitely hungry? Could you go back to sleep if you put ear plugs in?

DH gets up at 5:30 every morning for work - worse than when kids were babies as he puts lights on & shouts if cats have brought any presents in during the night

my stepdad used to do that, uaed to trip over the dog, bring my mum a cup of tea that she didn't want, cough, snort, slam doors.

She divorced him, obviously

and yet Milliways, you still smile? I'd kill him!! Must be love

Ironmaiden, my dd , 8 months, has been doing this for the past few weeks, today was 5 o'clock and my 4 year old joined in. I swear i sat for half an hour watching this American woman on an ad for face powder with my mouth open like a zombie (due to tiredness)
I shall be watching this thread in anticipation of a miracle!

She's not always hungry but she mskes such a racket hitting the sides of her cot, pulling on her mobile etc that I either just feed her early or bring her into my bed but I feel such a meanie making her go back to sleep for the sake of an hour and a half cos as soon as she's settled back to sleep I'm waking her up again. Did that this morning and I get no more sleep cos I'm just watching the clock until it's 7am and I would too if I left her in her cot.

ah, the 5 month 5am wakenings. All the little buggers do it. Don't worry, they'll soon be sitting up, playing, crawling, eating and exhausting themsleves. The you'll have the luxury of a 6am lie-in. However, you'll be up until midnight scraping food off the carpet. And the walls. And figuring out how to undo dents from the wall where toys have impacted........

Mine's started doing it since the clocks changed. I don't know why! (He's 19 weeks). Held out til 6 in the hopes he might go back to sleep, but then he started indicating no, breakfast was required. Eventually he went back down at 6:50 and slept til 10:20! I am rubbish at getting back to sleep but even I managed it in that space of time. V annoying, I could cope if he had just shifted his pattern from 19:30-07:30 to 18:30-06:30, but where did the extra hour go?!