1 year old wakes at 5am. Any advice?

[nichan]

Our 1 year old wakes at 5am every day no matter what i do. Have changed her routine about a couple of times but nothing works........... she is down to one sleep a day in the afternoon for 2 to 2 and a half hours. She the lays down at 615pm but takes and hour sometimes longer to fall asleep. She is still tired when she wakes at 5am but if you manage to get her to nod back off its for about 30mins. Any advice?

My one yr old had a max nap of 2 hrs. Childcare woke her up after that unless she was ill or had had a very bad night. Ate dinner at 5.30 and generally went to bed around 7.30 and woke around 7.30. A colleague's son was waking at the crack of dawn too but the child was having "tea" at 4pm at the nursery. I suggested a hefty bedtime snack and he slept through until 8am. It might just be hunger?

My 7 month old does this. No advice sorry but will be watching for advice also.

what time does she take her nap in an afternoon? it sounds a bit like she might not be tired enough to go to sleep at bedtime if she is taking an hour+ to go over. If she is napping at say 12/12.30 - 2.30ish then a 6.15pm bedtime is far too early IMHO & a bedtime of nearer 7pm would be more appropriate.

I find if I put my DS to bed too early, then he will chatter for so long that he actually goes past the point of nicely tired & ends up overtired by the time he eventually falls asleep, & then we get a lovely early start the next day.

My one year old did this. He is now 4.5 and still does it, often as not.

I now go to bed at 9pm...

My DD did this at 1. I tried everything. She is 3 now and still does it.

I've given up hoping she'll grow out of it, and am just waiting until she leaves home now.

I'd say it was normal - no advice!

You can join us on my thread and whinge about it, lots of sympathy from me... I am trying one last thing before resigning myself to it: later bedtime. Nothing much else I can try. If that doesn't work it'll be 9.30 bedtime forever more for yours truly!

She has one nap a day at 12/1230 depending, but at the mo thinking she needs the morning sleep back........ the only reason we lay her down at 615 is because she gets grumpy rubbing her eyes e.t.c. and if we do lay her down at 7pm it still takes an hour to go to sleep, plus still wakes up early so result extra tired the nxt day. we have dinner at 430pm would like to make it later but she gets sooooo hungry and grizzly as it is.......... last few morns have been a 6am wake up which i am more than happy with :) but i think its cause she has a cold.

ok so in light of your post I'd say you might be right. The 6.15pm BT would be too early for an older toddler of say 18 months age, but at just 1yr old & given you say its taking her so long to settle no matter when she goes down I'd be inclined to say she is OT. How recently did she drop the morning nap as she is still quite young to just have the 1 nap. It may be she would cope more successfully if you offered the nap a wee bit earlier say 11.30am - I know when we first went to 1 nap he had it at 11/11.30am for ages & he only coped with staying up til after 12 when he got to around 16 months.
xx

Shes now 16 months old has a nap at 1030 til 12 then lunch then goes to bed at 630pm. She goes to sleep fine most eves has recently moved into a cot bed and is doing brill. However still wakes early despite still being tired. Gets earlyer each morning today was 445am :/

Why dont u push the nap out. Til at least 12 10 mins every few days?

I might be unpopular but here is what we have done:
DS did the same, awake at 5am ish, in a rotten mood because still tired. When we realised this was not going to pass quickly, we decided to leave him in bed. We'd go to him and say "it is to early you need to sleep for a bit longer".
He screamed the house down was really pissed off but after 2 days, he got the message and, more to the point, was much happier in the morning.

I have done the wake to sleep method. Waking him at 4:30 (as he woke at 5:30 each morning) and it worked each time. He now wakes at 6:30 which I can cope with. It's something to do with habitual waking and they need resetting!?