Early waking 5 months

[Emy84]

DS goes to sleep about 630ish I put him down awake with dummy and teddy. He then sleeps well until about 1 or 2am when he becomes very restless needing constant resettling and then waking for the day at 515!

It's really starting to get me down as I am only getting a couple of hours sleep before I start having to get up and down to DS anyone any ideas how to improve this? I have tried putting him to bed later didn't seem to make any difference.

He gets up so early that rest of the day is then all early ie he has just gone down for his first nap already! This means by the end of the day he is exhausted and wants to go to bed even earlier!

I also met an old friend the other day who commented that 'obviously he is sleeping throu now he is 5 months!' this upset me a bit I thought we were doing ok but maybe I have got it all wrong?

I've just started a new thread about this exact problem & how to encourage dd to co-sleep to help the terrible up and downing all night!

Lets hope for lots of help!

my friend told me not to go to the baby when they wake for an extra 10 or fifteen minutes, increasing this every couple of days and then they will start to sleep longer, ive been doing it for the past fortnight and now have an extra hour our of her, she seems to have gotten the hang of things pretty quickly, ive also got some dark curtains as its so light at that time I figured that wasnt helping

I have the same problem with 3 month old DS. As an experiment last week I decided to just let him lie there to see what happens. I got up when he started to make noises so that he knew he wasn't alone but I just stroked his head then got back into bed where he could see me. After about 20 minutes of squeaking and shuffling he just gave up and went back to sleep. Don't get me wrong this hasn't worked EVERY day but I've managed to stay in bed until 7am a few times since - I think he's starting to realise that there's nothing to get up for if that makes sense? I also decided to try swaddling again. He really resisted this as a newborn but I thought it was worth another try so last night I went for it and he looked a little startled to start with but settled really quickly then went through until 7.15 with only 1 wake up. I think I may have been a bit too eager to grab him and cuddle him in the past so I'm trying to retrain him now - hope this helps!