Moved dd into bed - now she's getting me up at 5am - help!

[Bigmerlin]

Hello
We moved dd into a junior bed a week ago. She's 19 mths but v chunky and weighs loads, and I'd pulled a muscle from lifting her out of her cot. She loves her new bed, and the bedtime routine hasn't changed, she goes to sleep fine. However, she's now started to get up and out of bed at 5am. I've put a stair gate across her door to stop her roaming about, but she stands in her doorway crying and calling me. I knew she always woke up at 5am in her cot, but if I ignored her she would always go back to sleep until about 7am. Now she won't go back to sleep at all, whatever I try. I've tried putting her to bed later, but that hasn't helped.
Any ideas?

Have you tried getting up when she wakes and just putting her back to bed?

if you dont have a bedguard i would try that.

certainly tricked my 18mth old into thinking she was still in the cot!

Just keep taking her back, dont get into any conversation , just explain briefly that its sleepy time/whatever, tuck her back in and leave. You may have to do it loads of times for a few nights, but she'll soon get the message like she did in her cot.

Hows it going Bigmerlin ? Hows the pick up , puttng back going?

Ill be watching this thread , as dd is doing the same , although an hr later. We used to get till 8ish , as dd in her cot would wake and then just read and play in her cot and then doze back off, she was in a much better frame of mind in the morning.

Hello all

Nothing is working!

I've tried telling her it's still night time and putting her back into bed repeatedly, but she has a fit (and that's not really like her).
We have a bedrail but had decided not to use it - particularly as the main reason for moving her into a bed was so that I wouldn't have to lift / lean over the cot rail.

The Toddler Taming book says we may just have to accept it, it doesn't really recommend the whole controlled crying / kiss and retreat thing for mornings.

One suggestion was to put a selection of toys out and hopefully she will play with them instead, but she just ignores them and makes a beeline for the door.

Another suggestion was to go to bed earlier myself - not sure when I'm supposed to do the cleaning / cooking in that case!

Blackout blinds at the window? Interupt the waking pattern by prodding her at 4 am?

bigmerlin - we are going through exactly the same with Jess (nearly 20 months)

She is driving us all crackers!!! We just have to get up now - i give up!!!