ds wide awake and getting up at 05:30

[MrsBigD]

I know we're not alone with this but haven't got the energy to go trawling through old threads...

DS is a terrible sleeper anyhow but lately he's gotten better and only wakes up twice a night. Prior to that it was in 2 hourly intervals - he's 19 months btw.

Now he's started getting up at 05:30 being wide awake and playful. Trying to get him back to bed/sleep seems to be impossible as he's straight back out again babbling and shouting. Thing is he wakes his sister.

We've tried putting him to bed a bit later in the evening (used to be 1900 now 1930/2000) but he still wakes at 0530.

During the day he generally has about 1h nap in the early afternoon.

Any suggestions? :)

mine is 5.5 and got up at 5.15 today.

it is the summer

I hate it

sorry no help

dd used to be the same and she didn't sleep through till she was 3.5! Now she generally sleeps till 0700 which is bliss... ah well only 1.5 years to go till we get sleep again LOL

I assume you have a black out blind? It helped us a bit; you might get half an hour extra!

got dark curtains at the back of the landlords flowery curtains. can't install anything else unfortunately and the curtain rail isn't quite on the wall iykwim

MrsBigD, just wanted to say you are not alone. Dd 2.7 has been waking at 0530 as well. I don't mind so much if dd could amuse herself (for say, 20 minutes so I can surface) but she wakes up screaming in my ear to go downstairs and starts tantrumming.

A friend had a telly in the master bedroom and somehow manages to convince her dd to watch it until 8 am! Doesn't work for my dd though.

blueshoes ds comes wandering in and bashes the bed until I pick him up and lift him in. Then instead of snuggling up he wants to play... sometimes dh gets up early to go to the gym and parks ds infront of the TV putting on Babybright but that's onl 30 mins long so come 0600 'bash bash bash' again

MrsBigD, you could be me!
My dd1 always got up early then started sleeping great at about 4!!
DD2 is 15 months and for the last 3 nights thinks about 4.30 is morning!! SOB!!

I am having another in August so at least another 4 years for me!
No advice just sympathy!

My dd co-sleeps so i can't escape!

sympathies Angeliz :) well you never know no. 3 might be a sound sleeper

I live in hope
Am going to move the little one to her own bed soon (have been saying that for ages and can't bring myself to let go) so i'll see if that helps!

I got a large sheet of blackout liner and velcro'd it to the wall over the entire window, using stick on velcro. You can unvelcro during the day - although we often didn't bother as the room was only used for sleeping and nappy changing. When you eventually peel the velcro off the wall it'll probably take the paint with it but you can paint over...

Stairgate across his bedroom door? I guess that will definitely wake your dd but if you're firm about it, it might only be for a few mornings.

When dd was about 2, I used to take her downstairs and stick CBeebies on and give her a drink and some cheerios (no milk) and go back to bed. That was good for an hour. 19mo might be a bit young for unsupervised food though?

Its horrible, isn't it?

the place we are renting ... velco wouldn't just take the paint off

Have thought about the stairgate and tried once, but that resulted in VERY loud commotion of rattling gate and screaming toddler . Might have to persevere I guess.

Unsupervised food isn't an issue with ds... he's quite good at making a mess without choking on his own

Im currently in this situation again as ds has been ill so back to early mornings at the til hes better. I managed to crack it before by leaving him to cry for 10 mins later each day he would then wake at 5.40am and so i would then make him wait another 10mins each day to make it up to 5.50am for a few days until he got the message that he werent coming out of his room till 6am. If he woke up at 5.30 and still sounded tired then i would just bring him in with me-sometimes he would sleep in til 7am.