Just wondering if anyone has any advice on this...
My DS has been waking anything from 4.45am onwards for over 3 months now - he goes to bed at around 7pm and we are lucky that we don't usually hear a peep from him all night but he wakes usually around 5am, on a bad day at 4am and on a good day 6am (really not very often!).
To be honest we got used to 5-5.30am and just decided that he doesn't need more sleep at night but when he wakes before 5am he ends up falling asleep downstairs so he must still be tired!
He has always been a hungry boy so we give him his milk when he wakes so I think it could be the association between getting milk and getting up that we have created. The HV suggested just giving him water in the cot (i.e. don't pick him up) and lie him back down but if I think he is hungry I would be worried that is why he is crying/woken up.
His daytime sleep has always been quite erratic - as he wakes so early he still needs 2 naps a day - anything from a total of 1hr to 3hrs over the 2 naps. Sometimes he will only have 1 nap a day (usually nursery days) but this doesn't seem to make a lot of difference to the waking.
Sorry this post is now really loooong! Any advice appreciated! xx