2yr old waking in night and 5.30am help

[Grimesey]

Hi I'm new and just after some advice ds has always had a good routine bath, milk, bed down for 7pm always settled himself and slept till 6.30 but last few mth he is being hard work putting to bed he will get out of bed and it can take 2/3 times of putting him down and talking firm to make him stay in bed he will eventually settle, then he will wake in night it can be 11pm some nights it's 1am yesterday it was 4am then awake at 5am, this morning it was1am and then 5.30am yesterday I went in and told him it's was not time to get up and put him back to bed but he had other ideas and screamed and tantrums but I ignored him and eventually he went back to sleep after 45mins till 7am and this morning I did the same there was only little winge then he played in his room. He goes to nursery when I'm at work and has a nap from 12 for2 hrs so I asked them to cut it to 1hr to see if it made a diff but it hasn't this wkend I have had to work so my hubby has had him and let him nap for 2 hrs and still the same, I'm wondering to try cut naps out we have tried putting him to bed later and makes no diff, he has blackout blinds and curtains lol. We are both exhausted and snapping at each other so anyone got any ideas as to what to do, friend mentioned gro clock but not sure if he is old enough to grasp it he turned 2 end of March. Sorry for long post thanks for reading.

I would try the gro clock - it worked on our 2.5 yr old - so you never know. Also does sound like he's ready to cut down the lunch time nap to 1 hour, plus don't let him sleep too late in the day. My daughter always had to be up from her nap by 1pm in order to be ready for a 7pm bedtime. Put him to bed a bit earlier if you think he's going to get over tired. I find when I make a change it does take a week or 2 for it to be running smoothly - so maybe give it a bit of time.

We use acupressure at night to help our DD calm down - as otherwise settling can take up to an hour - which is just a waste of time. Here's my blog post on 'the sleep inducing acupressure point'. My daughter who is now 3.5yo uses it on herself to self soothe. mydaughterwontsleep.com/2013/12/27/the-sleep-inducing-power-of-acupressure/ Good luck!

Thank you for your reply I have told nursery to only let him have 1 hr, so will see how he goes, I put him to bed at 7.45 tonight and he's got up about 4 times, it's normally 7pm but I had to work till 6 today but will make sure it's 7 tomorrow, he thinks it's a game he opens his door and laughs I don't make eye contact I just put him back in bed, he's driving me nuts I'm so stressed and tired. Thank you for the link it sounds promising I will try it tomorrow. Thank you for taking time to reply. X

Another vote for gro clock, works well for us. Tip is to set an earlier wake up to begin with then shift it later and later once they get 'in to it'. We now have ours for 7.10 at which point ds hollers "the sun is uuuuuup"

Ditto only one hour nap.

Good luck

Thank you littlemilla we have had an horrendous night with him he woke at 2 am and hubby put him to bed and he got up again so we both said let's ignore him so we did and what seems like every hr he was opening his door and playing with toys I don't think he slept in his bed he slept on his fluffy rug, he started shouting for us at 5am and we both stuck our ground and it went quiet and he woke again at 7.05, I will be taking him nursery 2day so I will be making sure they only let him have 1 hr, and he will be in bed at 7pm, I will call into town this morning and get a gro clock also. Thank you so much 4 taking time out to read and reply it means a lot. X

One more thing. My DS doesn't go to bed until 7.30. He generally sleeps 11 hours a night and it took me a VERY long time to work this out as everyone always said 7pm - 7pm.

Just stand firm and I'm sure he'll settle down. You sound tough like me