another 5am thread

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or rather, a 450am thread.
DS is 22 mo and for the past 2 weeks has been waking up at 450am ON THE DOT. Doesn't matter what time he goes to sleep (anything between 7-830pm depending on how much faffing he's going in for), how long he naps - every morning, without fail, "Muuuummmmyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!" on the dot of 450am.

Why oh why??

He did this back in the winter (so I know it's nothing to do with the light) for months. Eventually, it started shifting closer towards 530am and 6am (can't remember what or if anything changed), and now, from one day to the next, we're back at 450am.

Is this just one of those things?? :(

Is he still tired at 4.50?

Wake to sleep method?

he's not tired when he wakes but he is a couple hrs later.

This morning he woke at 4am (bad dream I think) and I brought him into our bed, where he fell back to sleep immediately. I thought "he's bound to sleep longer now, snuggled between us..."

no. 450am on the dot.

I've read about wake to sleep but I've always preferred to let sleeping dogs lie.... But I guess I could at least give it a go?!

I'm in the same boat, although it has got worse since the birds started their dawn chorus at 3.30am. He only has a short nap most days (and the times he does sleep for longer don't help) so I'm just riding it out. DD (older) has gone in and out of waking early and is back to doing it at nearly 5, so I'm not sure there's any long-term solution, other than waiting till they're teenagers.

loveis - I think I agree with you. I could spend so long trying to 'train' him out of it, and then something else will come along and it will all change again and it'll back to the drawing board. It's never a linear process, this sleeping thing!