Hi all, I'm back again...
DS now 9 months old. Through July and start of August he was often up for hours, several times in the night. He would generally then sleep until 8.30, sometimes as late as 9.45.
In a bid to stop the ridiculous hours of being awake during the night, we started a regular getup time of 7.45 and a regular bedtime of 7-7.30. This has worked (mostly) for the night wakings. Although he still wakes, it is normally a max of 45 mins wake time. For the first week we had to wake him up at 7.45am.
However, since we started this in the middle of August, he now wakes on his own, and his wake time is shifting earlier by 10-15mins each week, so we are now on 6.30am. I am a little worried that there is no sign of this stopping and that soon we'll be getting up at 5am!! I cannot treat this as a night waking because he's always had his morning poop, a sign that he is definitively up for the day. He chats and squeals happily down the monitor when up for the day, (rather than crying for a night-waking) so I also know from that.
Ideally I'd like him to wake somewhere between 7-7.30 as this timing allows us to get out to groups. (He is very active and needs more in the way of entertainment than me at home!)
I did think about doing the 'wake-to-sleep' thing, but last night he woke once, at 4.30, and was back to bed at 5am, so it would have been nuts to wake him again at 6am surely??!?
Any ideas wise people? How can I ensure that his wakeups don't continue to creep earlier, and ideally reinstate a 7am wakeup?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!