Early rising returns

[TerrifiedMothertobe]

Ds1 has been an early riser (5am) since he was 18months old and he is now 3 1/2. For the last 10 or so weeks he has been sleeping until 7am and sometimes 8am.

We have changed nothing at all, but this week he has retuned to 5/530am.

I cannot cope with going through it again. Or him waking his 15 month old brother, when my husband and I both work at least 50 hours a week.

We had a sleep consultant in before and it didn't make any difference.

I am planning on taking him to the gp to see whether they can help. He is exhausted and in tears by 8am. The change in behaviour this week is so noticeable.

Has anyone ever had any medical help for this? I am gutted this has returned, I thought he'd grown out of it.

What do you do with him at 5.30am?

What you shouldn't be doing is letting him get up, if this is not what you want him to do. You need to teach him to stay in his room nd to stay quiet in the morning.

Have you got a Gro Clock?

How does he let you know he's awake? Is he getting up and coming into your room, or staying in bed/cot and crying?

He ignores the gro clock. He doesn't come out of his room he reads a book.

I go in and turn the light off and tell him it's still nighttime. This morning he woke at 450 and it went in turned off light etc and he tossed and turned until around 645. Then he went to the toilet and came I to see me as I was getting ready for work.

He is utterly exhausted.

Sorry, this doesn't help as a solution, but did overtiredness set it off? DD1 was an early riser around 1. We still get patches now, triggered by overtiredness - often the last week of term. I wondered if pre-school exhaustion could have set it off?

Oh, just remembered, you may well have tried this, but at that age I'd have given her an early nap (to get her through to bedtime, even though she didn't usually) and an early night. Took a few nights to reset her.

Stair Gate across the door and take the light bulb out.

No nap

Early to bed.

Ear plugs. Team work

Yep to that ^

(I would have some form of night light so the room wasn't totally pitch black)

We think it is related to over tiredness so on the full sleep plan. He still had a nap but we only usually alow an hour and that's enough. Last weekend was busy an he didn't really get one at the right time of day and seems to have got worse.

He was up at 545 this morning which is almost an hour better than yesterday so will leave him to sleep again today and another early night.

We don't need a gate over his door, he's really good and won't come out his room. He just talks/ sings very loudly! Our 15 month olds. A the moment a good sleeper, 745 and he's just woken up!

Let's see if we get more sleep tomorrow morning when he has caught up properly!