12mo early wakings - spring/drop nap/suck it up? Help!

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So dd has gone from waking at 7 like clockwork to waking anytime between 5:30 and 6:30.

She's up and standing at the end of the cot bawling in seconds (like she does for naps!) and nothing I do can persuade her it's still night, she's ready for the day.

Other times in the night she might briefly cry out but doesn't need resettling.

I put her to bed between 6:45-7:15pm.

Any chance the clocks changing might sort this out?
Do I need to drop the morning nap? She seems to need it but manages without the 3 days she's at the childminder.
I put up a blackout blind last night, no effect.

I know there are lots of threads on this, I can't handle early mornings for years!

I won't try anything radical until the clocks change, but wanted to garner views and what's worked for you.

mrsmagoo I think he'll know! I reckon he'll wake at 6.30 on Sunday morning but over the week it'll retreat back to 5-5.30 Dp thinks that it'll work and he'll be "sleeping in" until 6.30 from now on. I hope he's right and I'm wrong. And I never hope that!

Ok apologies if I've been unhelpful, it was my intention to say something positive. I know all sleep disruption is shit. Health visitors always told me 6/6.30 was a reasonable wake up time. But I probably am slightly less sympathetic than I should be after a year of very early starts. Am human. Wish you luck though OP and I definitely think walking could be part of it

Sorry saltedcaramel I really didn't mean to come across as rude to you which i realise I did a bit!

If DS's bedtime was 7pm and he slept til 6 then it would be fine. 11 hours sleep job done but we have always done an 8pm bedtime ever since he started sleeping through the night and built our routine around that. So a 6am start for us means only 10 hours overnight and a 14 hour day.

I've just got a bee in my bonnet slightly (not aimed at you!) about everyone's fixation on a bloody 7pm bedtime!

Ds is now 11. He has never slept more than 10.5-11 hrs a night. At 12-13m 10 hours with a 1.5-2 hour night was standard. At 18 months I ruthlessly cut the daytime nap to 45 mins then he slept 7:30-6 or 8-6:30 as I say I can honestly count the times he has slept past 7 on the fingers of one hand (as I say he is 11). Just.accept it you are not in kansas anymore

Well 6:30 today so yay. Fingers crossed for everyone tomorrow and the next few weeks.

6:30 here too from 7:45 bedtime - I'll take that.

He had two naps but capped at 2 hours in total - same today.

One 2hr nap yesterday. 8pm to bed and he's still sleeping now

Yay, glad you're feeling better on it.

Sunday was 6:55 which is what she's been all week but the corrected hour makes it feel so much better.

Dd went to bed at about 7:20 last night but only napped for about 1:20 total and was really grouchy. Slept til 7:10 which is good as I half expected early rising.

Wondering whether it's just gonna get bad though as it gets increasingly light. Well we'll see!

For us it was 6am wake up. Shamefully ignored by me and dp. Went back to sleep on his own until almost 7. That'll do

I've got a gro blind and lined curtains in his room but the window is bigger than the gro blind so it still lets in a bit of light. Maybe need to get a bigger solution.

I too have a too big window. Planning on wetting and adding fool to the bit that's open if I think it will make a difference.

Foil not fool

Nicky, you definitely made the right choice if more sleep was the result! I try but dd does not comply.

We have large windows and I got a good black out blind from Dunelm Mill that covers it, although last Summer we did selotape the sides to the window frame lest the tiniest sunbeam get through!

I do think perhaps we "jump to it" too quickly when he wakes in the morning so we're going to go with actually waiting until he's properly awake and wanting us before we go to him.

Well dd woke at 6:50 today. I can only assume it's the light as her wake time hasn't really changed despite going to bed an hour earlier. Naps have been roughly the same.

Going on hols for 10 days so it'll all go out the window til we get back, I just hope it doesn't get too much earlier.

DS did 12 hours last night! He had no naps at all at nursery the little tinker so he must have been shattered. I out him to bed early at 7:20 and he didn't rise til 7:15!

He only had 45 minutes today at nursery but lasted fine til his normal 8pm bedtime so maybe I'll get a lie in tomorrow haha!

Wow hardcore! think I'd rather have the naps, happy baby and a slightly earlier wake time!

Weirdly he wasn't that bad, I mean he was tired but he wasn't melting down.

He did 8pm - 7:30 this morning happy dance

Great news mrsmugoo. No such sleep here. After a promising start it was 6am yesterday and 5.40am (both after 7.40 bedtime)today so he's slipping earlier again.

So nap limited to 45 mins ?

Maybe limiting naps is what's needed than?? Trouble is it's cyclical, so today ds was up at 5.40 (might have been earlier but that's when he woke me) so he's shattered today. Either I keep him awake in the day, in which case he needs to go to bed earlier or I let him sleep and it effects night time. AArgggg!

How old is your dc Nicky ? What is their longest ever sleep and what times was that ?

He's 15 months . He's only ever gone over 11 hours when he's been ill. He normally does 10-10.5 hours, so from around 7.30 to around 5.30. His sleep was truly awful before Christmas (up every 2 ish hours from 7-11 months) so at first we were grateful for the block of sleep. Now I suppose we've got a bit greedy and would just love him to go until after 6am. There seems to be something that says 6am is ok but 5.30 feel ridiculously early!

Oh and he tends to have two hours napping during the day, either 2 naps (10-11 and 3-4) or 1 longer one (12.30-2.30).