2 year old gone from waking at 8.45am to 6am!

[GlummyMummy]

My daughter was 2 a couple of months back. For 6 months or so she has routinely slept through the night, often sleeping in as late as 8.45am!

Now all of a sudden she has started waking at 6am and refusing to go back to sleep.

Anyone experienced the same thing? No idea whats causing it but it's such a long day when it starts at 6am, and she is needing her nap about 10am!

Oh, I know it must be a horrible shock but that might be her new time. Or she might revert back in a day or so if you are lucky.

I hope my two year old ds will sleep until six. Mostly it is five. The other day he slept until seven, it was brilliant.

Think yourself lucky. Mine consistently wakes at 5 and is bolt upright and ready for the day

Very normal for a toddler.
You where extremely lucky before

I know it could be a lot worse! She's just so grumpy with the early starts. Last couple of days she's slept in a big later but not had her nap!!

I had a similar issue recently with ds (also 2), he always wakes 6-6:30am and that didn't change, but instead of gently dozing off into a peaceful slumber by 7:30pm, he was nattering away to himself and singing songs looking wide awake until 10pm. I've limited his nap to 1 hour and now his nighttime sleep seems to have gone back to normal. I thought I was going to have to drop nap entirely but shortening it seems to have helped for now.

Could she be too hot?
Is there a noise at that time that could be waking her?
Could it be the lighter mornings?
Could you adjust her bedtime to either bring it forward or set it back a little?

Sympathies. Mine are getting better at either sleeping in a little or staying in their bedrooms on a morning, reading or playing quietly. Some weekend mornings now we get past 9am when it used to be more like 6am some mornings (and they would then want to sleep in on a Monday).

we use a blackout blind so I dont think it's the light. Keep thinking we ought to ditch it but not sure!

It seems to be that on the days she has no nap she will sleep in till later but if she has a nap it's an early start. Not sure what is better to be honest as she is grumpy if she has no nap. One thing she has never done is wake up and play happily in her cot, when she is up from nap or night sleep she is crying for us to come through....perhaps cause of blackout blind?

If she's tired on waking then try wake to sleep?

what's wake to sleep, Dancemom?