Why is my 3.5year old waking so effing early

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3:30. Yep 3:30 and he wants to her up.

I have a full days work ahead of me and he wants to get up.

I am ASHAMED that I've just lost my shit.

Help, I can't take another night like this.

Total lone parent

I sometimes forget that on the other side of tears or a tantrum, they usually accept things.

Want2bSupermum - did the melatonin help with early waking? I've been trying to research it, but all I've found are articles about it's use getting children to sleep in the evenings. Would you mind sharing info on dosage?

We go back and forth, and have tried everything. Blackouts (we foiled up the windows at one point and I'm sure our neighbours thought we were running a cannabis farm ), white noise, earlier bedtime, later bedtime, wake to sleep, urgh.

They are just so fricking tired, melatonin was the last thing on my list.

MsSampson Yes it did. The other things we tried just knocked him out and he would wake up during the night or very early in the morning (like 4am). We are up at 5:30am and wake the kids at 6am so I consider 3:30am onwards as waking up early while before that as waking in the night.

I can't remember the dose we gave DS. The doctor gave us the dosage on a piece of paper and I went to the shop with it! I highly recommend trying it. It took about 2 weeks to really work. Once he was in a pattern we slowly took him off it. We also found that he was incredibly tired from poor sleeping before hand. For about a month after we started the melatonin he would be sleepy at 5pm and pass out by 5:30pm, waking at 6:30pm.