Early waking and room sharing.

[peachespaige]

Hello, My ds1 is 2.8 years old and my ds2 is nearly 8 months old and they share a room. Trouble is my once perfect sleeper ds1 is now waking at 6am every morning (used to be 7.30) and he is waking the baby who will not go back to sleep. I dont think its because they share a room, if anything ds1 sleeps better at night with ds2 there. I thought maybe that was why he was waking early, due to better quality night sleep but its not as we've had some troubled nights and hes still up at 6 or before!!
What would you suggest, move the baby into the spare room? wait until the clocks change? Im not too well at the mo and need more sleep.

I would put them into separate rooms tbh
My nearly 3 year old wakes at 6am now after 2 years of 7am's
dd wakes at 7.30am so they are in separate rooms

tbh it wouldn't occur to me to have them in one room and have a spare room

do you have black out blinds? my dd1 had begun to wake up at 6am recently too. think it may be the light. another mother from nursery told me she's been having the same problem

Yes we have blackouts. We wanted to keep the spare room as we have family over to stay quite a bit. Its not a problem losing it though.I wonder whether to wait until the clocks change...when is that??

clocks change on the 24th I think (not this weekend but next), I'd wait till then and see. Mine are in separate rooms too, but for us it is the baby who wakes early. I'd love a spare rom for guests though, so I see your dilemma.

Oooh so quite a while then... Well maybe Ill brave it until then. Dp isnt doing as many earlies I hope so perhaps we can take it in turns. I do feel soory for ds2 though as he is woken but sleeps through the day at least.

Have also had this problem recently. I've been making sure ds1 has a drink of milk in a beaker in bed with him and if he wakes leap out of bed as quickly as possible to try abd avoid waking ds2. Ds1 then wasn't alloewd out of his bed and I treated it like it was the middle of the night. Took 4 days for him to stop and I was knackered. One of those days ds2 was more than just disturbed by ds1 and woke fully and I had to feed him to sleep. If that had happened every day I would have moved ds2 to another room short-term.