Feel free to tell me to suck it up and it's just part of being a parent, but if anyone's got any good ideas I'd love to hear them before I do indeed suck it up...
Since DD (2y9m) started sleeping through at 13m she has never been a particularly early riser, usually waking about 7-7:30ish and happy to stay in her cot until we came to get her, which meant on the weekends we'd usually not hear from her until 8am. i know, we have been really, really lucky with her. Our family routine is kind of based around this (eg we usually go to bed about 11-11:30, and mornings we are just up and out quickly).
We took the side off her cot in April and when she started coming out of her bedroom in the morning we told her she needed to stay in there until we came to get her but she could turn her lamp on and look at books, play with toys etc.
She potty trained last month, pretty instantly as we didn't start until she was telling us she needed a wee. Now she's nowhere near dry at night but in the morning I think she stirs at about 6am and instead of just turning over and going back to sleep she realises she needs a wee, gets up and shouts at us she needs a wee.
Then once she's been, she will not go back to sleep because she knows it's morning (even though we tell her its still night time...). She's knackered from waking up over an hour earlier, she's dropped her nap and is very resistant to the idea of a sleep even when clearly exhausted. We've been going to bed earlier but I'm pregnant with twins and I need all the sleep I can get, DH never sleeps well either, usually falling asleep well past midnight or 1am no matter what time he turns the light off, and so he really needs those hours in the early morning.
Is it a terrible idea to just tell her to wee in her nappy? Sometimes we don't wake up quick enough and then when we get to her she just says, Oh, I just did it in my nappy. No upset or anything. But it seems a bit backwards to tell her to just do it in her nappy having seen her do so well with potty/toilet training? But it could be months if not even years before she's actually dry at night so we could be looking at a long time of these early wake ups.
I can imagine many bad repercussions of putting a potty in her room, and I think she's too young to use the toilet with no supervision/assistance.
Suspect the answer is no, but are there any other ideas? Her room is blacked out but once she opens her door a crack she can see it's 'daytime'. She will go back to her bed for maybe 20 mins or half an hour but then gets bored and wants us...