Waking between 4 and 5 am!!!

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How do I stop it??!?

Its been going on since beginning of December . Baby is now 10 months old, night weaned and eating well. Generally naps for 1 hour-1 hr 15mins at about 8.30 and then another nap of similar length at 1pm. Goes down to bed anytime between 6.45 and 7.30.

I've tried shifting the morning nap later, shortening the morning nap, shortening the afternoon nap, earlier bedtime, later bedtime and nothing seems to be working.

He generally either wakes by himself in the cot at 5 or he will wake at 4 and I refuse to even comprehend night time being over at 4 so I bring him into our bed and might get another 45mins-1hr out of him.

Please help!

Oh joy, today both naps have been just under half an hour!

You possibly don't want to hear this answer.... I'm still waiting at 8yrs - tho to be fair it's usually past 5am now, and I just hear him thud about and start reading.
If you move everything an hour later, meals, naps, bedtime, does it become 5-6, with 5am being back into bed to nap with you for an hour?

Good luck!

No idea but just wanted to let you know that your not alone!

We've just been through the same thing. 13mo DS slept fine, then all of a sudden, 4am wake ups. It lasted about 6 weeks. We did start giving him a weetabix before bed and changing his nappy when we went to bed. In the end, he just grew out of it. Do you have a partner you can take turns getting up with him? We just brought him downstairs, put Netflix on and made a cup of tea so the other one could sleep. It's hard but it will end!

Thanks for the replies!

@Nomad86 - yes me and DH do take it in turns especially if its been a particularly bad night.

He's started waking more in the night over the last few nights so today I am trialling dropping to one nap as he is SO SO difficult to get down for naps now and there has to be at least 4.5 hours between them or he just won't go down again. Hoping it might help it a little but we'll see!

Um sorry to say but my daughter started sleeping later at around 4yrs. it did improve from 4am to around 5am for the last year

So I started weaning our dd 10 days ago and it seems to be since then she has started walking as early as 4:30am, this seems odd to us because since being born she has been a complete saint. Waking once in the night from newborn for a feed. Then sleeping through from 2mnths on for 10-12hrs. We are so used to her waking around 7am ish that this seems like sleep torture. Any tips? I'm a new mum so not sure what's best.

Hmmm I think its a bit of a myth that weaning helps sleep - a lot of the time it does the exact opposite. Don't really have any advice as it sounds as if your DD is around 6 months and I would say 6 months was one of the worst times for sleep with DS. He wasn't taking to solids well and milk wasn't filling him up enough. He went back to feeding 2 hourly day and night.
They say baby sleep is like a rollercoaster and it sounds like she is an amazing sleeper so she will probably go back to being like that after this phase.