Advice needed re 8 month old waking

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DD2 has decided to start her day at anywhere between 5am - 5.30am and its killing me! We don;t go in until 6am as we don;t want her thinking that its OK to get up at that time

She goes down for the night beautifully and doesn't wake in the night so I know I shouldn't complain, but I am dead on my feet and getting rattier and rattier by the day!

She is teething so has had medised when needed. She eats 3 meals a day (I try and carbo load her at night!) and is on 4 6oz bottles a day (she won;t take any more than that at one time) should I introduce another bottle at some point?

Please help!

Could it be light getting into her room and waking her up.

My DS (3.10) who is alot older has always been an early bird, in the winter we were getting away with 6.30 or 7.00 but since the lighter mornings he has started about 5.30.

we have black out blinds though some light does get through. How do you cope with those early mornings?! I am not a morning person at all!!!

Now he is older he can look after himself a bit, so we put the telly on for him and get him his breakfast and go back to bed. Although he doesn't leave us alone really and he comes in to tell me what's happening on the telly etc. But nice as still get to laze in bed.

Am going to buy a black out blind and see if it helps.

I'm sorry I can't be more of a help for you, I think you just get used to it after a while. Can't you take turns getting up so you can both have a lie in at least once or twice a weeks.

Just read my message over and I sound like a terrible Mum just leaving my son to look after himself. Promise I'm not!!

you are most definitely NOT alone . havent read posts but just found you and felt total empathy with you...

my ds a very early riser too. feel dead on my feet most days

My ds was doing this until we moved him into his own room at 9 mths. I recommend black out blinds and some kind of day time routine. (ie not too much sleep) DS has a short nap in the morning then a longer one at 2pm (no more than 2 hrs). I start the bedtime routine at 7pm (asleep by around 7.30pm). He wakes around 8am every morning, UNLESS someone sleeps in the room with him. Then he wakes at 5am. When he gets to one, he will drop the morning nap

Thanks everyone.

Yes she did it again this morning - bit pissed off as its my lie in day yet I got up with her!

Rosepetal you do not sound like a terrible mum at all!

kels - yep we do all that apart form own room - she's in with her sister who luckily is a great sleeper, we only have a 2 bed flat so can't have her by herself. We have the blackout blinds and she's in a good routine in the day. Has about 1/2 hour around 9am, then down for 2 hours around 12.30pm then she needs another short nap (20mins) somewhere between 4-5pm - have tried dropping that one but she is unable to go through to 7pm.

She has dinner at 5pm, bath at 6pm last bottle around 6.30pm.

We've tried getting her to go to bed later you'd think she'd sleep later but noooooo - she just gets rattier!

Not nice for you cruisemum but I'm glad I'm not the only one!

My ds is the same. He's 10 months. We have a good routine and he goes to bed fine. I'm not convinced all babies need 12 hours sleep. I hate these early mornings too. I drink two coffees just to wake up. I usually take a nap when he does in the afternoon. At least your baby is sleeping through

I know you;re right. Its just such a shock when DD1 was and is such a good sleeper. Oh well it could be a hell of a lot worse.

my dd was, and is, a great sleeper too! bit of a shock to the system this one! I remember friends with terrible sleepers and seriously thinking they must be doing something wrong . Now I know it is just te nature of the beast . i felt absolutely shattered today. Feel so grumpy that i have to limp through every day feeling like death warmed up (sometimes not even warmed up ). i was awake from 3am - 6am with dh (not so 'd' snoring... That has to be the pits!

Hi Cruise, here we are again.

I don't think all babies need 12 hours sleep at night. I think it is recommended between 10-12 hours at night.

What time does your lo go down? I totally agree 5.30 am is a hideous time. I did read a thread here a while ago, about making them take a later morning nap than normal can solve early wakening.

If the morning nap is too early it is like an extension of night time sleep. so perhaps moving morning nap to a later time may help?