19 month old up for the day at 3.30am

[TwittleBee]

So DS has always been an early riser, usually between 4.30 and 5.30 but past 2 weeks Its changed to 3.30 and I'm really not okay with this early!

Only a few months ago we attempted to put him to bed later to see if that would make him lay in, it didn't, it just gave him a disturbed night.

To start with we were trying to get him back to sleep by telling him it's bed time still and giving him some pats but gave up after half hour of doing so. And past 3 nights we've been trying CC at 3.30 to see if he will go back off, he doesn't and instead we are doing CC until 4.30 and then just get up for the day.

Anything else we can try?

No such luck today. He's been up since 3.30 and no luck getting him to settle yet

It's a total mindfuck........I've just got a thread going on here about the same with our 2.5year old

There's hundreds of things you can try, none of which may work but the only advice I can give is whatever you change stick with it for a couple of weeks.....it doesn't happen overnight

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Sorry you're going through similar thinkingcapon !

Think we shall just stick it out with CC as he did end up settling at 5am till 7am! Which he obviously doesn't do when I just give up and take him downstairs

Just do what you've got to do to get through it. Think this phase has passed but still go to bed really early anticipating a god awful early start x

Oh dear twittle i hope you get it sorted before baby time! Our ds just stopped it on his own tbh

Yeah it's a shame isn't it thinkingcapon as then you miss out on having evenings! My DH doesn't get home till 8.30 and so I'm usually in bed just in case it's another 3.30 start!

Bloomin hope so too! I should imagine so though right? We've started potty training too so hope that's another thing under our belt too by then IVEgottheDECAF

I am in two minds about potty training. Dc4 is 2.5 and atm he likes to play with poo I think i will leave him until after baby is born and then hopefully it will be quick and painless

Maybe that's why you're nights are disrupted at the moment then by the potty training
Our nights are shit if there's a big change going on.....

I follow Lucy Wolfe on Instagram. She is a sleep therapist. She gives great tips on her page.

It's only Day 4 today of potty training thinkingcapon so sleep trouble did start before. But then maybe it's not sorting itself out because of the PT.

Ah yeah that will get messy! IVEgottheDECAF . Our DS is scared of his poop!

Thank you, I'll take a look threeboysandus

Lucy Wolfe is saving my sanity I was about to break with ds 15 months and we're getting back on track, tried other sleep systems and they were too hard to follow

What's she actually about? I can't seem to make sense of it just by looking at her IG and we have 0 money to purchase anything. Is it another CC method?

She's annoyingly cryptic on insta wants everyone to buy the book its not cry it out cos you're encouraged to stay in the room, it's really the schedule that helped us, breaking the bottle and bed link was key, nothing else really new but think I was just ready for the info at last

Ah yeah I've heard of many similar ones like that WeShouldOpenABar . We tried the stay in the room thing with DS when he was younger and then we would suddenly disappear behind a chair or something. DS couldn't handle seeing us leave but he's be fine if we suddenly vanished. Just meant we had to make a camp of wine and snack behind his feeding chair until he fell asleep haha.

He's done well last night actually. He woke up at 5am needing his nappy changed. He asked for me to get into his bed (he's never asked for that before!) So I sent DH in there to explain it's bed time and he fell back to sleep at 5.10am! But I'm now wide awake haha

How are you getting on @TwittleBee ? Did the clocks change help you? Touch wood but they did here! Been waking at 6 ever since 🙌🏽