Early wakings

[rosekirk]

Morning 😴
After some advise!
My DS is 11 months and is up for the day at 04:50 everyday 😣 He sleeps through prior to this from about 7pm which is great, but the 5am start is really taking its toll now and it's difficult to manage in terms of his 'routine'. So he's knackered and ready for his 1st nap by 07:30 but I keep him going until nearer 09:00 but trying to look after my older two (2.5, 5) whilst carrying around a crying baby all morning is wearing thin!
No idea why he's up so early? His room is black, he has white noise, doesn't seem to be hungry? He has breakfast with the others at 07:00.

Would others just revert back to 3 naps and put him back to bed at 07:30? At the minute he's napping 9-10:30 then 1:30-3pm then bed at 7pm (ish give or take 20mins here or there) x

Is he happy when he initially wakes up? Does take any milk if you offer it? I really feel for you. My lo wakes up at 5.30 most mornings. He chats away to himself but he shares a room with his sister so me and my husband take it in turns to get him up by 5.45.I try and think positively and get to watch my shows and do a few bits without my older round about. Last week he was waking all over the shop at funny times.
My older one woke up at 5 30 till about 1 and half and eventually started sleeping a bit later. Sorry I can't be any more help x

I think that wake up is fairly normal for an 11 month old unfortunately. It's great he is sleeping through until that time. What happens if you do put him down at 7.30? What is the routine he naturally settles into? In my experience fighting against their natural routine is hard. I would probably let go for a couple of days and see if he falls back into 3 naps and see if it affects his night sleep. Looking after 2 other kids with an overtired baby can't be the easiest option! So hard isn't it.

Morning 😊
Yes he's quite happy...for about 10mins then he will cry so I get him up as otherwise he wakes he other 2 (who are up at 6am as it is 🙄) Maybe that's half the problem as I just 'allow him to get up'...but what else do you do?! I also have the neighbours to consider 😂

I’m no expert but maybe try and shorten his morning nap. Half an hour in the morning then 2 hours in the afternoon. He may start making up for the less sleep in the morning over night. Could just be a developmental phase he’s going through also, hopefully it will pass soon!

I sympathise- we are in the same boat! We have tried a mini 3rd nap which hasn't worked. I'm now trying slowly shortening his morning nap and seeing if that will help.

Its crap, I know.

Thanks ladies I'm going to give that a try tomorrow and shorten the morning nap! He will happily have 1.5hours and often that's me waking him as we need to go out so maybe he is catching up on sleep he should have had over night?! Wish me luck 🤞🏻😂

Could you try a later bedtime? If you could stretch him to 8pm by pushing it back a little bit every night, he might sleep til 6am