Any early risers sleeping longer success stories?

[SnowWhite26]

Hi.
Just that really. My 11 and half month old wakes betwen 5 and 5.30 most days. We have had a couple of random 6ams but dunno how. Room double blackouted not cold or hot. Anyway me and my oh take it in turns to get up. We can't really leave him to long as shares a room with 4 year old. She used to do the same and eventually stopped. Anyone got any success stories of making baby sleep longer? He wont have milk and go back hes awake lol He does well 7-5 or 5.30 Anyway let me no ur thoughts.

Hello. Thanks for all the tips. I tried pulling nap back till 10. The thing is when we go out in car he will fall asleep. Ww have just been on holiday hence why i went quiet. We had normal 5.30 wake ups which was annoying as we worked really hard to push bedtime back to 7.30 and he was going till 6. Anyway a few mornings on holiday he woke at 4 and wouldn't go back so gave him a bottle and he slept till 6ish. He did cut a tooth so even though no tears i think thats why. Anyway came home fri and had a teriblle night where he woke loads randomly so coz he was tired he slept till 7 then sat night straight through till 6.30!! Yesterday he slept till 7!! Anyway back to 5.20 again today :( i feel so annoyed we worked so hard before holiday and got 6. Its now cooler in morning but hes in a 2.5 tog gro bag and romper so cant be cold. X

Also @ spritegirl that sounds a good plan. I have an older daughter so i find it hard to no wjat to do when we want to go to a morning toddler group that starts at 10.30 say and same with activities and pm naps. Its such a good idea and makes sense. I dunno why he slept longer yesterday and day before!

My bit of advice is just to go with it and accept you’re getting up early for a few years. It’s crap, but I drove myself insane with my first trying to make him sleep later and nothing worked. I spent so much time googling and reading sleep training techniques, trying to work out what I was doing wrong. He is just an early riser, he’s nearly 7 now and it hasn’t really changed.

My other two are early risers too, not as early as my first but always around 6. I just get up now and doze on the sofa. The tv is never allowed on until 6/6.15ish, and they don’t get anything to eat until after 7 in a hope that one day they’ll be ready to not get up at the crack of dawn so I don’t want their body getting hungry at 6!

By the time they’re 2 or 3 they can get up on their own and you can stay in bed, it’s rubbish getting up so early but I prefer it to the stress of trying to fix and unfixable problem.

Morning

Yeah it’s really hard when you have more than one to stick to a strict routine for the baby. I’ve only got one so I was able to but I have friends who struggle because they have another little one too and do nursery runs etc.

Well last two mornings has been 5:40 and 5:20 here I’ve no idea why and it’s doing my head it. He’s still asleep at the moment but he had a random night, cried out a few times (has a tooth coming through might be that 🤷🏻‍♀️). Cried out at 11:30, 1, 4:30, then 5 and I thought well never make it to 6 so went in with calpol and maybe woke him up even more. Tried to get him back down but he wouldn’t so I just left him and after whinging and chatting and whinging and chatting by some miracle he fell back to sleep.

He’s 13 months today maybe I need to put him on one nap, no idea really. Anyway sorry I’m rambling.

It’s so frustrating when you know they can sleep until 6:30-7 and they decide to wake at 5:30 instead. Totally understand why you’re annoyed. I am dreading the clock change

That's the problem non of us have any idea really its so hard just want sleep haha. I think your right accepting is the best thing but hard haha x