Up With The Lark

[VixenAndCub]

In many ways I'm very lucky with my DS' sleep. It took us a lot of trial and error but he had a great sleep schedule. Went down to bed with no fuss (only a little moan if his dummy fell out) at 7, and up the next morning at 7. No waking up.

Now he's 6 months old and he's up at 5:30am every day without fail.
('ah quit complaining that's still so good!' yeah it probably is but I'm just concerned he's not getting enough sleep).

I've tried these so far (not at the same time):

1. More milk at bedtime
2. Tried to get him to sleep a little later but he gets so cranky he won't allow it
3. Some dinner before the bedtime routine to fill him up
4. Bottle and back down to bed but he won't have it

But still 5:30 as if he has an alarm clock in there. Something I can help him with or something I should just deal with?

I’m afraid that’s probably just his normal body clock. Presumably he still has at least two naps during the day?

I recommend you go to bed early-ish yourself, then embrace tea and CBeebies (on catch-up) at 5.30am. Or whatever YOU want to watch!

It’s probably a phase and will get better.

takingcarababies.com/early-morning-wakings/

I hope this link works. This is a sleep consultant and I find her to be very good. Hopefully some of her tips on this page will help.

Hope you get your 7-7 routine back soon!

@littlecabbage
I'm in bed by 9 these days! Caught me off guard the first time but I have all my programmes on record ready for the early hours ready to go 😆
He has 3 naps in the day. He tends to fall asleep in the morning, his longest nap in the afternoon and SOMETIMES a snooze in the evening before bed. I try to keep him awake in the evening so he can sleep longer but doesn't always work. He enjoys his bedtime routine so hopefully you're right and it's just a phase.

@Lizzie840
I'll definitely check that out, thank you very much! I hope I get it back too, it was nice while it lasted!

It's probably time to slowly reduce to 2 naps, don't think mine had that evening one after about 3 months. I have a 'no sleeping after 4pm' protocol

I think that's just how some of the are, my two definitely were and they still are up by 6 every morning even though they are 8 now. I'm that way inclined too, husband isn't.

When they were small I just went to bed earlier.

I'd agree to try and consistently had two naps per day now rather than 3. But as inwood says, a lot of it is just innate I think. I have 4 kids, and their slerp patterns have all been very different despit being treated similarly. Glad you have your tv programmes good to go!

*sleep!

@shelbeee
It's so difficult at the moment. I've been trying to get him to stay awake and he can just zonk off in his walker or scream and shout because he's tired. He can't last 3 hours like that. It's just trying to find the best times to sleep in the afternoon so he's not tired in the evening. Just got to break the day routine, but he's such a stickler for it 😆