15month old wakes at 5am every morning

[Meganc559]

Now I know 5am isn’t the end of the world but it’s getting really draining now.

So my DS was a great sleeper for about 5 months, he would go to his bed awake at 7pm and wouldn’t wake up till 7/8am. I was very very lucky.

Then a couple of weeks before Christmas he started getting up during the night for a bottle which was fine cause we would just give it to him in his cot and he would fall asleep after it. We put this down to teething.
This then turned into a couple of bottles in the night but he would always fall asleep and get up again at 7.

Now he ll sleep through the night but get up at 5am! What’s infuriating is I go in and he’s lying down with his eyes half shut cause he’s tired but he’s shouting to be picked up. I try and give him a bottle but as soon as he’s finished he goes back to shouting on me to get him. He has had a cold lately but it’s starting to take off,, he then won’t sleep 10am and will sleep for less than an hour.

I ve tried everything from giving him some porridge before bed to fill him up to pushing his bath and tea later so that he goes to bed a little later.

I can’t keep doing this, I ve ended up just going to bed a lot earlier so I can get some sleep, but this means I spend no time with my OH, did anyone else’s baba do anything similar and if so what did you do to get them to sleep a little longer in the mornings.

Sorry to say but my son (now 16) was and is an early riser and it was a good day if he slept till 6! If pushing his bedtime later hasn't helped you may have to adjust your own routine so you go to bed earlier.
It wasnt until he hit double figures that he slept till 7. Good thing is I never had to wake him before school.

My dd was like this. The only thing that worked was starting school. She was so knackered that I struggled to wake her up in the morning.

OH god I ll be a zombie by then haha!
What’s annoying is he was so good before! And nothing changed to make him think 5am is morning. I m hoping it’s just the cold that’s making him get up and he’ll go back to normal soon 😬

I would go to bed a bit earlier myself and just count 5 as the morning. I totally understand that it is horrid getting up in the dark and that you might have to tip toe around to avoid waking others but your option is to be tired and potentially resentful which isn't very fair on a baby.sympathies

DS went through phases like this and always went back to his normal sleep pattern (waking about 7). I thought it was probably teeth related. Hope it passes soon, I remember the fear of looking at the clock and seeing a 4 or a 5 at the start 🙈

Hes defo been teething lately, he actually slept half an hour more today so I m really hoping it’s him starting to go back to normal!! I think I m more pissed that I have to watch more of in the night garden! 😂

Completely normal.

This morning I’ve had:
5 year old up at 5am
2 year old up at 5:30am
8 year old up at 6am

Go to bed earlier

Yeh they all go through this phse! Sorry!

Normal.

This is how my child discovered television

Sorry it's totally normal, I have a really early riser to. He's always up by 6am. As a baby when he had a night feed he would sleep until 7am but when he started sleeping through he would wake at 5am. He had an afternoon nap until he was 4 though. Even when he dropped that it didn't make a difference. He's 9 now and is only just starting to sleep till 7am if he's had a late night. Before late nights just made him tired and grumpy so it was never worth it. I've always had to put him to bed at the same time during the holidays. Or we'd end up with a tired and grumpy child.

My 7yo wakes at 5 on the dot 90% of the time.

You could be lucky and it will get better for you but otherwise you need to get used to it!

Only bonus as they get older is they can get up and sort themselves out until a decent hour.