When did early rising end for you?

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Daughter has woken at 5-5:30am since birth, she's now 2 (and 4 months)

I am resigned to the fact this won't change by anything we do now before anyone wades in whose got a 12 hour sleeper!

Been involved with a sleep consultant which won't take the case on, says we're doing everything right and she'll grow out of it 🤷‍♀️

If this was your child, when did they grow out of it? 3? 4? 18? Never?

*just hoping a lie in until 6am some day in the next decade 🤞🏼

Oh I feel your pain. Mine wakes up any time from 4:30. I remember once we got a lie in until 7am post jabs. What a morning!

Our DS is almost 13 months and I’m hoping he grows out of it soon as I’m not sure I can cope with 4am wake ups any longer.

I’m sorry the sleep consultant won’t take it on.

What time does your lo go to bed? Do you leave her in the cot from 5:30 until you are ready to go in?

Lots of the sleep consultant websites say to leave early risers in their cots and go and get them at around 6:30am

My ds is 11 and still gets up between 4.30 and 5.30 usually. Very rare he’s later than 6. And he’s one of those that’s already at 100mph when he wakes!!

I think any when from 5am is considered normal I'm afraid as it's when dawn would normally be in the pre-electricity days. My 17 month old was up at 5:30am and that was even after 11hrs sleep so its not like she's a bad sleep. Not a humble brag, just saying that they dont always go hand in hand. I think she's also a natural lark as she wants to do everything just a little too early in the day.

I think about aged 2. My 18 month woke at 5.30 this morning but I didn’t go in until 6. I found doing that worked with the others, albeit very slowly.

7 years and counting here.

My eldest (now 17) loves to sleep in but took until about 10 to really start doing that.

My youngest wakes every day at 5/6 ish. It does get easier as they get older though - you can frisbee an iPad into their bedroom for them for a start..!

Around where you are it became 5.30-6 the slowly crept towards 6.30. There was a lovely phase where it could be even later but my eldest has recently decided that his original theory of sleep is for wimps was bang on and is usually awake before 7 most days, even though the goes to bed later now. However, he's old enough to know he's not to get up til 7 and he stays in bed reading or playing quietly (that last part is a small lie. He's not quiet 🤦🏻‍♀️ we're working on it!)

Lie in haha, my son was an angel who had to be woken in the morning and slept all night from 6 weeks old.
I however, was awake at 3am wondering why he was still asleep at 6 weeks old, 4am wondering if there something wrong with him. 5am off to look at him sleeping in his cot to make sure he was still alive and finally put his cot in my room because of the constant anxiety.
You can't win.

I feel your pain. My eldest daughter always woke at 5am. She is now 8 and is still asleep! She is usually up at around 6am which works for us. It took until she was almost 7 I think before she slept until then. I tried everything and none of it worked she just grew out of it plus longer days with after school club and a later bedtime has really helped.

Sorry can't help, mine woke past 8am as babies, as teens they were a nightmare with school start times and I wake my adult dd for university by calling her, she sleeps through her alarm (she has sn and lives with me). I just didn't give into early waking from the start

After 3 children it just became a habit. I rarely sleep after 6am and my youngest just turned 21

Nine years and counting here, although early used to mean 4.30 and it's now more like 6. I have two early bird kids and it's become a habit for me now. I find it hard to sleep past 7am if I get the opportunity.

DS is at an age where he entertains himself quietly but my 6 year old DD is more demanding and shouts for me as soon as she wakes up.

My ds was like this until he started school really, now some mornings I have to wake him at 7 !
He's 6 next week so at weekends if he's up about 6.30 he can play in his bedroom quietly for an hour - or come downstairs and watch tv. I ask him to get me up at 8am !
I thought those 4.45 am wake ups would never end . The gro clock helped a little

I posted on here maybe a year ago about my DS's early riding. He was nearly two at the time at was up for the day from around 4:30am some days!

Now he's nearly three and it's more like 6-7am, which is a blessed relief. But the main thing that has happened as he's got older is that you can ignore him when he wakes up. He's been awake now since about 6am but is just chattering to himself and his toys since then and I've been ignoring him (I'm not being mean, I'm feeding my new baby!) but he's fine doing that now, whereas before he had to get UP!

okiedokie - what really was the point of your comment? Bully for you having late sleepers but I'm not sure how that helps the OP...

I'm 38 and still get up at 5am every day and always have. So sorry - I am not a good example!

Have a google of the wake to sleep theory it supposedly works for early waking.

Never used it myself so can't comment, but might be worth a look.

Ds woke everyday day between 5-5.30am for yeaaasaaars. He’s now nearly 8 and knows the rule is he can’t come in and wake us up before 7am at the weekend Or 6am in the week. Today he got up at 6.20 though as he’s excited about a day out today 🤦‍♀️ I’ve always been an early riser, but it’s the relentlessness of it that’s so hard, just would be nice to occasionally wake naturally!

Once DS went to school. Now he usually sleeps until 7ish. BUT he now is a right pain to get to bed (we frequently have to go up to him because he’s messing about) and he often climbs into bed with us in the night too, when he used to go straight to sleek and sleep through most nights. Tbh I don’t know whether it’s worse or better now!

I just didn't give into early waking from the start

What did this ‘not giving in’ look like?
6 and 4 year olds are still asleep. Rise naturally at around 7.30am.
1 year old has been awake since 5am. As he has every day since birth. I can’t recall ever ‘giving in’ to him, he’s just awake. I leave him in his cot until around 6 (he happily rolls around chatting until then).
I’d love to know what okiedokie’s superior parenting looks like in practice though.

10 years in and still waiting.

Up until she was around 3, eldest DD would sleep until 7ish. We've then had years of 6am get ups. At 7, she's now usually still up and about at 6/6.30. Fortunately she's now old enough to go downstairs, get some cereal and stick the tele on, and she's very good.

My youngest, 3, however, has always been a 4.30-5.30 getter upper. Some days (usually work days!!) she'll sleep a bit later. She's wanting to do painting and play doh from the off though, which is annoying!

well dd was regularly 5/5.30 until the clocks changed the spring before she was 2. she's 2.5 now and it's more like 6/6.30 especially now she's dropped her nap, that's helped a lot. can't think if she's ever been post 7 though, unless ill.

having been very judgemental with my first I've got into the habit of banana and cbeebies on the I pad in bed most mornings. gives me up to an extra hour dozing.

I still wake up at that time and i'm nearly 50 . Some people are just early risers. My dd is but now tells me going out at university helps her sleep later ;) but in a natural order of things, she is an early riser too. My ds had to be woken up for school!

I taught dd to play in her room and once she could read books it was easy for her to stay in bed until a certain reasonable time but it was never a hardship for me as I was always up early anyway. Ex dh couldn't cope with it as he used to get out of bed late like ds!

It just gets easier when they are at the age they can occupy themselves for a bit - hang on in there!

My 6 year old never sleeps until past 6:30.

Even if she's had a late night.

Whyyyyyyyy?!

I want to let her stay up with the rest of us at weekends but I just can't as she will not go back to sleep in the morning.

I sit here now with a coffee snuggling her and watching Mr Magoo while the rest of the house is asleep still. (Tomorrow is my lie in. Yay!)