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11 month old waking at 4.30am!

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UnicornDust20 · 13/04/2020 06:02

Hello everyone! I'm desperately hoping someone can help before I lose my marbles Confused. I'm absolutely shattered and losing my mind.

DS has recently started waking anywhere between 4.00am/4.30am (5.00am on the odd occasion, which I now consider to be a lie-in), desperate for his milk and then is ready to start the day. He has always been a fairly early riser which is fine, but it's just been getting earlier and earlier. His bedtime routine is:

Dinner at around 5.00pm.
Bath at 5.30pm then some wind-down time.
Bottle between 6.00pm/6.15pm then bed.

I've tried everything I can think of with no success - more solids during the day incase he's waking due to hunger. Less food incase I am over feeding him. Later/earlier bedtime (still wakes early). More daytime sleep and less daytime sleep (still wakes early).

He doesnt appear to be teething or on any other pain. He fidgets and is restless all night, so even the sleep we are both getting is disturbed.

We live with our inlaws at the moment so leaving him screaming in the cot doesnt seem fair on anyone. My mum says that time is far too early to start the day, however my MIL thinks it may just be his wake up time and that I should just get up with him.

Sorry for the long post, but does anyone have any suggestions!? I'm running out of ideas!

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Sunnydaysarecoming · 13/04/2020 06:08

Sorry I don’t have any answer to this but I’m going through the exact same thing with my almost 8 month old, following for answers, sorry you’re having a tough time of it op! Flowers

whatacrazytime · 13/04/2020 06:11

Could you try and push the bed time a bit later to 7.15? I'm currently up with my 10 month Old but she wakes for a bottle and will go back to sleep. 430/5 is too early to start the day you will be knackered!

thunderthighsohwoe · 13/04/2020 06:19

I found that a later bedtime still incurred an early wake and gave me less of an evening. However, once she dropped to one nap and started walking confidently (just over 12 months) the sleep began to be 6.30-5.30/6 fairly reliably. Good luck!

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