toddler waking at 5am and pregnant

[Happygolucky84]

My 26month old son only started sleeping through the night recently. We have never been able to put him down to sleep awake. When he was a baby he would fall asleep on the bottle so would just put him down. Then we went through the rocking him as a baby for hours sometimes. We tried the whole wind down, bath book etc and that didn't work. We have have made all the mistakes and given in each time (taking him into our bed etc you name it we have done it) we tried the crying out and occasionally it worked but to be honest either me or my husband would end up giving in and going into the room and that would just make my son worse when you leave the room again and we would be back to square one again.The best situation we have had is sitting in the room on a chair until he falls asleep. If we leave him in the room awake he stands up and screams. Luckily now if he doesnt nap during the day he falls asleep having his milk at night and we put him straight in the cot.
However, I am now 17weeks pregnant and i really do not want to make the same mistakes with the sleeping routine with this baby. Also my son has started waking at 5am recently. Has anyone had a similar experience? I feel I've just made so many bad habits and now it will be a miracle if I can sleep train him now. Any advice welcome 😊

We found a gro-clock worked for us. We had 5am wakings for months. Introduced the clock and put it back 10 minutes each day. It massively helped her to have something visual.
She knows to stay in her room until they sun comes out' at 0630.
Also a very good blackout blind.

Thanks @pinguwings 😊 we've got a gro clock too and it's, set to 630 I've tried to explain to him it's not time to wake up until the sun comes out however that hasn't worked yet . He's also dropped his afternoon nap so he's shattered at bedtime(7pm) so falls asleep in our arms. I'm reluctant to put him down earlier incase he wakes even earlier. These early waking have only happened over the last couple of weeks and gradually got earlier.

OP you might actually find putting him down earlier will help the early wakings. If he’s overtired by bedtime that might actually be why he’s waking early. Why not try a 6pm bedtime and then you can push it back as he adjusts to not having a nap.