Sleep & early rising

[ganesha]

I have a 10 month old that is waking at 5am. I am trying to get him to wake later as not only am I struggling with waking so early but I also have to do school run around 8:20 so can’t really do a nap then! Which is when it naturally falls.
Have recently mostly night weaned so he has a feed around 11/12 and gets through to 5 mostly and then I don’t let him get up until much nearer 6 so I sit in his room with him until then. It’s usually more like 5:45/50 before I feed him.
Over the last week I have been gradually pushing back his bed time so that he will wake later but it’s not happening! Has anyone managed this befor and how long did it take.
Any advice ?
Also just to say he is an awful mapper, he has 30 min sleep cycle and I have to go in at mostly nearly every nap to extend it so am also struggling to get him to stay up until 7pm and often he needs a nap around 4:30/5pm
TIA

You probably need to sort out naps and independant settling to sleep in order to properly solve this.

How do you get baby to sleep? Has the settling method recently changed?

Baby actually managed to sleep through until 6 (well one midnight feed and 20 mins of ssshhh stroking back at 5am) so that feels good but the naps are awful and I alextend every one of them by going in and shhhing and running his back but he still generally wakes every time.
What is annoying about having such terrible naps is that I am ending up having to have a 3rd nap late in the day which is usually awful and very hard to do, so today I tried and failed so he has been up for over 5 hours because I can’t rush putting him to bed early and him going back to waking at 5am

We have gradually over time just night weaned but stayed with him and he has started to sleep through most of the times he would usually wake up - and he self settles to sleep - just can’t get through the nap transition !!!!

As you probably already know, babies wake early. It's just how it is. It does get better as they get older.

Here’s hoping - need to sort the naps out now