15 month old night sleep

[hrp2020]

My 15 month old has always been an early riser. Do you think I will ever be able to get him to sleep more than 10 hours at night? He could definitely do with it now we have moved to one nap but he is just stuck in his routine of waking early. I've read about resetting their body clock but how do you do this? Huge thanks.

What time is he waking?

What is his current sleep routine?

He wakes at 5.30am. He has one nap at 12-12:30 for about an hour and a half or two hours on a good day. He can wake crying from this if he hasn't had enough sleep but doesn't go back off, Bed time is 7pm but sometimes it can take him a little longer to fall asleep. We got rid of the morning 30 minute nap to try and help the early waking and also to help at nighttime as he was taking a Really long time to settle. This was only a week ago and I think it's helping the evenings a bit but not the mornings. He is definitely tired whilst he transitions but I think that must be the case for them all when they start. When we try early bedtimes to compensate he still takes a long time to settle until his usual time of 7pm or later.

Any ideas on re setting his body clock? Stuck on 5.30am wakings! I would go in and say it's night night time still but this just makes him more excited and resettling has never worked with him. It wouldn't bother me if he wasn't grumpy by 8am which just shouldn't be the case! One nap working well (occasional two nap day) but it hasn't changed the early morning wake ups and he still takes a while to get to sleep at bedtime.

I would just give it a bit more time, when we transitioned to one nap it took a few weeks for our little one to properly adjust and there were some days he would fall asleep at 7:30am in the car on the way to nursery and other days where nursery would have to put him down for 2 naps in the day.

Having said that, he only sleeps 10 hours at the moment and wakes at 5-6am each day. I also think that’s because it’s so light at that time currently. We’ve stopped fighting it, I’m an early riser anyway so just go to bed a little earlier to compensate and fingers crossed as it gets darker he will sleep a little longer

No idea. Similar here. Naps 1pm for 90 min approx, then bedtime 8pm, was wide awake at 5.30am today ( tried to get him back to sleep for an hour but no chance). So he has 11 ish hours sleep in 24hrs usually.

My 14 month old was exactly the same was going to bed for 7-730 and waking at 530 so we've pushed his bedtime back to 8 and he's sleeping till closer 7 now.

My boy was the same. We went back to 2 naps as he was struggling with wake windows and he now sleeps right through 7 till 7. I put it down to over tiredness.

Is it starting to get light at 5.30am? Perhaps invest in a decent black out blind?

Thanks everyone. Definitely isn't the light as I have made sure it's pitch black 🤣. Could be noise from the road as cars seem to drive very early and it's a busy road but we have white noise on so sadly not much else I can do about that one. Seems to be his body clock as he has pretty much always woken early. I wouldn't mind it's just challenging getting him to lunchtime sometimes without meltdowns! I'm hoping by the time our second arrives (end of October) that he has turned a corner with the early mornings as I will be exhausted!

DD started doing 12/13 hours at night when she stopped napping at around 1.5, she's 2.5 now and dropped back down to 11 hours and is now waking at around 5am so.... that's shit

It's not the light here either.

@olderthanyouthink I feel for you! Can't be easy. Why can't they just love sleep? I would love a 12 hour sleep and a nap in the day!

@olderthanyouthink

DD started doing 12/13 hours at night when she stopped napping at around 1.5, she's 2.5 now and dropped back down to 11 hours and is now waking at around 5am so.... that's shit

It's not the light here either.

You’re putting her down at 6pm?

Random one but how long before their bedtime to you place them in their cot so that they are asleep by their bedtime?

Post-bath or anything else, we put him in his nighttime nappy/pjs/grobag etc, put his iPod on nice soft sleepy music, turn off the lights, he has a bottle sat on my lap, then goes straight into cot at the time he's due to go to bed...

@NavigatingAdolescence she's begging to go to bed, packing up her toys or just falling asleep. She feel asleep eating at 5 something the other day. She just can't really manage more than 12 hours and the clock starts at 5am a lot right now. She doesn't nap.

@hrp2020 DD is boobed to sleep mostly so we go to bed and she's asleep in 10mins. If I'm already asleep (pregnant, tired) she can be put next to me and it takes about half an hour I think.

I kept waking last night (pregnant and could here my son fidgeting in his sleep). Anyway from 4.30 I looked at the monitor as could hear him thudding his legs and his eyes are open and he is rolling around sucking his thumb. He will inevitably be fine chilling in there until 6.30 but unlikely to go back to sleep. Please help!!!! Why is he waking so early? I would not mind if he was happy every day but he isn't. Constant grizzles on and off all morning. I really wanted this a bit more sorted before the baby comes at the end of October. It's blackout in there and he has a fan on acting as white noise to drown out road traffic and birds etc. He was in his cot last night at 6.45 but took till nester 7.40 to fall asleep.