How to stop 1yo waking at 5am every day?

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I'm finding it so difficult to cope at the moment.
I have 15mo DS, who wakes up at 5-5:30am EVERY single morning without fail.

Typical routine at the moment:
5am - wake up
5:30am - bring him into our bed
6am - watch YouTube on mine or DHs phone so we can rest our eyes for about 10 mins extra
6:30am - Peppa Pig on tv (I'm aware this is a lot of screen time please don't shame)
7:30am - breakfast
8am - playtime
9am - starts to get tired and whingy
9:30-10am - take him up for his nap (nappy change/shut curtains and blinds/cuddle/put in cot awake to self soothe to sleep)
He usually naps for 2-2.5 hours
11:30-12:30pm - wakes up
12:30pm - lunch time
1:30pm - usually go out somewhere (shops/park etc)
2:30pm - snack time (usually if we're out he will snack on some veggie straws or some raisins/fruit based snack)
4:30-5:30pm - tea time
5:30pm - bath time
6pm - chill time before bed (cuddles/stories)
6:15pm - we leave the room for DS to self soothe to sleep in his cot
6:30-7:30pm - usually asleep by now (in this time we sometimes help soothe DS if he's really upset, can be up to 3 times of reassuring comfort)
Midnight - usually wakes up crying and we pat him back to sleep
5am - wake up and repeat

We have tried everything. Tried moving bedtime later in the hope he would wake up later, but if we put him to bed at 7/8/9pm he wakes up even earlier (I'm talking 4am every time!) so that leads me to believe he's overtired. Tried moving bed time earlier in case he was too tired but again, it makes no difference.
If he goes to sleep at 8pm he will wake up at 4am, no amount of soothing helps him go back to sleep. However, if I put him down at 5:30pm (early I'm aware) he would still sleep through until 5am the next morning... meaning he gets a full 2.5-3 hours extra sleep. I feel like those later bed times cause extra stress for everyone and don't bring any benefits. I hope that makes sense.

We tried both of these methods for around 1.5-2 weeks.
It was the same even when he had 2 separate naps (9-10:30am and 1-2pm) so I was hopeful the transition to one nap may help but it doesn't.

It's exhausting, DH and I averaging about 5 hours sleep a night.

Really hoping someone can offer some advice we would love another soon but I don't know how I would cope with newborn night feeds and waking up for the day at 5am!

Do all of you really think this is normal?! None of my friends with toddler get up at 5.30. Everyone's had phases but tweaking routine easily solves it.

Honestly keep it the same if you enjoy the early mornings, but adjust routine if you don't. You need to be consistent and committed to the change but it will help. Once routine is set you can flex it when you need to but no need to be waking before 7!

Nope, you just got a child who was able to sleep and no early wake. No amount of tweaking convinced D's to sleep past 5.30 and he's always been an early riser even as an adult.

My two both did this until they were about 3.5 years old I'm afraid, no matter what we did. He will gradually be able to have his nap later on in the day (important if in childcare which mine were by 1) and it will improve eventually, but essentially you just get used to it. Try and go to bed early yourself, take it in turns to get up with him so that one of you gets a decent sleep. Impressive that you get him to last 2 hours with no breakfast. I used to chuck a weetabix at mine then chill out on the sofa while they played/watched Cbeebies downstairs.

My dd was the same at that age. The only thing that worked was starting school; she was so knackered that it went from one extreme to the other and I had a job to get her out of bed.

Two words: Ollie Owl

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At 1 year old they should be having a 40 min nap in the morning, and 2/2.5 hours in the afternoon.

My 1 YO has started getting up at 5, he did sleep until 6 today - woohoo lay in!!!

We take it in turns to get up with him, we don't bring him in to bed with us.