Our ds (never the best of sleepers) has started waking every morning at around 4.30-5 and trying to insist on playing. If we leave him in the cot he screams. If we take him into bed with us and try to get him to sleep by cuddling him and stroking his back he'll accept this for 10 secs and then up shoots his head and he starts trying to crawl over us, poke, hit etc. Eventually usually after recourse to feeding he goes back to sleep and wakes an hour later at 6.30. He is teething (has 7) has been standing/cruising since 8 months and crawling since 6 1/2.
He has rarely slept through the night and often these episodes are the 4th wake up call but on the others he can be settled either by stroking him in his cot or at worse a quick cuddle in bed. He goes to bed btwn 6.30-7.30 depending on time of last nap and sleeps on average 1.5-2.5hrs per day in two naps. We can't keep him up any later as he's so exhausted by that point and all that happens is he gets overtired and then has disturbed sleep.
Has anyone got any tips?