HELP - I'm pregnant and my sons are waking ridiculously early....

[MommyD]

I have two sons aged 15 months and 31 months. The 31 month has recently started sleeping in a bed. He loves it. But recently he has been waking up at between 4:45 and 5:30 and wandering into our bedroom. He is clearly up for the day and no taking him back and putting him down works. He ends up screaming and wakes his younger brother. My day starts now at around 5:00, which is exhausting (I am pregnant).
HOW, HOW, HOW do you stop a 2 year old waking up/ getting out of bed early? He has recently dropped any daytime naps (just leaps out of his new bed), seems permanently tired and his night time sleep is getting shorter and shorter too. Until recently he has slept 7pm-7am.
Has anyone found that when their children dropped naps in the day, that they actually wake up earlier in the morning? Is it his new bed that is waking him early? I am at my wits end!!!!!
ds2 wakes at betwee 5:30 and 5:45 everyday too (if he has not already been woken by ds1). What can I do? All this disruption has also co-incided with me finding that I am pregnant!!! Typical....!

you very firmly take them back to their bed and say it isn't getting up time yet - there is lots of yelling, you stay calm (), keep doing the above, and after a few days they stay in bed (hopefully). Or you could have a rule that he can get up but stay in his room and play quietly (might work !).

Good luck.

Not tried this myself (only have young baby) but I read on here somewhere that one mum had bought a night light and plugged it into a timer in the kids bedroom. She set in to come on in the morning and taught her child that once in came on it was ok for the child to come into her bedroom but not before. Maybe better for your older son though, 15 months possibly to young(??).

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You could try the Wake Zone Clock, it worked for my ss from aged 3.5, I know 31mths could be a little young, but you could try it? www.locatorinternational.co.uk, its basically a clock with red, amber and green zones on it, you stick the numbers on yourself, so choose the time zones you want your kids to get up, we stuck 6-7 as red (Stay in bed), 7-8 as amber (play in your own room) and 8-9 as green (ok to get up!), although also agree with all of the above advice as well!

Thanks all - I am going to try Bloss's idea in particular, because I have noticed that the less they sleep, the less they sleep. How true.
Both boys are going to bed earlier - starting tonight.

no advice but sympathy as we are having a similar problem - last night was the worst - ds woke every half hour from 3am......

Tried everything I can thik of, including moving bed times, changing nap length and times, food/liquid intake, etc etc

i am pregnant to and it is driving me up the wall

Sympathy and jealousy. Ds is usually awake between 5:30 and 6:30, but since becoming pg I have been awake at between 3 and 5 every single day - so I rather enjoy his company! I think I need a cure for me as well!

... oh and to top it all, his reducing sleep times mean increasingly bad behaviour!! He is stroppy, grotty and miserable and I KNOW it is because he is getting less sleep. When he was sleeping 7-7 he was also napping for 2 hours every day. That totalled 14 hours in one day. Now it's 7-5, that's 10 hours in one day. A LOT LESS SLEEP . And he now has a very and pregnant Mommy