Early Rising 2-year-old

[Geegee1985]

If you've had any success getting your 2yo to sleep or stay quiet until a decent time in the morning, I'd love your advice. DD is in a bed, not a cot and her bedroom door has never closed properly. At the moment she's waking between 5 and 6, occasionally after 6. I've tried bribing her to stay in her room until the gro-clock goes yellow but she doesn't seem able to do it. I'm not a morning person and I'm pregnant so would love a bit more sleep in the morning. Thanks :)

How old exactly? And how late in the day is her nap if she has one?

My DS is 2.5 and 3 months ago was waking at this time but thought it was the clock change. However I shifted his routine. If he napped I got him up again before 2 and bedtime was 8pm. If he didn't bedtime was 7/7.30 this got him past 6 and more often past 6.30. it took a while but he now wakes no earlier than 6.45 and is able to wait 15 mins for his clock.

We discuss getting up when the sun is up etc a lot through the day and mention it at bed and when I go get him. It has definitely helped but took some tweaking so that I could time the sun to come up as close to when he was waking up anyway to avoid a long wait and break in the association.

All this to say it could be developmental or you may manage to tweak it. I'm not actually sure all my efforts made a difference or if it was just something he grew out of!

Im looking for the answer too, mine has always been an early riser but recently it has been anywhere between 4 and 5:30. I have tried changing naps, no naps, later bedtime earlier bedtime. We have a gro clock. I am coming to the sad realisation that it is just the time we will be waking from now

The only thing that worked for me is a 9pm bedtime (in bed around 8-8.30, asleep by 9 usually). Also no napping after 4pm. They both sleep till after 7. I don’t get much of an evening but for me, it’s worth it.

Thanks everyone. I pushed her bedtime back half an hour and used the gro clock together with rewards. She's getting up much closer to 6am now or slightly after which feels like a small win. But like some of you have said, not sure if that's down to my efforts or just a natural shift. I'll probably never know!