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1 year old suddenly waking 1 hour earlier

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Ginevere · 13/07/2022 07:06

My daughter just turned 1, and with it came a roughly ten day sleep regression. She’s out the other side now, but has started waking up at 6 instead of 7.

Aside from obviously being an extra hour in bed for us, it throws the rest of her routine off. All I can see on Google is people saying ‘6am doesn’t count as early’, which is fair enough, but doesn’t address the fact that it’s a change of her routine.

Is there a way to get her back to sleeping through? Or is this just her wake up time now and I should adjust everything else accordingly? Any thoughts much appreciated!

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Ginevere · 22/07/2022 06:11

Hopefully bumping?

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ChittyBang1987 · 22/07/2022 06:13

Sleep needs change in Los all the time. She's getting older so sleep needs decrease.

Whats Los routine currently??

Ginevere · 22/07/2022 06:16

I did wonder if this might just be the routine we are stuck with now!

She’s like clockwork usually, asleep by 7, rarely wakes during the night, and dropped second nap early in favour of sleeping 12-2 every day. Should we move her bedtime later? Or just accept she gets up earlier now? She was up at half 5 today!

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RandomMess · 22/07/2022 06:39

She most likely needs a little less sleep try pushing bed time back only be ten minutes at most for a week then a outer 5/10.

carefullycourageous · 22/07/2022 06:41

6am is your new normal. She probably grew up a bit. I think you just need to adjust, sorry.

Caspianberg · 22/07/2022 06:42

She probably needs less sleep now. 7-7 and 12-2 is 14 hours a day which is top end.

Probably move bedtime back to 7.30-8pm

tedioususername · 22/07/2022 06:46

Children like to troll us by doing stuff like this 🤷🏼‍♀️ it will pass at some point!

ChittyBang1987 · 22/07/2022 06:52

In general lo is getting 13 hours in 24 hours. That's good. All my lo ever did and does.

As another person said I would move bedtime a little later each day. If I put my lo to bed at 7pm she be up at 5am everyday if not earlier. The problem is your lo has a gap of 5 hours awake time before bed. That's quite long as it is. So it's a hard one.....
Maybe move the lunch time nap forward by 5 mins each time too? Or perhaps give lo a longer sleep at 12? To give you 730pm or 8pm bed? I think most people do 1230pm or 1pm sleep awake by 3pm. Then that can achieve the 8pm bedtime.

If lo woke at 5.30am I be tempted to give a 15 to 30 mins nap about 9/930am as going till 12pm is a long time from 530am but you know your lo more then I do. Just to prevent overtiredness. Then move the lunchtime nap till 1pm. Making sure lo nice and full before their nap.

Any changes you make can take up to 3 weeks to see a change and reset their internal rhythm.

Pompom2367 · 22/07/2022 06:58

Usually moving the bed time doesn't change wake up time but it doesn't hurt to try it if she can stay awake

Ginevere · 22/07/2022 07:02

Thanks all, I’ll try shifting her bedtime a little later.

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