Once an early riser, always an early riser?

[obsessedwithsleep]

What's people's experiences of this? From a tiny baby, my son (now 1) has never slept later than 6.15 and normally wakes at 5.45 or so.

Just wondering if there's any hope of him giving me a lie in before he's a teenager?!

In my experience they start sleeping longer whilst I spend the rest of my life waking at 5am and going to bed at 9.

My 5 yo used to be a horrendous early riser - anywhere between 4.30 and 6 was his usual get up time. He’s now around 6.30 - 7.30. He’s a bit more of a challenge to get into bed at night though!

Oooh when did this start??

This was my daughter when she was young now 18 and would spend all of her time in bed now which is a nightmare when going anywhere so swings and roundabouts 🤪

DS1 is 9 and is still awake by 6. Means he needs to go to bed comparatively early…as he doesn’t sleep in even if he stays up. DS2 in contrast woke later as a baby and will now have a lie in (only to about 8:30 but still).

Yes my 5yo always got up at 5am until about the age of 3-4. Now he sleeps til 6.30am - 7am.

Quite a long way to go 😂

My 2 year old regularly sleeps until 8am so I've been spoilt I think.

I'll swap you.

My 6 year old used to wake up at 5am every morning without fail up to 5 years old. He now sleeps till 8am on a school day, 9am on hoildays/weekends. So this isn't really true.

Meanwhile my sleep pattern is truly messed up and I still wake up at 6am without fail.

DS used to be up by 7, dropped daytime naps at 19 months, still an early riser at 22. DD had to be woken every morning, would still have an afternoon nap at 3. She's now 19, and hasn't changed. So their sleeping patterns haven't changed.

Yep. My son always up before 6am as a babe and 18 now and still the same. In fact to burn off that energy he goes to the gym before work.
He occasionally crashes and sleeps in but that's uncommon.
My daughter was always grumpy in the morning and at 17 is still hard to get moving (though to give her credit she is always up on a school morning).

only in the last few months to be honest so no quick fix I’m afraid! I have an almost 1 yo who is shaping up to be just like her brother, looks like no sleep for me for the foreseeable 😭😭

My youngest was a 5am riser until he was 8 or so. It moved back. Now he's a teen I can't get him out of bed at the weekend!

According to DM and DF I was the absolute worst sleeper - didn't sleep through until I was maybe 4 and then kept getting up early after that.

I bloody love sleep now.

Both my kids sleep til reasonable times and always have done but they had a consistently later bedtime. This suited us but wouldn't have suited most people I know.

My son was always an early riser.

Everyone told me he'd to make the most of it before they hit teen years and you can't rise them.

Nope - he's now up at 4/5am 5 days a week to swim train which means I'm up even earlier these days 🤣🫣

My older one, was always up at 530am she's 12. Stopped about 8 ish. She can sleep 12 hours easily now 😆 🤣

My little one. She's 16 months. Was a 530am riser. Now it varies from 6am to 8am. Yes I'm one of those mothers that don't wake a kid in morning. I worked hard to keep her asleep so we have pink noise, completely blacked out upstairs it's like a cave, we added a supper with her milk at 730pm, also we dont put her to bed until almost 8pm. These factors all seem to help, but took about a week or two before she started sleeping later.

My daughter has always been up to start her day before 6am (usually about 5😩) and she's now 8 and still the same 😩😩😩😩
I get really jealous of people who get to sleep in at weekends 🤣

These answers are too long term. I'll be dead of exhaustion by the time he's a teenager.

It seems to be the case we have an innate sleep cycle but it can be amended with habit. Just my observation from life. I saw it with my daughter, since I was not working and co-sleeping I just let her sleep and wake whenever and fitted in with her schedule, which meant she had nothing in the way of establishing her own natural sleep cycle..

But it changed because she went to full time nursery for a year and so was getting up around 8am. She continues to get up around 8am since then and is now 6. Not yet been to school so we will see if it continues given she will have more tiring days once she begins school.

And for me I've spent the past few years waking around 9.30am and whenever I do an early, 5am-7am I become extremely tired around 2pm, whereas if I get up normal time, around half 9 I'm fine into early hours of the morning.

It takes time to adjust, but the circadian rhythm will take a bit of adjusting.

Sorry but mine is a teenager now and it's it's strange day if he is still asleep at 7, I'm pretty sure he is broken! At least he sorts himself out now so I do get a lie in.

I think 1 is far too young to tell. At 1, DS was awake by 5:30 at the latest everyday. He’s now 2, only on one short nap a day and running himself ragged. He sleeps until 6:30 or 7 now, sometimes later. I’m sure a lot of DC always wake early…but for babies a lot of it is to do with too much day sleep/not being physical enough/not eating enough yet etc, which will all change with age.

This is so wise!

I have 7 month twin boys and we recently done the Ferber method with them which worked AMAZING! Night wakings went from every hour to 0 and they started sleeping longer, used to wake 5-5:30 then after doing the Ferber method, they were going until 6:30 or after! My problem is, we are back at the start with the early wakings and I’m not sure why! The past 3 days, the boys have woke at 5:15 which is so much earlier than what they had been doing and it’s no good for any of us… they are much grumpier through the day when they wake up at this time and so are we!! Their normal routine is something like this… first nap at around 8am for 1/1.5 hours, second nap at 12ish for 1 hour if first nap was 1.5 or 1.5 if first nap was 1 hour then last nap is around 3:30 for 30 mins and bedtime is 6:45/7ish. They are definitely not ready to drop that last nap yet as they get so cranky and dropping it would mean bedtime would need to be 5:30 which is too early. It is not a hunger reason why they have started waking as they don’t drink a bottle straight away. Their room is pitch black and have used white noise with them since birth. I know we have it good as their night wakings have reduced but the early mornings are a KILLER and totally just ruins the routine for that day. Any help would be so appreciated for my own sanity!

Awh I remember this feeling; ours was the same. Luckily he had recently grown out of it so providing he has a big tea and drink before bed we will have a post 6:15 wake up.

up until about a month ago it was anywhere from 4:45-5:45