I'd love any advice please.
DS (12 months) no longer has night feeds and hasn't for some time, but wakes for the day at 4/4.30/5am. Following advice on here we'd get him up for the day at that time and just put him back down for an early extra nap if he appears tired - which he does, every day, and has done for months. So typically he is up at, say, 5 and takes a bottle; visibly tired and yawning by 5.30; and if we put him back down he sleeps til near 7am. So clearly he's not waking for the day at these times, he's just up for a bottle. The last few days we’ve put him straight back down after this bottle, and he sleeps til 7am. (So maybe we should just carry on like this, but reduce the milk quantity as we did when we were night weaning?)
Ignoring doesn't work, it just escalates into screaming. There are no noises etc that might wake him. Getting him up and keeping him awake until his first proper nap is awful, he's falling-down tired. His eating and milk consumption during the day are fine. He has more milk than he ought to, but we're working on that.
Normal naps are 9-10am and then 1-3pm. Bedtime at 6.45pm.
To slightly complicate matters my son is a twin and his sister follows the identical schedule but wakes for the day at or after 6am. So it's just the one who doesn't seem to get the memo. Any ideas?