How do I get my 11 month old to sleep an hour extra in the morning

[SunshineAndFizz]

11 month old goes to sleep about 7pm and sleeps until about 5am (I know this is great - we've had to work hard to drop bottles/self sooth over many months to get to this point).

Any suggestions for how to get him to get sleep just a bit longer to after 6am? I just can't stretch another hour. He wakes his older sister then too.

He has two naps during the day, and bottles first thing and before bed. Eats well. No other issues. We have blackout curtains.

I definitely know it's a good nights sleep and many don't even have this, I probably sound ungrateful but it's taken a lot of effort so I do appreciate where he is now (sending positive sleep vibes your way). I do generally go to bed early although sometimes can't help a later one now and then so me and DH can watch a movie or something.

And once mine was round about a year (ie could sit, stand, move well) I'd leave something like a board book or one of those Lamaze baby toys at the end of the cot when we went to bed so she had something to play with and look at if she did wake early.

We'd then often wake up to the sound of giggling from her room as she played with it, which was really sweet!

And we introduced a Groclock at 18 months but we'd continued to stick to anything before 7am being a 'night waking' so it was a kind of natural extension of that.

Hilarious the strict timings some are suggesting. Every child is different, my eldest didn't believe in daytime naps from the age of 4 months, slept very well at night though, second child was a great napper but took much much longer to STTN, third child slept when he was able, by that time routines were dominated by school runs so he was bunged in the sling twice a day, and sometimes he slept and sometimes he didn't.

Anything before 7am was treated like a night waking here although after 3DC I wake early myself anyway. And my DC have alway had 'late' bedtimes. Can't get 3DC to bed by 7pm if you're only home at 6pm and still need to make tea for everyone and do a bedtime routine which helped us avoid the crazy early starts some have.

But really, agree with the just go with the flow but make it boring for him if you don't want him awake. No screens, no lights, no nice chats with Mummy at 5am. Just change nappy, cuddle, back to bed. With the nights getting longer he might naturally wake up later now if you are lucky. Try dropping a nap or pushing back bedtime but accept your child is an individual not a robot baby and is not preprogrammed to sleep at set times.

You don’t.

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