Early riser no matter what

[BAn4na]

Hi,

Hoping someone has some advice because I'm exhausted. My little 9 month old has always been an early riser but over the last few months it's become so much worse. He wakes at 4am still really tired but will only settle back to sleep if I cuddle him stood up, if i dare try to sit down or put him in our bed he screams the house down. So my partner and I take turns on who does the 4-6am stint. I won't let him out his room till 6.

Our routine goes something like this:

4am wake (let him sleep in our arms till 6 when we give up)
6am bottle
7am breakfast
9:30am bottle
9:30-11:30am nap
12:30pm lunch
2:30 bottle
3-4pm nap
5pm dinner
7:30 bed (has started to fight this so it can take 20 mins to get him to sleep but used to go down easily)

He has blackout blinds, white noise machine, the rooms warm enough, struggling to figure out why he's waking.

Has anyone gone through anything similar and out the other side? I'm dreading tonight with the hour change my 4am will soon be 3am!!!!

Any suggestions are welcome

Sleeping from 8 pm to 4 am is very good and he’s probably had enough sleep, have you tried putting him down later of an evening. The clocks going back messed up my first DS who was 6 months old, but fortunately my DH was an early riser so would get up with him, give him a bottle whilst he had breakfast and watched tv, then I would take over whilst DH went back to bed. Throughout this stage both DH and I used to go to bed early just to get a reasonable amount of sleep each.

He's waking crying and visibly still tired and goes straight back to sleep in my arms so it makes me feel like he's not getting enough. That is me putting him down later he used to be asleep by 7 but it's not made any difference so I'm reluctant to moving it anymore.

I'd happily just give in to the early waking if I felt he was getting enough sleep.