5 month old waking 5am

[GeorgiaHolly]

Hi all my little boy is 5 months old will be 6 months in just over a week.

He used to sleep from 7pm-6am no wakes or night feeds but when he turned 4 months he would need settling throughout the night. He now has got better again, sleeps from about 7/7:30pm until around 4am, he then needs a hand on his tummy to resettle him and then at 5am needs to be picked up every twenty minutes or so until around 6:30am when he will want to be up for the day.

I’m not complaining about this: I was always under the impression that I’m quite lucky and have a good sleeper?

I just want to check if I’m correct and that this is definitely normal/good sleeping and that I’m not doing anything wrong. Basically a few people I know with babies of a similar age have recently been saying their babies now sleep in until 7/8am each day so I started wondering if the 5am restlessness is my fault? I’ve tried a later bedtime and he just wakes at the same time, we have a dark room and white noise on. During the day I just have to put him in the cot and he will get himself to sleep, usually his naps last about 30-40 mins.

Is the 5am waking normal and just to be expected?

This was me 7 years ago, my 7 year old still wakes up between 5.30 and 6.30. he's in bed for 8 pm too so not too early.

You will get told advice to change naps, bedtime later and more, none of that worked for us.

My child is a morning person, it could just be a phase or this will be it.

I remember this and taking the opportunity to binge watch my Box sets whilst the rest of the house slept!
I don't recall how long it lasted, but it was a phase. Don't get stressed about it, go with the flow. Make sure you go to bed earlier to compensate.
They are developing so frequently and processing so much new information and learning that sleep is often the first thing that's disrupted.
Hopefully hl settle back down again in a few weeks, but if not, remember that the are unlikely to get up at 5am when they are teenagers!!

That's when we go and annoy them at 5 am haha

Unfortunately some are just naturally early risers! We tried everything and a good wakeup time for us now with my now 20 month old is 6am.
when he wakes up does he cry? Or is he happy?
we found ours was getting hungry by 4am and waking up crying, so before 13 months we still gave a night feed and then he’d sleep a bit more until 5:30-6am and now he’s on solids we give dinner as late as possible (6pm) and a bedtime milk at around 7ish to see him through but he will still wake well before 7am because that’s just how he is.
He always averages 10-11 hours at night. Never this magical 7-7 I’ve heard some do.
The digestive system is also particularly active around 4-6am so any small bit of discomfort can wake them up for the day as the pressure to sleep has basically gone.