Is 6am standard toddler wake up time?

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Son is 17 months

bedtime 8pm, and always wakes 6am. Has a 2 hour nap during the day

have tried less nap, later and earlier bedtime but he just wakes at 6am. Is this normal for toddlers to be early risers? Also is 10 hours and 2 hour nap enough sleep overall?

Yes, I would be pleased with what you have described

Yes it's normal

A 17 month old who sleeps solid from 8pm to 6am is a dream. You're lucky.

6am seems fairly ok to me. Maybe my perspective has been warped by having kids but 6am is a good wake time and a reasonable time to get up.

Sounds a bit late!

Anything after 6 counts as morning in our house. Sorry!

Yep normal

They’re all different, but I think 6am is pretty normal and not an especially early wake. 8-6 is a good amount of sleep. My 18mo generally sleeps 9-7 or thereabouts, my 3yo the same.

Absolutely normal, both of mine were up and ready for the day at 6, if not occasionally earlier 😬

Youngest is 18 months and sounds very similar to your LO, two hour nap 12-2, then sleeps from about 7:15 until anywhere between 5:30 and 6, my eldest was the same though now he’s 10 he occasionally has a lie in until about 7!

🙄 always one

it is not ‘late’ it’s early for many people. OP yes it is normal, but I find mine always wakes earlier in the summer months. Must be some sort of inbuilt rhythm telling them to get out and work the fields or something as mine was awake at 5:47 today 😅
we have blackout blinds all year round but in the winter we often get lucky and they sleep 7-7:30. It might not be a set wake up for life, it often changes. I’m up at 6 on a work day regardless, but it’s always handy if my toddler sleeps a bit longer so I can zip about and get ready before they wake up.

I count 7am as a luxurious lie in 😂

Sounds fine to me OP!

It was lighthearted. I have a 6 month old who has barely let me sleep past 4 for the past week despite blackout blinds.

If I get to where OP is at 17 months I'll be pleased.

Ah, sorry I misunderstood. 4am is brutal, you have my sympathy.

why the sarky comment? 6 am is very late for a toddler, much later than many people. A two hour nap is also huge. At this age mine had long since dropped all naps, and were waking 90 mins earlier, and this continued until school. They sleep more now as teens

I wouldn’t love that either! Total sleep is definitely on the lower end of normal but some kids are just low sleeps needs. What time is the nap? If it’s early then it could be being used to compensate for the early wake and pushing it later may help. Not after 1pm though as sleeping past 3pm is going to mess with bedtime. Also what time does he eat dinner? We had success with getting DS to sleep in later by feeding him later, later bedtime on its own did nothing.

They’re all different though aren’t they. For many toddlers that’s not late, let alone ‘very late’. A two hour nap at that age is also not ‘huge’, in my experience) as a childcare professional and a mum) by any means. I’d say dropping all naps by that age is really quite unusual, actually, especially if you are claiming they woke at 4:30am?! Wow, you must all have been absolutely exhausted, but thankfully this is not how it is for most parents.

8yo and 6yo wake up at 6am here. Always.

If my son made it to 6am it was a good day! He's 20 now and still an early riser.

One of mine consistently got up for the day at 5am. Went on for years. I am not a morning person and it was hideous. Second DC was the opposite and often had to be woken at about 8am. Both are late teens now and unlikely to surface before midday.

haha! The crazy thing is they woke me up at 4.30 for about 7 years between them, and more then a decade later, I still wake up at that time, but they sleep until lunch if they get a chance.

Mine used to get up at 4am. He's 21 now and still a terrible sleeper.

Anything with a 6 at the start was a win for us. Anything with a 4 awful and anything with a 5 the normal.

Thank you all for your replies!

Oh believe me, we only get maybe 50% of the time sleeping through with no waking and that has only started in the last 2 months, and until then could have been at least 3 times, at the moment is roughly once.

definitely cannot go without a nap. I aim for mornings to start at 7am, then nap about 12.30-2.30 then bedtime 8. As in winding down bath etc 7.30 so to be asleep 8pm

i did think that about food as he doesn’t like milk so doesn’t drink it before bed but typically I follow nursery schedule and they eat lunch at 11.30 and give tea about 3.30/4 so if I do have him at home I push it to 4.30ish. I might start offering supper before bed like porridge.

He has started waking earlier in the summer months too regardless of blackout blinds etc.

but it’s nice to know it’s a normal wake up time and I just need to accept it I guess until he learns to love sleep like me (I hope!) xx

If it helps op Dd used to wake at 4:30am for MONTHS. I was on my knees, I don’t wish that on anyone.

She is 7 now and I have to wake up up at 7am and she sleeps in until 8:30/9 on weekends. It does get better!

Yes! Be grateful he sleeps through every night