2 yr old waking up at 5.30 am

[helenhn]

DD has been waking at 5.30 am for the last 6 months and as DH is away most of the time I am so tired and sleep deprived I am desperate for any ideas how I can get her to sleep for just another hour more or, ideally so I can have a 'lie in' until 7 am. DD goes to sleep well at around 7.00 / 7.30 pm and doesn't wake up during the night. I have tried putting her to bed later but she wakes up at the same time and tried leaving her in her bed until 6.30 am and just lying her down every time she calls out but she gets up within 5 mins and is crying out for 'mummy' at the top of her voice so I then bring her into my bed and give her some milk then she is wide awake but I am totally tired out! Please help me get rid of my eye bags!

we had this problem with our eldest; the only thing that worked for us was to delay his daytime nap till after lunch (has was still tired so had been wanting to go back to bed late morning)

I feel your pain! We now get a lie-in till 6 (6.15 on a good day!) and DS is nearly 2. We've only had that in the last couple of months. Before that, anytime after 5 was normal. At least DH and I were taking turns about, but we were both zombies.

Have no solutions, sorry, as DS sounds just the same as your DD, but wanted to let you know you're not alone and I've tried everything but still haven't found a way to get DS to lie in till 7. Would be bliss...

I suppose it's no help telling you it will be 4.30am when the clocks go back in 3 weeks...

Sorry. You have my utmost sympathy, ds has been an early riser for most of his life. He only sleeps longer if he's woken during the night and had some milk.

I have put his bedtime back by an hour over September to get him used to the clock change. For the first few weeks he still woke at 5.30am, but it did gradually get later, now it's 6am woo!

I am dreading the clock change but I do vaguely remember that last year it wasn't that bad.

No suggestions at all am afraid.

OMG Gordon!!! I hadn't even thought about that. What a nightmare. Feck.

My sympathies. We have exactly the same thing (DD is 2.7) - I'm dreading the clocks changing. It's been about six months for us too and nothing has worked consistently. The only thing that has worked from time to time, but has never changed the pattern permanently, is the "wake to sleep" idea, where you disturb them about an hour before they usually wake to try to reset their sleep pattern. There are threads about it in the archive, it's a Baby Whisperer idea... hope this makes sense, I'm typing as a zombie myself. Only tiny compensation is that we split the computer screen and she watches Cbeebies on iPlayer or DVDs, while I mumsnet or read the paper...

I had forgotten the clock change! Good Grief - the thought of 4.30 am wake up is making my eye bags increase just as I think about it! Nice to know there are other sufferers too!

You could put her in touch with my dd, also 2? Maybe they could entertain each other until it's a more civilised hour?

I found it helped to put the clocks back the following day (some time in the morning) rather than at night. It changes the length of the day rather than the night

try this

It took a few weeks and ours now know they are not allowed out of bed till Rabbit is awake. They do declare he is awake very loudly in the morning though.
DS:'MUMMY - RABBITS AWAKE!!''
me : Great !!

And sometimes we just curse those rabbits (7 am is still early on a Sunday!!) but they do work.