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WHY has he started waking at 5:30am again??

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giddykipper · 22/10/2008 07:05

DS was doing so well, sleeping from 7:30pm to 7:30am, I was so proud.

All week he has been waking at 5:30am, he's really tired but just will not go back to sleep and after 45 minutes of wrangling I give up and get up with him. Aaargh. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to work.

Now he did this before and dropping his morning nap seemed to sort it out.

Does anyone have any experience of this happening and do I need to now drop his lunchtime nap?

He's only 17 months, seems too early to drop all naps, but I need to get my sleep back.

BTW I know I'm still very lucky to have a child who sleeps even from 7:30pm to 5:30am!

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MurderAtTheDiscoDizzy · 22/10/2008 07:10

I wouldn't say you need to drop his lunchtime nap. How long is his nap though.

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giddykipper · 22/10/2008 07:12

Between an hour and 90 minutes usually

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MurderAtTheDiscoDizzy · 22/10/2008 07:24

Why not see if you can cut it down by just 30 mins and see if that does anything, OR put him to bed 30 mins early and see what happens. Sometimes the MORE sleep they have, the better they sleep, well IME anyway. Could be total codswallop!. Having said that DD2 (3) was up at 5.15 this am but luckily I can tell her to go back to bed (the umpteen number of times she gets up before 7am)

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giddykipper · 22/10/2008 07:31

That would make sense. DP reckons he's under the weather or something rather than it being a developmental phase. I don't care, I just want it to stop. He's absolutely shattered now, is going to be a pita today (the one day I don't work)

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MurderAtTheDiscoDizzy · 22/10/2008 09:23

I hope your day is better than you expect. I know how you feel and its not fun. Good luck with tonight. FWIW I remember both DD's being in such a strict routine when they were around that age and it was very hard that even a slight overrun of a nap or something out of the routine used to send them all cockeyed. It was hard when their body clock would change and it was up to me to work out what was needed in order to bring it back to normal

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giddykipper · 22/10/2008 19:21

Well DP was right - he's developed a cold during the course of the day so I think he probably woke up with a sore throat. I made sure we had a busy day for both our sanities, he only had 50 minutes nap and he was asleep by 7pm. Touch wood that he sleeps until at least 6am, I think I'll be in bed by 9pm just in case!

You're exactly right Dizzy, he has a very structured routine, mainly because he's at nursery for 4 days.

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MurderAtTheDiscoDizzy · 23/10/2008 07:16

Well I hope he's/you've had a better nights sleep. DD2 had me awake at 3.15am and neither of us could get back to sleep for over an hour. Aargh!!

OrangeKnickers · 23/10/2008 10:47

Hi Gippykipper, I am in the same boat. Same age ds, same early waking after 7-7, same day off!

We are dreading the clocks change and are going to start putting ds' bedtime back by 15mins each evening.

Lionstar · 23/10/2008 10:51

My DD used to wake on the dot of 5.30am every morning - I couldn't work out how her body-clock was so consistent. Until DP figured out that we had turned the heating on and the timer was set at 5.30am, (to warm the house/water up by the time he got up at 6). The thermostat give quite a loud click when it switches on, and it is right by her bedroom door. So we set it for later on and it cured the problem!!

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giddykipper · 23/10/2008 21:07

I had to wake him up at 7:15 this morning! Wonders never cease.

I'm planning to do the same as you orangeknickers - tonight he went down at 7:15pm and I might let him have a lie in tomorrow (wishful thinking!) and be a bit late for work if necessary.

I think we do have partly the same problem Lionstar - in retrospect we couldn't have given him a worse bedroom, he's right below the water tank so whenever a shower starts or a toilet is flushed is makes a noise above his head. DP gets up about 5:30am to go to work, he's as quiet as he can be but there's not much we can do about it.

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SancerreHead · 23/10/2008 21:09

Teething? DD age 2 has just started this, almost exactly. And, four days ago, a molar appeared. The last two days, she has woken at 7:15am....we now think she was being woken by mild tooth pain (as she was not in distress during the day with it, but would wake on occasion in the night for no apparant reason).

Just an idea...

SancerreHead · 23/10/2008 21:09

Oh and DD still has, and needs her daytime nap, although it is now a bit earlier!

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giddykipper · 23/10/2008 21:11

That's a definite possibility Sancerre.

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nickymorris · 24/10/2008 13:34

My neighbours had this problem with their DD. Discovered it was because they'd turned their central heating on and baby was being roused by the pipes heating up. They changed the timer on their heating and baby went back to sleeping until 7

Could it be that?

Iklboo · 24/10/2008 13:36

Sorry to be a pain but since the clocks go back on sunday it will soon be 4.30 am!

midnightexpress · 24/10/2008 13:36

He's doing it because the clocks are about to change and it'll be 4.30am next week.

midnightexpress · 24/10/2008 13:37

x-posts Iklboo

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