Does anyone ever solve early waking?

Our 15 Month old DD is has decided that 5.30 is a good time to wake, not helped by 4 teeth popping thru. Have tried everything I can think of, pain releif, feeding, reassuarnce, leaving her and more food in evening. Nothing works!

She was sleeping till 6.30 - 7pm and napping 2-3 hours, but even her nap is now under 2 hours and often is grumpy when wakes.

Has anyone ever solved this? What did you do?

We have been a pre-6am house for 4yrs :S

Nope ... I have had to become a morning person too. 6am is a lie-in for me

we are all awake rather early here too! 6.20am was asleep in this morning ! rare to be asleep past 6am.
Wish there was a solution!
Who ever comes up with one patent it and sell it you'll be rich!

I will claim a partial solve. We used to eat dinner at 5, bath at 6, bottle at 6.30 and bed at 7. He would usuaally wake around 5.30/5.45. When daylight savings started I left everything at the same time but it meant we were eating at 6, bath at 7, etc etc. So he started sleeping until 6.30/7.00.

I really think that having dinner later is what did it for us. He is also not the 12 hour sleeper that alot of people seem to expect. He's more 10.5 hours at night.

We do snacks around 4/5 to drag him out until dinner at 6.

Not sure if that will help but pushing back dinner 'could' help. I wouldn't gradually do it. Just one day push it an hour later and see if that won't scramble up the ol' body clock.

Ha ha great to know we are not alone. Mollycat - we had great success with the later meals too, and do a 4.30 ish snack and 6pm dinner. Was working til the blasted teeth incident.

am planning on getting a grow clock, with suns and stars on it when is old enough. i suspect we are raising a lark tho

Hmmm, just started happening here too. I am blaming it on day light coming through earlier, blimmin birds starting to chirp around 5.30am, and the fact that some mornings it still is a bit chilly.

So far we have the heater set up to come on about 3am to keep the room from getting chilly and am contemplating black out curtains... have also attached a toy thing (like a little activity board) on the side of the cot, so that keeps him entertained for about 45min. Still up at around 6 though

No solution here but thought I'd add we are early risers in this house too. DS is up anywhere from 5.30am

With DD#1 we had issues where she would wake early (5am). It got worse when she was in a big girl bed rather than a cot and could get up by herself. When she started to get up at 4:45am something had to happen.

Our solution was to have a nightlight that was on a timer to come on at 6am. When the nightlight came on she was allowed to get up. If it was before the nightlight turned on (ie. 5:30am) we would take her back to bed and tell her to stay there. It took a few goes (a week to 10 days) but she got the message and stayed in her bed until the appointed time. The nightlight was good because it wouldn't wake her if she was asleep when it came on and it also didn't have any noise to wake her either.

Hope this helps.

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We got a blackout blind and its helped the first few days but this morning he woke at 6:15 so getting earlier again. I hope it was just a one off and tomorrow he'll be back to 7am. Its just easier with him on one nap but he can't stretch out to the middle of the day if he wakes too early.