Early wakeups

https://takingcarababies.com/early-morning-wakings
you may try delaying the time of the first nap a bit

Same here & nothing is working for me x

Look at total sleep in 24 hours, 10.5-11 hours is often a full night with long naps on top

Thanks guys :)! @Emily so make it later? I did wonder if his afternoon nap was too late. I’ll try to get him down a tiny bit earlier and see if that helps too.

What are your schedules like for naps? What time do they wake and go down for the naps/how long do they sleep?

I do cap his afternoon nap to 3:30 so he never sleeps past 3:30pm

What time does he wake from the first nap? I’d maybe cap that to bring your second nap forward x

We do 9-10 for 1st nap, then 12.30 - 2.30 for 2nd nap, bed time is 6.45 and he sleeps until 6.45/7. Like Emily said defo would cap the nap at 3pm, even 2.30 if you can. Make sure he’s getting enough day time sleep and I think pushing bedtime later can have the opposite effect and cause them to wake early so maybe try bringing bedtime forward a little x

Thank you so much girls! Will shake things up and try the shorter morning nap and earlier afternoon nap. It makes sense really so not sure why I haven’t tried it yet. I guess it was working before so I didn’t think much about it 😂 works well for when he will drop to one nap a day too

I agree with average overnight sleep for this age is 10-11 hours so 7 o’clock bedtime can be too early for a lot of babies this age if you want a wake up after 7! I know some do 12 hours or some are happy with 6am wake up.

We looked at sleep totals in 24 hours and built nap and sleep schedule based on how much sleep she needed. She naps 2-2.5 hours total usually 30 mins morning nap. Bed at 8 and sleeps until 7am earliest. Also reduced night wakes.

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it’s good to hear someone else say this, I feel controversial/plain wrong sometimes when I share my experience of more awake time/a shorter night helping with overall sleep. Many babies can’t do a 12 hour night, especially not with hours of day naps on top, but I think many mums think they’re doing something wrong when they don’t achieve this! We’ve always had ‘shorter’ nights (10-11 hours) but really good naps and she’s slept through from 6 months. We’ve tried earlier bedtimes and she just wakes at 5am instead 🤣 I quite like our later bedtime now because it means we get a couple of hours together in the evening after nursery 🥰 x

He also only does 2.5 hours for naps and then about 10 and a half hours for night sleep so pretty average. I genuinely don’t mind anything as long at it’s 6am onwards 😂 it’s the 5:30/5:40 I can’t do. And MOST of the time he does wake up past 6 but there’s just a lot of 5:40 recently. Also he sleeps through the night so I can’t complain tooooo much but I just HATE 5:40.


We have changed around nap time a bit so he’s been awake longer before bed and changed his bedtime by 15 mins (don’t want to shock him too much all at once) so wish me luck guys 😂🙏🏽🙏🏽 I’d be happy with 6:10am tbh