Early mornings help!

I’m wondering if anyone can see what’s wrong with our schedule that’s stopping baby sleeping in longer in the morning? He wakes at 5:30 everyday and I just want another hour 😭

5:30 wake up
9-10:30 first nap
2-3:30 second nap
6:30/6:45 bedtime

We’ve tried a later bedtime but he wakes up even earlier, and by 6pm he is exhausted
Ideally he needs to be napping at 9am still, I really don’t want to mess with that but will if it means a later wake up

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My daughter is almost the same…. Except probably more of what you’re wanting. She goes to bed around 7:30/ 7:45 wakes up at 6:30/7:00 (has a bottle in the middle of the night) takes a first nap around 9:30-11:30 and second nap is 2:30-3:30 (sometimes longer) we do play a lot, so she’s crawling in her big play pin in the living room and also walking in her walker. I’d say try to keep her up a lil longer and see if she’ll stay asleep longer it may take some time to get into the new schedule but it’s worth a try! Hope this helps

If he can’t stay up any later bring the first nap earlier and then the second nap earlier to allow time for the last wake window to be 3.5 hours. I think he needs a longer wakewindow before bed time

I saw a tik tok from a UK sleep consultant who said most babies will wake up 10 1/2-11 hours after they go to sleep, more likely than not 10 1/2. She said that a small percentage of babies can actually do 7:00-7:00 or something along those lines. Obviously not sure how accurate she is but I found that reassuring 🥰 We use the Huckleberry app still with the paid feature that tells us when our baby should nap throughout the day and she usually sleeps 7:30-6:15. I would recommend that if you were looking at rethinking naps x

(After 6 months)

I would shorten the second nap, the first nap of the day should be the longest and second should be shorter. But some baby’s just like an early wake up x

Mine wakes up at 5 am every day has a 20/30 min nap at 9 next nap is 12/ for max half hour then bed at 6/7 mine don’t nap longer then half hour at all x

Make him stay in the bed until later

My schedule is
730-8am wake up
1145 first nap
445 -5 second nap cannot sleep past 545
730-8 bedtime

Thank you all for your comments! He’s had a 3hr 45min last wake window after a 45min second nap today so I’m hoping he sleeps in a bit longer tomorrow. If he does I’ll try a 7pm bedtime I think and see if we can just shift everything a bit later 😅

I’d love to just make him stay in bed but he stands up, bangs on the cot and shouts until I go get him, it’s not like he goes back to sleep!

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