Random early wakings

Guys idk if my son is sick, if he’s just going through a phase or his bedtime is too early but he keeps waking up at 5:30/6am which he’s never done before 😩😩 anyone else going through this?

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My son has recently been waking up at 6am, normally he sleeps 8pm to 7am but would often wake one in the night for maybe 10-15 mins and need settling. Recently he's been sleeping through but he's been just waking up an hour earlier 🥴 I am not a morning person and we have a 3 week old, I'm up half the night and I'm usually feeding the newborn from 5:30 and my eldest not waking til 7 was crucial for my sleep 😂

I got him one of the day/night clocks this week and set 'morning' to 7am, told him he can't have his cup of milk\tv time until it's morning and he has understood the concept of it but instead of staying in his bed he just brings the clock through to my room and lies in bed whining for an hour 🤯 well... I'm impressed he at least lies down for the hour 🤣

Id guess in our situation it's probably the upheaval of a new little brother causing a bit of a regression but my elder son often only settles into a sleep pattern for a few months before he alters again.

Our bedtime has definitely got a bit later - we used to try for 7-7.30pm but now it’s about 8pm most nights. She sleeps to about 7am and we have a toddler clock that goes blue at that time. I think it’s a combination of sleep needs dropping, bedtime resistance and FOMO - she needs approx 50 hugs before I’m allowed to leave the room, and she’s occasionally waking at night and asking for hugs which she’s never really done before

Thanks girls! I’m also not a morning person so it’s really hitting me and my patience levels with him 😩

I did wonder if it’s sleep needs dropping because he’s now completely used to no nap (we only completely dropped it a month ago) so he doesn’t need an early bedtime.

He’s awake againnnn 😂 I cbaaaaa

Hope it’s getting a bit better for you now? At least spring time clock change is around the corner, which we found really helped with early wakings a couple of years ago! 🫩

It’s resolved for us! Idk what happened but he seems to be sleeping till 6:30/6:45 again which I know isn’t a huge difference but to my exhaustion it is haha. I actually was thinking that about the time change!!

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