How to handle early riser?

I cosleep with my 13 month old on a floor bed for the second half of the night. He's an early riser, often up at 5am, fully awake and ready for the day. I'm dying. This alone has me thinking about sleep training and night weaning so that I can get some extra sleep. Anyone have any advice?

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Don’t sleep train, Like Never.
The problem is never in the night but they if at all!

You can move the bedtime later, step by step, Overall sleep won’t increase but the time shifts in Slow steps.
How often does he wake?
Night weaning before 18m mostly does not fix night wakings but you lose the easiest and fastest tool to get the em back to sleep.
Here are some good articles

https://possums.org

i feel you girl my 2 year old is up watching tv rn at 6am mainly because i’m bedsharing with my 7 month old and didn’t want toddler to wake her up 😭 he’s always been an early riser too and now my baby is becoming one too lol. i’ve gotten used to it but 5am is even worse i would push bedtime back so he will be tired enough to sleep an extra hour

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