Changing Wake up Time?

my son wakes up early regardless of when he goes to bed. Some kids are like that. I have my son in bed by 7:30pm. He wakes up 6am-6:30am. Also, if he is taking long naps he is prbably catching up on sleep then.

Do you have a neighbor that leaves at this time? Is this the time the sun starts shining thru his window? Something might be waking him up at that specific time. Before she went into Kindergarten, my daughter used to wake up at the CRACK of dawn because the sun came thru her blinds. Some nice thick curtains put at stop to that! And, her bedroom was next to teh bathroom, and her bed was up against the wall where the sink was, so when my husband got up and went to the bathroom to brush his teeth, etc, she would wake up. It just took some moving around of her room to fix the problem, lol. This morning she woke up at 7:30 because she heard the neighbors car door shut. It could be anything!

Hi B.~
I agree with the previous poster. Trying moving his bedtime-actual time in bed-up a half to full hour earlier. Also, when he wakes at 5:30, try telling him it is still nighttime and time for sleeping. Talk about how it is still dark outside, etc.

Good luck!

I would guess this is a phase and will likely change before long (for the better!). My daughter would wake early for a while at that age but gradually started rising later as time passed. Some kids are just early risers, but if this is sudden or unusual it might be something disrupting his sleep or recognizing the changing household? Are you waking up to use the bathroom and possibly waking him? A neighbor or animal nearby? I would not stress about it nor try some elaborate plan to change it as LOTS will be changing very soon for everyone and he needs as little added stress to his life and it may be best to follow what comes naturally in his day/night...with of course a little encouragement to let you get a shade more sleep. You will be very busy with the new baby and won't have the one-on-one time that you have available to you now, so looking back at my pregnancy with #2 I would say to use that early morning time to cuddle or get those last few months of bonding together :-)

How long has this been going on? I remember when my daughter was that age she did the same thing for about a couple of weeks. I did move her "night night time" up to 9:30 and this did help. Good luck!!

yep, if you change bedtime at all, make it earlier not later. You don't give up the nap either, that won't help. I would try that night light idea, that sounds good. My 3.5 year old gets up at 7:30 at that feels too early for me! I hope you can get this worked out. I would tell him it is still sleepy time and I am staying asleep and there will be no play or TV until it is wake up time. I had to put light blocking curtains in my son's room to get him to sleep until 7:30. This obviously isn't your problem, but they could still help if you are able to get him to go back to sleep, he could sleep longer. Hopefully, he just grows out of it. Good luck! Being pregnant and having to put in such a long day is not fun!

My little guy is on daylight time, when his room brightens he wakes up!! Can you darken the room any? Mine started this around the same age and he's almost 3 1/2. I have him sleeping from 8pm to 7am without a nap or 9pm to 7am with a nap.

T.

Hi B.,
I occasionally go through the same thing. Are you nursing? I will let Electra play for a little while usually an hour, then nurse her back to sleep. She'll then sleep 2-3 hours! It usually only happens every so often that she'll wake up at 6-6:30. Normally she wakes up at 8:30.

Hi there B.. My son was that way regardless of what his bedtime was. He's still that way at 16. When he was little, I used to put him down by 8pm and he'd be up sometimes once or twice in the evening, and then for good at 5:45am or so for good. I eventually put a very dim night light in his room and it seemed to make him more comfortable. He also took a nap in the afternoon, and I would try to rest to. They have their own little clock. I've even tried the later bedtime, but it didn't matter. Still to this day, if he goes to bed late, he's still up early, even on weekends.He is just an early riser like his dad, so unlike me. If I had a choice, I'd sleep in;however having children changes your whole life. Not necessarily for the worse. My suggestion is to try a dim night light at night. Good luck to you. I know how frustrating it can get.

I have had other parents tell me about issues like this and both solved it the same way (probably because they are friends and came up with it together). Get a night light and put it on a timer (you can buy them at HomeDepot or where ever). Set the timer to go off when you are ready for her to get up or at least a more reasonable time. Then tell her that it is her wake-up light. If it isn't on, it isn't time to wake up yet. Both of the mom's that did this put a different spin on it, but it worked for both of them.

Good luck!

This sounds weird, but maybe he's not getting enough sleep. He's only getting 9 hours at night when he should be getting around 11. Maybe try putting him to bed earlier, a little at a time. Sleep begets sleep.

My 2 yr old gets up at 5 am.