Daughter Getting up Early & Potty Training

J.,

I agree with the other responses that it may simply be that your child doesn't need nearly 12 hours of sleep at night. Also, you should consider moving her out of the crib. She is old enough, and this may just be her way of letting you know that she is "a big girl" now. Another tool my sister used with her early riser son was a night light on a timer. He couldn't get out of his room until the night light turned off (7 AM). Hope this helps! Good luck, and congrats on the potty training!

Lisa, mom of 4 boys

It's just a guess, but I may suggest shortening her naps if she is still taking them for you.

I think its just the age and mabye she should go to bed a bit later. My son just turned 2 and has been in a big boy bed for a couple months now. He goes to bed anywhere between 7 and 8 at nite depending on his mood. If he is playing nice and being good he stays up later if he is really crabby and we can tell he is very tired he goes to be shortly after 7. The nites he goes to bed earlier he does seem to get up a bit earlier. Now though if he crawls out of bed before 6 i pick him up and bring him back into his bed and tell him its still nite nite time. The sun isnt up yet so we still get to sleep and he usually falls right back to sleep for another hour give or take. I would mabye try putting her in a big girl bed and see what she does. My son sleeps a lot better in his bed that in his crib. I think he is a lot more comfortable being able to move without getting his arms and legs caught. He has always been a pretty good sleeper but he just seems more content in the toddler bed. She may not like the crib as much anymore. If she gets out of bed while transitioning just pick her up and put her right back in with out saying much and she will get used to it. Good luck, its tough when they are up super early!

Maybe she just doesn't need as much sleep now. My just-turned-2-yr-old was on about the same schedule, and in the last couple months has started going to bed about an hour later (8 pm, gets up around 6:30). She's not potty training yet really, so it may not be related to that at all.

not letting her get up to go to the bathroom!?! That doesn't sound like a very good Idea.

Since she is getting older... maybe she should start going to bed at 8pm instead. Perhaps that would help. Or swiching her to a big girl bed, then she can get out and go, then go back to bed? Wait who am I kidding... My 6 year old still tells me she needs to go, even tho I don't help her anymore! lol.

After my daughter turned 2 this past April we moved her to a big girl bed, and then started potty training. I do not agree with letting her get out of bed to go to the bathroom herself, so we made it very clear that when she wakes up she has to call for us and we will come get her. Before being potty trained, she would fall asleep by 8pm and then sleep straight through until 8 am. After potty training she would wake up by 6am because she had to pee so bad. So now we let her stay up until 7:45pm so that she is asleep by 8:30, and then every single night without fail, my husband sets his alarm and takes her to the potty at 1:30 in the morning. She pees (a lot) and goes right back to bed. This way, she's back to sleeping until 8am since she doesn't have to pee so badly.

If the child had to go potty she has to go potty!! Children can't tell time, she is simply listening to her body. Try putting her to bed a half hour to hour later than her normal time and see if that helps. If she is getting up earlier that you want her to see if she can go potty quietly then go back to her bed or just to her room and play with toys or watch TV. But please remember she is only 2, she is still very young and very much a baby.