Early Morning Potty Training

Stop limiting his fluids. This makes his urine stronger and there is less in the bladder. He might actually wake up to go pee if he could feel the urge. Since there's not much there he doesn't really feel it and wake up.

It may be a couple more years before he stays dry at night so I'd make sure he completely understood that he is not to leave his room except to go to the bathroom and change. Then he has to go back to his bedroom. This way if he's up and doesn't want to go back to sleep then he needs to stay in his room and play.

If you have a baby monitor you could set it up in a hallway so any noise will let you know he's up. Then you can cat nap until you're ready to wake up for the day.

Ditto S.H. and Gamma G.

Then have him nap during the day before he gets overtired and crabby.

When I wake to pee, and it happens to be 5:00am'ish, I have a hard time going back to sleep myself. And my sleep is lighter at that time too.

Just keep things dark.
Don't turn on any lights.
Just have 1 nightlight.
Don't engage or talk anymore than you have to.
When he is done peeing, just march back to bed.
or tell him "shhhhh... people are still sleeping.... lay down...." and he might go back to bed.
My kids do.

I have not gone through this (see my previous post about potty training catastrophe) but have read what feels like a zillion books on it, and many do say it will disrupt sleep patterns because of this new awareness. It's a really good sign that he is waking and recognizing the need to go...but overtired sucks.

One of the suggestions was to wake child an hour after they fell asleep, and have them go potty, then put them back to bed.

Hopefully some of the BTDT momma's will have some more advice for ya...good luck!

If he won't go back to sleep, I'd say to gate him in his room and tell him he has to be quiet. He is very young, not quite 3 yet. Do you think he could manage if you put a potty in his room, for him to use it on his own, without leaving his room or waking you? I understand not wanting a 2 1/2 year old to leave his room and use the bathroom in the middle of the night without you knowing he's out and about, but if he can do it without leaving his room, let him learn to do this independently. He should be able to use the potty without help or someone watching.