New Defination to Early Bird

Everyone seems to have about the same advice, mine isn't much different!Maybe if you leave him alone he will go back to sleep? My son (now 11years) would wake up early, but if I ignored him he would lay back down in his crib and fall back to sleep. (i didn't ignore crys of pain or hunger, just babble or whining). Also you could try giving him his last feeding right before bed so he falls asleep full and that might help him stay asleep longer. One other thing is to darkend his room so that the sun doesnt tell him it is time to be awake. What ever you do try to stay as consistant as possible, routine is what works best! GOOD LUCK!

He could just be an early bird and there's not much you can do about it. My daughter (now 2) is an early bird. She's up at 5 am everyday- regardless of how much she naps during the day or what time she goes to bed at night. She's always been like this and I have tried everything. Now I've just learned to deal with it, she's an early bird and that's the way it is.

But... I know when she's a teenager she'll want to sleep in. That's when I'll get her back for this! :-)

My daughter is like that as well and she is almost 17 mths now. I have tried putting her to bed late, somedays she will only take a 30 min nap or no nap that day because we are rushing around and she can't sleep but none of that matters. No matter how little sleep she gets during the day or how late she goes to bed she is always up early. The only difference is that if she didn't get her nap the day before or if she went to bed late then she gets cranking within an hour or 2 of getting up and then I will put her down for a nap early in the morning and try to get a little sleep myself. What has helped a little is I put toys in her crib and somedays she will wake up and I can hear her playing over the monitor and she sometimes plays for upto an hour before she starts to fuss. This gives me a little bit more sleep but not a lot. (With the toys you need to make sure they are safe for your child.) Some kids are just early risers and there is nothing you can do about it but adjust your schedule and get use to less sleep. One thing my husband and I have done is that one of us every now and then will get up on Sat or Sunday with her and the other will sleep a little later. I would be very careful about asking the daycare to limit his naps during the day because on days my daughter didn't nap at daycare we had a really struggle getting her to bed at night something that would normally take 10 minutes ended up being 1-2 hrs with a lot of crying because she was overly tired. Sleeping 1 1/2 hrs at his age during the day does not seem excessive. The one yr olds sleep for 2- 21/2 hrs a day. They need that sleep to grow and develop. If your child is tired and cranky during the day you don't want someone to force him to stay up. I would watch his behavior on the weekends and see if he needs those naps, my best guess is that he does. Good luck!

Well i can defiently give advice on this subject, but you may not like it. You can either back off the naps or send him to bed later. The only way that i could sleep in past 7 am in my house was to have my son go to be around 10 pm, which i really didnt like to do. When he got to the age of 2 he quit taking naps all together. Then (mostly for my sanity) he started going to bed around 8 pm and now he sleeps until about 7 am. I will warn you, a life with out naps can get grumpy around 5 pm. some kids are just early risers and there is not alot you can do about it. Good Luck

i would start getting him to bed later. maybe even just an hour. i know that might be your time to yourslef, or with your husband but i would try it and see if it doesnt help. that time at night when they're asleep is great, but waking up at 5.. not so good.. and an extra hour at night wont be too bad to deal with.. well, i hope you get to sleep longer!!

Maybe you could ask daycare to stop letting him take 3 naps? I think at 11 months my son was only taking one nap a day.

Just a suggestion, good luck.

E.

My son was like that too at that age (he is now 2). I tried putting him to bed but that did not help, so I reduced him to 1 30 minute nap per day and made sure his belly was full right before he went to bed. After a few days, and he got used to the routine, it worked and he slept in until about 8:00 am every morning. Now that he's 2 he plays so hard during the day, he goes to bed at 8:00 pm and sometimes doesn't wake up until 9-9:30.

My daughter (10 1/2 months old) likes to get up early as well. Occasionally she will sleep until 7 - 7:30 but generally she is up by 5:30 - 6 am. She goes to sleep between 8 - 8:30. I have noticed however that on the days that she eats a good amount of cereal before bedtime and drinks 6-8 oz on formula she sleeps later. Also - this is kinda ironic - but on the nights when we have rain thoughout the night she sleeps much better. You may consider putting a soothing sound machine in his room that you can leave on the entire night.

I agree with seeing if the daycare will stop the 3 naps a day.

Also, I would recommend keeping him up a little longer at night. At 9 months old, I kept my son (my early bird) up until about 9 or 930 pm so he would sleep in for me just a little bit longer. I had to be up by 630 to get the kids to daycare and me to work on time (8am). That extra hour of sleep was a God send.

To this day, at the age of 9 years old, my son is still up by 8am regardless of the day of the week.

Hi,
i have the opposite advice, so you can try both and see what works. My son gets up at 6:30-7:30 now at 17 months old. When he was younger, he also woke up at 5-5:30. I read in several places that I should try putting him down earlier and taking one nap away. I moved his bedtime from 8:30 slowly down to 7-7:30 (like 15 minutes earlier every couple of nights. As he was taken down to two naps, he got very tired early and by 7-8 months old, he was sleeping 7-6:30. It seems very weird that an earlier bedtime would do this, but it did. I had tried torturing him and keeping him awake until 9pm, but it never did any good. He is still on the same schedule. If he naps poorly during the day, he is sometimes asleep by 6:15. I put a sheet on his window to make it darker for such a early bedtime. The reason I would suggest trying this approach is that if it works, you have the evening to yourself, which is very nice. I would say that you either drop the nap and do this, or keep the third nap and a later bedtime. Please don't drop the nap and keep him up late, nothing good can come of that. I would rather be up at 5 than have a whole evening of a grumpy, screeming, miserable child. I hope something works for you!

M.