[Harmony22]

Hi, My 15 month old wakes inconsistently in times ranging from 430 to 530am. Withdaylight saving coming and having just returned to pt work we're keen to know how others have managed to encourage their toddlers to sleep later - and then to add an hour as well!
DD has dinner at 5, milk at 615/630 and is usually asleep at 7. She has just moved to one nap in the last week and sleeps around 2 hours from 11ish. I have started holding off breakfast til 6am unless she is very keen, to see if this will help reset her body clock. Not sure if this will make any difference. Overall, I prefer gentle approaches to encourage sleep.
others experience about how to encourage later sleep would be great.
Thanks all.

[Shanski]

My miss 16 months has almost the exact same routine as your DD except I put her to sleep at 12 and she sleeps between 1 and 2 hours.

I have just started dressing her in long sleeves and long pants for the past 2 nights and she has slept nicely until about 6.30am. (this is a sleep-in in our house, our miss 3.5 wakes at 6am no matter what I try)

Try warmer pjs and see if that helps. If you go into her room does she resettle or is she wide awake and ready to go?

Maybe cutting back the day sleep by half an hour would help.

[Covert]

My 16 month old DS goes down at 11am and sleeps until around 1pm, sometimes even 2.

He has dinner at 5pm and he is down by 7pm.

He was an early riser but we got some blackout curtains for his room and within a week he was getting up between 6.30 and 7am.

I also started gradually putting his breakfast time back until he was eventually waiting until 7am. Obviously if he was famished I wouldn't do this.

Good luck.

[firsttimemummy18]

I had the same thing with DD. We tried warmer pjs, blackout curtains, holding off breakfast, etc, but nothing worked with her.. Definitely try all those things, but your DD might just need to correct herself with time.

For our DD, she started sleeping in later at around 2 1/2, no real reason why or any noticeable difference to her routine. It was just her body clock.

Too bad I don't get to enjoy her sleeping in now.. DS is the same and wakes up at 5:30 every morning without fail! I just cope and feel better knowing that it's not forever, and they will get out of the habit themselves eventually.

(a tip: a find getting started on washing, dinner for that night, etc, makes the early morning less 'terrible' because I feel as though I'm getting a jump start on things, and it means I'll get to 'rest' later. )

[MakeLoveNotBacon]

I'm on my second early riser and nothing seems to work. The really annoying bit is the older one is finally sleeping in but the 15 mth old wakes him. I pass them both off to dh and hide under the covers.

[rpt_lct]

My DS was exactly the same and never slept past 5.30 from the age of 6 months.

It feels like we tried everything and I was ready to give up, until recently, he is 3, we started to put him to bed at 8 instead of 7. We did it for a week and the results were immediate. He started to wake at 6.30 or later!

In the past month he has started to drop his day sleep so on the days he has a sleep he goes at 8 and on the days he doesn't he goes at 7 and still sleeps till 6 or after.

[Pearson]

Dd 19 mths likes being warm and dry, so we have found warmer room, and also a quick nappy change about 930pm works. Also, she started sleeping longer when her curtains were hung on a different, better curtain rod, letting in marginally less light around the edges. They are block out ones. However, if it is really hot, she hates sleeping in too. We also find less noise, even walking past her door, will mean more sleep in. She is not normally a light sleeper, I just think she might be lying there awake and hears us. If we hear her babbling, and don't get up, she can go back to sleep some mornings.

[tothebeach]

For both of my boys, it was a case of 'this too shall pass'

[*Sheree*]

hi op,

you could try warmer pj/blankets as others have said - they do tend to wake about this time when they get a bit cold. if hes not cold, you could try moving his sleep back a bit and see if this makes a difference?? if hes waking hungry you could try another snack of yoghurt or whatever about 6 or so, then a bottle at 6.30. or, if you think your lil one can do it, try a 6.30 bedtime.

my ds wakes about 6.30 - im trying for 7am, lol. he used to do it like clockwork, but i got there today though - yay!!

[Klinkalink]

My DS is a little older, but after nearly 2 months of waking up ready to start the day anywhere from 4:30 to 6:00, the only thing that got him to sleep later was the introduction of a GroClock. He slept (or at least stayed silent) until 7:00am after about 4 nights of using it.