Good Morning!!
My 28 month old DD has started waking at 5.00 am and we are a little over it as her behaviour has just become terrible..Due to not enough sleep.
So I was wondering what time do your put your child down for a nap and what time are they going to bed at night.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Thanks

Hi

My little treasure is also 28 months old and also wakes up 5am. It is a not a very pretty hour is it? We have tried everything to get him to sleep longer but have just come to terms with the fact that he is ready to get up at 5am. I posted a thread a couple of weeks ago and lots of ladies replied and said that their toddler wakes early as well.

Nap time for us is straight after lunch so around 12.30pm. I find that if I put him down any earlier he is ready for bed at night by 6pm and that just encourages him to wake even earlier! His normal bed time is 7.15pm so that he is asleep by 7.30pm.

Sorry, not much help but you are certainly not the only one with a 5am waker if that makes you feel any better?

My almost 3 year old wakes up around 6.50am and we put her to bed at 8.30pm. She wakes throughout the night (usually 1-2 times) which is more frequent when she hasn't had a day sleep. If she has a 1.5-2hr nap during the day this does not affect her sleep or waking times... apparently your childs body clock is used to sleeping and waking at certain times (just like us really) and it is hard to change these patterns. One technique I have read about are making sure the room is really dark. When daylight savings ended she was waking at about 6am which took a little while to get her back to a bit later... I feel for you because I am not a morning person and I thought 6.50am was bad enough... Its tough... I hope somebody has some good ideas for you.

My DD 2y2m went through a stage of waking at 5.30am or earlier recently. I tried putting her to bed later, around 8pm (usual bedtime 7pm) and it made no difference. I tried making her nap later in the day, around 1.30pm (usually 12pm) and it also made no difference.

Then I decided to try making her bedtime and naptime slightly later (like 15 mins/half an hour), not an hour or more later, and it worked! Gradually her wake up time has got later, now she sleeps until 6.30am most mornings, sometimes a bit earlier, sometimes a bit later. Her naptime is 12.30pm and bedtime is 7.30pm. The only other point to note is that her day nap has shrunk a bit, from 2-2.5 hours to 1-1.5 hours most days with the occasional 2-3hr marathon nap thrown in.

The moral of the story is no sudden big changes to their routine, just gradual, incremental changes. And I know it's counter-intuitive, but they probably need less sleep overall at this age, so a shorter day nap may help?

Good luck and hope this helps - those early mornings are a real downer.

My DD generally sleeps from around 7:30 (in bed at 7:10pm) and wakes around 6:45 most mornings. However, she does have the occasional phase where she wakes at 6/6:15 and this lasts for a few weeks and she goes back to normal. We keep bedtimes and day sleeps times the same so nothing changes that way. DD's day sleep is for around 1.5 hours at 12pm - although lately she hasn't been going to sleep until atleast 1pm - so of course she doesn't actually go to sleep until around 8pm at night - just plays in bed until then.
I like pp's suggestion about slight changes to routine, maybe give that a try and goodluck,hope it works for you!!

Both my boys have a 1-2 hr nap anywhere between 10am-12pm.
They also get up at ungodly hrs...and never later than 7am! We go through phases though, a few weeks back it was 5-5.30am and that lasted for 2 weeks and coincided with the daylight savings. Now it's back to 6am so hoping it'll go back to 7am soon!!!

Hi
My 24 month old wakes up at 8am or a bit later, so I just couldn't imagine having to get up at 5am!!! At that time of the morning I still get another 3 hours of sleep which is to me essential! We are 'night owls' so not early to bed early up people and I guess that has infiltrated our son thankfully for us, otherwise doubt I would cope!

He has breaky about 8:30am so won't have lunch until about 1pm and then goes down for a nap at 2-2:30pm and sleeps until 5-5:30pm usually, therefore he won't go to sleep until about 9pm. But everything is just set back a couple or few hours compared to your routine. Yes, he did wake up at 7am when day light savings ended but it corrected itself within 5 days.

I know that if my sons room wasn't blacked out during naps or night time that he would not sleep as thoroughly, and the other thing is that I keep a fan going (facing away from him) to cut out any sounds or birds singing early in the morning.
I also think that if your partner/hubby (if you have one) has to get up early in the morning to get ready (making noise) to go to work or gym or whatever that this can also be enough for your kids to get the idea that the day has started (which is why a fan would be good to block out that noise). Well, this works great for us, but I'm not saying it is the ideal thing for everyone because I even think it's a pretty unusual sounding routine to the norm!