Desperate help with early wakeup time for my 11 month old

I truly do not know what to do anymore. Nicholas wakes up anywhere between 4-5am daily. On the days he wakes at 4am I leave him in hid crib to CIO bc there is no way I am starting the day that early. Problem is be will be ok for 20 minutes & then he screams like crazy causing JJ to wake.

I dont know what to do to make him sleep in until at least 530-6? He goes to bed @ 7-730 but that is bc he screams to & even if he stays awake a hour later he still wakes so early.

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If u figure this out please let me know, my DD sleeps 11 hours a night usually from 6:30 to 5:30, but she tends to wake up between 4:30 and 5:30 am. I've tried putting her to bed later, but she still wakes up between 4:30 and 5:30. But 2 hours later she is exhausted and wants to go down for her nap. She will be 14 months old soon, but has been been on this schedule for a while now.

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My daughter, who will be 3 in August used to do this. I would grab a bottle, throw it in her crib with her. She would wake up, find the bottle, drink it and fall back to sleep for a while. Maybe you can try doing that. Good Luck!

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I think it's normal. Try pushing sleep time later slowly.

DS sleeps at 8:00PM (by the time he's out, it's 8:30).

He wakes up like an alarm clock at 5:30AM.

He naps at 9 & 2 for 1.5 hours each (any longer, sleep at night is worse). My niece & nephew were like this too...

Re: Desperate help with early wakeup time for my 11 month old

what are his naps like? maybe if you drop a nap he'll sleep more at night?

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DD has begun a habit of waking up earlier than I'd like. On mornings when I'm exhausted and just can't do it, I bring her into bed with me. For some reason she falls right back asleep beside me and we get in another hour or two that way

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I'm not going to lie, when my DS started doing this around 10 months, I just couldn't get up that early and started giving him his bottle in his crib. I would put a pillow in there, let him lay down and I would go back to sleep. He would go back to sleep for 3, sometimes 4 hours! Now, he's over a year old, and we still do it He woke at 6:30, I gave him his bottle and he slept till 9:45 I know I should probably stop doing it soon, but I KNOW he needs that extra sleep, but he's hungry, and if I give him his bottle outside his crib, then he's wired and up for the day, but cranky and tired.

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Thanks ladies. His naps are a total of 2 hours a day. He usually takes a 30 min nap around 8 & then a hour nap around 11ish. He will then catnap around 2 for 30 mins. If he skips a nap, we actually have worse sleep then if he takes the 3. I may do the bottle one in the am & see if that works

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Have you tried putting him down earlier? Try 15 mins early. Then if he falls asleep then try 30 mins early. Early bedtime actually makes them sleep later.

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Not him an earlier bedtime makes him wake earlier

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I keep on saying this because it works for me, but what about room darkening curtains? My son sleeps till 9:30 at 4 months old because it is pitch black in his room.

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he has room darkening cellular shades that makes his room very dark. Thing is at 4am it is NO where near light out!