Hello,

I've not been on this website for about a year because I haven't had the internet, but I was in the May mum's thread in 2006. Hello to you all if you're still here! I hope all mums and babies are doing well

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get my 15 month old to sleep later in the mornings.  I have tried so many things but he still insists on getting up between 5.30 and 6.00 regardless of what time I put him to bed.  Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

 C xx

the best thing I done was a black out blind in my son and daughters room.  My son is 2 and half and my daughter is 11 months and share a room.  They go do bed at 8 and get up at 8 and I do think the blind helps.  Don't know if this would help.  

Don't know how you can do it.  What a long day! 

Hi Carolyn - one of the founding crew, welcome back!

How is he sleeping in the daytime? Does he have a good pattern? If you're trying different times to go to sleep it might be that a lack of consistency is off-putting for him - difficult, I know, when you're still trying to work out what works best. If you set a time and then stick to it though, he should adjust.  

How do you handle it when he does get up early? And also, have you tried a couple of distractions for him in his cot that he can play with for a bit and then maybe go back to sleep again?

Another thing I find helps is the power of suggestion. I know it sounds mad, but when I tell Florian that I'll see him at 7 for milk he usually makes it to within half an hour of that time (if we're at home etc.)

Good to hear from you, hope you like some of the changes we've made in the last year

We have a similar problem, from a daughter who used to wake anywhere from 6.30-7.00 we have had a couple of weeks of 5-5.30. Its driving me mad. No matter what time we put her to bed she wakes up at the same time and just ends up being really grumpy. Her daytime sleeps haven't changed and we limit them to no more than 2 hrs (I have also tried shortening these and no effect) We had one day at the weekend when she got to 6.40 but we have no idea why that was!

We do go into her and give her a dummy and leave straight away without saying anything, she generally goes quiet and we get another 20-40 mins perhaps. I can only guess it's a phase, I thought maybe the heating firing up disturbed her or the lighter mornings. She has a black out blind but light comes through the eges. When she was little I actually bought some black-out linning. I got velcrow that was sticky one side and normal the other stuck it round the frame and sewed it round the fabric and put that up it was fab....there was very little light getting through....thinking about it....I might get that back out and try it tomorrow night....it just might work!

I can hear her siging Twinkle Twinkle over the monitor.....!

Px