Early Mornings

DS is convinced morning starts at 5am. I'd much prefer it if he'd move it to 6am.
He used to have a bed time of 6:30, I've moved it to 7, but it if anything it's made the mornings worse.
Any ideas?
When he wakes at 5, if he's happy we just leave him till 6. If he's unhappy we try to "settle" him, but don't get him out of the cot.

Bizzy wrote: later bedtimes dont mean later mornings unfortunately, it just means they get less sleep..

Too True!

I have an early waker, he has always woken at 5-5.30am so am use to starting my day at that time now after 2.5 years. I tried everything to get him to sleep later. Now at 2.5 he sleeps until around 6am on a good day.

When he was littler I used to chuck him in bed with us and sometimes he would sleep or I would take him to the lounge, leave the lights dimmed and I would cat nap on the couch while he played until breakfast time at 6.45am. Now I just get up and do my jobs

Edited by Peanut

im the same as specialK except its 7 in our house but he is happy enough with that so we are lucky. have you done the whole black out curtains and stuff?

I had this exact problem last week. I contacted the sleepstore they suggested:
-a warmer sleeping bag
-dream feed at 10pm ( was doing it at 9.30)
-moving the first day sleep forward a bit, i.e. later.
The warmer sleeping bag worked a treat! Turns out she was getting cold as this is the coldest time in the moving. haved moved the morning sleep forward by 10 minutes.

Personally I would avoid feeding him at 5 if at all possible, I have found that (1) mucks up feeding for rest of day and (2) creates inconsisties and you run the risk of him wanting it when he wakes at other times in the night (at least that my experince) and given that he likes eating and is doign well on that front why muck it up. He doesn't sette after a cuddle or if he's just awake and playing I'd just wait till 6 before getting him up.

How did you go? We had another early start today. Grggh...she makes up for it by sleeping longer in the morning but still! Might up the heater temp its very cold here this morning.