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LOL @ 'dont spaz' MissAngel.. have you been given grief on that before??? My 2yr old is the same, he wakes at 6am and goes to bed 7 / 7.30pm - he still has a massive 2 / 3 hr nap during the day probably because he's shattered from the early wake up but I'm not ready to give up the day sleep just yet and not convinced he'd sleep later anyhow - the black out blind has made no difference and most mornings he's insisting on waking up the house at 5.45am

Doesn't sound too late to me.

And yes, I agree that 6am is reasonable. My question was really based on the fact that she doesn't seem ready to get up and I wasn't sure whether to keep getting her up then or breastfeed and pop her back to bed. Generally she is more than happy to go back to sleep at that time so I guess that is my answer.

She doesn't nap well and is often awake a bit in the night so for those 2 reasons 6am is too early for us at the mo.

7am is our morning wake up time... that extra hour is precious to us in our sleep deprived household Often Ollie wakes and won't resettle at about 6am so I give him a bottle in bed, then he will usually get up between 7-7.30ish.

At times when I've been worried about how much breakfast he will eat, I've given a small amount of milk diluted in water, so he doesn't fill up on milk. He's usually starving hungry by 7.30am that way

Hi. I agree 6am is a night wake up in our house, I try to even get 7am to be a night wake up. DD at 11.5months goes to bed at 7.30pm although sometimes she isn't asleep till 9pm sometimes thats just her staring at the ceiling sometimes its her screaming the house down (like last night) If she is wanting to go back to bed feed her and put her back down. I hold out and try and get DD to go back to sleep and wake after 7am for her feed. I stopped bfing over night awhile ago, as she didn't wake up, I struggled to get rid of the 5am wake up, but one day it just clicked with her. I personally think its mean of me to hold out until 7am to give her a bf and if she's still awake go ok you can have dudu now, so try to get her back to sleep before dudu.

DD's the same climbs all over us, and fingers start going places, scratching begins and as soon I hear "oh" then she is back in her bed, as she is more likely to settle there

Hi Fiona,

Remember how I was getting woken at 5.15? I moved morning sleep back 1/2 an hour gradually and an DD is now sleeping till nearly 7am. Feel like new person.

Now refuses afternoon sleep, but that's a whole new story.