Another EW question

[yaya]

When the F do they grow out of them? 'scuse the language but am pretty tired and fed up today
Ds has been waking 6am past 3 mornings and today it was before 6, I CANNOT handle this and cannot work out why.
Background infO: day sleep hasnt been great either because of a cold and he's been waking once at night ( no idea why- very upset but doesnt seem in pain) at varying times.
I have tried putting to bed earlier adn he just takes ages to fall asleep.
I'm so p****d off with this, night waking, early morning, feel like I'm dealing with a newborn already
Please help need to fix this asap
here's our routine
(was)
wake 7am
12 lunch then nap anytime between 12.15 and 12.45  for (used to be ) 2hrs now hardly an hr unless I resettle
dinner 5.45
bath 6.50 then bottle and bed by 7.30

He has had a cold past week which is clearing up but in that time I have had to 'see to him' A LOT for day and night sleep due to blocked nose etc...

TIA, 

[macsmum]

me too i am p****d off, we were at 7 am wake up for 2 weeks back to 5.30am ear infection, once cleared back to 7am now we have got all the wake back to 5am, i tell you i give up, i know it's the naps, naps well at home infact too well i have to wake him, although nursery we are still at 1 hr for the whole day

sorry no help to you but thought you might like to know you aren't alone!!!!!!!!
Emma

[yaya]

Stacy thanx for ur insight!!! I do suspect its overtired, it started from not being able to nap well from a stuffed up nose and gradually sleep has wrosened, so today I didnt wake from nap and he slept over 2.5hrs, went down in 15mins forbedtime only 4.5 hrs later so this could confirm the overtired theory, what do u think?

[yaya]

how can they get sooo overtierd so quickly?? man this sucks...if we don't have a better night, will try an am nap too....thanx again.
macsmum...could it be teething with ur LO?

[Lissybits]

Hi! My 17 mo DS is still waking in the 5ams and we're pretty fed up of it too!. I would consider 6am wake up as acceptable now actually!!

Layla did mention that EW can be caused by teething and I'm hoping this is the reason. DS is cutting his bottom molars at the moment and wakes between 1 - 3 and can't get back to sleep unless we give med.
 Last night was night 3 of the med (Medised - the best in my opinion!), so don't know what I'll do tonight if he wakes. I'm going to have a poke around in a moment to see if tooth is through - hope so!

What do you do if LO wakes between 5 - 6 and won't go back to sleep with PD? If it's before 6, I'm afraid I give him his am bottle a bit earlier and put him back to sleep for 30 mins. An extra 30 mins sleep for me makes a big difference!  Not sure if this is the best solution however and I don't want this to become a habit - has it already?!
 Lis
xx

[yaya]

i wish that worked for us, DS doesnt have a bottle and nothing seems to get him back to sleep

[macsmum]

well last night i was fed up, picked ds up from nursery he had slept from 12.30 to 1.30 i got him home at 5.15 and he was in such a fowl mood i gave bottle straight away and put him to bed at 6pm and he slept till 7am this morning .
i have put him down at 6.30pm before but never this early i am hoping that he will do it again and that i am right he is over tired
re the teething i am still waiting on the other 2 top front teeth to come this is how his teeth look now           x    xx    x
                                               x  xxxx  x
if that makes sense but there is no sign of them yet!!!!!!!!

Emma

[yaya]

oh emma thats great news! Am rather jealous tho we did lengthend naps and do diff, last night was awake from 3.40 till after 5. AM refusing to pu these days so it takes me A LONG time to get back to sleep. Only thing left for me to assume is teeth...so fed up with this

[macsmum]

have you tried a really early bedtime i have done it again tonight...
yesturday went like this
up at 5.40am bottle in cot ( i know i shouldn't but )
nap 12.30 till 1.30 pm bed at 6pm,and that really short nap always happens at daycare.............. but today he slept till 7am as you know but he also napped for 1.5hrs at nursery 12 till 1.30pm i am so hoping he napped better because he was well rested from the night before and that this will continue, i put him to bed again tonight at 6pm so we will see what happens.............
although now i have a new problem lol.......... he has been waking for weeks on and off at 5am ish and everytime he wakes b4 6 i give bottle in cot and go back to bed so this morning he kicked off when i didnt give bottle in cot
Emma