Wakeing up too early with 18 months

[bcapucci]

My baby is 18 months and for the last 30 days he is waking up around 5:45/6:00  crying and refusing to go to bed and sleep again. But he seems to be tired. His bedroom is quiet, the sunlight is not a problem and i don't know what to do. He sleeps all night.

His routine is:
6:00 wake up (nowadays)
12:00 nap for about 1 1/2
8:00 pm - sleep

thanks, Bruna

[Roseii]

Hi hun, looking at your routine I would guess he is overtired, a 14 hour day with 1.5 hour nap is very long for an 18mo. Can you get him in bed earlier, say 6.30/7pm so at least he gets more like an 11 hour night?

Do you wake him from his nap or does he natrually wake at 1.5 hours? Again 6 hours from wake til nap seems quite a long time.

Also he could very well be teething, do you medicate before bed? And have you ever tried giving him meds whilst he is asleep? (like a dreamfeed) Lots of mums find this works well for early wakings.

xxx

[LucySol]

At 18 months my lo was doing 6 hrs for her first A but she has always been quite high for her A times.Have you found this with your lo?

i agree wih pp that his bedtime is too late and i would bring it to 7pm for now and see if that helps.Have you tried the nap at  11.30am? But if he usually does a 1.5 hr nap thats too long to bed so i would keep the nap at 12 and bring bedtime forward

hth xx

[RachelC]

Bruna replied via the "report to moderator button" with this

in the nap, he wakes up alone. Yes, he is teething but i thought that he sleeps all night long shouldnt be that a problem...

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