Morning wake time is getting earlier and earlier...

[mstormin]

DS has recently started waking around 5:30-6 to eat and then wants to be up for the day.  We usually start our day at 8am.  This may not seem like a big deal but d/l savings time is at the end of this month so his wake time will then be 4:30-5am!
Is there anyway to help adjust this time?

I was wondering if it would help to wake him around 4- 4:30 and feed him so that when he wakes at 5:30-6 he won't be hungry and may just stay sleeping.

Anyone had any luck with this?
TIA!

[Johno & Aurelias Mum]

Hi

What did the day look like before the early wakings and what does it look like now?

If LO wakes early, does he start his first nap earlier?  If so, this is a bit of a cycle you can get into and you may need to 'reset' the time.

[me and bean]

my ds went through this at around 3.5 months.  i did 'wake to sleep' with him (no feeding) and managed to nip it in the bud.  then moving him onto 4/4 easy by 4 months stopped all wakings.

if he wakes now, at 6 months earlier, he knows to go back to sleep.  or, if it's just 6.30am, he's content to hang out till 7am.

[mstormin]

Thanks for your responses!

Our schedule before was to wake at 8am and feed every 3-3.5 hrs (we're moving towards a 4/4 EASY b/c he's been getting bored during his feedings).  He generally takes 45min naps (nothing we've done so far has helped this) and would go down for the night at 7:30pm with a DF at 11pm.  He is usually up for about 1.5 hrs of awake time so we do a EASASE routine most days! 

When he wakes at 5:45/6am he stays up until about 7:30 then takes a 45min nap. So, I we've just been feeding again every 3-3.5 hr (6, 9:30, 1, 4:30, 7:30).  One thing I've noticed about his "new" schedule is that he thinks 5pm is his bed time!  If we let him go he'd continue to sleep...but 
we've been waking him after 50min treating this as an evening catnap-- by waking him up, playing for a bit, eating and then go to bed at his normal time around 7:30pm.  But that hasn't made a difference-- maybe he needs an earlier bedtime?

If I try wake to sleep should I just get him to stir around 4:45am?  Or wake him up more fully for a diaper change?

Thanks again ladies!