DD2, 9 months, waking ealier and earlier in the morning. Is there any way to nip it in the bud?

[Beatie]

I'm sure this has been done a million times but I couldn't find an exact thread about it in archives.

I cannot believe this is happening again. DD1 went through the same thing. She hit the 9 month mark and moved her waking up time earlier and earlier. We were on a 2 week extended family holiday to france and she was waking at 5am French time! Dh and I alternated getting up with her but it did ruin the holiday somewhat as it meant late nights were off the agenda.

DD2 has been a great sleeper from 5 months onwards. She was slow to get the hang of daytime naps but she's now having 2 daytime naps. But now her wake-up time has crept forward. It went from 7am (and sometimes 7:30am!) to 6:45, to 6:30, to 6:100 and now it appears she is awake before 6 some days! Arghhhhh!

And we're 3 weeks off another extended family holiday to Spain. I am not looking forward to it now. I envisage it being 9pm and one of us yawning becuase we've been up since 5am and the other one saying, "well, I'd better get to bed, as I have tio be up at 5 in the morning"

Is there anything I can do......?

[franch]

Hi beatie

Just wanted to let you know we're going thru the same thing with DD2, who'll be 10m on the 10th. She's edged backwards from 6am to 4am!!! I found this thread quite useful.

Good luck - I'm turning into a bit of a monster mum because of this ...

[spidermama]

Blackout blinds?

[franch]

Done it - do think they sleep later in winter tho - I've never achieved 100% blackout