My 3.5 year old has always been an excellent sleeper. But recently (last couple of months) he has been waking early in the morning. He comnes out of his room on the pretex of using the toilet, but will open and close his door a few times to make sure we hear him. We always tell him to go back to bed after he has been to the toilet (he is still in nappies at night anyway) but he will often not go back to sleep.
We have tried a number of things. His room is very dark - black out curtains and everything. We have put a digital clock in his room and told hiim that if it does not say 7 oclock he is not to get out of bed, but this has made no difference (and his number sense is very good). I read a sleep book that said if your child is tired during the day (which he is), that he should go to bed earlier and it would not affect morning wake up time. SO we have moved his bedtime forward, but he still wakes early so is tired during the day. I am at my witts end really. And as I have a baby that is still waking for an early morning feed (though not at the same time so I am sure one is not waking the other), I am really really tired.
At the moment, he is in bed by 6:30 (previously it was about 7:30) and wakes around 5am. Then maybe dozes off again. Sometimes he wakes at 5:30 and does nto go back to sleep. My husband gets him up at 6:30, but refuses to get him up any earlier (and I agree). If he is going to wake early from now on, then I want him to stay in his room and not wake us up. Though of course I would prefer him to stop waking as he is so tired during the day.
What can we do????
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IlanaK · 04/02/2005 10:52
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