Why oh Why is My Child Getting Up at 5:30 am? UGH!!!!!

Just once in my life, I want to sleep until 7 or 8 am...is that too much to ask????

We put Alex down at 7:30pm.
She sleeps through (usually), and gets up around 5:30-6, if I'm lucky 6:30.
I know we're lucky she sleeps for a good stretch, but 5:30 am doesn't cut it in my book!
The past few nights, we put her down a bit later (8pm) b/c we had things going on, she was utterly exhausted these nights, so I was thinking "great, she'll sleep SO good!"
NOPE. 5:30 am.


Should I try a 7pm bedtime & see what happens?
I know..."Sleep begets sleep".

I need to know what to do to get this child to sleep until 7 am!!!!!!!!!!



I'm tired.

Re: Why oh Why is My Child Getting Up at 5:30 am? UGH!!!!!

Andrew does the same thing. It doesn't even matter what time he goes to bed. He will always wake up between 6-6:30 am. Sometimes later but it depends on how much went on the day before

I am exhausted

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I have the same thing with Luka, b/w 6:30 & 7am. I use to be between 5:30 and 6 for about a month and then it just stopped. I would not pick him up until 6.

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ALex goes through this phase once in a while. Some weeks she'll wake up at 7:30 (yummmm). THis past couple of weeks she's on a 6:30am kick. Every once in a while, she'll mix it in with a 5:30am wakeup time - KILLER. I've found that there's really nothing we can do, other than wait it out... every phase passes, eventually

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My son is inconsistent with his wake up time..
He will go to sleep at 7:00 every night, but he will wake up anywhere between 5:30-7..lately he has been waking up at 5:30.........

I know how your feeling!

Re: Why oh Why is My Child Getting Up at 5:30 am? UGH!!!!!

My boys are doing the same thing.
they used to sleep till 7 am, now they are up at 5:30-6am.
I tried putting them down later or even earlier....it DOESNT work

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I feel your pain. My DD gets up between 5-6AM no matter what time I Put her down. If I get her down at 6:30PM or 8PM, 5AM comes and I always hear her start stirring.

If you figure out how to change her wake-up time, let me know the secret.

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Time for you to start going to sleep earlier!

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Same here, Ryan wakes at 5:15-5:45 every day unless he is sick. It doesn't matter when he goes to bed either. I hope it changes soon, not too fun on the wkends.

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I am in the same boat! Though Saturday we had a first in our house - 7:30am! I don't know what we did or she did to make that happen!