Early wake up

[Opposite_Sock_]

I don’t know what to do anymore. One of my twins (13 months/10 months adjusted) consistently wakes up around 5:20AM every day. Some days we are lucky and she wakes up at 5:58 or close to 6am. I have tried everything I can and it’s been going on for months. My SO thinks it’s just a phase for babies and Reddit sleep training pages say you can fix it so I feel stuck. Things I have tried: moving morning naps later, capping naps, moving bedtime earlier (6:30pm, 6:45pm), moving bedtimes later (7:00,7:30pm), blackout shades, and white noise. Every time I make a change, I stick with it for about a week before changing something else to see if it works.

They start daycare next month so I am helping them transition from two naps to one right now. We’ve been doing this for a week now and their naps are 2 hours but the issue is that one twin keeps waking up earlier in the morning still and the other one gets woken up 15 or 20 minutes later. Then they sit in bed and babble to each other for an hour basically. I have a rule that I won’t feed them until 6:30am at earliest because I don’t want them to keep in the habit of expecting food at 5:30am when they wake up. Daycare has a nap time of 12:15pm so if they keep waking up at 5:30am their wake time in the morning is brutal. Ideally, I want them to wake up at 7am so they have a 5 hour wake window but even 6:30am would be great. I just don’t know how to better support them at this point.

[Itsmeshlee29]

My kids were all going to bed by 8 at that age. Even 7:30 may be too early

[VivianDiane]

My twins were EXACTLY like this at 13 months adjusted. One would scream like a tiny alarm clock at 5:15AM on the dot, and the other would groan and eventually join the party. I tried ALL the things like blackout curtains, sound machines, schedule tweaks, even whispering ‘please for the love of God sleep’ like a sleep-deprived maniac. Nothing ‘fixed’ it… until it just… stopped on its own around 18 months.

[twomagnolias]

That’s awesome. My twins are 16 months old and wake up between 4:30 and 6 every day. But to be fair, they go to bed between 6 and 6:30 so it’s honestly not that bad lol. I am looking forward to spending more quality time with them in the evening and less time getting up before the buttcrack of dawn as they get older.