early waking
10.5 month old child, trained via sleep sense and has been able to fall asleep independently and sleep through the night since 4 months old. no night feeds. he was previously able
for about one month now, he has been having frequent early wakings around 550am where he would cry and whine in the cot without getting up. we often let him whine it out without intervening because we interpret that he’s still tired since he’s not standing or getting up in his cot. we haven’t done many pop ins also because we find that pop-ins just agitate him further and doesn’t help him settle back to sleep.
usual schedule is as such
645/7am out of cot
10am - 1120/1130am nap 1
3pm - 4pm nap 2
bedtime 745pm
so wake windows are 3h15 mins\ 3h 30 mins \ 3h 30 mins with nap 1 usually about 1.5h and nap 2 about 1h.
we have tried to make bedtime 730pm/745pm (so playing with last WW 3h30 mins to 3h 45 mins) but it has still been the same. the early morning crying is driving me insane and he is UNHAPPY when we come to get him in the morning.
any ideas how to optimize?