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In my opinion, yes.

C woke up early for a while. What we did is left her for a bit before getting her in the morning. Say she woke up at 7, I would leave her until 7:30 before getting her (she was always quite happy to wait and didn't cry). Eventually, we got to a point that unless she was crying, she didn't get out of bed until 8am. It just sort of naturally followed that she started sleeping until 8am. Now, she sleeps TOO late and I have to wake her up in the morning. lol

I don't know if you can now, but I told my LO that morning doesn't start until 8. So I would treat any wakeup before then like a night-waking. But she's only 4 months and I've been doing that from the start.

Oh man, we're dealing with this too. I've been doing what PP's have said, treating any wakeups prior to 7am like a night wakeup. Putting him back in his crib. Sometimes he'll really fuss and cry, but he always falls back asleep, even if it's just for an hour or so. I'm hoping that over time this will morph into him sleeping until 7am.

We went through that for about 6 months. I even posted on here that there needed to be a 6am Gymboree because I was so tired of the early morning isolation. Initially LO wouldn't come in our bed at all but at about 6 months she started laying with us and nursing from 4:00 - 5:00. Sometimes she would fall back asleep

This past week, 10 months, I stopped the middle of the night 3/4am feed. Oddly enough she started sleeping through until 6:30 -- later than she had slept with a middle of the night feed. I don't believe we've seen the last of the early morning wakeups but I'm encouraged.

We co-bed and I treat any wake-up before 7 like a night wake up too. She finally pushed the clock back to 7 from 5. She's 6 months. She did have a phase at 4 months where she was waking up at 3 am for the day, and nothing was working, so I started putting a play gym in bed with us so she could entertain herself and then went back to sleep. Not stellar parenting, but I got enough shut-eye to want to live again!

My LO used to wake at 4:30 - 5:30. As she got older I decided 6 am was the earliest she "could" wake up. So if she got up earlier I would go and feed her and soothe her but not "get her up". Eventually, she got the message. now she is 13 months and she's been sleeping 7 - 7 or 7 - 6:30 since about 10 months.

From 8-9.5 months R was waking up at 5 -530 verses her normal 6-630 (usually the late). We left her in the crib till 6 and wouldn't get her before then, unless she started crying hysterically. It was rough. It made the morning worse for me trying to get ready while I knew she was up and I would watch her on the monitor praying she would go back to sleep. She would fall asleep at 645 on the ride to day care. We tried earlier and later bedtime, but nothing worked. Finally over Christmas she started sleeping later. Now she is back to sleeping 7-630. Consistent bedtime helps I think.

Not sure how to do it when you co sleep.

Prior to the time change DS would sleep until 8AM unless we woke him up. Since the time change he regularly gets up at 6 which isn't a problem during the week because that is when I start getting him ready to leave but it is killing me on the weekends. And since he and DD share a room, he wakes her up.

There are so many things you need to consider to troubleshoot WHY he's waking so early. When is his bedtime? How many naps does he take? How long are his naps? How much awake time does he have throughout the day?

If only it were as simple as just leaving him and he would learn to sleep until our chosen time!!

Since you co-bed, what do you do when he wakes so early?

When DS1 was an infant I started work at 6am so I was long gone when he woke up. DH somehow got him to play in the pack n play next to our bed so he could catch some extra of sleep (we didn't co sleep, he was in his own room overnight) so like some PPs even if he gets up early he has learned to quietly entertain himself, normally until after 7am