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For us, no. LO1 was the worst sleeper in the world (still isn't great) and for the longest time I just kept moving her bedtime earlier and earlier, hoping it would solve some of our issues. But her wake up became earlier and earlier. For about a year, she went to bed at 6:45-7:00 pm, and woke up at 5 am.

Eventually, I slowly moved her bedtime later. Now she goes to bed at 8pm and wakes at 6-6:15 am most days. She's never been one to sleep much more than 10 hours a night.

Yup, it's always worked for us. My oldest will be 3 in July. She naps from 1230-130/230 depending on the day, sometimes more. We were very good at getting her to bed by 7, and she would sleep until 730. Then gradually since I went back to work, dh started creeping up her bedtime. Then he would have his mom babysit, and she completely ignored her bedtime and was keeping her up until 8ish. She started waking up at 5. I had a stern talking to my husband, and we've both been very good to make sure she's in bed ( stories/songs are done) by 7. It's taken about 3 weeks, but she's finally constantly waking up at 7 again.

I've found that whenever with of my girls start waking up early, I'll put them to bed a little earlier, and they'll get back to sleeping to their normal time.

It didn't work for us with DD. DS is only coming up on his first birthday so I haven't given up hope yet but so far it hasn't worked for him.

LO regularly woke up early until she was about 22 months, and what helped was dh going in there instead of me--he was able to get her to go back to sleep, whereas with me she'd be up for the day altogether. I was still nursing back then, so I don't know if that had anything to do with it. Now she usually wakes up sometime between 6:15-6:45.

My LO is waking up super early now too. It's been going on for a few months and now I am starting to think that he just is low sleep needs. We tried putting him down earlier (6:30 instead of 7) and he just tossed around the crib for an hour and still woke up at 5:30. Over the weekend we were in central time zone and he went to bed late and slept later - which makes me think it is a sleep needs issue... aka, he likes getting up after 10 1/2 hours and that's all we are going to get.

DD has always gone to bed between 6-7, never later, and we have still had some issues with early wakeups. Who knows, maybe it would be worse if she had a later bedtime though.

Sort of! I can at least say with 100% certainty that later bedtimes made DS wake up earlier. So it was pretty infuriating to hear that advice from basically everyone. But on the nights when we get him in bed by 6:15 as opposed to 6:45 he usually sleeps past 7am when his normal wake-up time is 6:30. He did go through a horrible almost year-long phase of waking at 4:30/5 and nothing we did helped until he eventually outgrew it. It was horrible and frustrating and the main reason why I never ask other parents when their children wake up or offer unsolicited advice.