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Following... we just got that clock for our 17 month old and it's not sinking in yet.

This probably goes against all sleep advice on here but I find that if we push back our toddler's bedtime to later, she will wake up later. It takes a few days for it to kick in...3-4 days to adjust, but her bedtime is 8:30/9 now and she gets up at 7/7:30. When we used to put her to bed at 7:30 she would wake up at 6/630 consistently.

@BKCaribBaby: Us too.

@BKCaribBaby: @JoJoGirl: @Smurfette: I'm in the same situation. Can't get my LO to sleep past 5:30. Which SUCKS.

@MamaCate: Can you gate her door? I had to do this with DD when I woke up one morning and she wasn't in bed - I looked ALL over the house and could not find her - I was scared to death! Finally I found her in the basement playing!

Anyway- I didn't think it was safe for a 3 yr old to be roaming around the house so we gated her door - if she needed out she would call us. Then I would tell her its not time to wake up but she could read - so she happily sat in her bean bag until I unlocked her gate.

@Smurfette: You leave her til 6:45am?! She cries the whole time? We're working on leaving her til 6am and when she gets up at 5:30am every day, I am worried letting her cry for 30 mins every morning is not good for her

WTF. We get full-on screaming bloody murder from the moment she opens her eyes until the moment we get her.

LO, 19 mo, woke up at 4am this morning and whined until I got her at 5. Usually she wakes at 5:20 or so and I get her at 6. I just keep reminding myself it's temporary.

@JoJoGirl: I'm in the same boat as you. E wakes up and murmurs/chatters to herself for maybe one minute and then the screaming commences. If I don't get her straight away, then, she miserable for the rest of the morning too.

@MamaCate: At that age, I would consider pushing bedtime. Our daughter was this age over the summer and her previous 7:00 bedtime (often not falling asleep for up to an hour) is now closer to 8:30.

She's rarely awake before 6:00 and some weekends will sleep as late as 8:00.

She's not ready to drop her nap yet. But her nap varies from one to three hours.

My brother was an early waker so my Mum would leave him a sippy of milk, two plain cookies and a couple of books next to his bed to keep him entertained until it was time to get up - maybe that could be something to try?

@BKCaribBaby: @JoJoGirl: My DD was like that too until she turned 2. At that point we tried a later bedtime again and it worked. She now starts bath at 8 and goes down around 8.30/8.45 and doesn't wake until 6.30 to 7ish. Thank goodness, that 5 o'clock mess was killing me slowly.

@MamaCate: We do some of those things before she goes to bed. Unfortunately, we don't get a lot of time with her. She is better at playing independently or sometimes she wants to help. My DH has her unload the dishwasher with him (she puts away all the non-sharp utensils/silverware). We all typically get home around 6:00 and it's a whirlwind of activity until she's in bed. Then we sort of collapse most nights.

@JoJoGirl: yes so do we, full on freak out if he's not out of his crib within 2 minutes of waking at 5am.

@Mamaof2: we do this to. We started when one day I was gone for work (I leave before 5am) and DH woke up and found the front door unlocked and open, with DS1 hanging out on the couch. He could have just left! Now he calls for us and if it's too early I'll turn on his light and he can read.

Well, after 10 days of working with this clock, we may have made progress this morning? It's currently set to 6:10am. This morning she woke at 5:35am and stood in her crib looking around until 6:05- she's NEVER done that. Then started crying and at that point it was only 5 minutes until the clock turned to daytime. Maybe there is hope??

My LO woke up at 5:00 am this morning, after going to bed at 7:45 pm--she is definitely not getting enough sleep for a 14 month old. She used to go to bed at 7, but we're slowly pushing bedtime back in hopes of getting her to sleep past 5:30, and in anticipation of Daylight savings time coming up soon.

It was only day 1, but what a major fail! And why isn't she more tired and wanting to sleep 12 hours like a "normal" baby her age? At daycare, she typically sleeps an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon---at home, it's closer to 1.5 hours each time. I don't think it's too much day time sleep.

We're going to keep pushing the bedtime until we get to 8 pm, so then when the time changes it will be back at 7 pm for a while. But I'm not really sure what to do to get her to sleep longer. DH tried for 20 minutes, I tried for almost 30 minutes--she just wouldn't go back to sleep. We finally gave her milk at 6 am, but that didn't help either- she was just UP. I feel like she doesn't get enough sleep total and it bothers me. But she also screams--and I mean SCREAMS, instantly upon waking and it's impossible to sleep through.

Any tips?

@Anagram: my kid has slept 12 hours a handful of times. I am lucky if we get 11 hours. 11.5 is jumping up and down happy. She takes one nap and again super happy if she takes 2 hours.
@JoJoGirl: Awesome!

I put the nightlight on a timer, so it went off at 5am this morning. She woke up around 615 and laid and talked off and on to herself till almost 7. I thought that she was going to go back to sleep, but she never did. She had pooped this morning, so I think that woke her up. Fingers crossed it will do the trick. As soon as I walked in her room this morning, she pointed to the light and said lite, lite....so she noticed it wasn't on.

@Anagram: DS is 12.5 months and sleeps 7-5 if I'm lucky. He takes 2-30-45 min naps at home or 1-2 hour nap at daycare. He's happy and healthy so I'm refusing to stress about it being less than normal. He's also never needed a lot of sleep.

@Smurfette: It's not 5:15am. The end.