Over the past 3 weeks my son has been waking at 5 am - sometimes it's later like 6:30 (which I'm fine with) but 5 am? Not so much. It doesn't work for my work schedule (daycare doesn't open til 7 and his max awake time is really 2 hours....and I can't really nap him at 6:45 and still be on time for work). Also, he's not getting enough sleep (he goes to bed at 7... I can't do it any earlier because I won't get home from picking him up at daycare til like 6:15). So, what I've been doing is putting him in the swing when he wakes at 5. He usually falls back asleep for another hour. If I leave him in his crib he coos and babbles but doesn't fall back asleep on his own. If I go in to feed him, he falls back asleep but only momentarily.

Is the swing thing a bad idea at 5 a.m.? Would you just leave him in the crib and let him stay awake?