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I'm all over your sleep posts today.

We had the same issue and we tried everything (including bringing him to bed with us - which stopped working). Eventually CIO was the only thing that worked long-term. We also have to be really diligent about not just slipping back into our habits and pulling him into bed with us when he cries. I think I said on your last post, though, that I went through a stage of considering just embracing the early morning wake-ups. I actually walled Mr. Bee about it and he gave some great advice (as I remembered they did that with Charlie). Ultimately I'm a full-time WOHM and I was too damn tired to "embrace 5 AM." One morning I just put a pillow over my head and let him cry. The next morning it was 15 minutes shorter or crying and then he laid down. The morning after that he slept all the way until we woke him up.

As an aside, waking him up also addressed your other question of him waking up grumpy!

My son has been waking up SUPER early as well! He is 14 months now but all summer his wake-up time kept getting earlier and earlier, in the 5:15- 5:45 range.

We had to try letting him CIO. And it's worked. he sleeps til after six some days now but not every day...

So as of a week ago, I could have written all your sleep posts. My LO woke up at 530, was angry and upset and obviously needed sleep, but refused to go back to bed. It was a month long nasty stage that I unfortunately had a lot of early mornings and he had a lot of early bedtimes to catch up on sleep. It sorted itself and now he's sleeping until 630 /7 am and waking up a happy boy again.

I don't have a clue why it happened. He wasn't teething, wasn't sick and no big life changes. Babies and sleep just suck at times! Hang I'm there.

@CakeLady: Hmm, it's cloudy! It took weeks. We weren't consistent because some days he slept a little later. We had a rule that we stuck to about 75% of the time, not getting him up before 6 am. Recently he's been sleeping later, almost til 7, and I think it's just because he's tired from all his new walking. Good luck!

Oh and I'm assuming you already have blackout curtains in the room so it's not the sun waking her?

@CakeLady: then I'm sorry I have no help to offer. It sucks so much. Can you and dh at least switch off who gets up early?

My DD woke up at 5 or 5.30 pretty much until right before she turned 2. Then it became 6.30 but then just before 2 she saturated sleeping until 7.30 or 8. So hang in there, I an a WOHM too so I know it sucks, but we had no choice but to embrace it because even though CIO worked for everything else if never worked for the morning wake ups

Oh to echo a few others, most of the time I just won't accept that it's morning. So if we go in and try to get her back to sleep, even if it doesn't work I won't turn on the lights or leave the room until like 6:30. Something about not wanting to set her internal clock that it's morning that early or something. I read about something like that on the child sleep science website and maybe I have it jumbled up but it sort of makes sense.