I am due with my second child in October, so we have recently transitioned my 19 month daughter to a new room with a "big girl" bed. She goes to bed fine, and sleeps all night long but she wakes up between 6-6:30 when she used to sleep between 7:30-8:15. Is she ever going to go back to sleeping in again? or is this her new routine to stay.
We found that light blocking shades on the windows helped in my son's room when he started getting up at the crack of dawn.
We also taught him to tell time on a digital clock, and he knows he can't get out of bed until the 1st number is a 7. But he's 4, so it may be a while before you can use that tip.
She will get it straight in a few weeks. My son did the same thing when he got his big boy bed. He used to wake up about an hour earlier. Once she gets used to the big girl bed and her own room she will probably go back to sleeping a little later. Good luck with everything.
I switched my son about 2.5 months ago.. He "used" to get up at 7-7:15, NOW he's up by 6, ughhhhh.. I'm still waiting for it to change...
maybe with getting older she needs less sleep? maybe it just happened to correspond to the room/bed change? Around 18-19 months my son began sleeping less at night.
I've heard this before, which is why my 35 month old son is still in his crib! :-) Do you have blackout curtains on her windows? Maybe the new room gets lighter earlier?
My guess is that she was waking up at 6 before, but putting herself back to sleep. But now that she can get up, it is too enticing to ignore. She's honesty probably too young for you to make her stay in bed or in her room until 7:30... you probably just need to go to bed earlier and start your day earlier. My guess is that when it gets dark this fall, she'll sleep a little later.
I WISH I had been able to get child 1 to sleep until 6...he was normally up by 5 or 5:30!!! It took until he was 13 to get him to sleep in again.
Even though mine woke at 5...I told him he couldn't leave the room until the first number on his digital clock was 6...some days it worked...some days it didn't...but yours is pretty young for this.
Good luck!
how much does she nap during the day? maybe altering or shortening an afternoon nap (if she takes one) will help or maybe once the fall is here and it stays darker a little longer in the morning will help too.
Oh I am right there with you! I am going on week 3 in a toddler bed and am still waiting for her to go back to her old sleep schedule...all my friends swear she will but it might take about a month.
Sorry...wish I had better news.
I agree with the blackout curtains suggestion. We got ours at JCPenney. In my experience with my son who has been in a toddler bed since 19 months... he goes through stages. Sometimes he sleeps later than others. I think when he is going through growth spurts, he sleeps more. Good luck!
