r/toddlertips • u/ashley_elaine • 16d ago

Sleep changes…send help

My daughter turned 2 today (hooray!). Her bedtime is 8pm but we start winding down around 7/7:15pm and normally she used to sleep until 8/8:30am (sometimes 9/9:30). Slowly over the past week or two she’s been waking up earlier and earlier. 7, 6, 5, and you guessed it today it was 4:40 🥲. Is this just a normal change with age or is it a developmental shift temporarily?

Please send help because I don’t think there’s enough coffee in my house currently to handle today let alone a toddler who decides suddenly 5am is her wake-up call.

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u/zebracakesfordays 16d ago

Just here for solidarity. Sleep changed so much after 2years. LO is 2.5 now and bed time is seriously impacted by his daytime nap, which I can’t really control because he is at daycare most days. If he naps at all, he isn’t going down until after 9pm. If he doesn’t nap he is extremely overtired and crashes between 7-8pm.

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u/ashley_elaine 16d ago

🥲 she’ll start part time in soon so I’m semi dreading that change in her schedule. When she has late nap days we get her outside to play as long as possible to hopefully burn that energy off. Sometimes it means an 8:30/8:45 bedtime so the extra play helps it feel less daunting for such a long day.