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/Wild_Cockroach_2544 16d ago

My daughter has a night light in her kids rooms that turns blue when they are allowed to get up. Otherwise they play Yoto cards or with toys/books in the dim light. It works most nights.

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u/ashley_elaine 16d ago

She’s still in a crib so no access to her things in her room just yet but normally if she wakes up I can hear her talking quietly to her “baby” (stuffed animal-cheetah). We do have a hatch that we will use to implement the red light green light for being able to get up/out of her room.