too much day sleep?

9.5 month old DS has just started waking at 6am ish. For the while before that he's been sleeping through until 7/7.30am.

It's coincided with the start of crawling and increased day sleeps. Yesterday he had 5 hours of day sleeps (3 in the morning/2 in the arvo). Prior to the early waking he was having about 3 hours.

Should I bite the bullet, keep him up longer/wake him after 1.5 hours and really limit the day sleeps in the hope it will extend the night one?

Or do I just go with it? To complicate matters, we start daycare 3 days a week from tomorrow.

I would also just wait. With every new developmental milestone Ella went through she woke early as well (they just want to practice their new skill). After a while (maybe a couple of weeks????) she went back to normal.

She was also a big day sleeper (i.e. now at nearly 3 she sleeps for 3 hrs during the day) and I have always let her sleep as long as she wants during the day (and she still sleeps well at night and was always in bed by 7).

I am going to be a bit different here. At that age I was told by Plunket that the 2 sleeps she was having in the day should be no more than 2 hours in the morning (that being her naturally longer sleep) and no more than 1 hour in the afternoon.

I agree that it could be the developmental milestone but after a week or 2 - if he hasn't settled back into a good sleeping pattern then I would wake him after these times for the day sleeps.

Might be worth talking it over with your plunket or karitane nurse.

Good luck and all the best