CageyMack
37, married to my favorite person in the world, DW! One darling surfer-girl (12) and one darling, sweet boy born 3/16/13.
5/2013 Started TTC #3, DW's turn: 5/2013: Diagnostics (shg) and surgery (polyp rem.) for best chances. July-Oct: IUI # 1-4, medicated, monitored, triggered. All BFN. IVF in Jan May. Sheesh. Whoop! IVF#1 cycle started 4/2/14. 5/1: 19 eggs retrieved, 8 matured, ICSI'd. 4 fertilized. Only 2 to transfer/freeze stage. 5/6: Two embryos transferred. 5/15: Beta #1 9dp5dt is 134! BFP! 5/19: Beta #2 13dp5dt is 672! B'erFP! 5/21: Beta #3 15dp5dt is 1853. Yay!
"Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
Re: 20mo waking up early, yelling, bad mood
And everything I read says to put them to bed earlier to get them to sleep later. This did work for us (but our LO never got up before 6am). I think the things I read said to put them down 12 hours before they are waking up. So try putting him down earlier-- even if he doesn't sleep later, he might be less grumpy in the morning if he got a longer sleep.
and keep in mind his biological clock probably didn't get the daylight savings memo, so that could be a factor, too.
and my only other comment is that my LO always woke up cute and babbly until she had a phase of about 6 weeks where she woke up crying and screaming for no apparent reason, and then after that went right back to her cute and babbly self. So there could be some sort of phase/developmental aspect too.
Hope things improve soon-- 5am is a sucky time to be awake.