Okay, guys; I am currently pregnant and recently, my cat, who I've had since he was a kitten, has started waking me up at 4:30-5:00 in the morning and will keep me up. At first, I thought it was a one time thing since I ended up leaving the father of my once he started acting more aggressive towards me after finding out that I'm pregnant. We had been living together and, after leaving my ex, we are staying with a good friend of mine until I'm able to be on my own after the baby is born.

However, like I already said, my cat has recently started waking me up early in the morning and will NOT let me go back to sleep no matter what I do. He'll meow like a madman, knocking things over, walk across my pillow to get onto the window sill and a few other things. Does anyone have any tips?

(I can't put him outside since it started snowing yesterday evening, this is his first snow and he doesn't like it.)