How to stop early wakings

My daughter will be 5 months old on the 15th and was previously sleeping through til 7.30/8am. However for the last couple of weeks she has been waking up progressively earlier, usually between 5.30 and 6.30am (but this morning it was 5am 🫠). She’s wide awake and there’s no chance of her going back to sleep.

Not sure if it’s sleep regresssion/the heat/teething or a combo of all of them - hoping she’ll start sleeping later naturally again soon but any tips for extending her sleep in the meantime?!

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I've been having this recently, ever since the heat started and it's killing me 😴 it's getting earlier by the day! I'm hoping once the heat passes she'll go back x

Whens bedtime? I've noticed my daughter sleeps 12 hours bedtime until up for the day (with 1 wake for a bottle). Bedtime varies 7-8 for us but if she slept at 8, woke up 6, even if she seems awake just has another bottle and back down. Otherwise by 7 she wants a nap lol if she's ever still awake after the bottle I leave her in bed and eventually she sleeps again lol

She usually has a bottle at 7 and is asleep between 7.30 and 8. I was doing a feed at 10pm when I went to bed but dropped this a month or so ago - so I did wonder if it was just because of this but the first couple of weeks without that feed she was sleeping for 12 hours!

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼yes this heat is a killer!

Following I'm in exactly the same situation my little one is up at 5am everyday not really sure what to do. Even an extra hour would to me fine x

I’m in the exact same position except it’s 4am for me! 😩😩

Ahh we aren't getting any sleep here. My little boy was sleeping for 8-9 hours straight waking around 4/5 but now he is only sleeping between 30mins to 2 hours. I am exhausted 😫 praying it's because of the heatwave and that next week we will be sleeping again!

Every time there's a rise in temperature my little boy wakes up either early or during the night and he goes back to normal once it cools 🤞

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