Early rising 5am-5:30am, how to stop it

It’s not light we checked that her room is pitch black.

Wakes up around 5/5:30am then 1st nap around 8:30/9 then second nap at 1:30/2 bed time 7 but often not asleep till 7:15 it can take me 30 mins sometimes to get her down.

What else could it be? Temperature seems fine, she’s drinking plenty of milk before bed and has dinner at 5pm. Is it her naps? How do I get her to sleep till 6:30 at least?

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I highly suggest putting to bed later and cutting her naps down by 30 min or so and begin working towards one nap. Sounds like come 5/5:30 she’s had enough sleep for the day and is ready to wake up! The early nap can reinforce the 5am wake and give her too much day sleep which then keeps allowing her to wake up before the arse crack of dawn!

You might find it helpful to work out her average total sleep over 24 hours which you can do by tracking at least a weeks worth of day and night sleep. Once you know how much sleep she has on average you can rearrange those hours to suit you. So for example you see she sleeps about 13.5 hours in 24 hours, this could look like a 1.5 day sleep (split across 2 until she drops to one nap) and then 12 hours overnight (the dream). Napchart is a website really helpful to visualise this

Can be hard to stretch those wake windows to begin but she’ll get used to it. Can take a couple weeks to settle 🥰

Hope that helps!

Wow I also just saw this was posted 2 months ago!! Hope you’re out of the thick of it now 😂

did you ever get little one to sleep in later again?!

Erm it’s all such a blur tbh it was an awful time! ATM she’s doing 8ish bed time and waking 1 or two times so luckily we are doing much better now. But I think it was the two naps once we got her to one nap and her wake window being 5-6 hrs it’s got a better but we have bad weeks followed by good week!

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