Waking up at 4am for a party

Our baby wakes up wide awake around the 4:30-5am mark wanting a bottle and is awake for around an hour and then will fall back to sleep and can sleep till 8am. However during this hour the rest of our house hold then is all wide awake and by the time we all fall back to sleep, it’s nearly time to get up for work, school etc.. it’s driving us all mad.
I wouldn’t mind if she woke, had a quick feed and went straight back down but she is full on babbling, shouting, crying and trying to play so it really takes some doing to get her back to sleep.

But clearly she can and does need to go back to sleep because she is doing for another few hours. It makes no sense 🤷🏼‍♀️

Is anyone else experiencing this or has any advice? I tried cutting day time sleep, I’ve tried to make her go to bed later nothings working at the moment. X

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Also I tried to just admit defeat and wake up with her and have a early start to the day but she cry’s hysterically if I take her down stairs and she definitely doesn’t want to be up for the day if that makes sense. She’s grumpy and start rolling her eyes because she wants to go back to bed. So it is just a crazy power hour she has

Our daughter does the same and I just nurse her back to sleep but I’ve seen a lot of suggestions that they could be cold when they wake at this time? I feed her and then put the heater on in her room just to bring the temp up a little bit.
P.s I’m not expert, my daughters sleep is awful

When this happened to us it was a drop in sleep needs - we reduced the daytime sleeps, extended wake windows slightly and it made a huge difference! I don't know what your day looks like but maybe they're ready for 2 naps not 3 or something? We are just doing this transition now!

We have at times wondered if she might be a bit cold because recently it’s been so warm at bed time we dress her really lightly but by 4am it’s a different story . So you may be right.
unfortunately she only has two naps anyway and has done for a while otherwise she’s up even more. She has an 30mins-1 hour in the morning and then another 45-1 hour in the afternoon and is awake from 3pm all the way to bed time at 7:30pm. I’ve tried to make her nap longer and I’ve also tried to shorten. So maybe it’s just our baby and a bit of a habit she’s got into 🤷🏼‍♀️
What’s your baby’s naps like??

I'm trying to transition to 2 naps but he's flickering between 3 X 40 Mon naps or 2 naps where one is 1hr15 and 1 is 40mins. We've had a few bad nights in a row so hoping the 2 nap day today makes a bit of difference! He is definitely the lower end of sleep needs

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