Early mornings

Does anyone have any advice for early wake ups? We introduced a green light/red light a few months back to try combat this and it worked great for the first few weeks. We gradually increased the time by 5 minutes after a few successful nights and went from 5am wake ups to 6:45 (with our goal being 7 eventually) but we have now pretty much gone back to 5am.

If she wakes up when the light is red we do allow her to play in her room (as we’ve made it safe) but this still doesn’t seem to work, she’s in and out of our room constantly and always fighting it. We stick to the green light and keep putting her back until it turns but this sticking to the routine doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Any tips?
(She generally goes to sleep fine and we’ve tried making her bedtime later but this has no effect)

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