20 mths waking at 4 am....

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Hi,
Am a bit demented.... My DD of 20 mths has started waking at 4 am. We are on holiday so particularly annoying!
She would normally do 7pm or 6/6.30 am.

She is waking at 4 am and nothing I have tried will
Settle her- dummies, milk, cuddles. Have even resorted to trying peppa pig on a portable DVD in her cot!
She screams hysterically until lifted.

She is waking my DD who is 3.5 and they are both exhausted throughout the day.
They go to bed 7 pm.

Any suggestions?

My DS does it sometimes too. We just ride it out until he goes back to normal (5.30am).

Mine did something similar. We also left him to ride it. In fact he did that this morning, screamed for maybe 2 minutes and then went straight back down until 6.30. I used to go and pick him up to comfort him and try to settle him back, but I got nowhere as he was still grumpy, unhappy, tearful, clearly still tired.

We were up at 5.30am and I thought that was early. Usually the Boy is 6.30am but he's teething (again).

4am would kill me.

When you say ride it out- do you mean leave her to scream?
Have tried but honestly it's so bad the screaming that it's not going to happen that she's going to roll over to sleep after 10 mins.... Plus by that point she has woken my eldest so we are all up!

Gosh no - when I say ride it out I mean just get up! It's a phase and it passes, like all the others.

my DD went through that as well (and has done so a few times in her 3 years). I agree with other posters in that it sounds like a phase and that it will pass, but I'd also look at her daytime naps. Maybe she's getting too much sleep through the day and is ready to drop a nap? We've just had to do this with DD who was still having a 1-2 hour nap in the afternoon and started waking at 5am for the day. We tried cutting back and then eventually eliminating the nap and she's back to 7.30PM-6.30AM which works much better for all of us