Baby sleep schedule

[Cr17]

Hi all,
My Lo is 6 months old next week and she has been recently waking at 5am 🙈
I'm not sure how to extend this?
We usually start the day around 7am
She has 3 naps a day around 45mins/1hr (with the occasional longer nap) her typical naps total time is around 2hr 45mins to 3hrs (occasionally 3.5hrs)
Her awake window is around 2.5hrs
She feeds every 4 hrs and i start bedtime routine around 7pm and I bring her up to bed between 7.30/7.45pm and she's usually asleep by 8pm
She can't really tolerate being up any longer than that as she is ready for bed then.
Some nights I hardly heard from her, some nights she can wake up a few times.
Initially when she went into her own room she started to sleep great, hardly woke, she dropped her night feed by herself as she was sleeping through til 6.30/7am but this past week she has decided she wants to wake at 5am.
I gave her a feed this morning at 5am and tried settling her back in her cot but she wasn't having any of it...
She has blackout blinds and curtains but still some light does get through in the morning however its still pretty dark in the room.
I've been advised if she isn't crying & just rolling about her cot just leave her and she might go back off herself although I don't think she will and I'm worried leaving her she will just roll about in her bed awake until I go in to get her up, which will then result in her whole day being messed up?
So I have been putting her into bed with me to extend her sleep til 6.45am personally I don't want to keep doing that.
I know she's only 6 months old and you can't force a baby to sleep but I just don't think 9hrs of sleep a night is enough for her especially as she was having 11hrs a night.
I'm a first time mum so learning as I go but if you have any tips that be great 👍

Does she fall asleep independently or does she need rocking/patting to sleep? Maybe it's the birdsong waking her? It's pretty loud from 4am in most places. Maybe a white noise machine on all night through to 6am would drown the birds out a bit?

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz
I dont hold or rock her to sleep, I put her into her cot and I just rest my hand on her until she has settled and then I leave her.
I did try to put her down and walk out and she done fine with it for a few nights but I think she might be going through her next leap and it seemed she was getting abit of the separation anxiety and she started to cry but I dont pick her up, I just sit next to the cot with my hand on her until she calms down then I leave again.
If she wakes I generally try to leave her for 5 mins before going in and giving her the dummy to see if she will go off by herself (most of the time she did) however at 5am she is just wide awake, not crying just awake, chatting to herself, rolling about her cot.
Saying that we do have lots of trees out the back of our house and her room is at the back of the house although I don't think that would wake her?
I also popped a fan outside her bedroom door blowing in last night as it was soo warm but she was still awake at 5am 🙈

We left them in their room in the dark until the official morning time which was 6.30am at the earliest. They had phases of waking a bit earlier than that but soon settled down again. Morning time is whatever time you make it!

Mine is about the same age and has just shifted schedule herself. Was on three naps, was doing same and waking early.

Now
Wakes 7, nap on go between 9 and 10ish.

Nap 1 -3
Bath 6, milk, bed. Asleep by 7. One night feed usually around 2.

Last nap had been 4.30ish but that's gone this week.

@Lalliebelle 5am is far too early for morning time 😁
Generally I'm happy for morning time to be between 6.45/7am
So it seems the best thing I can do is just leave her to it until its get up time and just see what happens?

@bookh I think she still needs 3 naps, longest she had been awake between naps is 3 hours and she was really cranky then so I tend to try and put her down for a nap about 15mins before her 2.5hrs wake time and leave her to it in her cot to fall asleep
Is your LO sleeping longer now you moved the bedtime forward?

@Cr17 yes absolutely. I moved her from my room into hall, sort of half way to her room. I dropped the 10pm feed I was waking her for, when I moved her to bed with me at night and just leave her down.

The earlier bed and away from me tossing and turning seem to have improved her sleep. Didn't go straight to her room incase she wakes her sister.