My lovely DD is 10 months old and is generally a good sleeper so I feel a bit guilty posting on here when others have such serious problems...
For the last 3-4 weeks she's started waking at 3:30-4:00 am. She can settle back to sleep (this isn't the only time of night she wakes) and used to do so and sleep until about 5:30-6:00 am, at which point I'd get up with her. However, now she seems to be staying awake.
She shares a room with us at the moment and will give the odd grumpy shout every 30 minutes or so but otherwise lies there quietly. I try to get her to wait until about 5:00-5:30ish before bringing her into bed with us for a breastfeed (in the hope she'll fall asleep again), at which point she cuddles up and feeds herself back to sleep.
I was hoping that with time this would resolve itself but in fact it seems to be a habit now. I'm concerned that it's not terribly good for her - she does make up the time though with monster naps during the day though.
Has anyone else had a similar problem? Should we just be patient and wait for things to get better? Would it be better for me to bring her into bed as soon as she first wakes in the 'danger time' rather than trying to get her to wait (and fall back to sleep)? She loves loves loves cuddling up and breastfeeding and I am beginning to wonder if she is forcing herself to stay awake because of this (she is very good at forcing herself to stay awake when she wants to). Any advice gratefully received.