My one year old DD has never been a great sleeper. We had finally got her to sleep from about 7.30pm to 5.30/6am. This was amazing after the first few months of no broken sleep. She doesn't like to co-sleep (we're both big fidgets). Recently she has been waking 10 minutes earlier every night. It was 4.30am this morning. She won't go back to sleep even after a BF.
I am going back to work in a week and can't do this once I am working full-time. Her first nap is at 7am, for goodness sake. I have been pushing her bedtime a little later, 7.50pm last night but it has made no difference. Nor does what she eats in the day seem to matter.
What can I do? Bottle of milk in her cot at 4.30am and see if that works, later and later bedtime? The whole shush/pat thing just makes her mad.