Early morning waking help!!

[Christytuk]

Hi I have a 7 month old daughter he has been on a pretty good routine for some time except for the fact that she wakes for the day every morning at about 5am. She is wide awake and smiling, rolling, blowing raspberries and nothing will get her to go back. I try and keep her in her cot till 6 and feed her at 6.30. She then gets tired very quick and wanted to go back to sleep and is really cranky for the next few hrs.
Because she wakes so early her morning nap is early, her current routine is
5 awake
6.30 milk and breakfast
8 nap
9.30-10 up
11 lunch and milk
12-12.30 nap
2-2.30 up
3 tea and milk
6 bath
6.30 milk
7 bed asleep in minutes
She goes down great for every sleep, always awake and settles with dummy, finds it herself and puts it back in.

We have black out curtains, it is not too cold/hot/nappy hasn't leaked,not teething.

Someone mentioned the gina ford routine in that the first nAp should be 9-9.30 and for no longer than 45 mins and the second at 12.30 for 2-2&1-2 hrs to solve emw. Well yesterday I tried that as we were out in the car ( prefers her cot tk her car seat) so shedding sleep till 9. She had45 mins then her next nap was at 12.20 for 2&1/4 hrs. Bed at 7 and woke at 4.50!!! So made it worse. Now there is no way I can get her to 9.30 today as she is already really cranky as she is too tired.
Can anyone help?!

I would suggest either give her her tea later than 3pm or give her a snack later on around 5ish. Could be she is hungry?

I think you should try and push naps back by 15 mins very two days til she falls asleep somewhere around 10ish for the first nap.

She is getting three and a half hours worth of naps in per day so she will probably only sleep 10-10.5 hours per night anyway. If she goes to sleep at 7, she will wake at 5-5.30.

Once naps are pushed back, the bedtime will be later and she will sleep in later. You could try reducing nap lengths to see if that increases night time sleep if a later bedtime doesn't suit you. I would only do this once her naps are later. My DS however prefers long naps so I make allowances for that in night time sleep