Dd has always been variable with her wake up times. She goes down like clockwork between 7 and 7.30 every evening. I have tried to work out patterns of if her night sleep is related to day sleep and therefore cut out naps after 3pm etc and am trying to encourage her to have a long sleep 10-12 etc with no sleep in the afternoon to see if it makes any difference. It doesn't seem to although now I think about it maybe she has slept better with no afternoon sleep.
She is 11 months old and went through a good phase of waking at 6.30, sometimes 7 and rarely 7.30 but now has gone back to waking at 5.30.
Because she hasn't been well I don't like to leave her to cry and am also actually thinking that it is probably because she has been napping in the afternoon say 2-3 or 1-2 because she hasn't been well and sleep has been everywhere.
Perhaps I should try to go back to putting her to sleep at 10 ish ? It's so difficult to know because when she wakes up so early she really wants to sleep by about 9am so how do i break the cycle ?
Any advice would be much appreciated. She has just cut two molars and whenever she's ill everything gets disrupted but I wonder if it will go back to normal etc etc.