5mo sleeping 3am-11am

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Hi there,

I have a 5 month old daughter who sleeps well but at the wrong times. I try to put her down from about 7pm, she feeds and falls asleep but as soon as I put her down she wakes up, this continues for the next few hours then around 2-3am I feed her to sleep and then she goes down fine, wakes once or twice for a feed but has stretches of 5 hours asleep, and sleeps until about 10-11am

Should I wake her up at 7am tomorrow morning to try and move her sleep forward or will that make things worse 😅?

She only has one nap during the day at the moment as well, around 3pm-5pm

Any advice is appreciated thank you!

I also have a five month old! Sounds like her sleep is good, but definitely can see why you want to shift it backwards! I think you have the right idea about waking her up at 7am but it might be a bit much to shift it by that much in one go! How about you wake her at 9/9:30am today? But then instead of trying to put her to bed at 7pm try putting her to bed at 10pm? She will be tired as she has been up longer, and might end up going to sleep a bit earlier. Then you can gradually shift this by moving earlier and earlier each day.

Also, I think at 5 months she should be having more than one nap too - which might explain her initial reluctance to go to sleep, and why her night time sleep is quite short, as she is overtired. Ideally 5 month olds would only be awake for around 2 hours maximum between naps. So assume you wake her at 9 today, try putting her down for a nap around 11 (assume sleeps until 12:30pm), a second nap around 2:30pm (assume sleeps until 4pm) then a final 30min capnap at 6pm. Then she should be nice and tired around 8/8:30 for the start of her bedtime routine. Then just keep shifting those nap times based on when she is waking up/going to sleep. I don't tend to follow strict times like this, just go off my babies sleep cues. He actually can only stay awake 1.5 hours before rubbing his eyes and yawning, so we have 4 naps a day!