5 month old waking at 5 , has feed and won't go back to sleep

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Our five and a half month old is doing brilliantly and sleeping through with one night feed. That night feed is getting later and later which is great but the past two nights it's been 5.15am and so we feed her and then she is wide awake. We put her back in her cot but she just chats and gurgles happily. We are therefore starting the day off with a tired baby. She is also now not interested in her morning milk which she has at 7-7.30am. Any tips? Do we give less milk at the 5am ish feed in the hope she will soon drop it and wait until 7? My concern is that she probably would really struggle to fall back asleep without that full tummy.

Mine went through phases on and off at waking at 5am. I think at 5m if she's sleeping all night and only waking at 5 that's amazing!! Do you do a dream feed, that might fill her up a little longer?

This was happening to us so I started setting an alarm for 3 and giving her a dream feed so she would sleep till 6/7, otherwise she was waking at 4.30 every morning and not going back to sleep. This was only short term but it worked really well for us

What makes you think she's tired? You say she chats and gurgles happily?

Are you sure she's not getting enough sleep? Some babies do very well on 8-5.7-7 isn't the norm for most according to my reading. Mine does 8-7 but wakes up at least three times for milk and is up about 2 hours in the night every night needing settling on top of milk.

What’s his overall routine?

*her

The sleep pressure is a lot less at 5am.
It's very very normal and we still get some 5am starts at 10 months

Not really anything I can do about it tbh
Especially since she's going 6pm-5am

What time does she go to bed ?
Do you have a blackout blind in her room ?

4 month old does the same, lay her in her cot and she’d last awake chatting away to herself. Lay her in bed with me and she’s asleep in about 2 mins and we usually get another hour out of her… I know which one I pick every morning!

I would put her in her cot happy and leave her till getting up time. Basically treat the 5am wake like night. Put her in her own room if she isn't already. If things don't improve in a few weeks I would gradually reduce the amount given at 5 am.

Definitely don't put her in your bed unless you want to keep her waking at 5 for months or years

You could try a dream feed an 30 mins before her usual wake up. This would mean setting an alarm for you to wake, and it doesn't always work.
Calculate her total sleep needs. I.e how much she has in a 24 hour period and shift her night timings to reflect this.
Think of it as if the clocks have changed again. This might push the 5.15 to 6.15 which is a little easier to cope with.
(Sleep coach)

What time does she go to sleep at bedtime?

Mine was like this basically from birth and is still a very early riser. Nothing we have tried has worked, other than recently moving bedtime to 8pm which has seen a slight improvement (though it didn't result in a whole extra hour of morning sleep). She's gone through phases - sometimes waking up at 4-4.30am, sometimes more like 5-6am. It does seem to be verrrrrrry slowly improving with time, but not in a linear way. Not very reassuring I'm sorry, but solidarity - I think painfully early rising is one of the toughest sleep things to deal with (or make peace with not dealing with) - because they have so little sleep drive at that hour, there doesn't seem to be much you can do about it.