What do you do about naps with early waking?

[sunflowerandivy]

Hiya,

My 6 month old has been waking at 5am for a few weeks. 50% of the time I can get her back off for 30 minutes but sometimes up at this time. I know it's normal and many people experience it (went through it with older DD too!). What should I do about naps? It throws the entire day off!

I put back to bed for nap two hours after waking, whenever that may be.

@Skinnermarink thanks, how does that affect things rest of day?

Well, he’s ten months old and still ideally wants 3x nap. So the morning one is easy, it’s too early to go out anyway. The middle one I get him to do in the buggy, or we’d never leave the house. The afternoon one he does in his cot.

really it depends on the day. But I find the morning nap is too much of an important one to miss, whatever might happen with the rest of the day.