8month waking early and refusing morning bottle

[Letsbekindplease]

Hi. My Dd is waking between 4.30am and 5.30 am every morning. Wide awake. I know this is normal, but when she’s awake, she isn’t taking any milk at all. I’ve tried giving it to her in a beaker to see if this helps, but she’s not interested. I feel it too early to give breakfast at this time. She seems happy to wait a bit for breakfast, but not sure if there’s something I can do at this? She’s cut her milk right back. Has good amounts of food throughout the day and snacks of fruit, breadsticks or veg

I don’t mind the early wake up because I know it’s normal, and I’ll be going back to work soon. It’s a 7.30 am start so I’d be getting up at 6am anyway, but any ideas about that morning bottle. Should I just accept she’s dropped this ?

thabks

So sorry you're going through this, 4.30 is not a wonderful time to be waking up! I'm wondering - is there any light coming into the baby's room at this time of morning? It can trigger the wake up hormone in them and then they're ready to go because they've gotten a good amount of rest over night.

My daughter also started losing interest in milk quite early because solid foods were way more interesting. I just started giving them in other times of the day instead as she definitely wasn't interested in it first thing in the morning. As long as you feel she's getting enough consumption of milk and she's growing well, I wouldn't be too worried.

Thanks for your reply. No. We invested in some good black out blinds due to how much light gets into our room. I did wonder if maybe the night light could be causing issues. We also have a plug in calpol which has a bright blue light atm too. I’ll try turning these off. See if it makes any difference at all. It’s so dark in our room that we needed a wee light just to see when she did cry and also for our son who loves to toddle through numerous times through the night.

she woke again at 4.30 today. It’s not a fun time at all. Mucks the whole napping routine out the window.

What have you tried to get her back to sleep at that time? And what's her routine like? Is it possible to move her out of your room as perhaps she's disturbed by noise?

We’re in the long process of sorting her room. It should be done within a month hopefully. In hidesight I wish we had it all done before her arrival.

her routine through the day seems fine but any tips welcome

so if she wakes at half 4. I try and get her back down but she’s not always for it. She can last a good hour or two then will go down for an hour.

today she woke at half 5.
nap 7
woke 9.30
play /lunch / nap 1.20

will wake after an hour-hour and a half and then play, dinner and start getting ready for bed at half 5 and should last until half 6/7pm

I’ve tried pushing times out but nothing seems to make a difference.

we had a day last week where she woke late from her pm nap about 3.45pm and I though I could push for a later bed time but she seemed more tired than usual.

it’s so tricky.