I should say first that it's myself who has the problem with this as I don't fall asleep so easily after being up while my DD wakes at 7am in a good mood however, she is tired about 1.5 hours after waking.
For about a month now my DD has been waking up between 2am-5am and I have just started giving her a bottle which it will still take her a good hour of moving around to fall asleep so maybe about two hours awake time in the night. She seems to get so tired shortly after waking that I'm finding it hard with stretching her wake windows.
She's also in bed by 7pm-7.30pm but won't go to sleep until about 8pm. This is all new.
Before she would sleep 7pm-5am, bottle then back to sleep until 7am straight away and the odd occasion of sleeping through until 7am. Sometimes now I have to give her a cuddle to sleep and sometimes she settles herself, she doesn't cry or anything she's just moving around alot. I switched from taking her out at 2am for a bottle to now giving it to her in her cot and not saying a word but she just seems to have alot of energy.
I've also tried ignoring her by giving her soother but she would be awake for hours if I left her! Her bedtime routine is pretty average with a bath, stories and bottle, calm and dark room with a nightlight. Also, she has reverted from two daytime naps back to three so 9am 1.5 hours, 1pm 1.5 hours and about 4.15pm 30 mins and have tried to push her bedtime to 7.30pm but she's falling asleep with us, until we put her down!
I'm like a zombie and going back to work in three weeks feel like I've tried everything now to get her to sleep at night. No problems with getting up for a feed if she settled quickly after but its not the case. Will welcome any tips 😊