My two-year-old DD wakes up at 4 am every day and it is killing me.
for context she used to wake at 5:30am which was manageable but since we came back from holiday in 2 months ago, she has been waking up at 4 am.
She goes to bed at any time between 7 to 8 pm however, sometimes it is later like last night it was 8:30 pm. She won’t sleep any earlier. Someone told me to put her to bed later, but it has made no difference over the course of the past few weeks. She just wakes up at 4 am. Usually it is 4:22 on the dot.
She naps for 1.5-2hrs during the day. She manages to stay awake until about 1 pm most days.
her room is dark. There isn’t a noise waking her up. It’s almost like it’s a bad habit she can’t break. The added complication is that in the past two weeks she was getting out of her cot so we have put her in a toddler bed for her own safety. This means that when she wakes up, she comes to the gate by her door and screams her head off.
I have a gro clock have been using it for the past two weeks. I have set it to wake at 5 am to encourage her to be quiet at least until then but it doesn’t seem to be making a difference.
When she cries, either me or DH will take it in turns to go in and sit by her door, trying to encourage her to go to sleep. I am still breastfeeding her, so I will give her a feed to keep her quiet so she doesn’t wake the older DS.
Please help me I don’t know what to do. I’m at breaking point. I am tempted to set the grow clock for 6 am and just let her cry by the gates until then but I don’t know if this is the right thing to do. The lack of sleep is affecting my physical and mental health. I do go to bed earlier but by the time she is asleep, I only have about an hour to sort out the house, let alone finish off any work or do anything I want to do.