10 month old 4:30am starts

[thenightfeed]

Hi everyone, just looking to see if anyone can suggest any tweaks to my DD schedule to help the fact she has been waking for the day at 04:30 ish for the past month or so please.

Typical day
-Awake 04:30
-BF 05:30 (try to hold off until 06:00 but usually not possible)
-Breakfast 07:00
-BF 08:15
-Nap 1 08:30 (I’ve followed advice and try not to give this nap too early). Usually 90mins, sometimes 2 hours
-Small BF/ snack 11:00
-Lunch 12:30
-BF 14:00
-Nap 2 14:15. Usually 1 hour, sometimes up to 90 mins
-Small BF/ snack 16:00
-Dinner 17:30
-BF 18:45
-Sleep 19:15

No longer gets up through the night usually so I do feel very very lucky from that perspective as we have had a challenging sleep journey with a long time of hourly wake ups.
She wakes happy and babbling so we’ve tried just leaving her and she occasionally drops back off for 30 mins or so, but more often starts to get upset which is when I then go through.
I’ve tried feeding as if it’s a night wake but she doesn’t get back to sleep.
we have a blackout blind up. I can’t identify any regular noises that are waking her. Even the birds have started to get up later now it is getting darker!

She is cutting 2 teeth currently and has started to furniture walk so there is a lot going on for her! Eats well. We are very active during awake time, lots of outside time etc. Just wondering whether it’s maybe time to reduce the morning nap? Or just ride it out? I only ever wake her from naps if we have somewhere to be, or if she is still sleeping at 4pm (rare).

Thank you if you have made it this far!

forgot to say- not expecting miracles here. Happy with 5:30- 6am as morning. Not expecting 7am!

Typical day for me is Awake 4:30. Has a bottle. I will not give breakfast as its not breakfast timeAsleep 6/6:30-8:00Breakfast 8:30Play timeSleeps around 11:20-12:30/1Lunch 13-4 napPlay time until night time routine bed at 7ishDaughter is 8 months. Wake up time is anywhere from 4-6am, also cutting teeth. I also make mornings very boring. I don't want her to think its time to play or have a screen so book reading etc.I need to shorten some naps but am so grateful for the rest I've yet to haha

Do you try and get her back to sleep Is she maybe thirsty/needing a nappy change ?

Yea I’ve tried nappy and feed, DP has tried nappy and quiet rocking. She went back to sleep once after being on the boob for an hour(!) and once after being rocked for a similar amount of time. Otherwise neither works

Sending solidarity & coffee, it's a tiring stage. My daughter woke at 5.30 every day from about 9 months -12 months. I did everything you've described, followed the Lucy Wolfe routines...eventually she just grew out of it! Sleeps 8-7 now!

I've no other advice sorry, mine are adults and I just cheated and brought them into bed with a drink of water and hoped they fall back asleep 😴 it is a phase/developmental thing so it passes, can you take it in turns to get up with her so least the other parent can sleep on?

Very normal wake up time with a bedtime of 7:15.
The only way you will get them to wake later is to have a later bedtime, but your whole routine will need tweaking to achieve this and it can take a few weeks for changes to take place.

No answers, just solidarity.

Thanks all! A couple of things to think about and otherwise just ride it out and know other people are/ have been in the same boat. Like I said, we’ve been in a much worse place with her sleep so this is manageable and we still feel lucky!