14 month old up at 4am

[LoveYouHoneybear]

Help. For about 5 months now my daughter has been up for the day anywhere between 4am-5am. She sleeps through the night, luckily, but these early mornings are starting to destroy me. When we should be working towards consolidating to one nap, she's absolutely shattered by 7:30-8am so requires a nap then. She will also nap around 1:20-2pm. Bedtime is around 6:15pm. Before you suggest a later bedtime, we have tried that (she is absolutely exhausted by 6:15 though) and she still wakes at 4am!!! Any ideas on how we can work towards her waking at a later time? I would LOVE to even wake up at 5:45-6am. Lol

It's standard unfortunately

Okay. Well, good to know it's normal I suppose. 😭

Sympathies OP, it's so tough when they are up this early.

For me the only thing that stopped this was powering through and not going down for a nap as early as 730/8. They are essentially just catching up on the lost night sleep then. I would try and stretch this out over next few days even if you can get to 830 then 9am etc. My DD is 18 months old and on 1 nap now but when she was on 2 we would do 1030/11 for an hour and then 2/230 for a 45 minutes- an hour.

Sorry. It does get better x

I've hired a sleep consultant for my daughter, amongst other issues, frequent early morning wakes were an issue.
Her advice was to stick to routine timings, even if she woke early. So morning nap always at 9.30am then afternoon nap at 2.30pm, bedtime at 7.30/8pm. After about a week the early waking shifted.
If its too tough getting to a decent nap time you could do say 8.30am naps for a week then 9am naps the next week and hopefully it'll start to shift.
If it helps, my daughter has only ever slept about 10hrs at night so we need a bit of a late bedtime to get to 6am.