Is a 5am wake-up normal for a 5-month-old?

[Girlmum0609]

My 5 month old is generally a very good sleeper. The 4 month sleep regression has meant 30 min naps and some false starts at night when we put her down, but for the most part up til now it’s been okay. She sleeps through the night which is amazing and v grateful but she is waking very early, between 4.45-5am. This has changed very recently as couple of weeks ago she was waking closer to 6am.
Here is what her typical schedule looks like atm:

5am - wake
5.15/5.30am - feed
6am - first nap (45 mins - sometimes she won’t go down this early and it’s closer to 7am)
6.45am - wakes
8.45am - feed
9.30am - nap (30min - 1hr)
10am - wakes
12pm - feed
12.30 - nap (1hr 30 - 2hrs)
2pm - wakes
3.30pm - feed
4.30 - nap (30 mins - we have been dropping this lately but we get early wakings either way)
5pm - wake
6.45 - feed
7.15 - bed

For ref she’s on 7oz bottles roughly every 3.5hrs and is on the 75th centile in weight.

Do you think she’s having too much day time sleep? Or do you think the 5am wake time is normal given she goes down around 7.15pm?

I'd say normal. Any sort of routine is a bonus at this age. The mornings are a lot lighter, is the room not dark in the mornings? Sounds like she's sleeping really well overall, mine has roughly the same amount of daytime sleep but fell asleep for the night (but woke every 1-1.5 hours) around 8.30pm and and were up around 6am so the same but shifted an hour. Plus more wakes 😂

Normal, I think. We're only getting a 6-7am wake up now that we moved bedtime back to 8pm.

We did a 7pm bedtime from a few months old all the way until she was 17 months, and 5am was always her standard wake up time, no matter how we arranged daytime sleep.

10 hours of night time sleep is absolutely normal, so an early bedtime naturally leads to an early wake up.

What time are you wanting them to wake?

Thanks for the replies everyone, seems like this is normal and I did think it was due to the
time we put her down. Will keep going on this schedule for now and see if it naturally shifts over time when she’s ready to drop a nap.

@kscarpetta like most people probably a little later as I also have a 4yo who wakes closer to 6. But that’s why my question was is it down to too much day time sleep or just normal for her age as I’m aware this can very much be the case.

Could you try a dream feed at say 11pm ish? 7:15 until 5am is 10 hours so probably hunger.

If you want her to wake an hour later, gradually shift the whole routine (including feeds and naps) an hour later.

@Jellybunny98 we were actually dream feeding her up until about 3 weeks ago but we found she was really difficult to wake and then she wasn’t taking her bottle in the morning so we questioned if she needed it and stopped. She then slept through so figured that was the right call.