4am waking - please tell me it will stop one day

[pollywollywoowah]

DD is 14mths. Asleep by 7pm and for months now has been waking anytime between 3.30am and 5am. Actually I can't remember the last time she was awake after 4.30am. This morning it was 3.50.

I feel like it is ruining my life. She doesn't sleep solidly for that time a lot of the time and I also have 2.9 DS who often wakes in the night (albeit briefly) so I am so tired I can barely function some days.

We have tried putting her to bed earlier, later, more naps in the day, less naps in the day, but nothing makes any difference. I don't know that to do. I am fed up of going to bed at 9pm or falling asleep on the sofa even earlier.

Any ideas?

a few of us are trying the no cry sleep solution...start by keeping a diary of sleep times...at least you would be taking charge.
its so hard to implement something when you are so knackered, i know.
have you tried any books/remedys/thing??

might she be hungry?
could try porridge or similar before bed.

I have read NCSS and nothing really applies to her "problem". We've tried noting sleep habits to see if anything makes her sleep better or worse but nothing does seem to... might try again though.

She has her tea at 5.30pm and goes up for bath at 615 so no time for supper really. Can't have tea any earlier ...

What books/remedys could I try? Not CC as 2yo would wake up and don't want to do it anyway really.

wake to sleep? There was a big thread about it a wee while ago

My dd (23 months) kept waking early at this age, until only last month. We were exhausted, you have my sympathy. We tried everything to get her back to sleep or play, but nothing worked. Eventually in last couple of weeks she slept through, not sure why! I don't really know why, but just to stay it seems to naturally work it's work out alright. She was up at 7a.m this morning, I thought there was something wrong, as she has NEVER woken this late before

DS did this for 6 months. We were zombies by the end of it. We eventually gave in and gave him milk so he'd go back to sleep (he dropped his morning nap at the same time) and then gradually phased out the morning feed by slowly moving it later and later and giving him a little less every couple of days.

For the last 3 weeks he's been sleeping 7am til 8am. there is hope

7pm til 8am. obviously

wake to sleep thread

p.s. there are a lot of other wake to sleep threads too

I will have a look at the wake-to-sleep thread, thank you. I don't know if it'll make a difference though as she is awake on and off all night a lot of the time so, up to an hour before she wakes for the day. . . would be scary actually waking her up before then!

Although this morning she woke at 3.45 then went back off til 5am which is the lastest she has slept in months.

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