So my DD (almost 16 months) has always been an early riser for the most part. We've had phases where she sleeps until 6:30-7 but they are rare and 5:40-6:10 is much more common. She seems to often wake after 9 hours and 40min-10 hours of night sleep. Maybe about half the time she'll put herself back to sleep (as long as she doesn't poop, etc). She is on one nap and it usually starts between 11-12 (which 11:30 probably being the norm) and it usually lasts 2-3 hours (probably with 2.25-2.5 being norm).
Yesterday she woke at 5:50 am after 10.5 hours sleep. She napped from 11:45-2:45. I tried to put her to bed at 7:30 but she didnt' fall asleep until at least 8 (wasn't crying just relaxing in her crib I think). At 4am I heard her on the monitor squealing and babbling. I figured she'd probably fall back asleep soon and tried to doze off myself. Anyway, she was up doing that until 5:25 (!) when she finally started to cry. I thought maybe she had a dirty diaper but when I went in that wasn't the case. She was just sitting and crying and rubbing her eyes. WI/WO does NOT work with her so I picked her up and she melted against me. I gave her teething tablets and laid her back down and she cried until I rubbed her back for a few minutes. I then left the room and she whimpered a bit and then babbled and then I think fell back asleep around 5:45. She woke crying and ready to start the day at 6:30.
At the same time, she had her 15-month shots 3 weeks ago and hasn't been the same since. They set off a wicked virus/fever which ended about 1.5 weeks ago. For the last 4-5 days she has been really congested/goopy/runny nose. Not sure if it's a cold or teething (she seems to be working on eye teeth). She didn't have any meds yesterday other than Tylenol in the morning. I did have a warm mist vaporizer running in her room both for her nap yesterday and overnight last night (although I turned it off at 2am because it was getting really steamy in there) so I don't know if that affected anything? It was a Vicks model and I had the Kaz inhalant (like Vapo-steam) running with it. It seemed to help - she sounded clearer and coughed less with it running.
Was her nap too long yesterday? Is she undertired? Overtired (which I guess is more likely)? What should we do today? I have her baby/toddler play class at our temple from 9-10:15 this morning, which is her favorite activity of the week...
TIA - sorry this is so long. I'm tired!