DD is 13.5 months old. For the last month or so DD has been waking early (normally would wake at 7am). It started out she was waking at 6, then it was 5:30am, now today it was 5am!!!! I'm not sure why this is. Originally I thought it was because she was hungry, so we started giving her more snacks during the day, and every once in awhile she'll sleep until 7. This am, we tried to get her back to sleep from 5am-5:30am, then finally gave her a cup of milk, and she settled back to sleep from 6am until 7:20am. But then other days, we give her some milk and she won't go back to sleep, so it's hit and miss. I think that in some cases it's she's probably waking due to habit. I just don't know how to get her to sleep until 7 again. Also, when she wakes up early (say at 6am), she's ready for a nap by 9am (opposed to 10am when she wakes at 7am), so this throws our whole day off and she ends up with a long A time before bedtime. I was also wondering if I should continue to try to get her back to sleep unitl 7am, or if it's better to get them up after 30minutes of trying?? This is what our routine looks like:
Wake & eat breakfast, have cup of milk.
Snack before bed
Nap (about 3 hours after waking) for 1hour 15min
Lunch @ 12:00pm
Snack and cup of milk before afternoon nap (generally 3.5 hours since last nap). Nap for 1 hour 15min(sometimes shorter).
Supper @ 5:00pm
Bedtime @ 7:00pm
Lila is often restless at night, moving and crying out in her sleep. Occasionally we have to go into the room to lay her back down.