EW's STILL!! What am I doing wrong!?!?

[Green007]

My daughter will be 1 in 2 weeks. She is waking 5-5:30 no matter what time I put her to bed. Can anyone look over her schedule and let me know where I may be going wrong???

5:30. Wake up
7:00. 8 oz bottle
9:00. Breakfast
10:30 (5 hours after waking) nap. 2 hours.
12:00 lunch
2:45-3:00. 7 oz bottle
4:10-4:40 nap (30 mins)
5:30 supper
Bottle and bed 7:15-7:30. Asleep 5-15 mins later.

Any ideas what may be the problem?

[MasynSpencerElliotte]

Has she always woken at that time? It could be her body clock unfortunately. The only other idea I have if it is recent is that she may be ready for one nap. Have you ever tried an earlier bedtime?

[Green007]

Thank you for the reply. I'm in the process now of extending morning A time to get her to one nap. We are at a 5 h A time at the moment. Lastnight I put her to bed 15 mins earlier and she slept til 7!!! So today I do t know what to do as her nap would start at 12 and there's no way she'd last 2-2:30 until 6:30-7 without being horrendously overtired and a cat nap at 5:00 to 5:30 seems way to late...but maybe not...maybe I could push betime to 8? I don't know. But I think I'll try a 30 min catnap around 11:00 get her up and put her back down around 2:30 and let her sleep till 4:30 (if she will) and keep bedtime at 7:30. I'm sure this won't replicate itself again tmw (the 7AM wake up) so it's probably a one day problem.

Or should I push her A time today to 6 hours and put her for one nap? Let her sleep 2.5 hours and put her to bed 3 ish hours later? But that's not a lot of awake time for a 24 hour period. Hmmmm

[MasynSpencerElliotte]

I would try one nap personally - just to see how it goes...but take that with a grain of salt as my kids all went to one nap cold turkey before 12 months . If you aren't up for that the short am and longer pm nap is probably the best idea. I think if you get one nap of 2/2.5 hrs she will be able to do much longer than 3 hours A time to bed.

[Green007]

My son also went cold turkey sometime around his first bday but he was so easy when it came to sleep. She-not so much. Were your kids "sensitive" sleepers like my daughter? I think I'll push her A time today closer to 1...go from a 5 to 6 hour wake time and just see how she does with it. Could go ok...or could backfire and her be tooooo overtired :S

[MasynSpencerElliotte]

My middle DD was more sensitive but was very much by the clock instead of A times so it was easier to do a big jump and stick with it. Fx that it works!