please please help me with early waker...19 months and can't cope anymore

[MrGreedy]

I'm desperate..my 19m old dd has been waking early on and off for a very long time - I don't know why she is doing it but I am certain she's tired during the day as she is very grouchy on and off and extremely demanding and I just cannot cope with it anymore on the amount of sleep I'm getting.
her day looks like this :  average 5.30am wake-up, bottle at 6am and breakfast 7.30am, dinner 11.30-12pm, then bottle and nap for about an hour, tea at 5pm and then supper at 6.30pm, bath, bottle and bed for 7pm - sometimes she has snacks during the day but she can usually take or leave them - yesterday she refused to nap at all so by 4pm was a complete troll.  we have taken to leaving a bottle in her cot and if she has this, sometimes she goes back to sleep but sometimes not and not very often later than 6.45am.  On the days when she has loads to eat, she doesn't sleep any later...she has been teething lately but she has been early waking for ages now - anyone any ideas, I'm open to anything!

[Benz]

Hi Mr Greedy...I'm no expert but maybe you should look at her day activities...is she being over stimulated or snacks that she's comsuming (ingredients that make her too hyper etc)...Try moving her nap time to a later time and i've noticed she's having 7 feeds (combo of solids, snack and bottle)..would this be too much?..I guess everyone is different..Also..have tried giving her 6am bottle say b4 she wakes up (5am)?...that might help her to sleep in a little..
My 14month old has breakfast around 7am..morning tea( fruits and 1pc of toast)+bottle (150-200mls) at 9:30..naps anytime for how ever long btw 10:30-12...lunch at 12:30...afternoon tea 2:30-3pm (cheese, yoghurt.crackers etc)...dinner 5:30..Bath 6-630...unwind 7-730...hopefully sleep by 8-830...

[knackered]

Hi there - I don't think this is a food issue - it sounds more like your LO could be over tired. Does she only nap for an hour? She probably needs a bit more than this at 19 months. What time do you put her down for her nap? If she's up at 5.30 she would probably be ready for a nap around 11 ish. If it's much later than this she'll be OT and not be able to have a decent nap. Also bed time seems a bit late if she's waking so early. I think the idea is to aim for a 13 hour day at this age - so if she's up at 5.30 then bedtime should be 6.30. What do you think?

HTH

Anna x

[MrGreedy]

she's at nursery 3 days so she goes down there at 12pm, altho today she refused to nap at all so has only had 20 mins in the pram at 3.30pm...if we put her to bed at 6.30pm, she gets up earlier - on the 2 days we tried it, she got up at 4.40 and 4.50am...I can't put her down at 11am many days either as my other child is at playgroup and needs picking up/dropping off so she kind of has to work around that...she usually goes down for a sleep at 12.30pm ish and sleeps for 1hr 15 mins at the most - used to be longer (2 hrs) but she still woke early..I think she is overtired too as she is ratty a lot of the time but I can't fix it!