Hi Florencia, it's Catherine again with the early morning wakings!
Sorry, not sure whether if I hit reply when I was the last one who posted in a thread, it's me who gets the email or everyone who posted...not up on how it all works and wasn't sure how to contact you directly!
Anyway - I just wanted to ask a couple more questions re the early waking:
I have been putting Isla to bed earlier (quarter to 7) and she woke past 6 (that's fine by us!) for the first couple of nights, but has for the last 4 few nights been waking progressively earlier each day by 10 - 15 minutes until we had our old favourite 5.30am this morning! I'll see what happens tomorrow morning, I'm hoping it won't go any earlier. We left her for 15 minutes today to see if she would go back to sleep, which she didn't. If nothing else, she is at least getting more sleep by going to bed earlier, and not having any trouble dropping off. She normally goes straight to sleep so it's definitely working from that point of view.
Two things:
1) Does it sometimes take a while for the earlier bedtime to have an effect on them? I'm hoping she'll start going back towards 6am or later again.
2) If she continues to wake at 5.30am, should we start leaving her progressively longer, ie 18 minutes tomorrow, 20 minutes the next day etc etc, to see what happens?
She is definitely getting molars - I felt a lovely jaggedy edge in there today when she finally let me in, and although she's handling it pretty well, it may be that it is interfering with her sleep cycles, what do you think?
Anyway, just thought I'd keep you up to date to see if you can offer any more thoughts...
x x x
Catherine