Hello,
Our 23 month old have been waking up at 5am (and sometimes earlier) for a month now since we moved to our new house. It is very exhausting for both my husband and I who both work full time. She used to sleep to 7am which would give us plenty of time to get up in the morning and get ready before heading off to work. Not sure if the early wakings has got anything to do with our move, early sun or that she also started a new nursery (where she seem to be settling in fine). She has also started to use potty, which is something she decided on herself. When she wakes up in the morning she will scream for milk and when we bring it to her she then cries when we won't read her a story! Sometimes she will go back to sleep but most of the time one of us will have to get up. If I try and leave her in her cot, she will take off her pyjama and nappy.
Currently she will have around a 1.5 - 2hr nap at nursery from 1-3pm. I pick her up at 5pm and she has dinner at 6pm (she usually doesn't eat a lot). Bath and milk at 7.30pm and a lot of faffing around (in and out of the cot to sit on the potty) she usually falls asleep after 8pm.
She is very independent, and I think we have hit the "wonderful" two's!
Not sure if I should put her to bed later so if anyone has got any helpful ideas, I'm willing to try anything, although as she goes to nursery all day I don't have much control of her day routine.
