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How do I stop the early wake ups?

LO is waking up around 6:30am and I just don’t know how to change this to later, as up until about two weeks ago she was sleeping in till 9/9:30, and that was lovely because it meant I could sleep too. I brought bedtime forward by an hour because I read a late bedtime could wake them up earlier but that didn’t change anything.. I’m also just worried she’s not getting enough sleep in the night as she used to get about 11-12 hours now she only has 9/10 hours. Daytime sleep is horrendous and always has been, only has 4 x 20-30 min naps so that’s 2 hours at the very most! Heeeeelp please 😩

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Possibly overtired... I'd work on extending day time naps. Are you doing blackout blinds, white noise, mini nap routine already? Could you do one nap in carrier/pram so she gets a longer one in? Or try dropping to 3 naps as it might be she has outgrown 4 and doesn't have enough sleep pressure to have a long nap.

I keep my baby up until 8pm , that way he sleeps until 8am. If I let him go to bed at 6pm he will wake at 6am. Sometimes it’s a bit of a struggle to keep him awake till 8pm but so worth it 😂

@Tanya no I am not doing any of that for naps, haven’t even got blackout curtains unfortunately 😩 even if I take her out in the pram or carrier she wakes up after 30 minutes so I’ve given up as I just end up making myself all angry about it. Dropping to 3 naps a day is impossible with 30 minutes of sleep each time as she just would get so incredibly overtired. I’ve tried extending wake windows to 3/3.5 hours to see if she’d sleep longer but nope that also didn’t work. She’s literally been like this since birth, between 5-10 weeks she also just didn’t sleep at all during the day. She’s 5.5 months now so I would have thought her naps would be getting longer naturally but obviously not

@Elle well she goes to bed at 8:30 but before this she was going to bed between 9:30-10pm and would sleep till 9am. Then about two weeks ago she started waking early so I’ve been putting her down earlier gradually and we’re at 8:30 now but still wakes up at 6/6:30. So bringing bedtime earlier didn’t make a difference at all

Ah ok, I'd just try mini nap routine and white noise. If you don't have blackout blinds/curtains you can just put tin foil up. Try for a few days and see if it makes any difference. I've suggested it to a few mums on here and for some it has immediately lengthened naps. Light can really affect the quality of their naps post 2 months. It can also cause early morning wakes as it gets lighter in the mornings and they think it's time to start the day. It is always night in my baby's room 😂

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