Okay so, my 18 month old has always been an early riser. She goes to sleep wonderfully, mostly good sleeper through the night, but for long stretches of her life she has woken up between 4-5. Recently, she was sleeping until 6-7, but then the last 3 weeks she started waking up squarely at 4am, and we are losing our minds. She wants to eat and then go back to bed. This week, we’ve kept her up to try and tire her out more and so she doesn’t think she’s on a two nap schedule but nothing has changed.
She consistently goes to bed between 6:15-7, but she’s mostly asleep at 6:30. She has one 90 minute to 2 hour nap per day. We’ve tried pushing bedtime back, eating more, eating less, integrating more playground time, changing the light and sound volume - honestly none of it seems to matter. She also doesn’t seem to be currently teething. We’ve tried cry it out in the morning but she is UP, like she’s seemingly not going back to bed and now she’s telling us she is hungry so of course we feed her. The thing is, she eats so much food at night I just can’t imagine she is truly hungry.
I will take anything; solidarity, advice, what worked for you. I will even take advice that has nothing to do with sleep. Like did you call in night help once a week? Did you split the load a certain way? (My husband and I are 50/50 on mornings and it works but we’re both so tired)
She consistently goes to bed between 6:15-7, but she’s mostly asleep at 6:30. She has one 90 minute to 2 hour nap per day. We’ve tried pushing bedtime back, eating more, eating less, integrating more playground time, changing the light and sound volume - honestly none of it seems to matter. She also doesn’t seem to be currently teething. We’ve tried cry it out in the morning but she is UP, like she’s seemingly not going back to bed and now she’s telling us she is hungry so of course we feed her. The thing is, she eats so much food at night I just can’t imagine she is truly hungry.
I will take anything; solidarity, advice, what worked for you. I will even take advice that has nothing to do with sleep. Like did you call in night help once a week? Did you split the load a certain way? (My husband and I are 50/50 on mornings and it works but we’re both so tired)