:help:Hi there well as the title says really. My daughter has never been what could be described as a 'great sleeper'. I thought as she got older and more active she would sleep through but no such luck. She wakes up around 3-4am and goes back until around 6-6.30am. I wake up in a morning still tired thinking ''oh not this early''. I really cannot cope with these early mornings until she is a teenager :|. She goes to bed around 7-8pm as done since birth. I have tried upping her bedtime to around 9pm but she still gets up around 6am. Sometimes she will wake 2-3 times in the night. It's like having a newborn again. I have a darkened room so it's not the light what wakes her up. She has supper before bed. She has started eating again properly. She has been poorly for the past 5 weeks so not been eating well but her appetite seems to be coming back. I am just so exhausted with the 6am starts. Any advice on what I can do to try and get her to sleep a bit longer or am I just going to have to resign myself to the fact that I have a early riser? :roll:.

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I think you're stuck with it until she grows out of it :( I know 8/9 yr olds who get up at 6 and sending them to bed later seems to have the opposite effect.
I was lucky with mine, they'd go back to bed or play quietly in their rooms until 8ish as they got older.

I think you're stuck with it until she grows out of it :( I know 8/9 yr olds who get up at 6 and sending them to bed later seems to have the opposite effect.
I was lucky with mine, they'd go back to bed or play quietly in their rooms until 8ish as they got older.I think I am as well :|. Oh well story of my life. On the plus side I have been put off having more kids as the early mornings are a killer :hihi:.

as said above i would say that 6am isnt all that bad! When she wakes up are you giving her attention or not. When she does wake just pop her back in bed or silently comfort her (but only if she needs it) then leave her. If you are in a routine where she needs you to be there to fall asleep then she will ot be able to settle herself if she wakes in the night....... does this make any sense!!!? also you say she has supper. I found with one of my daughters as she got older and was starting to realise she needed a wee etc (even though she was still in nappies) it would disturb her sleep so we cut out the bedtime drink and it really helped.

But again 6am is not really all that bad - it probably more that you are being disturbed in the night aswell that makes it seem awful :)

I have not tried cutting out the bedtime drink. She is aware of when she is wet and needs a clean nappy, maybe that is why she wakes up in the middle of the night. I don't give her attention. She will sometimes just stir or cry but then puts her dummy in and goes back to sleep. Then other times she wakes up full of beans at 3am and wanting to play :mad:. Sometimes it is earlier than 6am though. It can be any time from 5am most mornings. I am used to the early mornings but it is just having to get up and then her refusing to have a nap and screaming when she is tired but won't give in. I should be used to it now. I used to be an early riser but that was when I was around school age.

try cutting out the betime drink and see if that helps (bear in mind it could be a battle - it took my eldest daughter aged to learn to go to bed without a drink!!) and if she does wake up wanting to play then - and im sure you probably do do this -just put her back down say goodnight etc quietly and walk out. The less attention for the late night escapades the better!! Unfortunately the manuals just dont warn us that some kids are early risers... similarly it doesnt tell us how difficult some can be to drag out of bed when you need them up!

Good luckx

Thanks she loves her milk before bed... so no doubt I will have a lot of screaming and nooooooooooooooo's :(. But if it will help her sleep even half an hour longer then it will be worth it. I don't engage her with conversation at 3am. I just lay her down, pass her her dummy and she goes back more times than not. Thanks for the good luck I will need it :).