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@Mrs. Superhero: No ideas, just sympathy. My son sleeps 10 hours at night - 7:30 - 5:30. He used to go down at 7, but we pushed bedtime to 7:30 because 5 am wakeup is just no bueno (and we can't get everything done after work to get him to bed by 7). What happens if you just leave her in her crib?

Same here. For a few months she would wake at 5/530 and it was brutal. Now she's 6am almost on the dot. Gah.

@Mrs. Superhero: How long have you been leaving her in her crib for? I do tend to respond pretty quickly in the morning because on occasion if he is fed, he'll go back to sleep for another 45 mins. Plus, I have to get up for work anyways. Once he's down to one nap, I'm going to really try to push him to sleep in though.

@Mrs. Superhero: ahahah good point! I can't wait for her to transition to 1 nap. She's currently transitioning, I think, and it's brutal on her night sleep.

@Mrs. Superhero: LOL, i was just thinking that this morning! Before DH and i would die waking up at 6:30 am, but after 2 weeks of 5am wakeups, 6am is eaaaaasy.

Okay, not that easy, but it's what i am telling myself.

Lately she'll wake up at 5:30 and cry on and off for about an hour. Since she's still lying down, i don't bother getting her.

Yeah, I hear you.

@Mrs. Superhero: Thanks for this thread but unfortunately even though we transition to one nap around the same age, we still have a 5 am riser at 20 months. She goes to bed between 7-8pm and just can't seem to sleep longer than that. She naps for 2-2.5 hrs during the day. The only other thing I can think is to limit her naps but she already is cranky if she gets less then 2 hours.

What time is Sunny's nap? My only suggestion would be to push the nap closer to 1 which would help push bedtime a little later and maybe get a longer nap. Does she seem well rested on the amount of sleep she's getting? Some kids are big nappers, some sleep tons overnight, some are both (damn them!) and some are neither (:().

We dealt with a lot of wakeups around 6am before we went to 1 nap and it got better after we transitioned. I loooove early bedtimes though so I'd rather deal with slightly early wakeups than a later bedtime.

My daughter went through a phase like that around 14 months. It totally killed me. She did get over it to a degree - now she usually sleeps until 6. She only sleeps for 11 total hours a day, too. I hear you.

Yuck. That is early. LO goes to bed @ 9 for this exact reason. She still likes to wake up at 6:30.