LO goes to sleep between 7:45 and 8:15pm. In the past couple of weeks, she had been waking up at 5:45am (at the latest), which meant that she would fall back asleep as soon as i fed her. She would then sleep until 8:30am (at the latest).

Today she woke up at 6:45am (hooray!!!) so i was confused as to whether i should put her back to sleep after the feeding or have it be her official wakeup time. She was really cranky within an hour, so she ended up going down for a nap at 8:15am.

Should i have put her back down to sleep (which would've meant maybe an extra 45-60 minutes of sleep for her) or was i okay to start her day? She naps quite a bit during the day so i'm not concerned if she doesn't get a full 12 hours of sleep at night.

Do you have a cutoff time that determines whether LO starts the day or goes back to sleep?