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id poke my husband in the head lol. cheeky [censored]. but i do feel for you. have you tried a night light? cut her sleep down to an hour during the day and put her to bed an hour later, hopefully this shud settle her down after a few days ort a week of it. good luck. x

Hi. Unfortunately i don't have any answers for you but just wanted to let you know we are going through a very similar thing with our 15 month old. She goes down well at night usually about 7ish, but still wakes during the night not every night but every few nights and like your daughter likes to start her day @ 5.30am. Me and my partner try to take it in turns to get up with her in the morning so the other can have an extra hour in bed and this seems to help. I was up with her for two hours in the night yet she still woke at 5.30pm, i thought perhaps she'd sleep in as she'd lost sleep during the night, but this doesn't happen. I wouldn't suggest a later bed time as we have tried this and she still wakes at the same time but is more tired as she has had a later night. XXX

hi i have two childing how are age 2 and 3 they are the same. one wakes at 3am screaming but is fast a sleep the other wakes at 5am screaming they dont sleep dur the day i put them to bed at 7pm. i have talk to heath vister and she just said that they will grow out of this. i dont know wat to do eny more iam 35 week preg with 3 child and dont no what to do guss its just what kilds do a this age lol x

I also wish I can help, I have tried eveything - following the Gina Ford routine with only 3hrs sleep during the day but still my daughter who is 16mnths wakes up at 1am half asleep but crying, I know she is not hungry so I give cooled boiled water within 1hr asleep then at 3am wakes up again and again at 5am. Some nights she will sleep but they are few and far between. I do find if she sleeps alot during the day she tends to sleep more at night. Sleep - whats that!

HIYA,i know exactly how you feel.My son is 6 now and never use to sleep.He would sleep best until midnight,but then get up every hour until 5am when he wouldn't go back to sleep and our day would begin.My husband never got up to him and i did it all.He was eventually prescribed sleeping medicine,but that didn't work for long.My health visitor said babies sleep on an hourly cycle of deep sleep and REM sleep his problem was that instead of going back into deep sleep every hour he would wake up,This became a habit and not helped by the fact that i never left him to cry.My hv said she had never failed to get a baby sleeping,but i was her first failure!I'm afraid to say he just grew out of it.Is their anyone who can help?From my son being 6 wks old my mum started to have him for the night once a month,it really helped to know that at least once a month i'd get a nights sleep.I now have a 6 month daughter,and she sleeps pretty well,probably because of my son she has been left to cry and has learned to get herself off to sleep alone and get herself back to sleep if she wakes.I appreciate how hard it is but i really think if i'd done this with my son things would never have got so bad.Good luck and message me any time if it helps!

Hi Guys. We have always been strict with our little one with sleep and have tried to teach her to settle herself to sleep etc, which she can do as she goes down to sleep without much protest and does sleep through. It just seems that over the last few months she seems to wake more at night and her wake up time just seems to be getting earlier, at one point she slept til 6.30am, now it's 5.30am if we're lucky.(maybe it's the age, and hopefully just a phase) This morning it was 4.45am, which to me is still the middle of the night :) It's nice to know we're not the only one's though, as so many of my friends have babies that sleep their 12 hours at night no problems! Lucky People!

Hi. Thank you all for your comments and advice. It seems a lot of people out there have children who want to have us up and reduce our sleep. Nice to know as when I mention it to friends they say their children sleep for 12 hours at night.

Since placing this post I have made the decision to change Isabelle from her cot to a junior bed. It is taking time of her to adjust to the bed, as she has the tendency to want to play and not go to bed (she's 16 months) but once in bed she's SO much better than in her cot. We didn't have a cot bed so we've got her a junior bed. She no longer gets up at 5am and in fact 99% of nights she sleeps through from 7.30-8pm till 6,30am and then she gets up and plays happily. It has been a big improvement!