Sleep issues

KMPeiffer2

My good sleeper has been having sleep issues since the end of October. She wakes up early in the 4:30-5:30 range. She has had enough sleep that she wont just go back to sleep if I rock her. Sometimes I try milk and that helps some. It is too early to get up. I will lay with her on the couch or in the guest bed. When she does fall back asleep it is after she drank some milk. I give her a snack before bed which is usually cheese. I haven't had a lot of success with getting her to eat enough other foods like yogurt, pb and crackers that it will be substantial enough that it will tide her over. Her afternoon naps are around 2 hours, sometimes 2 1/2 so I don't think she is sleeping too much in the day. The only other thing I can think of is to put her to bed earlier to see if she is actually short on sleep and restless as a result. Earlier I had put the bumper back in which seemed to keep her warmer and help some. At a loss as to what else to try. Ideas?

Borst-Plotz

My only help is that G went through this stage about a month ago. She would wake up in the early morning asking for 'cheese and cwackers'. We never gave up, even though it was around 4/5am. We usually tried to let her whine/cry for a bit and just kept working on getting her back to bed. Eventually she realized it was too early to get up (or that we didn't do midnight snacks!) and started sleeping later. She is just now starting to sleep until 7amish..it was a long month for us though!