now a 5am waker, any suggestions?

[queenbee]

our DD is 9 months old. it is not too bad she wakes us up at 5am in our bed (crawling around our heads, heehee), she is a co-sleeper. she used to sleep in until 7am, any reason why she would be waking at 5am now? she does go to bed a little earlier now (7.30pm, used to be 8.30pm) and she cut out the late night dreamfeed. just curious.

[Ezz]

If you feed her at 5am, will she go back to sleep? Sometimes my DS will sleep through until 6:30 or 7 - but other days he wakes at 5 (no rhyme or reason to it that I can see!). I just give him a feed & cuddle him in bed & he generally falls back to sleep until 7 or so (sometimes takes a bit of patting & cuddling to get him back to sleep)

[aimz78]

we too do the snacking/snoozing thing as DD wakes at a similar hour but will generally have another little nap or two after a Bfeeding little snack and cuddle (ahhh the benefits of cosleeping for a lazy mum who likes her sleep ins!)