Hi Kristy

Yes - early wake-ups are a bugger aren't they? My DD went through a phase of waking up between 4-5am and not going back to sleep so I feel your pain.

You've probably tried this but what tends to work for us is if she wakes up that early, I feed her without getting her up and then she nods off again for another hour or so (more if I'm lucky) She's bottle-fed so if I actually brought her down to the kitchen (don't like to leave her in her cot crying) then she would be wide awake by the time the bottle was ready and not want to go back to sleep. So now I put her in with us (often she's in there already anyway), get DP to hold her so she doesn't fall out and then make her bottle and take it back to bed, keeping the lights off.

Even if she only goes back to sleep for another hour afterwards, I feel a whole lot better if I'm getting up for the day when it's light rather than dark.