5am is poo-time! Any thoughts on if/how I can shift this?

[Santosha]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn. For the past 2 weeks DD has been waking at 4:50am. It seems to have become habit that this is when she wants a feed. I'm happy to give it to her, but this used to be enough to get her to go back to sleep. Now she stays awake and kicks and giggles and crawls around. Rocking, patting, more feeding doesn't work and eventually I just give up and get up. Then somewhere between 5 and 6 she does a big poo. As soon as it's done, and she's changed she starts rubbing her eyes and grizzling and will happily go back to sleep until 7:30 or 8.

This seems to be happening a bit through the day too - when I try and feed her to sleep she won't fall asleep. It seems to get her little body moving things through and about 15 mins after the feed, she poos. I've figured this one out. Just feed her one side, send her off for a play and a poo, and then feed her to sleep on the other side.

But the 5am one is doing my head in. I can't get back to sleep after we've been up for a while and I'm getting soooo tired and grumpy about it.

Anyone have any ideas as to how I might be able to change her poo-schedule?! TIA!

[Olive]

to me its 'in with the new and out with the old' i dont think you can change when she needs to poo, sorry! she'll probably change sleeping patterns again soon

[Amaunet]

I hear your frustration - same thing is happening here! No idea how to change it tho

[Swoop]

I nearly wrote the same thread 2 days ago. We're having the 5am poo wake up call at the moment. For us I think it could be due to recently introducing solids and her body's still getting used to it - has there been any change in diet in your house? My other suspicion is due to going through a developmental phase everything's going out of whack.

I'd welcome any other suggestions too though.