Q: She wakes so early!
My 3-year old daughter has started to wake up around 5am.She cries if I leave her and I can't seem to get her back to sleep at this time.She is shattered by 11.30am and will sleep for two hours.At bedtime,she is asleep by 7.30pm.Any advice would be much appreciated!
A: The average sleep for a 3 year old is around 12 hours,so she is getting the right amount of sleep,just at the wrong time.A lot of children of your daughter's age will be consolidating all their sleep at night and having very little or no sleep in the day.
I would suggest slowly reducing her nap,so she starts to sleep later in the morning.Initally reduce her nap to 45 minutes;this in itself may resolve the problem and enable her to sleep later.
As her wake-up time gets later,you will also need her nap time to after lunch.Further nap reduction may be necessary after a few weeks,dropping town to just 20 minutes.
Then,over the next month or two,eventually stop her naps altogether,replacing them with "quiet time" instead.
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