1 year old early rising

Hi
my daughter is 15 months old and has always woken at about 5.30ish in the morning had a feed and goes back to sleep. she does this whether she goes to bed at 7 or 9!! recently she has not been going back to sleep and wanting to get up at that time. days where she has an early night (7) i have found it is easier to put her back to bed after this 5am ish feed and she will sleep till 7 again. the early mornings are getting very tiring especially the days she wont go back to sleep! so my question is what should i do when she wakes early to encourage her to sleep longer? i am thinking maybe i should pat her back etc and treat it like a night wake up and not feed unless its after 6.30 or something like that?

Hi!
Our daughter did the same when she was a little younger, for her it became a habit. So I just broke the habit, she would wake up at 4 for a feed and then want to play. I just made sure she was well fed, clean and warm then I would give her a hug and tell her its time for sleep. She did cry a couple of times, but after a day or two she started to seattle and sleep till later.

As she is getting that bit older, you could try to set a bit more of a consistant routine and time for bed. If she is going to bed anytime between 7 and 9pm, that's a hugh variance in time and her body clock would probably be a bit out. The times she goes to bed later, she is most probably overtired in the early hours when you are trying to get her back to sleep and that's why it's more difficult. At 15 months, if she is eating and drinking well during the day, she probably doesn't need the very early morning feed still. She would be waking due to habit. My suggestion would be to set a clear bedtime (time) and routine and to treat her early rising the same way you would if it was 1am or 3am. In my personal experience, I have found that ignoring her call outs or cries (as long as she doens't get histerical!), is the quickest way to solve a night waking. If you pat and rock now, you'll be patting and rocking for ages. It gets much harder once you have more kids! Just a thought!