Waking at 4:30Am!

This is a tough age for babies, and night-waking is a part of it. I'm skeptical of the baby-whisperer technique... while, yes, sometimes our babies are waking at night and we don't ever find a tangible reason, often their waking due to teething or hunger or they just need comforting. Can you imagine how hurt or angered you would be if your husband only patted you on the back while you cried for 1.5 hours? wouldn't you rather be held and hugged?

try Pantley's No Cry Sleep Solution - I have found with both my daughters (both had a terrible time sleeping, falling asleep, staying asleep) that Pantley's approach is reasonable and doable... and successful!

Ugh! I feel your pain - my son used to think 4:30 was a fabulous time to get up also. I'm sorry to admit that I would just get him up and take him to bed with me - it guareenteed another hour of sleep. I don't think I got a full night's sleep until about 20 months and I now know when he is teething because he wakes up during the night again. What time does your daughter go to bed? I read "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" and the doctor said that if your child was getting up too early put them to bed earlier!
Good luck!

Oh I feel for you. I am sure you are exhausted. A couple of ideas/thoughts you may already have had/tried, but worth throwing out there. If she's in your room anyway, and she will sleep if you bring her into your bed, perhaps it's worth doing that. I guess I am not sure it's a huge difference at this age if she's in your same room whether she's in your bed versus in her crib in your room. I know lots of people who bring them in when they wake up early for a few more hrs of blessed sleep.

If this is not an option you'd like to pursue, what about the other baby whisperer technique - wake to sleep? If she predictable wakes at 4:30, you go over at like 4:15 and gently almost but not quite wake her up - just sort of prod her until she's almost roused and then sooth/pat her back to sleep (all without picking her up of course). THen she should sleep through that trigger point, in theory. Worth a try if you haven't - it means you'll have to get up a few nights in a row at 4 or 4:15 to do it and it might even be useful to try it at the 2am wake point as well if it works. Probably start with the 4:30 one first since that's the problem and if successful apply to the earlier time.

If it's really due to teething or some other event/milestone/disruption, it won't matter what you try it's just waiting until that moment has passed.

When my little one was for sure teething I gave her infant motrin before bed, that seemed to help through the worst of it.

best of luck! May a full night's sleep be in your near future.

She may be waking up and seeing you which wakes her further. Some families I know have put up a curtain between crib and bed.

My son didn't sleep through the night until 18 months. For the last month of it, or so, he would do the same thing your daughter is doing and since I can't deal with being up that early, I would give him a bottle, change him while he was drinking it, let him finish in my arms, then put him back down and he'd go right back to sleep. I was worried about building a bad habit, but honestly, I could do this and it would take about 15 minutes, or I could be up for the day or hours with crying. I'm lazy and chose the SLEEP! Eventually, he just slept longer and longer.
I'm not saying this is the best solution, but it worked for me and got me and him the most sleep.

I know how you feel. My girl is 6 months and she is teething. I haven't had a full night of sleep since she was about 1 month. I do find however that Hyland's Teething Tablets help tremendously with the teething! You can also give Badger Night Night Balm a try (I haven't tried it yet but it should arrive in the mail soon), and Calms Forte 4 Kids. None of these are drugs, so don't worry about that, it is all natural and homeopathic.

My son went through bouts of sleeping through by himself and waking in the night. During the times he was in my room he would always wake at earliest light and seeing us he'd stay awake. I still nurse and when he did wake I'd feed him and let him sleep with me. He's almost 2 now but he sleeps through to 6 or 6:30. It comes in time for them all. I found the No Cry Sleep Solution to have some really good suggestions. And someone wrote that we, as adults, sleep with another person for love and comfort so why should we deny our babies the same love and comfort. After I read that I worried far less about letting him into our bed and slept a lot more.