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My 7month old son has recently started to wake between 4am and 6.15am. Having read all the advice I understand I need to offer him a feed and get him back to sleep. This I do but if he wakes after 5.30am he will not go back to sleep after having a feed. Should I wait for 15 minutes to see if he will settle himself before I...

My daughter of nearly seven months used to sleep 7pm-7am. But now she has begun to wake at 6am chatting loudly. I have followed the CLB routines and read advice on the site about pushing on daytime naps. She settles within five minutes of going down at 7pm. If I cut the morning nap to less than 40 minutes, my daughter becomes very grumpy until her lunchtime nap,...

My baby boy, who is just over six and a half months, used to sleep through from 7.30pm to 7am, with naps at 9am, noon, and a short nap at 4.30pm. During the last couple of weeks he has started waking up earlier, and despite the introduction of solids at lunch and teatime, he is waking regularly at 5.45am. We tried reintroducing a small feed at 10pm, but...