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My 6.5 month son is waking at night – is it hunger? My son is 6 and a half months, was 7lb at birth and now weighs 16lbs. He is breastfeeding from both breasts at 7am; 2.30pm; 6.20pm; 10.30pm; about 2.30am and 5am. He is having 4 tsp cereal with grated pear at breakfast. Lunch is 2 cubes of chicken casserole, 2 cubes broccoli or 2 cauliflower. Dinner...

Following an illness, my 7-month-old is very unsettled through the night In general, Ben has settled into the routines well and goes down happily at 7pm. Following several episodes of illness, however, he has become very unsettled at night, sleeping for no more than two hours at a stretch, before waking up crying. This can happen more than ten times a night, and sometimes he even cries in...

Why does my 8 month old wake in the night? Carmen has always slept well at night, but during the past month she has started to wake at about 3am and then at 6am. She is never distressed; she contentedly makes little baby noises, so I wonder why she wakes when she never used to. At 3am, after 20mins I end up going into her, give her a...