What can I expect with a 6 week old baby? My baby who is now 6 weeks is waking earlier in the night. It is nearer 2.30/3am rather than 3.30/4am. He then also wakes at 6.15/6.30am. Should I be trying to get him back to sleep with a feed, cooled water or a dummy? I try to hold out feeding him until 7am but then he is too tired to stay awake until 9am. He always fights this nap, even if I take him to his room at 8.30am. He eventually settles but often wakes and moans throughout the nap. I wake him at 10am but cannot get him to…

I don’t know if my 7 week daughter is ready to go through the night yet Could you tell me if I am doing the right thing with Summer? She has been sleeping through from 11.30pm till 5am for five nights. One night whilst I was preparing her feed she fell back to sleep and I had to wake her up at 7am. So the next night I let her cry for 10-20 minutes when she woke at 5am. However last night it took her 20-30 minutes to settle and I am worried that I should be feeding her. She is putting on 7ozs a week and has all her…

How do I move night feeds on and get my 3-week-old less awake at 2.30am? My 3-week-old daughter is waking at 2.30am and between 5am and 6am for feeds. This is regardless of what time we feed her at the late night feed, or how much she has taken. Her body clock seems stuck at these times and I’d really like to get her further onto to a 3/3.30am, 6.30am feed time. We have followed the advice in the book to wake her at 10pm and keep her awake until 11:15pm but this has only moved her on from a 2am waking, to a 2.30am waking. I have also increased…

How do I get my 5-week-old to take more at 10.30pm? My little girl cannot seem to take a big enough feed at 10:30pm. Summary of milk intake during day : 7am 3ozs, 10.15am. 3.5ozs, 2.00pm 4.5ozs, 5/6.15pm 5.5ozs, 10.30pm 3ozs, anything from 2.45-3.45 2.5ozs. She only ever takes 2.5ozs at the 2.45-3.45a.m. feed and makes it through to 7am, easily and often needs to be woken. She follows the naps schedule for a 4-6 week old well, going down at 9.00 – 1hour, 11.30 2.5 hours, 4 – 1 hour and sleeps well in the evening. My concern is the small intake at 10.30pm, during the night and at…

Should I go back to feeding my 6 week baby at 10.30pm? My six-week-old baby showed signs of mild reflux from birth. I tried Gaviscon Infant but noticed it had a laxative effect: he did not gain any weight at all during the 10 days he was on it, so now I thicken his formula with 1 scoop of rice to 5 scoops of formula, with good results (he had been projectile vomiting up to 2 feeds per day, now it is only occasional possetting.) My question is as follows: I am on a 7.30am to 7.30pm routine, following the CLB closely. My baby is doing very well, but I…

My 7 week old does not take very big feeds in the day and wakes early My baby never seems to be hungry. She never seems to take more than 3-4oz per feed, even if I leave 20 minutes in between and take up to an hour to feed her. At 6 weeks she started sleeping through from 11pm to between 6-7am. She did this for about 5 nights then reverted to waking at 5am. She will not settle with water or a cuddle so I have to feed her. I then wake her between 7-7.30 but, whether she has had a full feed or just a couple of oz,…

My 7 week old needs a full feed at 5am; this makes it hard to keep on track My 7 week son is following the routines well and now sleeping at night through till about 5-5.30am. He is not satisfied with only a small feed at this time and will not resettle without a full feed. He sometimes will not go back to sleep even then (he is definitely not fooled by water). This makes it difficult to keep on track for the next sleep and feed – although I’m trying hard. His room is fully blacked out. The 10.30pm feed is sometimes difficult and he often refuses to take…

My 2.5-week-old daughter does not settle after her 10.30pm feed My daughter has settled well into the routine as detailed in the Contented Little Baby Book. However at day 10 she started developing problems after the 10.30-11.30pm feed. She takes the feed well (currently 3-4oz) and is awake when put into her cot and swaddled. She then cries intensely for 1-2 hours, wailing as if she has a severe pain. If I go in to her and lift her she stops crying, but once laid down into her cot the intense crying starts again. I have winded her and given her Infacol. Eventually she settles herself or may cry through…

Do we wake my 4 week daughter for the 10.30pm feed? I am trying desperately to get my daughter into your routines. She is pretty good and we usually manage for her to have roughly the right amount of sleep during the day. Feeds are a bit hit and miss, the times are fine but how much she will take at each feed varies. At nighttime, we give her a split feed around 5-7pm and then settle her at 7pm in her cot. She will sometimes wake up on her own around 10-10.30pm but sometimes she will sleep on until 11 or even later. Should we be waking her up…

How can I manage to bath my 7 week twin girls at 5.45pm and stay with in the routine times? I am generally happy and successfully applying and following the routine. I do, however, have a big problem with the bathing time at 6pm. I simply don’t manage to bath both girls in the given time frame. This might well be due to me being a new mum and handling twins being very stressful. At first, the twins really enjoyed their bath but the more I am trying to manage the tasks, on my own, within the time frames given in the book, the more stressed I get as I…