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Sleeping FAQ: 18-24 Months – Lunchtime Nap
My daughter, aged nearly two years, has started to have inconsistent naps at lunch time, often remaining awake in her cot chatting for 1.5 hours. This began after a period of illness where she lost her appetite. Following the afternoons when she does sleep well, she will not settle to sleep until 8pm in the evening and, on the afternoons when she doesn’t sleep well, she is a total nightmare as she is so irritable. My daughter aged nearly two years has started to have inconsistent naps at lunch time, often remaining awake in her cot chatting for 1.5 hours. This began after a period of illness when she lost…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Other
How do I move a 14-month-old to his big bed? I have a fourteen-month-old boy and I am expecting a new baby at the end of January. I would like to move my little boy into a cot bed and give the new baby his cot, which is getting too small for him. I just wondered what might be the best way to get my son used to a new bed. He hates change, and whenever we have been on holiday, I have needed to lie down with him on a bed, and then move him once he is asleep; he is very attached to one of my nightdresses. I…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Other
My 1 year toddler’s frustration with a grobag. My one-year-old child has been a great sleeper so far, sleeping for 13 hours each night and about 3 hours during the day. The problem is that he gets extremely frustrated when he wakes up as he is in his gro-bag and is unable to stand up in his cot. I would like to be able to leave him in his cot to play, but his frustration causes him to cry as soon as he awakes. He sleeps in a 1.0-tog towelling gro-bag. I have never been very keen on towelling gro-bags, particularly once babies start to move around. The problem you…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Daytime Sleep
My 13-month-old son has begun to fight sleep at daytime naps. My son sleeps perfectly at night. He used to sleep well in the day, going down easily. However, over the last 3-4 weeks he has begun to refuse to go down for his morning and lunchtime naps without screaming. There has been no change to his routine prior to this, although it is changing slightly now in an effort to get him to sleep (e.g. walks in the buggy and the timing is out). This is because my husband works nights and has to sleep in the day. I am happy to carry out controlled crying in order to…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Daytime Sleep
Should I have dropped the morning nap at 13 months? My son of 13 months is not tired by 9:30am, and will not settle down for his morning nap, so I have stopped it. Now he is very tired by 11:30am, so I have brought back his lunch from noon to around 11:15am; this way he is in bed by noon. I expect him to sleep for 2 hours, but he doesn’t always do this; sometimes he sleeps for 2 1/2 hours and other times just 1 hour. When he only sleeps for 1 hour, he is tired by 3:30pm. I let him sleep for 1/2 hour but then it…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Daytime Sleep
My son of 14mths has begun to take awhile to settle at 7pm. Do we need to change anything? My son is 14 months and has slept fine 7pm – 6:30/7pm since 3 months old. He particularly always settled quickly at 7pm. For the last week he has started taking 30-45mins to settle at 7pm. We have a wind down routine that we follow every night with bath at 6pm, milk at 6:20pm then story at about 6:40pm and he is settled down about 6:55pm. Now he seems full of energy, laughing and squealing, and when we put him down he is playing with the bars of the cot, jumping…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
My 16 month son is cuddled to sleep, and now I need to stop. My son, Rahul, is 16 months with no siblings. He was 3.5kgs at birth and is 13.5kgs now. His routine is approximately 7am-8pm. He was breast fed until 5mths. I stopped because he was drinking 10 ounces at each feed and totally exhausting me. He has been on formula milk since then (Similac Advance). He has 6oz (180ml) milk on waking and breakfast at 9/9.30am. Lunch is at 11.30/45am followed by a bath and a nap between 1pm and 2.15/3pm. He will have 4oz (120ml) milk and some fruit by 4pm. If he is still hungry…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
1-year-old Jake cannot sleep without a dummy or a drink. I have just read your book given to me by a friend. I feel we have made some major mistakes with Jake’s routine. Jake is now a year old and still does not sleep through the night. That is an understatement – he wakes up to ten times a night. He was weaned at 6 months and went on to soya formula milk which was recommended by his paediatrician. He was introduced slowly onto solids and it went very well. At this stage (6 months) he was waking two to three times a night to feed. He then got sick…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
Since returning to work my 17-month-old takes a long time to settle in the evening. My son has always slept well and pretty much slept and ate when your routine stated. He is now 17 months old. I have gone back to work and see him in the morning and evening. He will not settle to sleep until 9pm. It’s exhausting and very upsetting for me as I feel very guilty for leaving him to go back to work. His daytime sleep is for 1 hour 15 minutes either in his cot or in his buggy depending on his daily activities. This is at 1-2.15pm. I bath him at 6.15pm…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
How can I get my 17month-old daughter to settle alone and sleep better during the night and day? I have many problems with my 17-month-old daughter’s sleep. She is hard to settle. I have to stay with her and hold her hand till she drops off or get into bed with her which usually takes 30-60 minutes. She jumped out of the cot the other day so now is in a bed which I can’t keep her in. This means I can’t go back to controlled crying – she will just get out if I don’t leave her asleep. When she drops off it is usually for about 3 hours…
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