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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
My 4mth daughter is difficult to settle at 7pm. We have to resettle her several times or she wakes after 45minutes I have a very unusual problem with my four month old baby which is driving me crazy! My daughter is a great CLB except for one thing – she is terrible at settling at 7pm. She often cries and refuses to settle a few minutes after being put down or, if she does settle well at 7pm, she usually wakes up yelling 45 minutes later. This is really perplexing as, for all of her other sleeps, she settles herself off easily. Indeed, for her day time sleeps she is…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
At 4 months my son is still swaddled for all his naps and sleeps. He recently has been getting out of his swaddle during the night. His Moro reflex is still quite strong. Once awake he cries, unable to go back to sleep. What is the best way to wean him from being swaddled so he learns how to resettle himself without help? At 4 months my son is still swaddled for all his naps and sleeps. He recently has been getting out of his swaddle during the night. His Moro reflex is still quite strong. Once awake he cries, unable to go back to sleep. What is the best…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
I have just started following your routines with my baby girl, who is four months. I know in your books you say it is important that the baby is allowed to settle itself to sleep so they do not learn the wrong sleep associations. Can you explain this in more detail? At the moment I am cuddling my baby to sleep then putting her in a crib, which is slightly larger than a Moses basket, and smaller than a cot. Sometimes she will settle to sleep quickly and sleep the times you recommend. Other times she wakes up within five minutes, and I have to rock the crib to get…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Early Morning Waking
When we are away from home our 4-month-old wakes early in the light room My son of 4 months has been following the CLB routines now since he was 6-weeks-old; we had a few problems initially but now he is a real contented little baby. He has always woken up at around 3.30-4am, but always gets himself back to sleep again as we have sleep trained him to do so. However, when we visit family and friends, the room we have is never as dark as his room at home, which has black-out blinds. So when he wakes during the early hours, he cannot get himself back to sleep. My…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Early Morning Waking
My 5.5-month-old daughter is waking early and not resettling For the past few weeks my daughter has woken between 4.30 and 6am whatever I try to do. She eats well, sleeps well during day and at night, has both blackout blinds and curtains so it is very dark, but still she wakes. I am leaving her from the time she wakes until 6.45. This can mean up to 2 hours of grumbling then crying but is this just teaching her that if she cries long enough I will go to her? She has a breast feed at 6.45am, followed by ½ weetabix with 1 cube pear at 8am. 11am 2ozs…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Early Morning Waking
My 5 ½-month-old son has begun to wake early in the morning since the clock change My son used to wake at 7-7.30am. He now wakes 5.30am since the clock change and poos then so I have to change him and offer five minutes on the breast. He is changed in the dark, no eye contact or talking. He then goes back down. I wake him at 7.30am for other breast and to start the day. He also wakes at 1.30pm at lunchtime nap after going down at 12pm. Sometimes he wakes after an hour. He has only had full 2 hours once. When he wakes after one hour, I…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Early Morning Waking
My son of almost 5mths has been waking and sometimes screaming between 5 and 5.30am for the past month For the past month my son who is almost 5mths wakes up between 5 and 5.30am.Most of the time he cries for a few minutes and goes back to sleep. Sometimes he will scream for about 30minutes. He will then wake up again around 6.15-6.40pm and yells on and off until we go in at 7am. I am pretty sure that it is not hunger as he stops crying the minute I go in at 7am to turn the light on. Also I sometimes have a struggle to get him to…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Night Waking
My 5mth son has begun to wake three or four times in the night but will settle with his dummy. What can I do? My son who is 5mths has just started to wake 3/4 times in the early hours. I am a single mum and am finding it difficult to cope without the sleep I have now become accustomed to! I know he is getting enough milk as a dummy seems to settle him and this is the first time since 12 weeks that he has decided to awaken. I seem to now be in a vicious circle as he awakens to find his dummy and although I am…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Night Waking
My 4.5mth daughter is still waking several times in the night, needing her dummy to settle. How can I improve her sleeping? My daughter of 4.5mths is waking constantly at night. Her daytime naps are also a bit weird (wakes at lunch, won’t resettle), I guess the problem is one and the same, but it’s the night we really can’t cope with! She goes down well at 7-7.30pm and I wake her at 10-10.30pm. She’s hard to keep awake at first so I feed her a little sleepy then she wakes up afterwards, usually going down at 11.15/11.30pm quite well. She drinks an 8 oz at the 10pm feed, more…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Night Waking
My 4mth daughter, who is fully breast fed, recently started to wake in the night, even since weaning she has continued to do so My 4mth daughter has been the best advertisement for the Contented Baby book there is. She has been sleeping through from 11pm to 7pm since she was 6 weeks old. We have followed the plan religiously and she is a very happy baby who never ever cries. However, 2 weeks ago she started waking up at 6am. Then around 4 days later she woke at 4am and then again at 6am. For the last 4 nights she has been waking up at 2am, 4am and then…
