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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Daytime Sleep
How can adjust my 15 week daughter’s daytime nap times so she sleeps longer in the middle of the day? My 15 week daughter is very small for her age and more sleepy than most. She gets very angry if I try to shorten her morning nap as she likes to have her two and a half hour sleep in the morning. She suffers food allergies and eczema so never really gets a good nights sleep. She wants to feed up to 3 times in the night for comfort due to the itching. Due to her allergies we won’t start her on solids until as late as possible and we’re…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Daytime Sleep
My son of 3 months will only nap in his bouncy chair during the day. If left to settle in his cot he becomes hysterical. His naps last no longer than 30 minutes. He settles easily in his cot at 7pm and sleeps through the night from his late feed to 6.30am. My son of 3 months will only nap in his bouncy chair during the day. If left to settle in his cot he becomes hysterical. His naps last no longer than 30 minutes. He settles easily in his cot at 7pm and sleeps through the night from his late feed to 6.30am. His room has blackout blinds so…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
I am new to the routines and am trying to get my 11 week daughter to settle better without a dummy I would like to know a little more about crying down. I have successfully used controlled crying techniques with my older son, when he was a year, but it is recommended by Dr Ferber that these are only used on babies over 5 to 6 months. I have been struggling with my 11 week old daughter for 11 weeks now! She was very colicky (I think), fretful anyway all evening and wouldn’t settle until at least midnight, until very recently, when I think she was no longer in pain…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
Is allowing my 3.5-month-old son to use a dummy better or worse than thumb sucking? My son of 3.5-months-old has developed dummy addiction as he was, and still is, a very sucky baby and is now waking in the night several times. I have read your case study on Harry and feel this is very appropriate but my query is about dummy versus thumb. My son will now put his thumb in his mouth if his dummy isn’t in and I am wondering if I go cold turkey with the dummy, will thumb sucking will replace the dummy and become a worse long term problem? Everyone I have asked says:…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
My daughter who is just 3 months old seems to be trying to get out of her swaddle but does not sleep well when her arms are out My daughter who is just 3 mths has from quite early gone to sleep easily at 7pm, is woken at 10pm for a feed and wakes up once in the night around 4-5am, though on occasion has gone through to 7:15 am or around 6am. I would love to drop the night feed, but suspect it is from habit and maybe not getting enough milk during the day. She is a very efficient feeder, feeding for only 10 -15 minutes at a…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Early Morning Waking
My 15-week-old son has begun to wake early and not settle as he used to My son has been waking up at 5am for the past 3 mornings, after waking at around 7am most mornings before that, for about 2.5 weeks. In the case where he did wake up before 7am, I could always get him back to sleep by either leaving him to cry for a few minutes or giving him a dummy or red bush tea/water. No matter what I tried these past 3 mornings, I could not manage to settle him back to sleep after he woke up at 5am; I left him to cry to 6am,…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Early Morning Waking
Has dropping the 10pm feed led to my 3-month-old waking early? With some persistence, we have succeeded in getting daytime naps more regular and as per 14 week baby recommendation (also a bit longer, as my daughter was previously waking after 45 minutes and not settling herself). We have continued with a 20 minute nap at about 4.30pm and a split feed at 5.15pm/6.15pm as she is invariably very tired at bedtime (she always has had a cry between bath and bottle since very young). She goes down beautifully at 7pm, sometimes a little earlier – up to 15 minutes. However, about 3 weeks ago we cut out the 10.30pm…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Night Waking
I feel my 11.5 week baby does not need a night feed but she is unable to settle back with out a dummy. What should I do? My 11 and a half week old baby has gone through the night without feeds a couple of times, I had suspected she did not need them for a while as I was only giving a couple of ounces and she was cutting back on her 7am feed. However, she has now started waking in the night again and the only way I seem to be able to resettle her is to give the dummy. I have tried water which does work but…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Night Waking
Should I introduce solids to get my 15.5 week son through the night? Despite following the routines since birth and despite my son’s good weight, he will not sleep through the night – he has done so only on a handful of occasions, despite me following all the advice in the CLB book. He has between 3-3.5 hrs sleep during the day and settles well for his morning and lunchtime nap. He is still taking a split feed at 5 and 6pm according to the recommendation in the book for a baby who does not sleep through. However he is still waking at 4.00am-ish and some nights at 2.30am, again…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Night Waking
My 15 week son still seems to need a feed in the night in order to settle, or is this just habit? I know I shouldn’t compare children but I have 4 yr and 21 month old boys who were perfect Gina babies and dropped the night feed by 6 weeks and were 7am-7pm every night by 14 weeks. They seemed to fall into the routines no problem and were exclusively breastfed. My 15 week old son naps alright in the morning but has never slept well at lunchtime. He is always very sleepy when feeding at 11am, so I feed one side change his nappy do the other side…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year