My 2.5-year-old son has begun to wake every night after a recent illness. I have followed the routine from birth for both of my children and have been a huge fan of Gina Ford’s routine for the last 2 1/2 years. I employ 10 woman; there are 5 mothers between us and I have bought the book for all of them. My baby girl is 6 months old and has slept through the night from 11 weeks and is a dream baby. Her brother has always been more spirited but benefited largely from the routine and, up until now, has been a good sleeper. He suffers from eczema and caught…

Since moving to a bed my 3 year old wakes several times in the night. I have followed the Contented Baby routines since my son’s birth and he has always been very happy and content. But all this has now changed at night time. Since arriving back from our 4 week summer holiday in the UK, I have not had a full nights sleep. He has slept through since 3 months old but is now waking 2 or 3 times in the night. I work full time so disturbed nights are making me exhausted. He moved into a bed two weeks ago which does not help matters as he just…

My 2-year-old son is waking at night and crying out. What should I do? After being a perfect sleeper for well over a year, my son now wakes up once or twice a night screaming for mummy or daddy. This has been going on for a couple of months (but it does not coincide with the birth of our new baby). It wakes us up, and I always go to him – he settles back down very quickly. It happens on most nights but not every one, and he settles quickly so I don’t think it is attention seeking. It is not his baby sister waking him. We are shattered…

My 29 month old has begun to wake and cry in the night after illness. My daughter has always slept well and we’ve followed Gina’s routines from six weeks. From 16 weeks she regularly slept through the night and from six months always slept 7pm-7am. Three months ago this abruptly stopped after a cold and a sinusitis-type virus. She has woken every night since then at least twice and regularly stays awake for 1-3 hours. I’m coping with this alone as my husband leaves for work at 5am every day and isn’t back before 7.30pm. She dropped her lunchtime sleep at 20 months. We put her into a bed at…