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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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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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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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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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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
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Night Waking
One of my identical 16 week old twins is waking more at night and the other twin is unsettled in the evening I have two problems with my 16 week identical twin girls. The first is that twin 1 is waking more and more during the night and does not really settle for a few hours. She generally wakes around 2.30am and will keep waking every 15mins or so until about 5.30am when she will go to sleep (we go to her between 6-8 times). To settle her we resort to a dummy as nothing else works but this does not last long either. I want to avoid the dummy…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Lunchtime Nap
Should I start sleep training or walking my 8-week-old son for his lunchtime nap? I suffer from an immune disorder which makes me very weak physically; having a second child was a bit of a risk really. I have also just been diagnosed with PND. We have been trying the routine but are having such problems with the lunch-time nap as our 8-week-old wakes after 45 minutes. Our first child, was a “catnapper” and very unhappy as a baby; I am desperate for this not to be the case for our new baby. I have been reading the advice on the website and in the book but am at a…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Lunchtime Nap
My three month daughter wakes after an hour at lunchtime and sometimes after going down at 7pm. What should I do? My daughter is waking approximately one hour after going down for her lunchtime nap. She also sometimes wakes after going down at 7pm. She screams for about 20-40 minutes before going back down to sleep. She will sometimes fully sleep but sometimes it is just fretful catnaps. I would like to get her past this as I am sure that it is affecting her quality as well as quantity of sleep. She is generally a very contented baby, eating well and sleeping most nights through from 10.30pm. She is…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year