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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Breast Feeding
My 4.5 month son seems to still need large top-ups after breast feeds As I had some problems with my latch-on in the early weeks of breastfeeding, my son had some problems gaining weight. As a result, we put him on formula top-ups twice a day to ensure he was getting enough to eat and to take some pressure off me. As he has grown, so has the amount of formula he can consume. Now I am worried that he is eating too much even though he is not gaining weight excessively. My friends are amazed when I tell them that Miles is capable of drinking nearly 240 ml of…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Other
Rolling over while asleep wakes my baby of 5 mths My baby is five months old and is sleeping 7am until 7pm, no problem. She has, up until now, been sleeping on her back the whole time. She is, however, beginning to roll over on to her stomach, but then she can’t roll back again. This happens several times a night and wakes her up. My baby sleeps in a dark room, in a fleece all-in-one, on a mattress covered with a fitted sheet but with no other bedding; this permits her to move around her crib freely. Any advice you could provide would be helpful. Once babies are too…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Other
My 5-month-old is rolling over at night in a grobag. Is this dangerous? I have a 5-month-old girl (Felicity) who has just learnt to roll over from front to back, but not from back to front. She wears a grobag to sleep and I’m worried that she may roll over in the middle of the night and stifle herself by not being able to roll back. Is this common? How do you continuously monitor this behaviour? This is a common problem in babies of Felicity’s age, normally because they roll over onto their fronts and are unable to get back, usually waking themselves up in the process. As she is…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Daytime Sleep
17 week old Joe’s daytime sleep is very poor – he cannot settle for more than 45 mins My son Joe is 17 weeks old and has problems sleeping. I could not get him to sleep from day one. He would be awake for hours then eventually drop off from sheer exhaustion then be impossible to wake up for a feed. He fed little and often and I was informed he had colic as he cried all the time. I later discovered he had a lactose intolerance which is now resolving itself. I bought your book when Joe was about 4 weeks old but it took weeks before I managed…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Daytime Sleep
How can I get my five-month-old son to sleep better in the daytime? My son feeds well and sleeps at night time, but during the day he has great difficulty sleeping. Some days he won’t sleep at all, other days he will, but not at the times recommended. He gets very irritable from 5.30pm until bedtime, but then settles fine and will usually sleep until 7am. He also seems to want a lot of attention during the day and won’t play for long on his own. I would be grateful for advice on how to improve his daytime sleep and how to stop him being unsettled before bed. At present…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Daytime Sleep
At almost 5mths my son still seems to need a lot of daytime sleep I have been trying to follow CLB since Luke was born. He still finds it hard to stay awake as long as he should. As a newborn I wasn’t concerned by his excessive sleepiness, but as he is now almost 5 months I thought things would be better by now. For the last few months he has slept through the night. We feed him at 10pm but try not too wake him too much for this, as he can be impossible to settle again. He is lifted from his cot and takes 5-7ozs without waking fully.…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Daytime Sleep
My five-month-old gets tired in the afternoon despite sleeping well at naptimes My five-month-old son sleeps really well between 9.00-9.30am and between 12.15-2.15pm, but gets really cross and tired every afternoon around 3.30-4.00pm. It is very difficult to do anything with him. Do you have any advice? As your son is only sleeping 2.5 hours in the day and showing signs of tiredness in the afternoon, let him have a short catnap. Some babies of this age do still need 15 minutes to help them through bath and bedtime without becoming overtired. Use this time to take him for a walk and let him have a short sleep in his…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Settling/Sleep Associations
I can’t get my baby of almost 6 mths to settle without his dummy How can I get my baby who has been recently weaned from the dummy to sleep more easily at nap times without creating another sleep association problem? Every nap and bed time involves a lot of crying. He is missing naps because he is finding it hard to get to sleep and this in turn making it difficult to keep to the routine. Harrison is almost 6 months. He wakes at 7am, then is sleepy. We have problems going to sleep for naps. He is often sleepy throughout the day but difficult to get to sleep.…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Settling/Sleep Associations
Illness has given all the wrong sleep associations to 5-month-old Daniel Daniel is five months old and has slept through the core night from about the age of 8 weeks, although he had never really slept much longer than about 1 hour at a time during the day. When I started weaning at 18 weeks, he dropped his 10pm feed and started sleeping right through until about 6.30-7am. By 21 weeks he was having two good solid feeds a day and four bottles (about 28oz total). Around two weeks ago, he had gastroenteritus and lost his appetite completely. He woke up frequently with a dirty nappy in the middle of…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Settling/Sleep Associations
How can I get my 4+ mth son to settle to sleep without using associations? Before we started the CLB routines, my son was often an over-tired and cranky baby, as, once past the involuntary ‘sleep when tired’ stage, he hardly ever slept during the day. As a small baby, when he was still sleeping in a Moses basket in our room, I used to pop him into his cot bed in the mornings and he would play happily with his soft toys or watch/listen to his mobile while I had a shower. Then, all of a sudden, about the time he outgrew his Moses basket and moved into his…
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