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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Night Waking
Since a recent illness my 7 mth daughter is waking at night and now is unable to settle alone with out a great deal of crying My daughter has been ill with a virus and for last 3 weeks taken to waking again between 10/12pm and not settling. While poorly – coughing etc- I found she would only settle on my chest and spent several nights with her asleep on me or able to slide her next to me. Then I tried leaving her to cry it out which on the first night went well. It took her less than an hour to settle at 1am and she slept until…
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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Night Waking
Baby, age 7 months – Waking twice a night My baby is 7 months old and, despite introducing solids at 6 months and feeding him at 10pm, he still continues to wake up twice in the night and refuses to settle back to sleep unless I breast feed him. He weighs nearly 17 pounds and is exclusively breastfed. He settles well at all his other sleep times, so I know it is not a sleep association problem. I have been advised that a baby of his age should not need feeding in the night and that I should sleep train him to stop him waking up for night feeds. We…
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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Lunchtime Nap
Can I move my 8.5-month-old son’s lunchtime nap onto 1pm? My son is 8 months old and sleeps at 9.30am until 10.15am, from 12.30pm till 2.30pm and the full 12 hours at night from 7am-7pm. However, due to other commitments, I need to move his lunchtime nap to 1pm. I was thinking that I could let him sleep from about 1.15pm to about 2.45pm, giving him about 1.5 hours and maintaining the morning sleep as is. Can you please advise me if this is the right thing to do? Will he be able to go from 10.15pm till 1pm comfortably? It is impossible to say how your son will be…
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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Lunchtime Nap
How can I get my 6.5-month-old daughter to nap for longer and settle better? I seem to be surrounded or read about people’s babies who take long naps. I can count on both hands the number of times my 61/2-month-old daughter has ever done a stretch of sleep longer than 45 minutes at lunchtime. I can’t remember when she last slept for 2 hours. Rarely she sleeps for 1 hour and 20 minutes. I used to leave her crying and sometimes she resettled herself at lunchtime but she’s changed and in just 1 month seems so much older and wakeful. She sleeps all night 7.15pm to 7.15am and at every…
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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Lunchtime Nap
My 6.5mth son is unable to settle himself back at his lunchtime nap anymore Lunch time naps have always been a problem with my son. He loves his morning nap and will sleep for 1 1/2 hours then if allowed but we try to keep to the one hour to avoid compounding the problem at lunchtime. He was sleeping at lunch but not without much protest first and several visits from me. I had learned to live with this routine however the past few days he really has started screaming and getting very agitated keeping it up until 2pm when I give up and give him his 2.30pm milk. It…
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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Lunchtime Nap
My 7-month son, who weighs 8.5kgs, sleeps in his cot for all his naps. But sometimes he refuses to settle for his lunchtime nap unless given a dummy, and I always have to give him a dummy for the late afternoon nap. I am unable to drop this nap as he gets very tired by then, due to him still waking at 5am for a feed. My 7-month son, who weighs 8.5kgs, sleeps in his cot for all his naps. But sometimes he refuses to settle for his lunchtime nap unless given a dummy, and I always have to give him a dummy for the late afternoon nap. I am…
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