Night time sleeping isn’t working for my 7 month baby I have a seven-month-old son who has gone into his own room to sleep. It’s not going at all well…! Once an hour he starts crying, so I go in and give him a dummy. If that doesn’t work, I give him a bottle feed while he’s still in the cot. Then, if he still cries, I pick him up, comfort him and breastfeed him, which does the trick in the end. But he keeps waking, some times as soon as I’ve put him sound asleep from my arms into the cot. He has routine day sleeps although I use…

My 6.5 month son is waking at night – is it hunger? My son is 6 and a half months, was 7lb at birth and now weighs 16lbs. He is breastfeeding from both breasts at 7am; 2.30pm; 6.20pm; 10.30pm; about 2.30am and 5am. He is having 4 tsp cereal with grated pear at breakfast. Lunch is 2 cubes of chicken casserole, 2 cubes broccoli or 2 cauliflower. Dinner is 6 tsp baby rice with grated apple. I have kept to your routine in the weaning book. I’m just about to start him on a carbohydrate in the evenings. His daytime naps are 0915 to 0955, 1300 to 1345 then 1915…

Following an illness, my 7-month-old is very unsettled through the night In general, Ben has settled into the routines well and goes down happily at 7pm. Following several episodes of illness, however, he has become very unsettled at night, sleeping for no more than two hours at a stretch, before waking up crying. This can happen more than ten times a night, and sometimes he even cries in his sleep. I try to leave him for five minutes before going in, and he will settle again if his dummy is replaced or if he is turned on to his side. As Ben suffers from reflux (due to milk allergy) he…

Why does my 8 month old wake in the night? Carmen has always slept well at night, but during the past month she has started to wake at about 3am and then at 6am. She is never distressed; she contentedly makes little baby noises, so I wonder why she wakes when she never used to. At 3am, after 20mins I end up going into her, give her a cuddle and she quickly settles herself back to sleep. I know I shouldn’t complain as she doesn’t cry but she still keeps me awake. When she wakes at 6am she doesn’t go back to sleep. The result is, that she is really…

My daughter has begun to wake several times a night at 7.5-months-old My daughter is suddenly waking up to 5 times each night. The last 3 nights she has stirred at 8.30pm, 10.30pm (very quick and asleep again within 5 minutes) 12.30pm (I fed her as per the suggestion on the FAQ’s) then wakes again at 3am (leave her to cry and she settles within half an hour) then wakes at 6am to start her day. She was born a month early and is still on the lower end of the weight scale. She has a small appetite and will not take any more solids than I have mentioned above.…

At 6-months-old my son is still not sleeping through the night My son is now 6-months-old and still does not sleep through the night. He is still having a 10.30pm bottle of 7oz. By day he takes breakfast at 6.30am of 6ozs with cereal and fruit. He naps 8am-9am, and then he has a 4oz bottle at 10.30am. He will play until 11.30am and then has a half-hour nap before lunch. Lunch is at 12 noon and he has 6-8 cubes of vegetables and some protein followed by fruit and juice. He will then nap from 1-3pm and have a 4oz bottle at 3pm. He will nap again at 4.30-5pm…

My 8-month-old son is still waking several times in the night after a recent time of illness He has been a really good sleeper – right through the night from 7 weeks old. He took to weaning well and is generally happy and very content. We had a few disturbed nights when the lower two teeth came through but were getting back on track when he started to show symptoms of a cold about two weeks ago. This then turned into vomiting and diarrhoea. It was not constant but after every feed he would vomit much of it back up, particularly the milk, and fill his nappy. We were advised…