My 6.5mth daughter still wakes several times in the night. Are her wakings habit rather than hunger? I wrote to you about a month ago and thank you for your advice, especially as it was just before Christmas. I have implemented everything you suggested but my daughter is still waking several times a night. Some days she eats her solids really well, other days she has almost nothing. In the last month she has gained 3 oz each week which is quite good for her. Are her night wakings habit rather than hunger now? I am trying to do the ‘core night’ and have got Gina’s sleep book, but several…

Question – Do breast-fed babies need extra vitamin D? My eight–month–old daughter is still breast–feeding, and I have heard that babies can get low in vitamin D. Why is this is a problem for breast–fed babies but not those on formula? What should I do about it? Answer: That is a really important question. There is growing concern among experts about low vitamin D levels in young children in Western countries, but little information has filtered down to mothers. It is particularly common in some ethnic groups with darker skin, in babies who are exclusively breast–fed without taking vitamin supplements, and in breast–fed babies whose mothers did not take vitamin…

My 4.5 month old has slept through the night but now is waking looking for feeds I have had a contented dream baby up until the last 5 or 6 days. He is waking more frequently, he seems starving, his hands are in his mouth etc. I would like to hold off solids until 5 months, and keep reading everywhere that he should be able to be sustained by breastmilk until then, but I feel as though my milk is drying up. Admittedly I am under some stress; my husband is away; we are due to move overseas in 3 weeks; our 18 month old is fairly demanding; I have…

My 18-week-old baby is waking hungry several times at night My son was a happy contented baby pretty much since starting on the routines. He took to them immediately and always slept at the times suggested. I had to wake him after an hour in the morning, had to wake him after his lunch time nap and he always took a good nap in pram or cot for the afternoon. He was progressing well at nights, was pushing his 4am wake-up from his 10/11pm split feed and 1 day (August 10th – 11 weeks) he actually slept to 7am. At 12 weeks he started waking more in the night and…

Is there anything I can do to make breast feeding easier for my 4.5mth daughter? My daughter is very difficult to breastfeed. The problem started at about 8-10 weeks. She takes the first 10 minutes of a breast feed very well. Then it will become difficult .She starts crying and pulling away from breast when offered. If I persevere, she will eventually take the breast and finish feed although the whole process is tiring and time-consuming. Initially I thought that she was full after first 10 minutes. She seemed happy enough but would not settle well for naps and then would be very distressed at 6 pm and cry a…

Is hunger causing my daughter of almost 5mths to be unsettled in the evenings? My daughter is not settling well after her 6pm feed and it is taking my husband and me a long time to settle her. Once settled she wakes up within half an hour and this continues until about 9pm. She then only has about 1 hour sleep before we wake her up for her 10pm feed. We have tried leaving this feed but she wakes around 12.30am. This has been happening now for a week. During the day she is sleeping for about 45mins in the morning, between 1hr & 1.5 hrs at lunch and she…

How can I get my 3 month daughter to take a bottle? We have been trying to get our daughter onto a bottle as I cannot carry on breast feeding her. She used to take the 10:30 am feed by bottle when she was 6-8 weeks old and would also take some at 10:30pm. She then became ill and was permanently on breast and since then she has refused to drink from the bottle. We try when she is half asleep and sometimes she might take a bit, most of the time she wakes up and gets upset if we try with a bottle. In the end we have to…

My 3mth son is constantly unhappy long before feeds are due and he finds it hard to settle to sleep We started the CLB routines when my son was 10 weeks old, and in order not to be too harsh, we put him on the 4-8 weeks routine first and gradually advanced to the 8-12 weeks routine. My son is always fretting after his morning nap. He never sleeps more than 45 minutes and is usually awake after 30 minutes. For the first time in 4 weeks after putting him on the routine, I gave him 40 ml expressed milk and 60 ml formula milk this morning (On normal days,…

My son of 15 weeks is still waking two or three times in the night I have a 3 year old son who was introduced to Gina’s routines after an awful first 2 months. It took 6 days of the routines until he slept through the night and he has been a contented child ever since – we never looked back and it was the best thing we ever did. So I know that Gina’s routines do work because I know that my eldest son was simply hideous before I put him into the routine but I am beginning to think that maybe it was a case of beginners luck…

My daughter of almost 4 months old has started to wake earlier in the night and needs feeding to settle her back to sleep. Up until 2 weeks ago, my daughter of almost 4 months old had been sleeping until 5am after her last feed of formula at 10:30pm. I had been following the core night method and she did manage to sleep through until 7am on two occasions. However, now she is waking up any time between 3am and 5am. She will no longer accept cool boiled water or a dummy but will only settle if I give her a full feed. Once I have fed her she will…