• Sleeping FAQ: 8-12 Weeks – Daytime Sleep

    My 10-week-old daughter has started to be unsettled in the evenings. What am I doing wrong? For the last week my 10-week-old daughter will not settle at 6.30/7pm. She settles well at other naps and has been going through the night since six weeks. I wake her at 5pm for her split feed of 4ozs. I have tried to drop this but she is always hungry and demanding food at this time. Sometimes even after this she is still crying for more food. I bath her around 5.45pm and start to feed her again at 6pm. She normally falls asleep on me after this feed so I will end up…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 8-12 Weeks – Daytime Sleep

    My 11.5-week-old daughter will settle for her daytime naps but wakes after 30-45minutes and is hard to settle again I have already been given a pretty detailed response by the Team about my daughter and her not wanting to sleep in the day. I have followed this but the advice unfortunately did not work fully, very frustrating! Certainly the advice on wind down was of some help and she will go down now but wake up after 30 minute or sometimes 45 minutes at every nap.  For the morning nap I take her for a walk in the pram and she sleeps just fine, coming round after 30 minutes but…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 8-12 Weeks – Daytime Sleep

    My 10 week old twins have begun to refuse to settle themselves in the day for naps, despite sleeping well at night My 10 week twin girls are sleeping after the 11pm feed through to 6/7am. They started off as easy to settle and were following the routine well. In the last week the girls are refusing to settle themselves to sleep during the day. We return from dropping my 3 year old to pre-school and they scream through their morning nap. I eventually feed them as close to 11am as possible but sometimes as early as 10.15am. I try to entertain them a little if they manage to stay…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 0-8 weeks – Daytime Sleep

    At 7 weeks my son will not sleep for longer than 10-15minutes at 4-5pm and so gets exhausted by bath time My 7 week son follows the 4-6wks quite well but I’m having trouble getting him to sleep for more than 10-15mins between 4pm-5pm. This then makes him very ‘ratty’ and tired up to his bath and then he ends up falling asleep at 6.30pm. I am a child minder and have gone back to work (work at my Mums house) so his 9am-10am sleep is usually in car seat and tends to wake after 30 minutes but I manage to ‘get him back off’ until 10am. But his 4pm…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 0-8 weeks -Daytime Sleep

    My 6-week-old daughter naps at different times to the routine because of the school run My 6-week-old daughter has settled well into the routines. I also have a three year old that means I am finding her daytime naps are taken in the car seat to fit in with school runs. This sometimes affects the length of her naps and then also the times of her feeds. She now is becoming harder to settle in her cot for naps on the days when I am at home and don’t want this to become a long term problem. At present I drop my eldest daughter off at 8.30am three mornings a…