My 15-month-old son wakes early and wants to have a long lunchtime nap. Help! My little boy is 15 months old and has been a contented little baby since he was born, following the routines more or less. He usually wakes at 6am (which my husband likes as he gets to see him before he leaves for work), has a lunchtime nap at 1pm for 2 or 2 and a half hours then goes to bed happily at 7pm. However, he has always had a tendency to early morning waking and the past couple of weeks have seen him waking up nearer to 5am and wanting to get up. We…

What can I do to get my 14 month old to wake later and sleep less in the day? For the past month and a half I have become stuck in a cycle of early morning waking, which I suspect is down to too much day time sleep but I can’t seem to resolve the issue. My daughter is now 14 months old and previous to the early morning wakening she was managing to get through quite a few mornings without a nap and sleeping well until 7am or longer. She then went through a spell of needing the morning nap again and then started waking at 6.30am and then…

My 17-month-old daughter wakes early in the morning and cries. My daughter is not a big sleeper in the day, but at night she usually slept from 7pm-7am. About 6-7 months ago she started to wake up from her daytime naps crying, then she started crying in the morning too. Up until then she would wake and happily talk and play in her cot until I went to her. Now she is crying before she is even properly awake. If I leave her she gets hysterical. Then about 5 months ago she started waking earlier, sometimes as early as 5-5.30am. We had already changed her to one nap a day,…

Since we returned from a time zone 4 hours ahead my 13 mth daughter has been waking early in the morning. We have just returned from Dubai which is 4 hours ahead of the UK time wise. Before this holiday my 13mth old daughter was sleeping from 7pm to 7 or 8am every morning without waking in the night. Since we have returned (3 days now), she has been struggling to stay awake until 7pm and has been waking at around 4am seeming to be hungry. I have been giving her milk and breakfast and then putting her back to bed again at about 6 for another hour and half…

My 10mth son is waking early in the morning and will only go back to sleep if I offer him a feed My son is now just over 10 months old. We introduced the CLB routine when he was 3 months and it worked beautifully for us, and has done until recently. Since he was 8 or 9 months old, he’s been waking early, and it seems to be getting earlier and earlier. He was consistently sleeping until 7am until that point. I have ruled out every possible cause of the early waking – his room is blacked out completely, he gets plenty to eat and eats according to the…

One of my 10.5mth twins has begun to wake early in the morning and disturb his brother My 10.5mth twins were born at 34 weeks. We have attempted to put them on the CLB routine – bearing in mind their prematurity – but have adjusted it from 6am to 6pm to fit in with the time my husband gets up to go to work. One twin is consistently waking between 4am and 5.30am. Which is obviously too early for any of us and it wakes his twin brother. He has always woken earlier than we would have chosen but used to get to 5.30am regularly, now it is nearer 4.30am.…

What can I do to get my 9.2 month old waking nearer to 7am again? My 9.2-month-old daughter has been sleeping 7pm to 7 or 7.30am since she was 10 weeks old. Just recently though she started waking at 6.30am and now she is waking every morning at 6am which is making her very tired in the mornings, until she’s had her early nap. I don’t usually pick her up until 7am or so and then I give her breakfast straightaway. Can you suggest anything that could help with the early morning waking? At present she naps 8.30-9.15am, 12.30-2.00pm and 3-3.45pm. Early morning waking can start to become a problem…

My son of 10 months had been waking at 5-5.30am, troubled with a persistent cough which has now been treated with antibiotics and an inhaler. He now wakes at 6.30am but does not seem hungry. How do I get him back to sleeping to 7am? My son of 10 months had been waking at 5-5.30am, troubled with a persistent cough which has now been treated with antibiotics and an inhaler. He now wakes at 6.30am but does not seem hungry.  How do I get him back to sleeping until 7am? He is not yet crawling and hates being on his tummy. He does enjoy time in his walker or walking…

My baby aged nearly seven months has been happily following your routines for a few months. His daytime sleep is erratic, especially on nursery days, and he is now waking at 5am with a dirty nappy and ready to start the day My baby aged nearly seven months has been happily following your routine, since Christmas. Since starting nursery 5 weeks ago his daytime sleep has become very erratic. Some days he sleeps for a total of 2.5 hours, others for only 1 hour. On non-nursery days, his daytime sleep is fine, but he always naps in the late afternoon. He used to wake at 5.30 – 6.00am, chatter for…

My 7month old son has recently started to wake between 4am and 6.15am. Having read all the advice I understand I need to offer him a feed and get him back to sleep. This I do but if he wakes after 5.30am he will not go back to sleep after having a feed. Should I wait for 15 minutes to see if he will settle himself before I offer him a feed at this time in the morning or go straight in and feed him? I have moved his daytime naps forward and try to give him a small breastfeed at 2.30pm so he will eat a good tea. Feeding…