My 9-month-old baby is not sleeping at night – she wants milk We are having problems with our 9-month-old girl, Molly, and her sleep routine (or lack of!). We have two boys aged 3 & 6 who weren’t great sleepers either. Molly was born at 7½ lbs and has maintained a healthy weight gain since then. She has been in hospital a couple of times as a small baby with suspected infections that were never conclusive. A doctor also thought she had ‘silent reflux’ and put her on renetadine medicine. Molly has been quite behind on her solids. This is her feeding routine at the moment: 4.30-5am – bottle, 6oz…

9-month-old Megan’s reflux wakes her at 4am every night without fail Hi! I am desperate for a full night’s sleep. We have 2 girls – Ella, 21 months and Megan, 9 months. Ella has pretty much always slept through (except when there is a full moon!) Megan is a different story. At seven months she was diagnosed with reflux (prior to this, the doctor and health visitor ignored it – then we insisted on seeing a specialist privately). Symptoms were: a very strong cough, sick a lot, slow to take a bottle, can’t eat lumpy food (only very puréed). She wakes up EVERY night at 4am screaming and rigid. We…

Teething seems to be causing night waking My problem is night waking. My son was a good sleeper (12-13 hours a night) up to the age of seven months when he began teething. He is now nine months old. He has never been a good daytime sleeper and I have always struggled to get him to fit in with the routine fully, but generally he has a morning and an afternoon nap of anywhere between 1¼-2 hours split between the two. He always settles well at 7pm and I do not believe he has any wrong sleep associations. I think that teething is the main cause of his night time…

My son refuses to go back in his cot when he wakes in the night My 10-month-old son is really good all day, but is tired by 7pm and goes straight to sleep in his cot. He is awake when he goes in, but very dozy and goes to sleep straight away. He may cry out once but that is all. In the night he often wakes between 10pm and 3am and will not settle himself or go back into his cot if I take him out. He just screams and screams. I have tried everything: giving him a bottle, giving him water, giving him a cuddle, controlled crying. I…

Having had a cold two months ago, my baby still has mucus and wakes at night My son had a cold 2 months ago. Since then he has not slept fully through the night. He wakes up 2-3 times per night, usually suffering from a blocked nose or phlegm in his throat. We have tried Olbas Oil & Karvol, but they seem to have little effect. We have tipped up the head of his cot, to elevate his head and that hasn’t helped. He struggles to settle himself if left, so we have to settle him ourselves. He suffers from infantile eczema but I don’t think the two problems are…

My nearly 1-year-old still wakes and needs resettling in the night My daughter was a totally contented baby until solids were introduced. Since then we have had periods of sleeping through the night and periods of regular night time waking. She is a dedicated breast feeder, who from day one rejected a bottle. She initially refused but using the books and case studies (esp. Daniel), I now have a baby who eats well. At 11 months I decided to get tough. Together with my partner I stopped feeding in the night and he settled her back to sleep with cuddles or just by tucking her in and turning on her…

My 11mth daughter has begun to wake at night. I am not really sure why or what I should do to stop it My daughter has slept through from 10pm untill6.30-7am since 9 weeks old. She then slept well after dropping the 10pm feed. During the day she also slept well although not always for 2.5 or 2 hrs recommended. She had gastro -enteritis in September followed by a bad cold. Her daytime sleep continued to be alright but at night time we had to help her. Since then she wakes erratically in the night, eg 3.30am for 1.5hrs or 11.30pm for 2 hrs. We cannot settle her despite controlled…

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…