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…

I dont know if my 7mth old son’s waking is due to hunger, teething or habit? A former problem of my son vomiting at bedtime and so waking hungry in the night has been solved. However the night time waking has continued and after 4 wks of very little sleep I am at desperation point as to where I am going wrong. I did think that the waking could be due to teething – over the past 3 wks he has been cutting his 3 top teeth which has caused runny nose and lots of hand chewing and I do remember that the bottom 2 at 16wks did cause some…

My 7 month baby wakes every night at the same time but is never upset My son of 7 months has followed the routines since he was 9 weeks old. He is a very contented baby, but has started waking around 4.30am. This has been exaggerated by the recent clock change as he was waking at 5.30am. He is happy to stay in his cot talking away to himself and sucking his thumb. He sometimes goes back into a light sleep but more often her stays awake. But he never cries. He is not hungry as he is content to wait for us to get his breakfast with out making…

How can I stop my 6 month daughter waking at 4am every morning? My daughter has followed the routines since 1 month old. In the beginning she would cry every time she was put down, but I persevered and up until last month she was a contented baby. I am now having the problem of her waking every morning around 4am. She settles well at 6.45/7pm. I have tried leaving her to settle herself back to sleep but it is just not working. I put a music box in her room but that is not working either. Is there anything else I can do to sort the problem out? She…

What can I do to get my 8.5mth old son to sleep through the night? I am trying to get my son to sleep through the night but he just won’t. He’ll sleep from 7.00pm – 10.00pm and I go to feed him but then a little while later he wakes up again and just won’t settle back down. I end up going to bed then and taking him in with me. He is fully breast fed, and was weaned at 6mths. He takes one side at most feeds which takes him between 5-10mins. He takes these feeds at 7am, 9am, 12am, 3pm, 6.30pm and 10pm. For breakfast he takes…

My 7 month son has started to wake at night, but I am slightly confused as to why My son, who is just 7 mths, has slept well through the night since eight weeks. But, for the past three weeks, he has been waking in the night. He does not wake every night- it has averaged out as one in every three nights. Although I have found similar questions on the website and have posted a question on the message boards, I feel I have tried every suggestion given and I am running out of ideas. We originally thought it was teething as he did not seem that well in…

My daughter of 6.5mths is still waking in the night and needing small feeds to settle her My daughter is 24 weeks and has never slept well at night, although she goes down awake, is well tucked in and all the things such as darkness have been looked at. I think her wakings were due to hunger because after we started weaning, once she was taking a decent amount, she slept through the night 4 times. Then she got a really awful cough and cold, and now conjunctivitis as well. She has been unwell for a month now and has only gained 5 oz in the last 5 weeks. The…