My son of 8 months is waking two or three times in the night and will only settle after a drink I need to break my son’s habit of night time waking. We found that offering him a drink of very diluted juice would usually settle him when he woke once at 3/4am but now […]
Continue ReadingSince a recent illness my 7 mth daughter is waking at night and now is unable to settle alone with out a great deal of crying My daughter has been ill with a virus and for last 3 weeks taken to waking again between 10/12pm and not settling. While poorly – coughing etc- I found […]
Continue ReadingBaby, age 7 months – Waking twice a night My baby is 7 months old and, despite introducing solids at 6 months and feeding him at 10pm, he still continues to wake up twice in the night and refuses to settle back to sleep unless I breast feed him. He weighs nearly 17 pounds and […]
Continue ReadingMy 5mth son has begun to wake three or four times in the night but will settle with his dummy. What can I do? My son who is 5mths has just started to wake 3/4 times in the early hours. I am a single mum and am finding it difficult to cope without the sleep […]
Continue ReadingMy 4.5mth daughter is still waking several times in the night, needing her dummy to settle. How can I improve her sleeping? My daughter of 4.5mths is waking constantly at night. Her daytime naps are also a bit weird (wakes at lunch, won’t resettle), I guess the problem is one and the same, but it’s […]
Continue ReadingMy 4mth daughter, who is fully breast fed, recently started to wake in the night, even since weaning she has continued to do so My 4mth daughter has been the best advertisement for the Contented Baby book there is. She has been sleeping through from 11pm to 7pm since she was 6 weeks old. We […]
Continue ReadingSince traveling I have been unable to get my 4mth son back onto a routine. He is waking hungry twice in the night My 4 month old son is struggling to sleep through from the last feed at 10 – 10:30pm until 6 -7 am. We started him on the routines at 4 – 7 […]
Continue ReadingI feel my 11.5 week baby does not need a night feed but she is unable to settle back with out a dummy. What should I do? My 11 and a half week old baby has gone through the night without feeds a couple of times, I had suspected she did not need them for […]
Continue ReadingShould I introduce solids to get my 15.5 week son through the night? Despite following the routines since birth and despite my son’s good weight, he will not sleep through the night – he has done so only on a handful of occasions, despite me following all the advice in the CLB book. He has […]
Continue ReadingMy 15 week son still seems to need a feed in the night in order to settle, or is this just habit? I know I shouldn’t compare children but I have 4 yr and 21 month old boys who were perfect Gina babies and dropped the night feed by 6 weeks and were 7am-7pm every […]
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