I don’t want to start the wrong associations when settling my 6.5-month-old baby My son has been a good sleeper (with exception to common problems in the lunchtime nap). He has a skin problem which we are seeing a specialist for very soon, but although it is not gone I don’t think it is the cause of the problem. He has just dropped his late afternoon nap (except days like today when he only slept 1 hour at lunch), as sleeping generally seems to have gone out of the window. He feeds at the times stated in book and is not on meat protein yet as I want to keep…

At 8.5-months-old my son is taking time to settle because he keeps standing up My son was never a really good sleeper; I went to him 3/4 times a night from early on. The problem now is that he very active and before I could always put him down and leave the room. Now though, because he can turn over, sit up and get up, he does just that. So I lie him down and he just turns over and cries as he can’t get comfy, then just stands at the end of the bed. This can go on for ages; up to 1/2 hour. I have even started to…

There could be many reasons causing my 7.5 month son to wake but now he won’t settle back in the early morning even with his dummy I don’t really know where to start! I am that confused about what the potential problem could be. I thought I had resolved it one night but I haven’t. My son has always had a dummy – but not for sleeping. However whenever he awoke during his lunchtime nap he wouldn’t settle unless given it so he has always had it for then and also he was given it for his early morning waking. He has never really slept until 7 am since I…

Since a recent illness my 8.5mth daughter has started to wake several times in the evenings and takes a while to settle For a week my 8.5mth daughter was very sick with urine track infection. Loss of appetite, fever for five days, vomiting though nose and mouth, convulsing when temperature spiked. At her worst, she spent almost three solid days in my arms. After 10 days her appetite returned, she no longer had a fever and her urine sample was all clear. Since then she wakes 1 to 3 times during the time slot 8.30pm-10.30pm, cries, is not hungry, doesn’t need a nappy change but I have to resettle her…

My 7mth daughter has started to scream when going down at 7pm. She screams so much she makes her sick My 7 month old daughter has been going down in her cot very well since birth at 7pm but for the past few nights, she screams when put down into her cot. She will scream and scream until she vomits up all her tea. I then have to clean her up and rock her to sleep fearing that she might be sick again when put down in the cot. She now sleeps at 9:30-10 and 12:30-2:30. She refuses to have any afternoon naps. She’s fed 6oz at 7am, solids at…

My 8.5mth son has used a dummy to settle back to sleep. I now want to get rid of it but am not sure how to do this without him losing a lot of sleep especially at nap times My son is now 8.5 months old and despite following the routines as strictly as possible, he has never quite settled into the proper routine. I can almost get him there, but for instance he has never slept longer than 1.5 hours at lunchtime, and still wakes several times in the night. He is always up by 7am, follows the feeding guide exactly – and eats well – and settles well…

Since starting nursery my 8.5mth old is not settling or sleeping well at his daytime naps Since staring nursery in the last couple of weeks, my 8.5mth son has become very clingy and has dreadful separation anxiety. He is unable to sleep at his naps now having previously been a great sleeper. Initially his lunchtime nap got shorter and shorter and he seemed unable to settle himself back. Now his morning and lunchtimes nap are just crying sessions. Today I read to him until he fell asleep then he woke 40 minutes later and has cried for the last hour. I don’t know if I am right or wrong in…

I can’t get my baby of almost 6 mths to settle without his dummy How can I get my baby who has been recently weaned from the dummy to sleep more easily at nap times without creating another sleep association problem? Every nap and bed time involves a lot of crying. He is missing naps because he is finding it hard to get to sleep and this in turn making it difficult to keep to the routine. Harrison is almost 6 months. He wakes at 7am, then is sleepy. We have problems going to sleep for naps. He is often sleepy throughout the day but difficult to get to sleep.…

Illness has given all the wrong sleep associations to 5-month-old Daniel Daniel is five months old and has slept through the core night from about the age of 8 weeks, although he had never really slept much longer than about 1 hour at a time during the day. When I started weaning at 18 weeks, he dropped his 10pm feed and started sleeping right through until about 6.30-7am. By 21 weeks he was having two good solid feeds a day and four bottles (about 28oz total). Around two weeks ago, he had gastroenteritus and lost his appetite completely. He woke up frequently with a dirty nappy in the middle of…

How can I get my 4+ mth son to settle to sleep without using associations? Before we started the CLB routines, my son was often an over-tired and cranky baby, as, once past the involuntary ‘sleep when tired’ stage, he hardly ever slept during the day. As a small baby, when he was still sleeping in a Moses basket in our room, I used to pop him into his cot bed in the mornings and he would play happily with his soft toys or watch/listen to his mobile while I had a shower. Then, all of a sudden, about the time he outgrew his Moses basket and moved into his…