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Sleeping FAQ: 24+ Months – Night Waking
My 29 month old has begun to wake and cry in the night after illness. My daughter has always slept well and we’ve followed Gina’s routines from six weeks. From 16 weeks she regularly slept through the night and from six months always slept 7pm-7am. Three months ago this abruptly stopped after a cold and a sinusitis-type virus. She has woken every night since then at least twice and regularly stays awake for 1-3 hours. I’m coping with this alone as my husband leaves for work at 5am every day and isn’t back before 7.30pm. She dropped her lunchtime sleep at 20 months. We put her into a bed at…
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Sleeping FAQ: 24+ Months – Lunchtime Nap
My 29 month son does not sleep well by day which affects his night time sleep. I have trouble getting my 29-month-old to settle down for his day nap; sometimes he does a poo after I put him down and treats it like a game because I have to go back and change his nappy. I feel he doesn’t have a restorative sleep and appears fretful and tired by 4pm. He takes ages to go to sleep so instead of putting him down at 7pm, I find myself getting him in bed by 6:15pm, and he still takes an hour to fall asleep. On days when he misses a nap,…
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Sleeping FAQ: 24+ Months – Lunchtime Nap
The time of my 2 year old’s lunchtime nap will clash with his nursery slot. My son is due to start nursery in January 2006, when he will be 2 years old. I am also due to give birth to my second son on 2.2.06. My son goes to a crèche three times a week and loves it. He is definitely ready for nursery as he loves being and playing with other children. My problem is that the only nursery I can get him into near me in London only have afternoon spaces available from 1.15-3.45pm. He currently wakes at 7/7.30am and still has a lunchtime nap of two hours,…
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Sleeping FAQ: 18-24 Months – Other
My 20-month-old daughter has started nursery and can’t stay awake till lunch. I have a problem with my 20 month old daughter’s midday nap at the moment. Up until now, she has been a perfect Gina Ford baby: happy and lively, except when tired. She sleeps and settles well by herself for her daytime naps (12:30 – 14:30) and night-time sleep. She sleeps well from 7pm-7am (and will even sleep till 8am if I leave her). She has only dropped her morning nap a month and a half ago (which was challenging enough as she was barely making it to 12:15/12:30pm). But it took a couple of weeks and she…
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Sleeping FAQ: 18-24 Months – Daytime Sleep
Grace is 18 months and not ready to drop her morning nap. My daughter is 19 months old on 4th February and still has a morning nap when at home. She goes to nursery three days a week and sleeps for 2 hours at lunchtime. She is always in bed for 7pm and sleeps through till 7am. On the days I do not work and I usually wake Grace at 7 -7.15am. She always shows signs of being tired at around 9.15 -.9.30am. She will even start climbing the stairs so rather than keep her up as I have in the past to attempt to cut out the morning sleep,…
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Sleeping FAQ: 18-24 Months – Daytime Sleep
My 18mth son still has a morning nap of 20-30 minutes on the days he is not at nursery. He usually starts his day between 6-6.30am, never having slept until 7am. He does not seem tired at home but settles to his nap in 5-10minutes. When at nursery he has a much earlier lunchtime nap so manages to stay up all morning. We are going abroad in 6 weeks and I don’t really want to have to return to our room just for this quick nap. My son naps at 9.30-9.50am and 1-2.15pm when at home. At nursery he goes down between 11.30and 12 midday and naps for 2-2.5hrs. When…
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Sleeping FAQ: 18-24 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
My 19-month-old daughter becomes distressed if I don’t stay with her at 7pm. My 19-month-old daughter is getting difficult to settle in the evenings. I mistakenly used to hold her until she was asleep. However, for the last 4 months I have been putting her in her cot, after a few minutes of sitting with her in the dark. I used to be able to leave the room fairly shortly after this. Now as soon as I turn out the light she will insist on being put in her cot, however as soon as I take my hand away from her she becomes distressed. This can carry on for 30-45…
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Sleeping FAQ: 18-24 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
How do I get my daughter to sleep happily in her cot again now we are finally settled in our new home? We have had the most terrible week – we have moved house which is stressful enough but my daughter of 20mths has become very unsettled. She has coped extremely well over the past few months with moving country to Africa (we live in Mozambique) and then temporary accommodation. We have made various trips in this time and stayed in other places and she has been fine with her same routine every night always settling well in a new place, crying for up to 10 minutes on the first…
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Sleeping FAQ: 18-24 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
For the past 9 months my 23 month son has needed me to stay with him as he falls asleep. I now want to stop this habit. My 23 month old son has been a CLB since he was 6 weeks old, and would settle himself to sleep at 7 pm from the time he was 12 weeks old. When he was 14mths old we went away for a holiday and he would not settle himself as it was a strange room. To get him to sleep I would lie down quietly on the bed with him until he fell asleep (in about 10 mins). Somehow after the holiday he…
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Sleeping FAQ: 18-24 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
My 18mth old daughter takes up to 2.5hrs to go to sleep at night which is affecting her by day. I really hope you can offer some advice to assist with our daughters getting to sleep at night – whilst she is not crying or distressed I think it is starting to impact her during the day – she is always grizzling and seems tired My daughter is taking up to 2 1/2 hours to go to sleep at night, and this is making her tired during the day. I suspect she is now using her day sleeps to make up for the lost sleep at night because she goes…
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