My 21-month-old daughter is waking early. My 21-month-girl is starting to wake at 6-6.30am. She has always slept until 7-7.30am. She is also becoming difficult to settle at 7pm. She lies in her cot and chatters/plays until 8pm. She is currently having two hours’ sleep at lunchtime from 1pm to 3pm. Some days she doesn’t seem very tired when I put her down. Is this a sign that I should cut down her lunchtime nap? I also have a newborn and I would be grateful for any help. Katherine Annabelle is beginning to show all the signs of needing to cut back on her daytime sleep. Try waking her 10…

My 18 month daughter eats three good meals a day so why is she waking early? My daughter is 18 months old, and an only child, at birth she weighed 9lb 9ozs and now weighs 26.4lbs. She eats 3 good meals a day: Breakfast – Rice Krispies (4 tablespoons) and milk, 3-4 pieces of dried fruit and 1 slice of toast Morning snack – toast or biscuit and fruit Lunch – 5-6 tablespoons of homemade food, any meat fish and vegetables, plus a pudding of yoghurt/fruit Snack – biscuit Tea – as for lunch Mary still has 3 x 6oz milk feeds every day, and is allergic to dairy, wheat,…

What can we do to get 22 month Isla to sleep later? Isla has been a great contented baby, but we are having troubles with early waking. She is waking at 5.30-6am. I have checked all the usual reasons; she sleeps in a bag, and has done since a baby, she is definitely not cold, her room is completely blacked out. In the space of several weeks she went from having a 2hr lunchtime nap (1-3pm) to refusing a nap altogether. We tried that but then started to have night time waking. So after a few noisy days we got back to having a lunchtime nap which I reduced to…

My 19-month-old son wakes early in the morning and refuses to stay in his cot. My 19-month-old son has always been a great sleeper, but recently he has been waking up between 5:30 and 6:00 am: this is too early for me! He goes to sleep between 7:30 and 8:00pm. I have tried putting him down closer to 8, but it does not seem to make any difference. When he was younger, Sam would wake up and play in his cot, but he now wakes up crying for ‘mama’ or ‘dada’. I have been going in and telling him its still sleep time and lying him back down. He will…

My 17 month old has dropped her morning nap but is now wakes early. Since my 17-month-old daughter has dropped her morning nap, which she was having at 9.30 am for 15 minutes, she has started waking earlier and earlier in the morning despite a good 2 hour sleep at lunch. Everything remains the same as before – I have tried earlier and later and shorter and longer naps at lunch but there is no difference to waking in the morning having moved from 7am to 6am. I have scoured the web site and know the CLB books back to front. I have found a few useful things but in…

Since moving into her own room my 18-month-old daughter is waking very early. My daughter always slept well from 7pm to 6-7am since she was 10 weeks old. We moved house 6 weeks ago and it was all right still. My children now have a room each; since birth my daughter had shared with her brother who is 2 years older. In the beginning there were no problems with separating them. In the past 2 weeks after a teething bout she is now waking at 5-5.30am. On some mornings my daughter will respond to controlled crying after a few minutes. But she doesn’t go back to sleep. She only chatters…

My son wakes early and is tired but resists going back to sleep. My son will be two next month and I am having problems with him not sleeping enough at night. He will only sleep for about 9.5 hours and then wakes up still very tired but we just can’t get him to return to bed. Even as a young baby he never slept for the full 12 hours but would do about 11; he was fine on this though. He is a very good eater and has milk first thing, then a big breakfast, snack, protein lunch, snack and carbs for dinner then milk before bed. He also…

Since the clocks changed back my 23mth daughter is waking early in the mornings. I am very confused as to what to do about the 6/6.30am early morning waking that I am now experiencing. My daughter of 23mths goes down at 7pm settling to sleep straight away and always used to be woken at 7am. Since the clocks went back a month ago she has woken early. I have tried giving her 2 1/4 hours sleep at lunchtime, 1 1/2 hours at lunchtime any times between 12.30pm and 3.15pm. She always has to be woken from this nap. Nothing seems to work to get her to sleep back through to…