For the last six months, more often than not she (20 months) wakes during the night. My daughter is now 20 months old. From around six months old, she slept from 7.30pm to 6.30-7am but for the last six months, more often than not she wakes during the night. It began during a period of illness but now she wakes up, sits herself up and cries out until someone comes to resettle her. She goes down beautifully at 7.30 but wakes once or twice after midnight. She usually settles quickly after a hug and a tucking in but it’s a real habit now. I’ve tried leaving her but no longer…

What can we do to stop our 21-month-old waking for two hours in the night? We are both doctors with regular night shifts and are just not getting any sleep at home either. My daughter was a total contented baby right from day 1 – I followed all the routines and she learnt to go off to sleep by herself in her cot from the start. She’s my 2nd baby and I know the routines very well. Until 9 months everything went well, but after 9 months she started waking at night despite feeding very well and not sleeping too much during the day. Unfortunately she wasn’t very well –…

Our 22 month old woke at night whilst on holiday and is doing it now at home. My son is 22 months old and has followed the CLB routine since he was 3 months old. He has been sleeping through the night since 4 months. We have had the odd phase of early waking but he has always slept through the night, even when he has been ill. However, 4 weeks ago he started to wake in the night. It started when we were in our caravan on holiday, and I had to go to him immediately as I don’t think other campers would appreciate controlled crying! (We go away…

My 18-month-old son rarely sleeps through the night and eats little in the day. My son only sleeps through the night (he will wake at approx 6am) when he is about to experience a cold or virus (usually 2 days prior). The doctor has stated he is prone to allergies etc, minor illness appears to be quite common approx every 5 weeks. He wakes on average 3 times per night (Until recently it could be 6/7). He eats very little although quite often. He refuses meat, eats little fruit and veg [I have therefore introduced Innocent smoothies] and has little interest in food in general. He is an extremely active…

My daughter of 18mths wakes in the night, sometimes for 2hours but does not cry out for us. My daughter has for some months began waking during the night, never at the same times, for anything up to two hours. She doesn’t cry but she talks and sometimes shouts out. Sometimes we will go in to her and tell her to shush and go back to sleep or we just leave her. This happens regardless of whether she has had a good/bad lunchtime nap and regardless of whether she talks for a while before falling to sleep at night. It also doesn’t matter if has eaten a lot during the…