• Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 months – Night Waking

    My 8-month-old son is still waking several times in the night after a recent time of illness He has been a really good sleeper – right through the night from 7 weeks old. He took to weaning well and is generally happy and very content. We had a few disturbed nights when the lower two teeth came through but were getting back on track when he started to show symptoms of a cold about two weeks ago. This then turned into vomiting and diarrhoea. It was not constant but after every feed he would vomit much of it back up, particularly the milk, and fill his nappy. We were advised…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 months – Night Waking

    I dont know if my 7mth old son’s waking is due to hunger, teething or habit? A former problem of my son vomiting at bedtime and so waking hungry in the night has been solved. However the night time waking has continued and after 4 wks of very little sleep I am at desperation point as to where I am going wrong. I did think that the waking could be due to teething – over the past 3 wks he has been cutting his 3 top teeth which has caused runny nose and lots of hand chewing and I do remember that the bottom 2 at 16wks did cause some…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 months – Night Waking

    My 7 month baby wakes every night at the same time but is never upset My son of 7 months has followed the routines since he was 9 weeks old. He is a very contented baby, but has started waking around 4.30am. This has been exaggerated by the recent clock change as he was waking at 5.30am. He is happy to stay in his cot talking away to himself and sucking his thumb. He sometimes goes back into a light sleep but more often her stays awake. But he never cries. He is not hungry as he is content to wait for us to get his breakfast with out making…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 months – Night Waking

    How can I stop my 6 month daughter waking at 4am every morning? My daughter has followed the routines since 1 month old. In the beginning she would cry every time she was put down, but I persevered and up until last month she was a contented baby. I am now having the problem of her waking every morning around 4am. She settles well at 6.45/7pm. I have tried leaving her to settle herself back to sleep but it is just not working. I put a music box in her room but that is not working either. Is there anything else I can do to sort the problem out? She…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 months – Night Waking

    What can I do to get my 8.5mth old son to sleep through the night? I am trying to get my son to sleep through the night but he just won’t. He’ll sleep from 7.00pm – 10.00pm and I go to feed him but then a little while later he wakes up again and just won’t settle back down. I end up going to bed then and taking him in with me. He is fully breast fed, and was weaned at 6mths. He takes one side at most feeds which takes him between 5-10mins. He takes these feeds at 7am, 9am, 12am, 3pm, 6.30pm and 10pm. For breakfast he takes…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 months – Night Waking

    My 7 month son has started to wake at night, but I am slightly confused as to why My son, who is just 7 mths, has slept well through the night since eight weeks. But, for the past three weeks, he has been waking in the night. He does not wake every night- it has averaged out as one in every three nights. Although I have found similar questions on the website and have posted a question on the message boards, I feel I have tried every suggestion given and I am running out of ideas. We originally thought it was teething as he did not seem that well in…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 months – Night Waking

    My daughter of 6.5mths is still waking in the night and needing small feeds to settle her My daughter is 24 weeks and has never slept well at night, although she goes down awake, is well tucked in and all the things such as darkness have been looked at. I think her wakings were due to hunger because after we started weaning, once she was taking a decent amount, she slept through the night 4 times. Then she got a really awful cough and cold, and now conjunctivitis as well. She has been unwell for a month now and has only gained 5 oz in the last 5 weeks. The…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 months – Night Waking

    My 7mth son wakes in the night for an hour or two. This makes him tired in the daytime. What can I do? My 7mth son suffers from reflux but I don’t think this has anything to do with this. He is up or is woken at 7.30am. He takes his reflux medication and then his feed and breakfast. He takes two naps a day. We dropped his afternoon catnap as this meant he was not ready to settle at 7.30pm. My son has always had a problem sleeping through the night but has managed 11.30pm -7.30am a number of times. We were dream feeding at 11.30pm but he then…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Other

    Rolling over while asleep wakes my baby of 5 mths My baby is five months old and is sleeping 7am until 7pm, no problem. She has, up until now, been sleeping on her back the whole time. She is, however, beginning to roll over on to her stomach, but then she can’t roll back again. This happens several times a night and wakes her up. My baby sleeps in a dark room, in a fleece all-in-one, on a mattress covered with a fitted sheet but with no other bedding; this permits her to move around her crib freely. Any advice you could provide would be helpful. Once babies are too…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 months – Other

    My 5-month-old is rolling over at night in a grobag. Is this dangerous? I have a 5-month-old girl (Felicity) who has just learnt to roll over from front to back, but not from back to front. She wears a grobag to sleep and I’m worried that she may roll over in the middle of the night and stifle herself by not being able to roll back. Is this common? How do you continuously monitor this behaviour? This is a common problem in babies of Felicity’s age, normally because they roll over onto their fronts and are unable to get back, usually waking themselves up in the process. As she is…