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…

At 4.5 months my son will not settle for daytime naps My son had been sleeping well at night, and going down reliably from birth. However, his daytime sleeps were more difficult, only taking place if he was rocked in the pram (outside), or cuddled in bed. A month ago, night-time sleeps started to become a problem too, so at the weekend we (husband & I) decided to try sleep training. After only three nights, it’s been a huge success. Last night, my son went down without a murmur, slept till 10:30, fed well, then had only one wakening at 4:30 (considering last week we had at least 3 a…

Our 4.5-month-old has problems at resettling himself without his dummy For the past 5-6 weeks we have been experiencing problems with our son’s lunch time nap – he used to sleep for a good 2-21/2 hrs at lunch time and if he woke up we gave him a dummy. However, we have since decided to remove the dummy and for the past week and a half have been trying to do controlled crying with him – this seems to be working well at night time but still not in the day time. His morning nap is from 9-9.35am. I usually feed him at 11.00am if he woke at 7.00 and…

My 18 week old twins are not happy sleeping in their travel cots. Should I persevere or abandon out holiday plans? My 18-week-old twins are good sleepers: they sleep in their cots in the morning, in their cots or buggy at lunchtime and their buggy in the afternoon. My problem is that we are going away for one or two nights over Christmas. I have bought travel cots for the twins and have put them down in them for their lunchtime nap (although it’s only nights they’ll need to sleep in them when we’re away) to try and get them used to them before we go away next week. Yesterday,…