Despite everything I do, Luke of 6 mths still wakes early My son, Luke, is 6 months old and is my first baby. He weighed 7lbs 4oz at birth and now weighs 17lbs. At present, he gains approx 4/5 ozs per week. I have been following your CLB routines from birth with varying success. My problem is that although Luke settles very well at 7/7.30pm, he wakes at between 6/6.30 every morning, which is too early!! I weaned him at 5 and a half months and so far he’s followed your weaning routines although I started him on the 4 month weaning programme rather than straight in at 5 and…

Morning waking is getting earlier for my 5 month old My daughter is 5 months old, was 6lb 12oz at birth and is now 6.5 kg. In the last month she only gained 300g, but grew 2.5cm and is certainly chubby enough! I started weaning her 10 days ago (just before she reached 5 months) and I have just started weaning her onto formula at the 11am feed. She has 4 breast feeds per day (she dropped the 10pm at 4 months) and is following your weaning plan (1 cube of apple today for lunch, and will have 3 tsp of baby rice for tea). I am currently feeding from…

5-month-old Finn’s day is starting too early Finn wakes between 5 and 5.30am, cries and will not settle back to sleep. He has 8oz of formula milk but still remains grumpy from tiredness. He cries and will not settle on his own after this feed unless rocked back to sleep. But he is able to settle himself at night – he is put down awake and goes to sleep within minutes. Once he is back to sleep in the morning, he wakes between 6.20am and 7.30am in a good mood. We manage to keep him awak until 9am but he starts getting grumpy at about 8.30am. It is becoming increasingly…

My 4.5 mth son is waking early but not hungry, and can’t settle at lunchtime in his stroller At 4 months I have begun to bring my son’s late feed forward to nearer 10pm. This seems to have the effect of him waking earlier in the morning having done a poo. It was 6.30am but now 5.50am. He is not hungry in the morning. It is a struggle to get him to take 5-6 ozs but the rest of the day he will take 8-9oz easily. He has not yet cut back on the 10pm (now at 10.10pm) feed; still having 5-6 ozs, which is probably why he is not…

My 5.5 mth son is waking early after dropping his afternoon nap and 10pm feed I really hope you can help as I am really struggling to follow the routine that has worked so well until recently. Over the last 4 weeks Jack has been waking too early. He used to settle back off if he woke between 5-6 am but in the last week or so, he has refused this. This morning he woke the earliest time ever at 4.50am and would not settle himself. He wasn’t crying but would not go back to sleep so I gave him a small drink of water and he finally settled back…

What can I do to stop my 5-month-old waking early? My son of five months has been following the routines from day one. We follow the advice to the letter and it had been working extremely well until recently. He now wakes up between 5 and 5.30am. He isn’t distressed, he just chats to himself. Occasionally he’ll drift off to sleep again but by about 6am he starts getting cross, so I go to him. Having scoured the website and CLB books I know that early morning waking is a common problem but I have tried all of the solutions suggested to no avail. I was hoping you might have…