My 16 month son is cuddled to sleep, and now I need to stop. My son, Rahul, is 16 months with no siblings. He was 3.5kgs at birth and is 13.5kgs now. His routine is approximately 7am-8pm. He was breast fed until 5mths. I stopped because he was drinking 10 ounces at each feed and totally exhausting me. He has been on formula milk since then (Similac Advance). He has 6oz (180ml) milk on waking and breakfast at 9/9.30am. Lunch is at 11.30/45am followed by a bath and a nap between 1pm and 2.15/3pm. He will have 4oz (120ml) milk and some fruit by 4pm. If he is still hungry…

1-year-old Jake cannot sleep without a dummy or a drink. I have just read your book given to me by a friend. I feel we have made some major mistakes with Jake’s routine. Jake is now a year old and still does not sleep through the night. That is an understatement – he wakes up to ten times a night. He was weaned at 6 months and went on to soya formula milk which was recommended by his paediatrician. He was introduced slowly onto solids and it went very well. At this stage (6 months) he was waking two to three times a night to feed. He then got sick…

Since returning to work my 17-month-old takes a long time to settle in the evening. My son has always slept well and pretty much slept and ate when your routine stated. He is now 17 months old. I have gone back to work and see him in the morning and evening. He will not settle to sleep until 9pm. It’s exhausting and very upsetting for me as I feel very guilty for leaving him to go back to work. His daytime sleep is for 1 hour 15 minutes either in his cot or in his buggy depending on his daily activities. This is at 1-2.15pm. I bath him at 6.15pm…

How can I get my 17month-old daughter to settle alone and sleep better during the night and day? I have many problems with my 17-month-old daughter’s sleep. She is hard to settle. I have to stay with her and hold her hand till she drops off or get into bed with her which usually takes 30-60 minutes. She jumped out of the cot the other day so now is in a bed which I can’t keep her in. This means I can’t go back to controlled crying – she will just get out if I don’t leave her asleep. When she drops off it is usually for about 3 hours…

My 18mth son has suddenly started to be terrified of falling asleep alone. My son has always been good sleeper, never even whimpering when he was put down in his cot. Generally when he wakes, we can hear him playing in his cot (he does not wake up crying) or rustling about until he resettled. He sucks his thumb so has always been able to self soothe. We’ve had occasional periods of early waking in the last few months, but it always sorted itself out in a week or less. He eats well, and drinks milk in the morning and evening. Our problem is that in the last week, he…

At 1 year old my daughter has started to become very difficult to settle into her cot at bedtime. My 1 year old daughter has become a nightmare to settle at bedtime. She used to go down without any fuss at all and slept well for the last couple of months. Over the last 2 weeks she has been getting harder and harder to settle and evenings are now a horrendous battle that I dread. She is very tired as she walks quite a lot during the day (although we do have lots of quiet time to try and avoid exhaustion). She eats very well (all homemade) and sleeps well…