• Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Early Morning Waking

    My 10mth son is waking early in the morning and will only go back to sleep if I offer him a feed My son is now just over 10 months old. We introduced the CLB routine when he was 3 months and it worked beautifully for us, and has done until recently. Since he was 8 or 9 months old, he’s been waking early, and it seems to be getting earlier and earlier. He was consistently sleeping until 7am until that point. I have ruled out every possible cause of the early waking – his room is blacked out completely, he gets plenty to eat and eats according to the…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Early Morning Waking

    One of my 10.5mth twins has begun to wake early in the morning and disturb his brother My 10.5mth twins were born at 34 weeks. We have attempted to put them on the CLB routine – bearing in mind their prematurity – but have adjusted it from 6am to 6pm to fit in with the time my husband gets up to go to work. One twin is consistently waking between 4am and 5.30am. Which is obviously too early for any of us and it wakes his twin brother. He has always woken earlier than we would have chosen but used to get to 5.30am regularly, now it is nearer 4.30am.…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Early Morning Waking

    What can I do to get my 9.2 month old waking nearer to 7am again? My 9.2-month-old daughter has been sleeping 7pm to 7 or 7.30am since she was 10 weeks old. Just recently though she started waking at 6.30am and now she is waking every morning at 6am which is making her very tired in the mornings, until she’s had her early nap. I don’t usually pick her up until 7am or so and then I give her breakfast straightaway. Can you suggest anything that could help with the early morning waking? At present she naps 8.30-9.15am, 12.30-2.00pm and 3-3.45pm. Early morning waking can start to become a problem…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Early Morning Waking

    My son of 10 months had been waking at 5-5.30am, troubled with a persistent cough which has now been treated with antibiotics and an inhaler. He now wakes at 6.30am but does not seem hungry. How do I get him back to sleeping to 7am? My son of 10 months had been waking at 5-5.30am, troubled with a persistent cough which has now been treated with antibiotics and an inhaler. He now wakes at 6.30am but does not seem hungry.  How do I get him back to sleeping until 7am? He is not yet crawling and hates being on his tummy. He does enjoy time in his walker or walking…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Night Waking

    My 11mth son has begun to wake in the night and wants to play and needs milk before settling again My 11-month-old son has slept through since I began the routine when he was 2 months old. He has always seemed very happy in the routine. However since last week he has been waking up at night and wants to play. He will not go to sleep until I give him some milk and on some days even this doesn’t work. I have increased his solid intake and have cut down his daytime sleep to 10 minutes in the morning and 1 1/2 hours at lunch but this still has…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Night Waking

    Since our return from the States my 9.5mth son has started to wake every evening and needs help to resettle himself We have just returned from a holiday to the US (Florida) and we are now having big problems with my 9.5mth son sleeping between about 8pm and 11pm. He was a very good sleeper before, going through or occasionally waking at 5am for water. Whilst on holiday he slept well also but we have been home a week now and do not know how to solve this problem. All his day naps are now back to normal but when we put him to bed after his usual night time…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Night Waking

    My 10mth son wakes at night on the days when home with me and now has begun to wake earlier in the mornings My son has been a CLB since starting the routine, slept through from 10pm feed at 9 weeks and dropped the 10pm feed at 16 weeks, and continually slept 7pm till 7am. We obviously struggled with the lunchtime sleep but solved that and never had any sleep issues either day time or night time until around 8 months old. We started to experience the occasional night waking maybe once a week and so when he woke we gave a milk feed after leaving him for around 30-45…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Night Waking

    My 10 1/2 month old son is waking early since he started crawling My son who is now 10 ½ months old has started to wake up early since he began crawling, which was about 8 weeks ago. He wakes at 5:10am and starts chatting to himself, but then becomes very noisy. I have to give him his bottle by 6.30am. I don’t think he is waking through hunger since he eats well in the day. I have tried to follow the advice given to parents with similar problems of early morning waking however the situation has not improved. I don’t really know what else I can do. I have…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 9-12 Months – Lunchtime Nap

    Since staying with relatives my 9-month-old son has begun to wake in his lunchtime nap One month ago I went to Italy to my parents’ house; my son had no problems in setting for his naps but at the lunchtime nap he began to wake up crying loudly after 1 hour or max 1 hour and 30 minutes (before he was sleeping for 2 hours and he woke up very happy and singing). I made sure of the fact that he was not hungry, thirsty or uncomfortable. I thought perhaps that some new sounds could be upsetting him but he woke up also when there was no sound at all.…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Other

    How do I keep my two 8 month boys in their routine when I emigrate to Australia? I am immigrating to Australia at the end of the month. The time in Perth will be seven hours ahead of GMT. Harry, eight months, and Oliver, nearly three, are both in CLB routines. We leave the UK at 12.15pm and will arrive in Perth at 2pm the next day. How do I move them on to Perth time and how long might this take? Do I gradually move the routines forward by seven hours, or should I do it in one go? I have followed the routines since birth and don’t want…