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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Night Waking
Baby, age 7 months – Waking twice a night My baby is 7 months old and, despite introducing solids at 6 months and feeding him at 10pm, he still continues to wake up twice in the night and refuses to settle back to sleep unless I breast feed him. He weighs nearly 17 pounds and is exclusively breastfed. He settles well at all his other sleep times, so I know it is not a sleep association problem. I have been advised that a baby of his age should not need feeding in the night and that I should sleep train him to stop him waking up for night feeds. We…
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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Lunchtime Nap
Can I move my 8.5-month-old son’s lunchtime nap onto 1pm? My son is 8 months old and sleeps at 9.30am until 10.15am, from 12.30pm till 2.30pm and the full 12 hours at night from 7am-7pm. However, due to other commitments, I need to move his lunchtime nap to 1pm. I was thinking that I could let him sleep from about 1.15pm to about 2.45pm, giving him about 1.5 hours and maintaining the morning sleep as is. Can you please advise me if this is the right thing to do? Will he be able to go from 10.15pm till 1pm comfortably? It is impossible to say how your son will be…
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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Lunchtime Nap
How can I get my 6.5-month-old daughter to nap for longer and settle better? I seem to be surrounded or read about people’s babies who take long naps. I can count on both hands the number of times my 61/2-month-old daughter has ever done a stretch of sleep longer than 45 minutes at lunchtime. I can’t remember when she last slept for 2 hours. Rarely she sleeps for 1 hour and 20 minutes. I used to leave her crying and sometimes she resettled herself at lunchtime but she’s changed and in just 1 month seems so much older and wakeful. She sleeps all night 7.15pm to 7.15am and at every…
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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Lunchtime Nap
My 6.5mth son is unable to settle himself back at his lunchtime nap anymore Lunch time naps have always been a problem with my son. He loves his morning nap and will sleep for 1 1/2 hours then if allowed but we try to keep to the one hour to avoid compounding the problem at lunchtime. He was sleeping at lunch but not without much protest first and several visits from me. I had learned to live with this routine however the past few days he really has started screaming and getting very agitated keeping it up until 2pm when I give up and give him his 2.30pm milk. It…
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Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 Months – Lunchtime Nap
My 7-month son, who weighs 8.5kgs, sleeps in his cot for all his naps. But sometimes he refuses to settle for his lunchtime nap unless given a dummy, and I always have to give him a dummy for the late afternoon nap. I am unable to drop this nap as he gets very tired by then, due to him still waking at 5am for a feed. My 7-month son, who weighs 8.5kgs, sleeps in his cot for all his naps. But sometimes he refuses to settle for his lunchtime nap unless given a dummy, and I always have to give him a dummy for the late afternoon nap. I am…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Other
Thea (5 months) is a brilliant sleeper, as long as it is at home in her cot I follow the routines to the letter. At home we have the perfect child – she is five months old and eats exactly what and when she should, sleeps exactly when and for as long as she should. My problem now is the inflexibility. She will not sleep anywhere but in a moving car/pram (as all babies do) or in her cot in her dark room. I have never used rocking/pushing pram etc to get her to sleep. Once I put her in her cot, I never pick her up again. I put…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Other
My 5-month-old daughter is such a light sleeper My baby is such a light sleeper, it is driving us all mad. Your previous advice (when I was visiting relatives who live on a noisy road) was to have a little background music on which did help. When I have background noise (music or a fan or white noise) Anna will sleep well most of the time, following the correct nap times and sleeps through the night, although some noise will still wake her (cars going past, people talking outside the house, the doorbell etc). But if we try to have her sleep without background noise, it is just impossible, everything…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Other
How do I alter the routines for my 5.5mth old to allow for the time change when the clocks are altered? I simply want advice on how to alter the routines gradually to take into account the time change when daylight savings are introduced. In Australia at the end of October, we lose an hour. Should we simply wake my daughter up an hour earlier or do it gradually over several days. There are several threads on this subject on the members’ boards. As Australia is in reverse to UK you will need to look for the ones about clocks going forward in the spring, which is what happens here.…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Other
My four-month-old baby is following the routines really well, and sleeping through to nearer 7am from his 10pm feed. We are soon to spend our first long weekend away from home with him since he was born, and I am getting very anxious that we will not be able to keep him in such a good routine when staying with friends. Is there anything I can do to ensure that his routine doesn’t go totally wrong? Many babies will follow their routine to the letter regardless of where they are and who they are with, while others can become a bit more unsettled when in a different environment. At four…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Daytime Sleep
My 17 week old twins need two morning naps and then sleep less at lunchtime I have 17 week old twins (11 weeks adjusted). I use the routines with their adjusted date of 11 weeks. The biggest problem is the morning nap is too early and also taken twice. This makes the lunch time nap at completely the wrong time. The only part of the routine that I seem to have got right is the bedtime side of things. I cannot keep the babies awake in the morning past 8:30am latest – I have tried everything. They are so tired that I can be in the middle of playing with…
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