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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Early Morning Waking
My son of almost 5mths has been waking and sometimes screaming between 5 and 5.30am for the past month For the past month my son who is almost 5mths wakes up between 5 and 5.30am.Most of the time he cries for a few minutes and goes back to sleep. Sometimes he will scream for about 30minutes. He will then wake up again around 6.15-6.40pm and yells on and off until we go in at 7am. I am pretty sure that it is not hunger as he stops crying the minute I go in at 7am to turn the light on. Also I sometimes have a struggle to get him to…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Night Waking
My 5mth son has begun to wake three or four times in the night but will settle with his dummy. What can I do? My son who is 5mths has just started to wake 3/4 times in the early hours. I am a single mum and am finding it difficult to cope without the sleep I have now become accustomed to! I know he is getting enough milk as a dummy seems to settle him and this is the first time since 12 weeks that he has decided to awaken. I seem to now be in a vicious circle as he awakens to find his dummy and although I am…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Night Waking
My 4.5mth daughter is still waking several times in the night, needing her dummy to settle. How can I improve her sleeping? My daughter of 4.5mths is waking constantly at night. Her daytime naps are also a bit weird (wakes at lunch, won’t resettle), I guess the problem is one and the same, but it’s the night we really can’t cope with! She goes down well at 7-7.30pm and I wake her at 10-10.30pm. She’s hard to keep awake at first so I feed her a little sleepy then she wakes up afterwards, usually going down at 11.15/11.30pm quite well. She drinks an 8 oz at the 10pm feed, more…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Night Waking
My 4mth daughter, who is fully breast fed, recently started to wake in the night, even since weaning she has continued to do so My 4mth daughter has been the best advertisement for the Contented Baby book there is. She has been sleeping through from 11pm to 7pm since she was 6 weeks old. We have followed the plan religiously and she is a very happy baby who never ever cries. However, 2 weeks ago she started waking up at 6am. Then around 4 days later she woke at 4am and then again at 6am. For the last 4 nights she has been waking up at 2am, 4am and then…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Night Waking
Since traveling I have been unable to get my 4mth son back onto a routine. He is waking hungry twice in the night My 4 month old son is struggling to sleep through from the last feed at 10 – 10:30pm until 6 -7 am. We started him on the routines at 4 – 7 weeks quite successfully – he really responded well. But at 7 week we traveled to Australia from the UK, and for the next 6 weeks it was incredibly difficult to stick to the routines. For a start, it took him 10 days to swop day and night around, it was extremely hot, and nobody supported…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Lunchtime Nap
What else can I do with my 4mth son who often wakes after 45mins at lunchtime? My son sleeps well at all other times and manages 10.30pm until 7am. He does wake but settles himself back easily. He cries at lunchtime after 45mins. Some days he does resettle, some days he doesn’t but will cry until he’s due to get up. It doesn’t affect the rest of our day or night if he only sleeps 45mins but I am keen to get him to sleep longer at lunchtime. In the other letters it talks about retraining and I have done controlled crying with him but he continues to cry until…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Lunchtime Nap
My 4mth daughter always wakes after the first 30 minutes of her lunchtime nap and then is slow to settle back again For the last two weeks we have had great problems with lunchtime nap. My daughter wakes up after exactly 30 minutes and can stay awake for 1.5 hours before falling back to sleep. She has always had her lunchtime nap in the carrycot when we are out for walks. I have tried to be in quiet places after the first 25 minutes of sleep, but have also tried more noisy places, either way she wakes up after 30 minutes. She never cries, only opens her eyes and is…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Lunchtime Nap
My 5.5mth son has never slept well at lunchtime. He is now waking up after 20-25minutes My son has never slept well at the lunchtime nap and is now waking up after 20-25 mins and screaming. Nothing will get him back to sleep. It is driving me utterly insane. I have tried everything in the books and case studies. It is now affecting my whole day and I have come to dread lunchtimes. It is also affecting my older child who misses out on having any time at all with me on our own during the day. We used to at least sit down to lunch together but now don’t…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Lunchtime Nap
Despite trying with controlled crying for over a week I cannot get my 6mth son to settle when he stirs in the lunch time nap My son will not sleep at lunch time. He goes off at 12.00 and wakes 30 minutes later and will not go back to sleep. I have been trying now for about 10 days doing the controlled crying method and it does not seem to be working. Sometimes he will go for one hour before waking and then will cry until it is time to get up. I have read all the case studies etc but I cannot seem to work out what the problem…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Other
13-week-old Charlie’s sleeping has gone wrong – is it jetlag? Hi. Firstly can I say I think your book is brilliant. We have used it from day one on our baby and swear by it and have recommended it to many friends. We are living in Switzerland and have recently been back to NZ for a month. Charlie, our 13-week-old baby, slotted in very well to his routine after about a day in NZ but on our return he he has started waking in the night – we are thinking maybe due to jetlag. He had started sleeping through from 11pm-7am just before we left Switzerland when he was about…
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