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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Other
3-month growth spurt My son is 13 weeks old. He was 8lb 1 at birth and at 12 weeks was 15lb 5oz. He is breastfed. I am having problems with his sleeping both at lunchtime and in the night. I feed him at 7am, 10.15/30am, 2.15/30pm, a split feed at 5.15pm and 6.15pm and then again at 10pm. He feeds well at all times (even 10pm if we try particularly hard) and cries to be fed at 10.15am and 5.15pm so I have not been able to push the feeds to 11am and after the bath. At night his waking is inconsistent but he generally wakes up between 3am-5am and…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Other
How can I prevent my son of 14 weeks from waking himself by banging against the cot? My son is 14-weeks-old. Since he was six weeks old he has slept in his cot. Following the CLB advice I put him in a 0.5tog sleeping bag which I secured under the mattress. I used a thin cotton sheet and cellular blanket over him secured with two rolled towels down the sides. All was well for about six weeks but he has now started to move diagonally up the cot and bang his head on the side. He sometimes wakes 3 times in the night. It could be because he has banged…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Daytime Sleep
My 9-week-old can only stay awake for an hour at a time Gina’s routine works well for my 9-week-old son. At night he is taking 4oz after his bath and falling asleep by 7pm, waking at 10.30pm for another 4oz. He then he goes until 4/5/6am (it varies at the moment). We start the days at 7am but my problem is that he falls asleep without exception about an hour after the first feed starts, similarly this happens after the 10am feed, so his naps are always early and this throws everything else out of sync, and we never make it to 2pm for the next feed as he is…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Daytime Sleep
At 3 months my daughter is being disturbed in the day by the household noise My husband is away on business for 6 weeks, so I have come to stay with my parents. My home is in the countryside and it is very quiet outside. My daughter has become used to sleeping in a quiet environment. Our home is very soundproof and if I knew there was going to be some noise outside I would switch on some white noise in her room so her sleep was not disturbed. Now we are staying with my parents who live on a road with cars and lorries frequently going past. There are…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Daytime Sleep
How can adjust my 15 week daughter’s daytime nap times so she sleeps longer in the middle of the day? My 15 week daughter is very small for her age and more sleepy than most. She gets very angry if I try to shorten her morning nap as she likes to have her two and a half hour sleep in the morning. She suffers food allergies and eczema so never really gets a good nights sleep. She wants to feed up to 3 times in the night for comfort due to the itching. Due to her allergies we won’t start her on solids until as late as possible and we’re…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Daytime Sleep
My son of 3 months will only nap in his bouncy chair during the day. If left to settle in his cot he becomes hysterical. His naps last no longer than 30 minutes. He settles easily in his cot at 7pm and sleeps through the night from his late feed to 6.30am. My son of 3 months will only nap in his bouncy chair during the day. If left to settle in his cot he becomes hysterical. His naps last no longer than 30 minutes. He settles easily in his cot at 7pm and sleeps through the night from his late feed to 6.30am. His room has blackout blinds so…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
I am new to the routines and am trying to get my 11 week daughter to settle better without a dummy I would like to know a little more about crying down. I have successfully used controlled crying techniques with my older son, when he was a year, but it is recommended by Dr Ferber that these are only used on babies over 5 to 6 months. I have been struggling with my 11 week old daughter for 11 weeks now! She was very colicky (I think), fretful anyway all evening and wouldn’t settle until at least midnight, until very recently, when I think she was no longer in pain…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
Is allowing my 3.5-month-old son to use a dummy better or worse than thumb sucking? My son of 3.5-months-old has developed dummy addiction as he was, and still is, a very sucky baby and is now waking in the night several times. I have read your case study on Harry and feel this is very appropriate but my query is about dummy versus thumb. My son will now put his thumb in his mouth if his dummy isn’t in and I am wondering if I go cold turkey with the dummy, will thumb sucking will replace the dummy and become a worse long term problem? Everyone I have asked says:…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
My daughter who is just 3 months old seems to be trying to get out of her swaddle but does not sleep well when her arms are out My daughter who is just 3 mths has from quite early gone to sleep easily at 7pm, is woken at 10pm for a feed and wakes up once in the night around 4-5am, though on occasion has gone through to 7:15 am or around 6am. I would love to drop the night feed, but suspect it is from habit and maybe not getting enough milk during the day. She is a very efficient feeder, feeding for only 10 -15 minutes at a…
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Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Early Morning Waking
My 15-week-old son has begun to wake early and not settle as he used to My son has been waking up at 5am for the past 3 mornings, after waking at around 7am most mornings before that, for about 2.5 weeks. In the case where he did wake up before 7am, I could always get him back to sleep by either leaving him to cry for a few minutes or giving him a dummy or red bush tea/water. No matter what I tried these past 3 mornings, I could not manage to settle him back to sleep after he woke up at 5am; I left him to cry to 6am,…
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