• Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Early Morning Waking

    Has dropping the 10pm feed led to my 3-month-old waking early? With some persistence, we have succeeded in getting daytime naps more regular and as per 14 week baby recommendation (also a bit longer, as my daughter was previously waking after 45 minutes and not settling herself). We have continued with a 20 minute nap at about 4.30pm and a split feed at 5.15pm/6.15pm as she is invariably very tired at bedtime (she always has had a cry between bath and bottle since very young). She goes down beautifully at 7pm, sometimes a little earlier – up to 15 minutes. However, about 3 weeks ago we cut out the 10.30pm…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Night Waking

    I feel my 11.5 week baby does not need a night feed but she is unable to settle back with out a dummy. What should I do? My 11 and a half week old baby has gone through the night without feeds a couple of times, I had suspected she did not need them for a while as I was only giving a couple of ounces and she was cutting back on her 7am feed. However, she has now started waking in the night again and the only way I seem to be able to resettle her is to give the dummy. I have tried water which does work but…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Night Waking

    Should I introduce solids to get my 15.5 week son through the night? Despite following the routines since birth and despite my son’s good weight, he will not sleep through the night – he has done so only on a handful of occasions, despite me following all the advice in the CLB book. He has between 3-3.5 hrs sleep during the day and settles well for his morning and lunchtime nap. He is still taking a split feed at 5 and 6pm according to the recommendation in the book for a baby who does not sleep through. However he is still waking at 4.00am-ish and some nights at 2.30am, again…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Night Waking

    My 15 week son still seems to need a feed in the night in order to settle, or is this just habit? I know I shouldn’t compare children but I have 4 yr and 21 month old boys who were perfect Gina babies and dropped the night feed by 6 weeks and were 7am-7pm every night by 14 weeks. They seemed to fall into the routines no problem and were exclusively breastfed. My 15 week old son naps alright in the morning but has never slept well at lunchtime. He is always very sleepy when feeding at 11am, so I feed one side change his nappy do the other side…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Night Waking

    One of my identical 16 week old twins is waking more at night and the other twin is unsettled in the evening I have two problems with my 16 week identical twin girls. The first is that twin 1 is waking more and more during the night and does not really settle for a few hours. She generally wakes around 2.30am and will keep waking every 15mins or so until about 5.30am when she will go to sleep (we go to her between 6-8 times). To settle her we resort to a dummy as nothing else works but this does not last long either. I want to avoid the dummy…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Lunchtime Nap

    Should I start sleep training or walking my 8-week-old son for his lunchtime nap? I suffer from an immune disorder which makes me very weak physically; having a second child was a bit of a risk really. I have also just been diagnosed with PND. We have been trying the routine but are having such problems with the lunch-time nap as our 8-week-old wakes after 45 minutes. Our first child, was a “catnapper” and very unhappy as a baby; I am desperate for this not to be the case for our new baby. I have been reading the advice on the website and in the book but am at a…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Lunchtime Nap

    My three month daughter wakes after an hour at lunchtime and sometimes after going down at 7pm. What should I do? My daughter is waking approximately one hour after going down for her lunchtime nap. She also sometimes wakes after going down at 7pm. She screams for about 20-40 minutes before going back down to sleep. She will sometimes fully sleep but sometimes it is just fretful catnaps. I would like to get her past this as I am sure that it is affecting her quality as well as quantity of sleep. She is generally a very contented baby, eating well and sleeping most nights through from 10.30pm. She is…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Lunchtime Nap

    I have been trying to resettle my 13 week daughter after 45minutes at lunchtime, but with no success Everything with the routine is going fantastically apart from the lunchtime nap for my 13 week old baby. I follow the routines to the minute almost, every day and have tried all the strategies including a top up feed before noon, ensuring she is tucked in well, clean nappy etc, but every day she wakes between 35 – 45 minutes after noon. I have been using the crying down method and this works really well at the start of her sleeps – within usually a minute she is quiet now. But at…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 3-4 Months – Lunchtime Nap

    My 3 mth daughter wakes after 45 minutes and will not settle back to sleep again. Having tried different ways to get her back to sleep I don’t know what to do for the best My 3 mth daughter will sleep for 45 minutes at lunchtime then wake and not settle again. She has a couple of times but I had not done anything differently so there are no clues there for me. I have tried leaving her and going in every so often, usually every 20 minutes to reassure her with my voice. It will take up to 50 minutes but sometimes she will settle back to sleep. The…

  • Sleeping FAQ: 8-12 Weeks – Other

    My three-month-old daughter is feeding every two hours and I need some sleep! My three-month-old daughter has never followed a routine, but now I have realised that I have to establish a routine if I am to maintain any sanity and get some sleep! She feeds approximately every two hours and obviously isn’t drinking enough each time to keep her going for four hours. During the night, this is becoming a serious problem as I am suffering from major sleep deprivation. I have tried the routine suggested for her age group but after the 10.30pm feed she is still getting up at 2am, 4am etc… During the day, however, she…