My 15-month-old daughter is waking at 5am, but not through hunger. My daughter has started to wake around 5am. I have had a previous problem with her waking early and her reluctance to be left alone at night. Through studying the books and help from other mothers on the site, I cut back on her morning nap, so she was having only 15-20 minutes, and I made sure she was always down by 1pm. After about 4 weeks she began waking nearer 7am, even though her lunchtime nap was usually no more than an hour. I also cut out the afternoon milk, which resulted in her eating better at 5pm.…

My 1-year-old has started early morning waking. Hello. I have a 1 year old who for ages was a 30/45 minute napper. Mostly now in the last month we’ve overcome this and probably 4-5 days a week he has at least 1 nap that is an hour long. He’s not strictly CLB, but he’s happy and smiley most of the time!! He was 8lb 10 when born and is now 26lb something! and is my first. He has 2 milk feeds a day – morning and night of 6 oz each and 3 good sized meals a day. He wakes at 5.30/6am and at 7am has milk (6 oz) –…

We’ve got to stop this early morning waking from my 17 month baby, worse since we moved house. We are desperate after nearly 4 weeks of our 17-month-old boy waking between 4.30am and 5.30am!! Several nights a week he also wakes every few hours slightly unsettled or crying, often settling himself back quickly or allowing us to settle him quickly by saying ‘shhh,’ ‘night night’ or rubbing his head briefly. He has been on Gina’s routines since around the age of 4 months. Our early weeks and months were very difficult with him as he suffered from gastroesophageal reflux. Because of the reflux going undiagnosed for a while, his weight…

My 15-month-old son wakes early and wants to have a long lunchtime nap. Help! My little boy is 15 months old and has been a contented little baby since he was born, following the routines more or less. He usually wakes at 6am (which my husband likes as he gets to see him before he leaves for work), has a lunchtime nap at 1pm for 2 or 2 and a half hours then goes to bed happily at 7pm. However, he has always had a tendency to early morning waking and the past couple of weeks have seen him waking up nearer to 5am and wanting to get up. We…

What can I do to get my 14 month old to wake later and sleep less in the day? For the past month and a half I have become stuck in a cycle of early morning waking, which I suspect is down to too much day time sleep but I can’t seem to resolve the issue. My daughter is now 14 months old and previous to the early morning wakening she was managing to get through quite a few mornings without a nap and sleeping well until 7am or longer. She then went through a spell of needing the morning nap again and then started waking at 6.30am and then…

My 17-month-old daughter wakes early in the morning and cries. My daughter is not a big sleeper in the day, but at night she usually slept from 7pm-7am. About 6-7 months ago she started to wake up from her daytime naps crying, then she started crying in the morning too. Up until then she would wake and happily talk and play in her cot until I went to her. Now she is crying before she is even properly awake. If I leave her she gets hysterical. Then about 5 months ago she started waking earlier, sometimes as early as 5-5.30am. We had already changed her to one nap a day,…

Since we returned from a time zone 4 hours ahead my 13 mth daughter has been waking early in the morning. We have just returned from Dubai which is 4 hours ahead of the UK time wise. Before this holiday my 13mth old daughter was sleeping from 7pm to 7 or 8am every morning without waking in the night. Since we have returned (3 days now), she has been struggling to stay awake until 7pm and has been waking at around 4am seeming to be hungry. I have been giving her milk and breakfast and then putting her back to bed again at about 6 for another hour and half…