My seven-month-old son has begun to wake early in the mornings. How can I change this? My baby has been following the routines since five weeks old. He has been happy and sleeping until 7-7.30am. At five months I pushed the routine back by 30 minutes to fit in with playgroup pick-up at 12noon, which worked well. Over the past few weeks, however, my son has woken up around 6.15am. Ideally I would like him to sleep until 7.30am. Over the last few days, I have tried to drop the afternoon nap and let him sleep later at lunchtime. He has managed to keep going in the afternoon, but has…

Lila (7 months) has started early morning waking since I introduced protein My problem is that Lila is 7 months and waking every morning around 5-6.30am. I have tried various methods, suggested in your book, to try and correct this. I have blackout curtains and have made sure it is completely dark in her room. The early morning waking started around 6 months when I introduced protein (vegetarian). I have been following the CLB routine since she was 2 weeks old. Lila wakes 5-6.30am and I leave her until 7am when she drinks 6oz formula, then has breakfast. If awake early she naps around 9-9.15am until 10am. Around 11.30am she…

Despite everything I do, Luke of 6 months still wakes early My son, Luke, is 6 months old and is my first baby. He weighed 7lbs 4oz at birth and now weighs 17lbs. At present, he gains approx 4/5 ozs per week. I have been following your CLB routines from birth with varying success. My problem is that although Luke settles very well at 7/7.30pm, he wakes at between 6/6.30 every morning, which is too early!! I weaned him at 5 and a half months and so far he’s followed your weaning routines although I started him on the 4 month weaning programme rather than straight in at 5 and…

My 7.5 month old has begun to wake early so is tired in the day My daughter has started waking up at 6am every morning, chatting in her cot until 6.30 and then wanting to get up and start her day. The big problem is that she can only stay awake in the morning a maximum of two hours before needing a sleep. By 8.30 at the latest she is asleep again. I don’t know how long to leave her to sleep so that it doesn’t interfere with her lunchtime nap. Yesterday she woke up at 9.30 and so by 11.30 she wanted to sleep and didn’t want to eat…

My 7 month old always wakes at 6am due to a dirty nappy Since about 6-6 1/2 months my 7 month has been waking early (6am on the dot) due to dirty nappy. I have got into a pattern now of going in, changing his nappy, giving him milk (I tried just water but he wouldn’t go back to sleep) and putting him back to sleep and he goes back down until 7- 7.10 when he wakes by himself, but this is really getting me down. His diet is varied homemade food and his naps are fine as well. I have tried all the suggestions of cutting out fruit in…

My 7-month-old son wakes early every morning and fights daytime sleep I used the CLB book for my daughter from 3mths. She followed the routines after a week and is now a contented 2 year old. My son however is not adapting at all as well. He goes down exhausted at 7pm and falls asleep after about 1 minute of grizzling. He sleeps solidly through till 5:30am. He is then up and awake for the day – although not particularly hungry. I have been delaying his morning feed by ten mins each day until I am not feeding him milk until at least 6:30am. His room is in pitch darkness…

My 7-month-old son wakes at 6am and is tired before 9am On a good night my 7-month-old son wakes between 6am and 6.15am. Consequently there is no way I can keep him up till 9am. I can usually drag it out till 8.45 but then he passes out and sleeps for usually 20-30mins. So he is up by 9.10-9.20am. I have adjusted his lunch to 11.30 to get him into bed by 12 noon as he is exhausted; sometimes he even struggles to eat a good lunch. He is then up at 12:45. I have done everything from controlled crying, going in every 5mins quietly, to the Ferber method plus…