At six weeks old my daughter is unable to settle at 7pm My daughter is fine during the day, feeding and sleeping according to your routines, but she will not settle at 7pm. We have tried giving her more milk in the evenings, thinking she may be hungry, and we have tried to vary her afternoon nap, but it doesn’t seem to work. She feeds well between 10 and 11pm and will usually sleep through to 6/7am. It is, however, extremely difficult to keep her awake until 9am and she often takes her morning nap between 8.30 and 9.30am. She then sleeps at 11.30am- 2pm and 4.15-4.45pm. When we put…

How do I put twins of 2.5 weeks to bed? I need some advice on how to put twins to bed. Harriet and Evie are just over 2 weeks old and at the moment both sleep in separate Moses baskets in the same room. However, I am not sure if this is the best idea as more often than not, one will disturb the other either by not settling to sleep straight away and disturb the other during the 20 minutes of wind-down crying, or alternatively one will wake earlier than the other and invariably wake the other – which would be fine if they were both due a feed,…

My seven week old won’t settle Please could I have your advice about my 7 week old daughter and sleeping? We have been trying to apply your routines from about two weeks but seem to be struggling to get things established. Though to begin with she would settle if put in her moses basket dozy, she now will not. We have tried all  sorts of shushing, rocking, jiggling etc and when we can get her to settle, she wakes and cries 10 minutes after being settled.  During the day she will sleep in her bouncy chair, and she will also sleep in the car, but the moses basket/dark room means…

My newborn of 3 weeks will not settle to sleep unless being fed or cuddled My baby is only happy if being fed or cuddled. Within minutes of putting him in his bouncy chair or on his play mat he cries and gets progressively hysterical. He is also doing this when being put down for naps or at bedtime. He seems only satisfied if cuddled or fed to sleep. How do you break this pattern and get him to settle on his own? I have started to leave him to cry today but I am not sure how long it is safe to leave him and I worry he may…

How can I get my 6 week old to settle to sleep without being held? Harvey is 6.5 weeks old. He was breast fed for 10 days and is now on formula. Whilst in hospital he was difficult to settle; even the nurses had a problem. He would fall asleep whilst feeding and then only be put down when deeply asleep. Once on the bottle he seemed to settle into a routine, having several naps a day and going down about 9pm. He would then wake at 4am for a feed. But he still needed to be cuddled to sleep. At 4am he would never properly settle, so I began…

How can we get our 4 week old to settle better in the evening? We are having problems settling Charlie in the evenings. He is now 4 weeks old. He will go down sleepy, but within 10 minutes has woken again. We go in and re-swaddle him to settle him again. Sometimes he settles listening to his musical mobile, other times he doesn’t. We persevere and keep going in every 10 minutes, but at times he just doesn’t settle and we are not sure what to do. Should we pick him up or do we offer him a dummy? We don’t want to offer him more food as we are…