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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Breast Feeding
Is there anything I can do to make breast feeding easier for my 4.5mth daughter? My daughter is very difficult to breastfeed. The problem started at about 8-10 weeks. She takes the first 10 minutes of a breast feed very well. Then it will become difficult .She starts crying and pulling away from breast when offered. If I persevere, she will eventually take the breast and finish feed although the whole process is tiring and time-consuming. Initially I thought that she was full after first 10 minutes. She seemed happy enough but would not settle well for naps and then would be very distressed at 6 pm and cry a…
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Guide to sleep required during the first year
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Feeding FAQ: 4-6 months – Breast Feeding
Is hunger causing my daughter of almost 5mths to be unsettled in the evenings? My daughter is not settling well after her 6pm feed and it is taking my husband and me a long time to settle her. Once settled she wakes up within half an hour and this continues until about 9pm. She then only has about 1 hour sleep before we wake her up for her 10pm feed. We have tried leaving this feed but she wakes around 12.30am. This has been happening now for a week. During the day she is sleeping for about 45mins in the morning, between 1hr & 1.5 hrs at lunch and she…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Other
Thea (5 months) is a brilliant sleeper, as long as it is at home in her cot I follow the routines to the letter. At home we have the perfect child – she is five months old and eats exactly what and when she should, sleeps exactly when and for as long as she should. My problem now is the inflexibility. She will not sleep anywhere but in a moving car/pram (as all babies do) or in her cot in her dark room. I have never used rocking/pushing pram etc to get her to sleep. Once I put her in her cot, I never pick her up again. I put…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Other
My 5-month-old daughter is such a light sleeper My baby is such a light sleeper, it is driving us all mad. Your previous advice (when I was visiting relatives who live on a noisy road) was to have a little background music on which did help. When I have background noise (music or a fan or white noise) Anna will sleep well most of the time, following the correct nap times and sleeps through the night, although some noise will still wake her (cars going past, people talking outside the house, the doorbell etc). But if we try to have her sleep without background noise, it is just impossible, everything…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Other
How do I alter the routines for my 5.5mth old to allow for the time change when the clocks are altered? I simply want advice on how to alter the routines gradually to take into account the time change when daylight savings are introduced. In Australia at the end of October, we lose an hour. Should we simply wake my daughter up an hour earlier or do it gradually over several days. There are several threads on this subject on the members’ boards. As Australia is in reverse to UK you will need to look for the ones about clocks going forward in the spring, which is what happens here.…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Other
My four-month-old baby is following the routines really well, and sleeping through to nearer 7am from his 10pm feed. We are soon to spend our first long weekend away from home with him since he was born, and I am getting very anxious that we will not be able to keep him in such a good routine when staying with friends. Is there anything I can do to ensure that his routine doesn’t go totally wrong? Many babies will follow their routine to the letter regardless of where they are and who they are with, while others can become a bit more unsettled when in a different environment. At four…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Daytime Sleep
My 17 week old twins need two morning naps and then sleep less at lunchtime I have 17 week old twins (11 weeks adjusted). I use the routines with their adjusted date of 11 weeks. The biggest problem is the morning nap is too early and also taken twice. This makes the lunch time nap at completely the wrong time. The only part of the routine that I seem to have got right is the bedtime side of things. I cannot keep the babies awake in the morning past 8:30am latest – I have tried everything. They are so tired that I can be in the middle of playing with…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Daytime Sleep
One of my 5.5mth twins has begun to wake early at the lunchtime nap and seems tired and more clingy through out the day Now that my twins are five and a half months old, their different personalities are really starting to show. My little girl is pretty sanguine about most things and cries very little. She can amuse herself for up to half an hour on her mat or in her chair alone and sleeps well. My boy, though, is getting more and more demanding. He has started waking up from his nap after an hour (despite my gradually almost completely dropping the morning nap) which leaves him grumpy…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Daytime Sleep
My 4.5mth daughter has always needed more sleep than recommended but now is unsettled at naptimes and is waking early for her late feed My daughter has been on the CLB routines since her 7th week of life and taken quite well to them. However, one area of concern has always been her sleep, she always seemed to need more sleep than the routines suggested. Even now at 4 months and 3 weeks old I do not seem to be able to keep her awake for more than 2 hrs at the time. She settles well at all nap times and after the 9:45pm feed provided she has her dummy,…
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Sleeping FAQ: 4-6 Months – Daytime Sleep
My 4 month old daughter had been sleeping from 7pm to 7am but now has started to wake at 6.30am. She is then ready to sleep again at 8.30am which affects the whole day. She has also started to wake in her lunchtime nap despite being offered a top up feed before going down. She still naps for 40 minutes in the afternoon and I wonder if this is the cause of her waking at 3am, although she manages to re- settle herself but then wakes early For the last week she has started to wake several times during her lunchtime nap. I have stayed in the house to try…
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