Where should my 7 month baby spend his daytime sleep? I have a seven-month-old son who has gone into his own room to sleep. It’s not going at all well…! Once an hour he starts crying, so I go in and give him a dummy. If that doesn’t work, I give him a bottle feed while he’s still in the cot. Then, if he still cries, I pick him up, comfort him and breastfeed him, which does the trick in the end. But he keeps waking, some times as soon as I’ve put him sound asleep from my arms into the cot. He has routine day sleeps although I use…

My 7.5-month-old has started to cut back on her daytime sleep My daughter has recently started cutting back on her daytime naps and is having about 30 minutes from 9am and an hour from about 12.15. She settles well each time and goes to sleep quickly. There is no reason for her waking that I can see: i.e. no dirty nappy or noise etc. She now has no established afternoon nap although may doze in car or pram at this time. She still sleeps well from 7pm to 7am. There has been no change in her routine but I need her to sleep longer particularly at lunchtime. I have tried…

17 week old Joe’s daytime sleep is very poor – he cannot settle for more than 45 mins My son Joe is 17 weeks old and has problems sleeping. I could not get him to sleep from day one. He would be awake for hours then eventually drop off from sheer exhaustion then be impossible to wake up for a feed. He fed little and often and I was informed he had colic as he cried all the time. I later discovered he had a lactose intolerance which is now resolving itself. I bought your book when Joe was about 4 weeks old but it took weeks before I managed…

How can I get my five-month-old son to sleep better in the daytime? My son feeds well and sleeps at night time, but during the day he has great difficulty sleeping. Some days he won’t sleep at all, other days he will, but not at the times recommended. He gets very irritable from 5.30pm until bedtime, but then settles fine and will usually sleep until 7am. He also seems to want a lot of attention during the day and won’t play for long on his own. I would be grateful for advice on how to improve his daytime sleep and how to stop him being unsettled before bed. At present…

At almost 5mths my son still seems to need a lot of daytime sleep I have been trying to follow CLB since Luke was born. He still finds it hard to stay awake as long as he should. As a newborn I wasn’t concerned by his excessive sleepiness, but as he is now almost 5 months I thought things would be better by now. For the last few months he has slept through the night. We feed him at 10pm but try not too wake him too much for this, as he can be impossible to settle again. He is lifted from his cot and takes 5-7ozs without waking fully.…

My five-month-old gets tired in the afternoon despite sleeping well at naptimes My five-month-old son sleeps really well between 9.00-9.30am and between 12.15-2.15pm, but gets really cross and tired every afternoon around 3.30-4.00pm. It is very difficult to do anything with him. Do you have any advice? As your son is only sleeping 2.5 hours in the day and showing signs of tiredness in the afternoon, let him have a short catnap. Some babies of this age do still need 15 minutes to help them through bath and bedtime without becoming overtired. Use this time to take him for a walk and let him have a short sleep in his…