My three week baby doesn’t nap well in morning or afternoon Having followed your routines with my first son and had great success with them, I am not finding it so easy with my second son. I am struggling to get Charlie to nap during the morning and afternoon. He sleeps well at lunchtime and at night. In the morning he wakes between 6-7am and then gets very sleepy from about 8.15am. I try to keep him awake until 8.45 and he goes down all right but wakes again about 9.10am. This then has makes it difficult to keep him awake during the mid-morning for his lunchtime nap. I have…

My 4-week-old baby seems to sleep more in the day than she does at night My 4-week-old daughter seems to have day and night confused. For the first week, we followed the advice in CLB to feed three hourly, thereafter, I attempted to follow the routines. However, I also have a two year old who demands a lot of attention, and I find it unsafe to leave her on her play mat for as often as I like for fear of sibling interference. Consequently, the last few days, she has been asleep almost all day (I tried giving her a bath at lunchtime, so that she was awake at least…

I can’t seem to keep my 6-week-old daughter awake after her feeds I am trying to follow the routines to the letter but finding it difficult to wake her at the suggested times. I am also finding it almost impossible to keep her awake after her bottle. At week 5 she was very alert during these times but the last few days I have had to resort to washing her face several times trying to keep her awake. Do you have any suggestions or ideas as to why this is so difficult? I am unable to wake her at all at 10.30pm and she takes her bottle whilst still asleep.…

Is my 5 week old sleeping too much in the morning and affecting the routine day? My son is now just over five weeks old. We have been following the programme since week 2 and although we are making good process, I still find it impossible to stick to the timings of the routine. He wakes twice in the night, approximately 2.30am and then again at 6am. At 6am we are unable to settle him back to sleep; he has a small feed at 6am and then waits to have a larger feed at 7am. The problem is that he is very sleepy by 8.15am and naps until close to…

My 5-week-old baby is very reluctant to nap in the morning My 5-week-old daughter is a very alert baby. She is not one for being comforted. Independent lady! From the start I have found it difficult to get her to nap in the morning. This is now almost impossible – she will cry for the whole hour while I try to get her down – I go in and soothe her every 5/10mins; I usually do not pick her up. She seems to get into a complete state so that sleep is nigh impossible. I have never known her to cry herself to sleep. She naps OK if I am…

My 5.5-week-old daughter is unable to settle to sleep at all in the morning My daughter is completely unable to settle for naps in the morning or at lunch time. For the first couple of weeks we followed the routines, and she settled at least at some naps, but now she is unable to settle for any, screaming on and off for the entire time. I have read the similar FAQs on your site, and have been taking her to her room at the first sign of tiredness. This is often an hour and a half (maybe less) from when she last woke. I swaddle her, top her up with…

My 7.5 week old daughter is always sleepy in the afternoon My daughter has suddenly been unable to stay awake after the 2pm feed. She is very sleepy all afternoon and I cannot keep her awake after about 3pm. I have tried giving her a cat nap around 3pm for 15mins but this seems to make her even sleepier during the rest of the afternoon. I have cooled her down and cooled the room down but nothing gives! At present she naps from 9-9.45am, 11.50-2.15pm and 3.30-5pm. She settles at 7pm The sleep needs of young babies can vary. Some are able to stay awake for up to 2 hours…

How can I get my 6 week old son more settled and content in the daytime? I used the Contented Baby routines for our first son and within 3 days he was within the routine – it was brilliant. I have now been trying to get out second son into a routine for over two weeks and it is being a nightmare. A typical day is as follows: My son of six weeks will wake in the night anywhere between 3.30am and 6.30am – the time he wakes is not related to either the amount of feed he takes or what time he goes down after his 10.30pm feed. I…

My three week son is really sleepy in the day and so is awake in the night My son is very hard to settle after at least one of his feeds during the night.  The other night he would not go to sleep again after his 10.30pm feed and was up until about 4am which left me with 2 hours sleep as I also have another son of 27mths. I find it very hard to keep him awake during the day, he sleeps so much and I try changing his nappy often but even that doesn’t do the trick. He often falls asleep on the bottle too! I would like…

My son of 5.5weeks is really sleepy all the time so it is difficult to get him onto the routine I am having real problems getting my 5.5week son on the routine. He is sleepy all the time, and will often drop off almost immediately after a bottle, despite having just had a nap. I do make sure he is fully awake before feeding. We have tried everything to keep him awake during the wake period, changing nappies, clothes, play mats etc but he just goes! I am also thinking that he does not take enough feed in one go, normally only 4oz per feed and that this is why…