My 19-month-old son wakes early in the morning and refuses to stay in his cot. My 19-month-old son has always been a great sleeper, but recently he has been waking up between 5:30 and 6:00 am: this is too early for me! He goes to sleep between 7:30 and 8:00pm. I have tried putting him down closer to 8, but it does not seem to make any difference. When he was younger, Sam would wake up and play in his cot, but he now wakes up crying for ‘mama’ or ‘dada’. I have been going in and telling him its still sleep time and lying him back down. He will…

My 17 month old has dropped her morning nap but is now wakes early. Since my 17-month-old daughter has dropped her morning nap, which she was having at 9.30 am for 15 minutes, she has started waking earlier and earlier in the morning despite a good 2 hour sleep at lunch. Everything remains the same as before – I have tried earlier and later and shorter and longer naps at lunch but there is no difference to waking in the morning having moved from 7am to 6am. I have scoured the web site and know the CLB books back to front. I have found a few useful things but in…

Since moving into her own room my 18-month-old daughter is waking very early. My daughter always slept well from 7pm to 6-7am since she was 10 weeks old. We moved house 6 weeks ago and it was all right still. My children now have a room each; since birth my daughter had shared with her brother who is 2 years older. In the beginning there were no problems with separating them. In the past 2 weeks after a teething bout she is now waking at 5-5.30am. On some mornings my daughter will respond to controlled crying after a few minutes. But she doesn’t go back to sleep. She only chatters…

My son wakes early and is tired but resists going back to sleep. My son will be two next month and I am having problems with him not sleeping enough at night. He will only sleep for about 9.5 hours and then wakes up still very tired but we just can’t get him to return to bed. Even as a young baby he never slept for the full 12 hours but would do about 11; he was fine on this though. He is a very good eater and has milk first thing, then a big breakfast, snack, protein lunch, snack and carbs for dinner then milk before bed. He also…

Since the clocks changed back my 23mth daughter is waking early in the mornings. I am very confused as to what to do about the 6/6.30am early morning waking that I am now experiencing. My daughter of 23mths goes down at 7pm settling to sleep straight away and always used to be woken at 7am. Since the clocks went back a month ago she has woken early. I have tried giving her 2 1/4 hours sleep at lunchtime, 1 1/2 hours at lunchtime any times between 12.30pm and 3.15pm. She always has to be woken from this nap. Nothing seems to work to get her to sleep back through to…

Can my 18mth old son still be waking early in the morning due to teething? I had a lot of great help from Gina in the early days and got my son sleeping through the night at 9 weeks. My son is 18 mths and since 9 weeks was sleeping through the night and then later on from 7pm until 8am up until bad teething started last September. At first I couldn’t understand why he was waking in the night and early morning until a tooth appeared. But the tooth would take ages to come through and the sleep disturbance 2-3 weeks. We then had 2 weeks of good sleep…

My 23mth old son had always slept from 7pm to 7.30/8.00am and enjoyed a good lunchtime nap but since the birth of his brother, eight weeks ago, he has begun to wake early. He settles well at 7pm but he is now waking between 5.45am and 6.30am and is ready to get up.   When he wakes he calls out and wakes the baby too. My son eats three good meals a day at the times recommended by The Contented Baby. His lunchtime nap is from 12.30-2.30pm.   Before the arrival of the baby he would sometimes sleep from 12.30-2.30/3pm. There are two main reasons why a toddler of this age should…

My 15-month-old daughter is waking at 5am, but not through hunger. My daughter has started to wake around 5am. I have had a previous problem with her waking early and her reluctance to be left alone at night. Through studying the books and help from other mothers on the site, I cut back on her morning nap, so she was having only 15-20 minutes, and I made sure she was always down by 1pm. After about 4 weeks she began waking nearer 7am, even though her lunchtime nap was usually no more than an hour. I also cut out the afternoon milk, which resulted in her eating better at 5pm.…

My 1-year-old has started early morning waking. Hello. I have a 1 year old who for ages was a 30/45 minute napper. Mostly now in the last month we’ve overcome this and probably 4-5 days a week he has at least 1 nap that is an hour long. He’s not strictly CLB, but he’s happy and smiley most of the time!! He was 8lb 10 when born and is now 26lb something! and is my first. He has 2 milk feeds a day – morning and night of 6 oz each and 3 good sized meals a day. He wakes at 5.30/6am and at 7am has milk (6 oz) –…

We’ve got to stop this early morning waking from my 17 month baby, worse since we moved house. We are desperate after nearly 4 weeks of our 17-month-old boy waking between 4.30am and 5.30am!! Several nights a week he also wakes every few hours slightly unsettled or crying, often settling himself back quickly or allowing us to settle him quickly by saying ‘shhh,’ ‘night night’ or rubbing his head briefly. He has been on Gina’s routines since around the age of 4 months. Our early weeks and months were very difficult with him as he suffered from gastroesophageal reflux. Because of the reflux going undiagnosed for a while, his weight…