For the past 9 months my 23 month son has needed me to stay with him as he falls asleep. I now want to stop this habit. My 23 month old son has been a CLB since he was 6 weeks old, and would settle himself to sleep at 7 pm from the time he was 12 weeks old. When he was 14mths old we went away for a holiday and he would not settle himself as it was a strange room. To get him to sleep I would lie down quietly on the bed with him until he fell asleep (in about 10 mins). Somehow after the holiday he…

My 18mth old daughter takes up to 2.5hrs to go to sleep at night which is affecting her by day. I really hope you can offer some advice to assist with our daughters getting to sleep at night – whilst she is not crying or distressed I think it is starting to impact her during the day – she is always grizzling and seems tired My daughter is taking up to 2 1/2 hours to go to sleep at night, and this is making her tired during the day. I suspect she is now using her day sleeps to make up for the lost sleep at night because she goes…

My 21mth old son takes along time to settle at night and I need to stay in his room. My 21 month old son has been taking a long time to settle at night. I put him in bed at around 7:45pm, but he doesn’t fall asleep till around 8:30pm. He used to take about 15-20mins to fall asleep now it is taking much longer than that. I have to sit in the room and wait for him to fall asleep before I can leave. During the day he is sleeping for an hour, sometimes a little longer. Should I decrease his daytime nap to 30mins or cut it out…

Since moving to a bed my 21mth old insists we stay in the room until he falls asleep. My 21 month old son has always been happy to go to bed in cot and left to go to sleep on own. He will resettle himself if he wakes in the night and sleeps until 6.30 – 7.30 every day. We have just moved him in to the big bed and new room as I also have a 3 month old still in her swing crib and would her to go in the cot. Relations between children are good. My son loves his new room. If we settle him as normal…

My 16 month son is cuddled to sleep, and now I need to stop. My son, Rahul, is 16 months with no siblings. He was 3.5kgs at birth and is 13.5kgs now. His routine is approximately 7am-8pm. He was breast fed until 5mths. I stopped because he was drinking 10 ounces at each feed and totally exhausting me. He has been on formula milk since then (Similac Advance). He has 6oz (180ml) milk on waking and breakfast at 9/9.30am. Lunch is at 11.30/45am followed by a bath and a nap between 1pm and 2.15/3pm. He will have 4oz (120ml) milk and some fruit by 4pm. If he is still hungry…

1-year-old Jake cannot sleep without a dummy or a drink. I have just read your book given to me by a friend. I feel we have made some major mistakes with Jake’s routine. Jake is now a year old and still does not sleep through the night. That is an understatement – he wakes up to ten times a night. He was weaned at 6 months and went on to soya formula milk which was recommended by his paediatrician. He was introduced slowly onto solids and it went very well. At this stage (6 months) he was waking two to three times a night to feed. He then got sick…

Since returning to work my 17-month-old takes a long time to settle in the evening. My son has always slept well and pretty much slept and ate when your routine stated. He is now 17 months old. I have gone back to work and see him in the morning and evening. He will not settle to sleep until 9pm. It’s exhausting and very upsetting for me as I feel very guilty for leaving him to go back to work. His daytime sleep is for 1 hour 15 minutes either in his cot or in his buggy depending on his daily activities. This is at 1-2.15pm. I bath him at 6.15pm…

How can I get my 17month-old daughter to settle alone and sleep better during the night and day? I have many problems with my 17-month-old daughter’s sleep. She is hard to settle. I have to stay with her and hold her hand till she drops off or get into bed with her which usually takes 30-60 minutes. She jumped out of the cot the other day so now is in a bed which I can’t keep her in. This means I can’t go back to controlled crying – she will just get out if I don’t leave her asleep. When she drops off it is usually for about 3 hours…

My 18mth son has suddenly started to be terrified of falling asleep alone. My son has always been good sleeper, never even whimpering when he was put down in his cot. Generally when he wakes, we can hear him playing in his cot (he does not wake up crying) or rustling about until he resettled. He sucks his thumb so has always been able to self soothe. We’ve had occasional periods of early waking in the last few months, but it always sorted itself out in a week or less. He eats well, and drinks milk in the morning and evening. Our problem is that in the last week, he…

At 1 year old my daughter has started to become very difficult to settle into her cot at bedtime. My 1 year old daughter has become a nightmare to settle at bedtime. She used to go down without any fuss at all and slept well for the last couple of months. Over the last 2 weeks she has been getting harder and harder to settle and evenings are now a horrendous battle that I dread. She is very tired as she walks quite a lot during the day (although we do have lots of quiet time to try and avoid exhaustion). She eats very well (all homemade) and sleeps well…