Should I start sleep training or walking my 8-week-old son for his lunchtime nap? I suffer from an immune disorder which makes me very weak physically; having a second child was a bit of a risk really. I have also just been diagnosed with PND. We have been trying the routine but are having such […]
Continue ReadingHow can I get my 9-week-old daughter to sleep better at lunchtime? I have been having the ever popular problem of the lunchtime nap. At 9 weeks old my daughter hasn’t had the full sleep now for 2 weeks and is becoming a very unhappy baby as a result. For the first week I kept […]
Continue ReadingDespite trying your advice for a week, my 10 week daughter still only sleeps for 45 minutes I wrote to you last week about my lunchtime nap problem and many thanks for your reply. I have been trying what you suggested but unfortunately without success. I have tried leaving my daughter for 10-20 minutes, sometimes […]
Continue ReadingMy 9.5-week-old daughter’s lunchtime nap is now disturbed by nursery runs Since my 3-year-old son has been back at nursery, the midday nap for my daughter has gone wrong. He has to be collected at 12.30 so I have to leave at 12.15. My daughter is tired at 12.00 so I put her to sleep […]
Continue ReadingHow do I adjust the routines to fit a newborn of 10 days in with two school age children? I have 2 older boys aged 7 and 4.5. I have a couple of problems: firstly the morning school run which coincides with nap time. At the moment Dad is doing this, as he is a […]
Continue ReadingMy 7 week old is very hard to wake and feed properly at 10pm My 7-week-old daughter is still fed with a split feed at 5pm and 6.15pm and then sleeps from 6.30pm until we wake her at 10.30pm. This is a major challenge, she absolutely does not wake up naturally and is often extremely […]
Continue ReadingI have just begun to use the routines with my 7 week old son who is bottle fed. Is it possible to keep to different sleep times providing we don’t keep him up longer than 2hours? I have looked at your book after being recommended it by a friend. Lots of it seems to be […]
Continue ReadingMy 5 week son is very sleepy through out the day but unsettled in the evenings My son is a very sleepy baby; he is 5 weeks old and around 11lb. We start the day at 7am with a 5oz feed he then falls asleep at around 8am to 8.15am and will sleep to 10am. […]
Continue ReadingAt 7 weeks my son will not sleep for longer than 10-15minutes at 4-5pm and so gets exhausted by bath time My 7 week son follows the 4-6wks quite well but I’m having trouble getting him to sleep for more than 10-15mins between 4pm-5pm. This then makes him very ‘ratty’ and tired up to his […]
Continue ReadingHow do we get our 7 week old to settle himself in the night? My son goes to bed well at 7pm then needs to be woken for his 10.30pm feed. We keep him awake for 45-60mins when he will take about 3ozs from a 4oz bottle. He never takes any feed once the lights […]
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