Sleeping FAQ: 6-9 months
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Lunchtime Nap
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My 7-month son, who weighs 8.5kgs, sleeps in his cot for all his naps. But sometimes he refuses to settle for his lunchtime nap unless given a dummy, and I always have to give him a dummy for the late afternoon nap. I am unable to drop, as he gets very tired by then, due to him still waking at 5am for a feed. How long can I expect to him to go on waking for a feed at 5am, and how do I get him to settle for naps without the dummy?
He sometimes fights going down at lunchtime and is only given a dummy if he has not settled after 30 minutes.
He settles at 9am for a nap of 45minutes, but how do I get him to stay awake past 9am?
Feeding details
5.00am: 7ozs formula
7.00am: 8ozs formula, followed by 3 tbsp porridge and pear
10.30am: 5ozs formula, followed by 3 tablespoons chicken/salmon/lamb with vegetables, 1tbsp natural yoghurt, few sips of water
2.30pm: 8ozs formula
5.00pm: 2ozs formula followed by 3 tablespoons baby rice mixed with vegetables
6.30pm: 6ozs formula
Total daily intake: 36ozs formula
My son naps at 9-9.45am, 12-2.00pm and 4.15-5.pm. He settles at 7pm.
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Lunch time naps have always been a problem with my son. He loves his morning nap and will sleep for 1 1/2 hours then if allowed but we try to keep to the one hour to avoid compounding the problem at lunchtime.
He was sleeping at lunch but not without much protest first and several visits from me. I had learned to live with this routine however the past few days he really has started screaming and getting very agitated keeping it up until 2pm when I give up and give him his 2.30pm milk.
It is then far easier to get him to nap after the milk and I decide a late nap is better than no nap. I don't think hunger is the cause as he eats a good lunch at 12 noon.
I am wondering if I should cut back on his 1 hour nap at 10am to try and sort out the lunchtime nap battles?
He feeds at 7am 4/5oz formula, 3tablespoons porridge, sometimes banana. 12pm 3 cubes: 1 meat and 2 vegetable, a petit filous or fruit puree pot and watered fruit juice. 2.30pm 5ozs formula, 5.30pm 3 cubes: 1 meat, 2 vegetable with a petit filous or fruit puree, watered fruit juice. 6.30pm 9ozs formula. He weighs around 19lbs.
My son naps at 8.45-10am, 12.45-2pm and is settled by 7pm. He wakes around 6.30am.
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I seem to be surrounded or read about people's babies who take long naps. I can count on both hands the number of times my 61/2-month-old daughter has ever done a stretch of sleep longer than 45 minutes at lunchtime. I can't remember when she last slept for 2 hours. Rarely she sleeps for 1 hour and 20 minutes. I used to leave her crying and sometimes she resettled herself at lunchtime but she's changed and in just 1 month seems so much older and wakeful. She sleeps all night 7.15pm to 7.15am and at every nap time and bedtime she screams constantly until she finally falls asleep. She doesn't have any wrong sleep associations (never has had): no dummy, cuddling, she is not hungry or thirsty, she sleeps in a dark quiet room, she has a light show and wind down time - you know the drill!
She's naturally cut her morning nap to 30 minutes (she naps at 9.30), at lunchtime she will only do 30/45 minutes and whereas she used to need another nap at 4pm of 20 minutes she now stays awake until 4:30/4:45 which is so on top of her dinner at 5pm (not to mention the end of the day). If, on those rare occasions, she has a lunchtime nap of 1 1/2 hours, she can make it till bedtime. At lunchtime she won't nap until at least 1pm. She fights at every nap. She a big girl and has been crawling for weeks now and is very inquisitive which I thought would wear her out.
The older she is getting, the more worried I'm getting as I can see her last nap coming past 5pm and she won't be able to make it to bedtime without it (or won't want to sleep either). (I also have a 3-year-old so sometimes her naps are out). Is there anything I can do to tweak her routines?
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My son is 8 months old and sleeps at 9.30am until 10.15am, from 12.30pm till 2.30pm and the full 12 hours at night from 7am-7pm. However, due to other commitments, I need to move his lunchtime nap to 1pm. I was thinking that I could let him sleep from about 1.15pm to about 2.45pm, giving him about 1.5 hours and maintaining the morning sleep as is. Can you please advise me if this is the right thing to do? Will he be able to go from 10.15pm till 1pm comfortably?
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Night Waking
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My baby is 7 months old and, despite introducing solids at 6 months and feeding him at 10pm, he still continues to wake up twice in the night and refuses to settle back to sleep unless I breast feed him. He weighs nearly 17 pounds and is exclusively breastfed. He settles well at all his other sleep times, so I know it is not a sleep association problem. I have been advised that a baby of his age should not need feeding in the night and that I should sleep train him to stop him waking up for night feeds.
We did try leaving him to cry a couple of times but he just worked himself up into such a hysterical state that it took a good couple of hours to calm him down again.
He breastfeeds during the day at 7am, 10.30am, 2.30pm, 6.15pm, 10pm and then around 2am and 5am in the night. We offer him solids at 8am, 11.30am and again at 5pm. He rarely takes more than a tablespoonful at a time and gets very upset if we try to urge him to take more. In addition he refuses any food that contains protein, which is very worrying.
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My daughter has been ill with a virus and for last 3 weeks taken to waking again between 10/12pm and not settling. While poorly - coughing etc- I found she would only settle on my chest and spent several nights with her asleep on me or able to slide her next to me. Then I tried leaving her to cry it out which on the first night went well. It took her less than an hour to settle at 1am and she slept until 7am. But last night she was still going after 2 hours! Before this illness she was sleeping through and taking milk well. I didn't really feel that solids were that well established. My daughter had just started on protein but this illness has knocked her eating for six. She will sometimes take few mouthfuls at breakfast, lunch and tea. Other times she purses her lips. I have gone back to stage one of weaning and reintroduced milk at 11am feed. She is not finishing all her milk feeds as before. She seems to like finger foods though , she does have a 2 year old sister to watch eat. I feel at sea again as far as eating and sleeping going and think must be some link. I have taken on some advice from message boards but getting confused and anxious. My daughter does seem to arch back and get uncomfortable / even distressed after some meals. I have tried yoghourt but she seems to prefer warmer food.
At present she is taking 8ozs of formula at 7am, 8am, a few spoonfuls of porridge and fruit puree. 11.30am 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable puree if she takes anything followed by 4ozs milk, 2.30pm 4-6ozs, 5pm few spoons of vegetable puree, nibbles at soft vegetable finger food or toast, fruit puree. 6pm 6ozs of milk, [offered 8ozs].
My daughter naps at 9-9.30am, 12.30-2.30pm and 4.45-5pm. She is settled by 7pm.
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I need to break my son's habit of night time waking. We found that offering him a drink of very diluted juice would usually settle him when he woke once at 3/4am but now he is waking at midnight, 3am then 6am and rarely going back to sleep after 6am. I am going to change the juice to just water but I fear that will not solve the problem as it is already very weak so I doubt he'll notice the difference.
I suspect babies do not need to drink anything at night but we adults do often wake for a drink of water, so would babies not need something too?
My son is also not a very good eater particularly of meat and I believe he has intolerance to cheese as he always seems to vomit after a cheese meal so we have re-introduced the 10.30pm feed to try and keep him full overnight but it has not made much of a difference to his night time waking.
Prior to re-introducing the late feed we had a few nights where he would wake around 1am and get very distressed, we found 3 oz of milk did the trick hence we started up the late feed again.
My sons feeds at 7am, 5ozs followed by 10 teaspoons porridge with 1/2 banana. Lunch at 12. 1/2 to 1cube of protein [i.e. chicken, fish or pork casserole], 1 cube swede/potato/parsnip and one cube of vegetable. He will only take a very smooth puree or he gags and vomits it all back. This is followed by 1 yoghurt or fruit puree and 1 biscuit. 2.30pm 4ozs. Tea is the same as lunch, as much savory as he will take but usually 1/2-1cube of protienwith another 1-2cubes of carbohydrate and vegetable/ I add a teaspoon of Greek yoghurt to make it more palatable. Fruit puree with custard. 6.30pm 8ozs. 10.20pm 3ozs. He weighs 19lbs 6ozs.
My son sleeps from 8.45-9.34am and 12.30-2pm. He settles at 7pm.
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My daughter was pretty ok with sleeping and feeding, despite a few problems with bottle feeding and she is still not really interested in her milk. Now that she has started solids it all seems to have fallen apart. The lunchtime nap only works 50% of the time but that is not may major concern. She has started to wake several times in the night. I don’t have to go into her as she usually half cries or moans for about 20 minutes at a time before resettling herself. I don’t know why she is doing this. First of all I thought it was possibly hunger so I did try feeding her in the night but she refused. As she often refuses bottles at her feed times I am still not sure if it is hunger or not. I wondered if she was getting uncomfortable in the night as she is doing a lot of rolling around and usually ends up on her tummy. I can’t decide if she prefers to sleep in her front or when she rolls over she is uncomfortable and can’t get back which is why she is waking so much. She is not good at taking solids and I am concerned that she is not taking enough but she never seems hungry!
At present my daughter takes 7ozs formula at 7.15am. She has breakfast at 7.30am. This is a few mouthfuls of porridge and fruit but she is not really that interested. At 11.30am she has her lunch. This is 4 cubes of chicken casserole or chicken and vegetable gratin. It is a big struggle to get her to take this. She has a few sips of water with her meal and then is offered a 3oz top up before her nap at 12.30pm. 2.35pm, 3.5ozs formula. 5pm 2 cubes of a vegetarian meal from the Weaning Book. She is never hungry for this and it is a real struggle. Water is offered with this meal. 6.40pm 7ozs of formula, also a struggle. 10pm, 2ozs of formula. I would really like to drop this feed but worried she is not having enough milk in the day. My daughter weighs 17lbs.
She naps at 9.15-9.35am and 12.30-2,30pm. She is settled by 7pm.
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My daughter of 7 months has been sleeping through the night from an early age, which has been great up until now. We went on a short holiday where her routine went a bit out of the window. Due to the fact we were out most of the day, her nap times were taken in a push chair and she tended to go to sleep later in the evenings.
Since our return she seemed to get back into her routine at first other than the fact she found it very difficult to go down to sleep during the day. Previous to our holiday she had had no trouble at all. Then the waking at night occurred. She usually falls asleep on her 6.30pm feed [without finishing it] and goes straight to bed. She will then wake at various times. It can be 2.30, 3.30 or 5.00am. My daughter finds it difficult to go back to sleep again. I sometimes take her into bed with me but this does not settle her.
Since she falls asleep on her 6.30pm feed I try giving her the rest at 10.30pm. She goes back to sleep after this but still wakes later in the night. I have thought I have not been giving her enough solids, but if I increase them she does not take all her milk. She has never been a good feeder and I always have trouble giving her the suggested amounts.
With her daytime naps I have now taken to going out in the car in the morning so she falls asleep for the first nap. She then goes the 2 hours at lunchtime. Sometimes she does not have a morning nap and struggles to keep awake for her lunch. But I can’t always do this and she is starting at nursery for 2 days a week soon. I am worried about how she is going to sleep then.
She already has two teeth and I have been giving her teething granules for this which seems to help. But could this be the cause of her restlessness at night? The sleeping times given are very approximate as her day and night time sleeping is very random.
My daughter feeds at 7.30am 100-180mls. She will refuse most of this feed and I try an hour later. She takes 2-3 tablespoons of cereal/pureed fruit or similar at breakfast. Lunch is at 11.45am and consists of 3 tablespoons of protein food, mixed with vegetables and fruit yoghurt. She takes 1-2ozs diluted juice with this meal. 3pm, 150-180mls milk. Tea at 5pm is a rice or pasta dish of 2-3table spoons and 2 baby rice cakes. She drinks diluted juice with this meal. 6.30pm 210mls of milk which she usually does not finished [see above].
She naps at 9.30-9.45am and 12.30-2pm. She settles at 6.45pm.
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Early Morning Waking
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My daughter, age seven and half months, has begun to wake up earlier and earlier. This last week it has been around 5.30am every morning. I have tried leaving her to cry, but she works herself up into such a state that it wakes my toddler up. She eats really well and sleeps well for an hour between 9am and 10am and two hours from 12 noon. She used to go to bed at 7pm but since the early-morning waking I am having to put her down around 6.30pm as she is so tired. With a toddler of eighteen months I am struggling to cope with such an early start.
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My baby boy, who is just over six and a half months, used to sleep through from 7.30pm to 7am, with naps at 9am, noon, and a short nap at 4.30pm. During the last couple of weeks he has started waking up earlier, and despite the introduction of solids at lunch and teatime, he is waking regularly at 5.45am. We tried reintroducing a small feed at 10pm, but he is in such a deep sleep he took only an ounce or so. We have also tried leaving him to see if he will settle back to sleep, but he just cries on and off until we eventually go to him. Should his bedtime be later, or should I be looking to reduce his daytime naps? He weighs just over 18lbs, and he is drinking four 7/8oz feeds a day.
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My daughter of nearly seven months used to sleep 7pm-7am. But now she has begun to wake at 6am chatting loudly. I have followed the CLB routines and read advice on the site about pushing on daytime naps. She settles within five minutes of going down at 7pm.
If I cut the morning nap to less than 40 minutes, my daughter becomes very grumpy until her lunchtime nap, which can then be disturbed. She no longer takes an afternoon nap.
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My 7month old son has recently started to wake between 4am and 6.15am. Having read all the advice I understand I need to offer him a feed and get him back to sleep. This I do but if he wakes after 5.30am he will not go back to sleep after having a feed. Should I wait for 15 minutes to see if he will settle himself before I offer him a feed at this time in the morning or go straight in and feed him?
I have moved his daytime naps forward and try to give him a small breastfeed at 2.30pm so he will eat a good tea.
Feeding details
4.00am: 20 minute breast feed from one side
7.00am: 20 minutes on second breast
8.00am: 6 teaspoons baby muesli mixed with milk
10.00am: few sips of water, 6 teaspoons apple puree
12.10pm: 6 tablespoons Tuna pasta/ Lamb casserole/mince and lentils, 150mls water
2.45pm: 15 minute breast feed from one side
4.00pm: few sips of water
4.45pm: 6 tablespoons potato and leek soup, toast fingers/ pasta with cheese sauce and selection of vegetables, small drink of water
6.10pm: Breast feed from both breasts for 15 minutes
Daily milk total: 2 and half breast feeds
Weight: 18lbs 7ozs
My son naps at 9.40-10am and12.45-2.45pm. He settles at 6.45pm.
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My baby aged nearly seven months has been happily following your routine, since Christmas. Since starting nursery 5 weeks ago his daytime sleep has become very erratic. Some days he sleeps for a total of 2.5 hours, others for only 1 hour. On non-nursery days, his daytime sleep is fine, but he always naps in the late afternoon. He used to wake at 5.30 - 6.00am, chatter for 20 minutes and then go back to sleep, but now he cannot do this. He invariably has a dirty nappy, and if I go in and change him he is full of smiles ready to start the day. I also have a 4 year old, and a 5am wake is too early! My baby’s room is fully blacked out.
Feeding details
7.30am: 8ozs formula, 2 dessertspoons Ready Brek.
11.30am: 6 cubes chicken casserole/ fish based recipe, 3 cubes fruit puree mixed with rice, water.
2.30pm: 5ozs formula
4.30pm: 6 cubes vegetables such as potato, leek and pea, 3 cubes of fruit mixed with rice, water.
6.15pm: 8ozs formula
My son naps at 8.50-10am, 12-2.00pm and 5- 5.20pm. He settles at 6.50pm.
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Settling/Sleep Associations
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My baby son, aged 7 months, is following the CLB routines really well and is sleeping and feeding at the recommended times, but he is still crying down for 5-10 minutes before each sleep. We have tried introducing some books at bedtime and a lullaby light, but these just seemed to make him more excitable. As yet, my husband and I have not had a night out together, as we are reluctant to leave him with a babysitter. My mother has offered to babysit but has made it clear that she will not leave him to cry for more than a few minutes. Do you think that the crying down will start to reduce in the near future or is this something that could go on for months, and are there any other rituals that I could introduce to help reduce the crying down ?
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How do I get my six-month old son used to sleeping in a cot in his own room? He cries the minute that I put him in his cot, and it can take up to an hour to settle him to sleep. He then wakes up crying within 45 minutes to an hour. I go to him, almost immediately, and start first of all by putting his dummy in. If this doesn't work I then offer him a bottle of milk. If this doesn't work I usually resort to picking him up and rocking him to sleep. However, he will wake up again quite soon and sometimes as soon as I put him back in his cot despite him seeming deep asleep in my arms!! Where am I going wrong?
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Until about a week ago my 6.5month daughter slept through the night from about 6:45pm through to 6:30am. She has always needed to be put to sleep and finds it very difficult to resettle herself. This is not through the want of trying. Now she goes down at about 7pm and then wakes up 2-3 hours later screaming, we go in to check on her, reassure her and she goes to sleep again, this then repeats every two hours all night until about 6:30am when she wakes to start the day, she is bright eyed and all ready to go, you wouldn't think that she has been awake half the night. I have tried milk feeds, cooled water, adjusting sleeping positions etc. But now am finding it very difficult to cope with doing day to day activities due to my lack of sleep. Is there any reason why she might be waking so frequently? What can we do?
My daughter feeds at 6.30am 8ozs formula, 7am 2tbsp porridge with fruit puree, fingers of toast.
11.30am, 2-3tbsp protein savoury, petit filous or fruit. 3ozs water from beaker
2.30pm, 3-4ozs formula.
5pm, 2tbsp carbohydrate such as couscous, rice, pasta or potatoes, rice cakes/fruit chunks depending on hunger.
6.30pm 7-8ozs formula
She naps at 9.15-9.45am, 12/30-1pm, 2-2.30pm and 4.30-4.45pm. She settles at 6.45pm.
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My baby who is almost 7 months has been following the routines for 3 weeks. I have almost got him doing the day time routines, but have tried bathing him at 5 30 pm and bottle at 6pm but he still falls asleep before he has taken half of his feed. I therefore have to wake him to finish his bottle. Then he is awake so when I try to put him down in his cot and he then screams until 9pm. Occasionally I have given in and rocked him to sleep. Sometimes he has fallen asleep crying. I have tried controlled crying but he gets worse if I walk out the room. I have also tried bathing him later at about 6 30pm but he still falls asleep and I have to wake him. As a baby he would always go to sleep on his bottle and I would put him down with no problems. I recently had him diagnosed with silent reflux and during that time I had him in bed with me as he was not drinking enough so would wake him at 10pm to feed him. Now he wants me all the time.
My son feeds at 7am 4ozs, he sometimes only takes fruit at breakfast as he does not like cereal. 8am 20z or the rest of his bottle. 11am 4-5ozs milk, followed by chicken casserole, two small yoghurts. 3pm 4-5ozs, sometimes 6-7ozs. 5pm vegetable variations followed by yoghurt and fruit. 6pm 7ozs.
My son naps at 9-9.45am and 1-3pm.
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6-9 months Settling/Sleeping Associations Archived FAQs
Daytime Sleep
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My twins are 7.5 months old now and they are sleeping until 7am with only 90 ml at 10 pm which I will decrease to 60 ml and drop all together in the next couple of weeks. We're following the routine for 6-9 months. They eat different varieties of vegetables, fruits, cereal and protein. They still have milk at 7.15am, 11.45am, 2.45 pm, 6.30 pm and around 90 ml at 10 pm.
My question is about the timings of the routine. I'd like them to wake up around 7.30am. In your books and FAQs you mention simply moving forward by 15-30 minutes. Is it really that simple or are there some details that I should be aware of? The last thing I want is to disturb their feeding and sleeping patterns, so I will be really careful about this.
If they wake up at 7.30, should our day look like the following:
7.30 awake
7.45am - milk and breakfast
9.30-10.15am - nap
12.15pm - lunch
13pm-15pm - nap
3.15pm - milk
4.45pm-water or juice
5.30 pm- tea
6.30pm-bath
7pm - milk
then going to bed probably around 7.15-7.30
Do you think this is going to work? Any other suggestions?
I also have two more questions;
1-How long should the bath time take?
2-In the book you say, after they finish their milk at 6.30, they should be sitting their chairs when mothers are tidying up and also lights dimmed, where should this be happening? In their bedroom, kitchen, living room? If in the bedroom, dimming the lights no problem but I don't keep the highchair in their room. If somewhere else, then am I suppose the dim the lights in the living room or kitchen? I am confused about what to do and where to do it after last milk and before going to bed? And it is very important for me to do the right thing because this will affect their behavior at bedtime.
I know other mothers from message boards also confused about this.
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I am not sure when to drop my 7.5mth son’s afternoon nap. We have to start our day at 6.15 for work and nursery and he sleeps well through out the day and night going from 7pm to 6.15 am. His lunch time nap varies from 1 and a half hours to 2 hours sleep, but he is still having his afternoon nap at 4/415 for 30 minutes. I can keep him awake but he becomes more miserable in the evening. Having the nap doesn't affect his night sleep but as he's 7 and a half months should I be cutting it out? Due to the time I finish work on a few days he has to have his bed time at 7pm rather than earlier. I'm very happy with the routine at the moment as it suits us all but should I be cutting it out or are we ok continuing until he feels he doesn't want it anymore? I am aware it is a longer day for him.
My son naps at 9-9.30am, 12.15-2.15pm and 4.15-4.45pm.
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My daughter is now 8 months old and I am wondering if I need to re-structure her day-time sleep. She wakes between 7/7.30am and has breakfast and then I try to put her down for a nap at 9.30am but for the last week she has chattered/whined for half an hour before eventually falling asleep at 10 for 30 minutes. I'm not sure whether to leave her or not put her down at all or just put her down at 10am. Her lunch time nap is very hit and miss. I put her down between 12.30/1pm; she sometimes has difficulty settling off as she sits herself up; she sleeps usually 1/1.5hours, occasionally 2 hours. Her average daily sleep very rarely goes above 1.5/2 hours. So far there have been no problems at night except the odd 6.30am waking or difficulty settling her off at 7/7.30pm. She is a really lovely, active baby who is just starting to crawl and pull herself up and is very curious about life. Even if she doesn't sleep that much in the day she is rarely irritable. Could it be that she doesn't need that much sleep in the day as her total sleep averages usually 13.5 hours?
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I have been fairly successful with the CLB routines so far. The only problem I have at the moment is that my son is very awkward at taking his 2.30pm feed and at nearly 8 months I thought that it is either his teeth bothering him or that he is simply ready to drop this feed. Today and a day last week I was forced to alter the routine to take my son to eczema clinic. It has been two of the best days we have had recently. It went as follows:
7.00am: Woke, drank 5 oz milk mixed further 2 oz with 4 tbsp of Ready Brek
9.15-11.15 am: Nap
11.50am: Lunch - Lamb Hotpot & Sweet Pot & Yogurt
2.00pm: Drank full 7oz formula (unable to get him to drink this feed for last 3 weeks)
2.15 - 3.00pm: Nap
5.00pm: Tea Red Lentil Savoury & Yogurt & Water
6.00pm: Bath
6.30 pm: 8oz formula & bed
I do understand that the sleeping routine is geared towards helping them when they are older, as the next nap they drop is the morning nap but would they not naturally increase their afternoon sleep? I am having to wake him at 3.00pm as I am aware that he needs no longer than 3 hours but I know that he would sleep longer, leading me to believe that it would be best to extend and bring forward his afternoon nap nap when his morning nap is dropped.
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6-9 months Daytime Sleep Archived FAQs
Other
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My 8.5mth daughter has learnt to roll onto her front but she cannot get back again and so wakes up several times a night screamingMy 8.5mth daughter seems to be waking through the night because she has learnt to turn onto her stomach. But she hates this position and then screams as she can't turn back over. This happened 8 times last night. What can I do about it?
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We live in a two bedroom flat. My son of 2.5yrs sleeps from 7.30pm to 7.30am. My 7mth daughter goes to bed by 7pm. I wake her at 10pm for a feed and she wakes at 6.30am. Both of then are in separate rooms while my husband and I sleep in the living room. Is there any way fro a baby and toddler to share a room together so we can have our room back? My son is still sleeping in a cot.
My daughter was weaned at 6mths 2weeks and takes a breast feed at 6.30am. She takes formula at 11am 170mls, 2pm 140mls, 5.30pm 170mls and 10pm 170mls. She takes water and three teaspoons of baby oats mixed with milk at breakfast. Lunch is 2 cubes of carrot and potato puree and 3tspps baby rice mixed with 20mls milk. At tea she takes 3 cubes of pear puree and 3-4tsp of baby rice mixed with 20mls milk.
My daughter naps at 9-9.45am, 12-1.45pm and 4-4.30pm.
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I have a question about travelling with babies and how to adjust the routine with time differences. We have just returned from a trip to France and booked an evening flight which seemed to work as my 7mth slept on and off all the way home, but the time difference was only 1 hour so it was easy to adjust. However, we are planning to go to New York at Christmas and she will be 10 months then. Again we have booked an evening flight which departs at 6pm and arrives at 9pm local time. How would you recommend that I get her into North American time on that first day?
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I am immigrating to Australia at the end of the month. The time in Perth will be seven hours ahead of GMT. Harry, eight months, and Oliver, nearly three, are both in CLB routines. We leave the UK at 12.15pm and will arrive in Perth at 2pm the next day. How do I move them on to Perth time and how long might this take? Do I gradually move the routines forward by seven hours, or should I do it in one go? I have followed the routines since birth and don't want anything to go wrong now.
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