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Sounds like my first LO – but luckily I new one other breastfeeding Mother on her 3rd LO around the time I had my first and my LO was similar. – six weeks-ish started still feeding LO to sleep started getting her in the cot for around five-ish hours. Rest of night she ended up [...]

Hey, you’re new! I love new people, welcome. You may want to subscribe to Baby-Log via RSS feed or via email. Thanks for visiting! I shared my white-noise experiment (hair dryer as sleeping aid) with other mothers in the mums group and raised some eyebrows. A couple of mums agreed that we should use “whatever [...]

How Long Should Baby Sleep? “How long should baby sleep?” is one of those evergreen questions. Most parents realize that sleeping like a baby doesn’t mean what most people usually take it to mean. Babies need a lot of sleep; however, it takes time before they can sleep through the night. The amount of sleep [...]

Your baby’s sleep patters definitely don’t match up with yours. Because of this, many new parents wonder exactly how much sleep their baby should be getting. In the early weeks after birth, your baby will seem to sleep any time that you’re not sleeping, waking up just as you drift off to sleep. Fortunately, that [...]

“This is the most novel, natural, and easy approach to helping your infant achieve heathy sleep habits.” Mairav Cohen-Zion, Ph.D., Laboratory for Sleep and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego I’ve told so many people about the difference the 90 minute schedule made in our lives. It was such a maddening and insane time. [...]

Many parents ask about how long a baby should sleep, as most already know, they need a lot of sleep because they will be less tired, and the parents will also get more rest, which is very important. The older the baby gets, the more he/she will sleep. Many babies will not even sleep through [...]

Do you wind her mid-feed at night? My youngest (of 3) did this sometimes, during the night. She seemed to manage to hold onto one last pop of chest wind, after she released this she settled down. It only seemed to appear after she’d gone back to bed. I would suggest that you move her [...]

Dr. Su Laurent: There is one thing which I say to all mums which is unrealistic to expect your child skip through the night, if you can’t cop with them having them cry, for at least a short spell, when you put them down sometimes and also when they wake up in the middle of [...]

My son is now 8 months old. Until 3 months old I fed him every 3 hours as he would wake up crying as hungry. Also he sometimes cried bcs of stomach pain (crying even when held and refusing to feed), need to burp or too cold. He had a dummy since birth, going to [...]

A family currently going through controlled sleeping and are unconvinced. We are having problems settling our baby in his cot. He is 10 months old, cries and wails when we try to settle him. He is a breastfed baby and we initially used a moses basket at the side of the main bed after he [...]