Hi Emma,

1. She is still coughing, but a lot less and isn’t feverish or unwell otherwise with it.

– She wakes up 7-7.30, is awake for 2-2.5 hours.

– Nap 1: 9-9:30. Options:

-Rarely, if we go earlier – wake window we might be able to put her down awake, but she will only sleep on her own for half an hour, and it will take 20+ minutes to fall…

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Hi Emma,

Could I send an update? Now our baby is 5 months old and we are still struggling. She was teething for a while and then had a cough, which has been waking her up. As a result, we have been doing a lot more contact napping to get her enough total sleep, but there has been a knock on to both day and night sleep.

Since we last spoke,…

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I realised I could edit my last post!

Hi Emma,

Something has just clicked over the last week or so and it now feels easier to settle our baby.  We have had some success with the settling pyramid and teaching her to fall asleep in the cot. 

Wriggly babies
I wondered if you had any tips about older babies who are no longer swaddled. Our little one is very active and rubs her face/waves…

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Hi Emma,

We are struggling through the 4-month sleep regression and are running out of ways to settle our little one. She is 16 weeks and has not been doing very well with napping since about 12 weeks. Up until 15 weeks she was still sleeping well through the night (only waking up once or twice with a 6-8 hour long stretch), but now she is…

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Has anyone tried a Zed crib rocker? Could this help link sleep cycles? Would a baby then need it on all the time?