How to get your baby to sleep tight

NEW research from Swansea University has found that more than three- quarters of babies aged between six and 12 months still regularly wake at least once in the night, with six out of 10 of them having one or more night-time milk feeds.

But it doesn’t have to be that way, insists Alison Scott-Wright, dubbed the Magic Sleep Fairy by her clients.

The former maternity nurse, author of The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan (Bantam Press), insists all babies can sleep 12 hours through the night – 7pm to 7am – from the age of 12 weeks, and explains that when they don’t, tackling the root cause will solve the problem.