Is this normal for FF 9 month old?

[~StarBright~]

DD is 9 months old and during the day she hardly touches her bottles, loves her food, but she is lucky to have two bottle during the day, and she never finishes the 240 mls, sometimes if i make them smaller (180) she will have maybe three. She eats a fair bit, toast for breakie, fruit and crackers and sandwichs and drinks water. At night depending how late our dinner is i will feed her jar food or if our dinner co-incides with erh dinner time she will have meat and vege or pasta or whatever we are having.

But then come night time.. she demolishes her last bottle 240mls (at 8-9pm) and then overnight she drinks a whole other 240mls, waking up contantly every few hours and is really unsettled. I dont know if its normal or not, i breast fed DS and he did wake the same i think, but it was so much easier, i would just bring him into bed pull out the boob and we are sweet. Now i am worried about milk going off if she falls asleep before finishing the bottle during the night and then i have to make another one, or can she just sip of the one bottle during the night?? (she has them room temp not warmed up)

Anyway just wondering if this is normal!! And if there are any suggestions to get her more full before she goes to bed so she isnt waking up so much during the night!!!

[grub17]

hi love,
my DS was FF from 7.5 months and he was pretty much the same. Wouldn't really have much milk during the day and seemed to be hanging out for breakfast and not milk in the morning.

So he seemed to make up for it at night. He'd have a bedtime (7pm) bottle (probably about 200ml) and then another about 9.30/10pm (full 240ml) and then he'd have a 2am 240ml bottle. and sometimes a smaller bottle about 5 or 6am. ... he was too busy doing other things! lol!

not sure if that helps at all. We just went with the flo and by 14 months dropped all night feeds except his bedtime bottle and morning bottle (which strangley he's happy to take now) - we did wait til 14 months rather than 12 due to moving interstate.

[BeautifulMadness]

both my boys were FF and from the get go were both big "eaters" my 22mth old still has 300ml bottle for bed....

[courts&munchkins]

My Ds2 was a bit the same. Only small bottles never the biggest one. He still wants a bottle in bed most nights and he has never been a great sleeper. I didn't start leaving the bottles in bed with him till he was older than 12 months. Before that i'd sit up and feed him.

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[Mad Scientist]

I'm not sure it's such a good idea to leave the bottle in bed with her. It can be really bad for their teeth, both the ones that have come through and the ones still under the gum. Is she using the bottle as a comforter? Does she have a dummy? If she doesn't, maybe that would help if she seems to be sipping/sucking on the bottle throughout the night for comfort. Good luck with the night waking. I feel your pain x

[courts&munchkins]

With the teeth thing my ds2 doesn't suck on the bottle all night, he drinks, ditches it and then puts his dummy in. I wouldn't leave it in the bed either if he sucked on it all night.

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[~StarBright~]

Thanks everyone! I dont leave the bottle in there with her, but she will fall asleep before she finishes the one over night and then wakes up again. So i dont know whether to then give her the same bottle or make another one. She does have a dummy, and i will usually try that first, but then i find she will wake up every 10-15 minutes til she gets some bottle. I hate getting her out of the cot though to give it to her, and so sometimes i do hold it for her and stick my hand in the cot, so she isnt gettin out and woken up, coz then she doesnt drink she wants to play!!!!! But i make sure i take the bottle out once she is back asleep and replace it with the dummy.

I think she is teethi ng at the moment too. We had a bad night last night, when ever she is about to get a tooth, she gets a runny nose which she got last night, and wont take her dummy then coz she cant suck on it without having trouble breathing and she hates it when snot runs down the back of her throat!!! lol Poor kid!! So i spent most of the night holding her up right while she slept on my chest.... awwwwwww!!!

Thanks everyone for your help!!

:-)

[Mad Scientist]

Awwww poor her and you! Have you tried an amber teething necklace? I swear by the one we have for DD2. I was very skeptical at first but so desperate. It works a treat. It's not magic but it definitely improves things hugely. Other than that I guess just wait it out and continue the bottles. My DD2 wanted a night bottle from 6 months until 12 months after sleeping through from 9 weeks. Nothing else would calm her so we just went with it. Good luck. These little ones sure can confuse us huh?!

[~StarBright~]

I keep meaning to get a teething necklace, i just never get around to ordering one!!! I think i will have to, as she isnt having much fun with teething!!!

Breast feeding is so much easier, sometimes i guess, they both have advantages and disadvantages.... right now she i slaying on her couch giving herself a bottle, cant do that while breast feeding lol, but night time was so much easier when i breast fed DS!!! Grrrr at my stupid milk for drying up!!!!!!