Hmm.. we do baby led solids, so I don't actually "shovel" anything into her mouth. I dunno how I'm gonna get her to eat more if she doesn't actually want to eat it. She's a good eater and I don't want to make bad habits and make her a bad eater like her brother - who eats NOTHING - because I "shovelled" it in when he was her age. I know what you are saying, but I don't think I can let myself do that to another child of mine.
Sami - I think she pretty much drinks all of a 250ml bottle if she has it overnight... so obviously she needs it. She used to have it when she was heaps younger, and then she dropped it, and now its started up again.
ETA - chicky - yeah we have a cd going in her room all through the night, same as what is on in our room, and aricyn's room. We all have the same music and it never ends.. supposed to promote good sleeping brain waves... pffft...
Mel, our DD was a 'happy' waker at your DD's age as well. And she would come into bed with us (doubly so because we took the sides off the cot as I HATED getting up in the middle of winter when it was cold!). We had to get 'tough' with her (haha) and enforce that she was very welcome in our bed, but it was not playtime. I had no troubles giving her a drink (in bed with us usually) once I night-weaned her at about 17 mths, but bed time is not party time. She was told very firmly that she needed to lie down and have snuggles, or back to her own bed. I did have to take her back a couple of times, but she got the idea relatively quickly (with a surprisingly small amount of noise!). I kinda felt it was a compromise between allowing her to cosleep and still actually getting the sleep part of that equation!
Don't know if that helps, but that was our experience.
and really shovel it inDoes it make sense?
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