Thank you SO much Mel. Now I have a plan! I will definitely give that a go in a couple of weeks!
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Thank you SO much Mel. Now I have a plan! I will definitely give that a go in a couple of weeks!
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LOL! I would have started this thread this morning if I had time. Glad to feel I'm not alonme with night wakings. Hope it works out for you!
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Thanks CL. I'll let you know when I get the courage up to do it! LOL. It is nice to know I'm not the only one
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soooo glad i found this thread yah yah!!Ive got exactly the same thing happening!My DD is 14 months and still looooves her bottle!Some days she will not wake like sleep from 7pm till 7am then other times she will wake at 5.30 (only once a night)and sometimes she will wake at 2.30 and everythime she just wants a botle and will go straight back to sleep,i was worried it was a comfort thing too but she doesnt do it all the time like only sometimes and so i thought it cant be becasue shes the same she will drink the full 240mls.the diluting sounds awesome!!!i will try it.she also was sleeping through from 7 weeks and then started waking for this bottle thing.
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ok, so last night i gave dd her usual 150ml feed and deducted 2 scoops. she stayed asleep 4 more hours (woke at 1). DP's alarm is ****ting me to tears going off 5am. DD is so alert.
Thinking continue deducting 2 scoops for another week then deduct 3 following week etc...
now DD has dropped to 1 nap a day she's dropped a bottle!
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Nice one CL. Hope it keeps working! Thanks for the update. It's nice to know I'm not the only one and that it's pretty normal.
Hope it works for you pj. It's so confusing isn't it!?
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This is an awful age for poor sleeping. There is so much going on in their little brains, I don't think they ever really switch off.
There is a good article on gentle night weaning here Changing The Sleep Pattern In The Family Bed Jay Gordon, MD FAAP if you feel like you just don't want to be up with her at night and you don't think she needs the nutrition from the bottle. I have been using it with Tom, and it is really beginning to work. He slept for two four hour stretches last night, which is really good for him.
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Uh honey - do you mean that you are diluting the formula? Cos it says on the tin that you aren't supposed to differ from the formula and water ratio - it can make bubs sick. I'd say make up less formula and then if still thirsty, give a sippy cup of water instead - but I would never give less scoops to water, simply because what it says on the tin
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I don't see how it could. DD is getting 630mls of formula a day and 3 nutritious meals plus snacks of fruit/crackers. It's definately not the fact she's hugry because her tummy is still VERY FULL from dinner when she's demanding the bottle. The bottle in the middle of a night is really just comfort and only started just after we moved.Uh honey - do you mean that you are diluting the formula? Cos it says on the tin that you aren't supposed to differ from the formula and water ratio - it can make bubs sick. I'd say make up less formula and then if still thirsty, give a sippy cup of water instead - but I would never give less scoops to water, simply because what it says on the tin
In reality it is only like giving her a 90 ml bottle followed by 60 mls water I feel anyway and she genearlly will have 90-100 mls water in one sitting anyway.
Apologies for the frank tone. Not meaning to shoot down your theory by sounding harsh just trying to write while DP's attempt at cooking is asking me to show him how stuff's done
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