Help needed! My Ds has never slept through the night. He eats constantly throughout the day and large amounts too so I am confident he is not hungry.
I went back to work full time when he was 4 mths and he moved from breast to day bottles and night feeds and then at 6 mths day and night bottles. He goes to bed at 7 each evening with no trouble but from 10/11 each night will wake nearly every two hours. I believe it is for comfort as he doesn't wake fully unless I put a bottle in his mouth. I don't get him out of the cot but just put the bottle in his hands and he feeds himself until he has had enough and then drops it.
It is due to laziness and having to get up to work that I do this as otherwise I have to listen to him until he wakes which makes it very hard to get him back to sleep.
Does anyone have any advice/guidance on how I can break him of this habit and how will I maintain the habit when he is teething as he obviously wakes in pain and wants the comfort of the bottle.
Finally, he drinks from cups during the day and doesn't appear to have a dependancy on bottles. I've tried watering down the formula but he knows this and wakes which then means an hour of getting him back to sleep. All advice welcome. Do I just need to be tougher?
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14 mth old won't sleep through night.
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PeteandArtie · 31/03/2003 14:19
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