11 month old still not sleeping through the night

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Help. We have two little boys and live in a 2 bed roomed house. Currently our 11 month old is in with us and we want to move both boys into the same room. However we can't do that as the little one still wakes up for a feed, then wakes up really early. I don't want to interrupt the oldest sleep.

I give the baby a bottle at 7pm and he takes about 3 oz, then a feed around 11pm and he has 6 oz. Then he wakes at 3.30am and has 5 oz and then is up at 6am. He won't take a bigger bottle at 11, we have tried and he is hungry when he wakes up between 3am and 4.

I have just gone back to work full time and it will kill me if he keeps this pattern up much longer, but I am at a loss as he drinks a lot at both the late night sittings. Any advice?

no advice i'm afraid, but am in the same situation with a 10mth old, pretty much the same sleep pattern, but not hungry when she wakes. i feel your pain!

Nope, DD is also 11mo and has the same sleep pattern.

Gradually reduce the amount you give him overnight - by making up 1oz smaller bottles each night. Offer more milk or food during the day and take it gradually (one to two weeks). Once you have cut the nighttime milk offer water and/or some gentle reassurance while he is still in his cot.
I did this with my dd - it took one week to cut the nighttime milk and another couple of weeks before she started sleeping through more often than not.
Good luck.

Sorry you are all going through the same. Didn't realise how good I had it with my first baby. I had no idea babies didn't sleep through by this age!

And thanks Eroutdoors - I will try it.

I used to give my 10mth old porridge at bedtime and she slept through immediately.Was able to wean her off it by a year I think.

Hi can't help on the feeds as my 8m is still on similar pattern most of the time. My older one was the same, although at around 12m I put my partner in charge of nights and stopped feeding during the night, he sorted it in about a week of sleeping in with him, I wouldn't have done CC but there wasn't too much crying as he would just hold him to settle him back.

On the bedrooms though, I put the baby in with his brotherlast month (at 7m old, and brother is 3 and a half). The thing is, they don't really wake each other despite baby waking usually at about 11 and 3. His brother is out for the count in the evenings. If baby is noisy in early morning I will take him out and into our room so as not to wake the other one, but at least we get the evening and most f the night on our own!

Worth a try, you can always move him back. And I love to put them to bed together with stories and see them sleeping peacefully together! I think it is lvoely for them to share.