11 month old still not sleeping through

[rosandcharsmummy]

My little girl is nearly a year old, and has only slept through the night a handful of times. She wakes for a bottle, and then if I am luck she will go back to sleep maybe even for a couple of hours, if i'm not she stays awake! She goes to bed about 7, and can wake up anytime between 11 & 5. Most nights she goes though until 1 or 2. We have tried keeping her up to see if that makes a difference, but it doesn't. When I get up with her I don't switch on any lights, & I don't talk to her. I can't leave her to cry as much as I want to as I have a 4 year old daughter, and she wakes up if I leave the baby to cry for to long, also my husband works 12 hour days so he needs his sleep as well. Any help/suggestions gratefully received

No Cry Sleep Solution book by Elizabeth Pantley.

My 1yo DS is more or less sleeping through - or at least is only up once and resettled easily (unless he has a cold or a new tooth breaking) and it's all thanks to that book. Our library had it - and a waiting list for it so can't just be me that thinks it's good!

one of my toddlers used to wake up at least once a night, stand up, loose his dummy then hang over the side of the cot 1/2 asleep moaning/shouting for us to sort him out. we just did what you do, keep it to a minimum and he stopped at 12months.

i now have a 9month old who has decided he can't sleep without a full, full stomach of milk so is waking up twice a night. i'm hoping it'll magically stop at 12months like his big brother! any attempts to cut down the milk mean he's just half awake and keeps getting up all night so i'm at a loss too.

website 'babysleepanswers' is fantastic (sorry I don't know how to do links)

Sleep mentors there will talk you through and support you in any sleep trainning method that you want to try, it's not all about CC (though that's the method we used in the end) I found out about it from MN and it saved us!

My DD didn't sleep through until 14 months, but I think she has begun to get into a routine of waking so she could feed - which she did not really need at that age. What worked for us was to move her (she had been in our room until then) into her own room and to stop night feeds, as I was still bf this meant DP going in and settling her - she complained, but not for long and within the week was sleeping through. I'd suggest stopping feeding her at night. The incentive to wake up will be less!