DD is just 17 months and is still having bottles at night. She'll occasionally go a few nights with just the bedtime one, but I'd say she's done this less than 15 times. Most nights she'll have one between 2am and 4am, some nights more than one - or she'll refuse to settle at bedtime till she's drained two.
I don't think she's hungry, though to be honest it's hard to tell as she's very fussy about food - it's possible that sometimes we think she's not hungry when in fact she's just refusing everything we give her! The creche seem to get a good amount of food into her, though, and she's just as likely to need extra milk afer being there. She drinks a reasonable amount of water during the day too, I think.
She's so very, very pigheaded stubborn as a mule determined that it's impossible to settle her without a bottle if she's decided she wants one. She'll just scream and scream till she gets it. And I'm 26 weeks pregnant with blood pressure problems so I can't steel myself to try and train her out of it; DH doesn't have as much patience as me and would get annoyed and give her milk just to get back to bed.
Also I'm reluctant to deny her when it might be a bad time. She's getting her canines at the moment and has been in foul form with it so I feel sorry for the poor little sausage.
But I don't want to end up with two babies needing night feeds.
Any words of wisdom?