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Baby, 11m, has started waking in the night after sleeping through, help!

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LucyNewt · 14/12/2012 07:49

My DD had been mostly sleeping through from 7pm to 7am without waking from about 8mnths onwards. Recently she had nappy rash and an upset tummy which meant I had to wake her in the night to change her. To comfort her I gave her a bottle after changing her, this helped settle her back to sleep - big mistake!! I now have a baby whose bottom is fine but who wakes once or twice for food. She's never been a big milk fan, often refusing the whole bottle at bedtime, but now she's scoffing a bottle before bed, one or two in the night and one in the morning. Her meals haven't changed, she's enjoying solids and has three fairly hearty meals a day and afternoon snacks of fruit etc... I can't get her to eat more in the day than she is, but she's obviously hungry at night. We are thinking of pushing her bedtime back as she doesn't seem as tired as she was, and I guess the new hunger could also be down to the energy she's burning due to walking. The waking could also be partly due to teething, but I'm due to start back at a FT hectic job in three weeks and I could really do with a full night's sleep if possible! Any ideas or suggestions to get her to sleep would be appreciated - or am I going to have to suck it up and accept that she's going through a hungry phase at the moment?! Thanks!

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kawaii123 · 15/12/2012 19:46

I had this exact same problem. My DS was never really into milk either and barely ever had much bedtime bottle. Giving a bottle in the middle of the night he seemed utterly ravenous and chugged the whole bottle. Then he was really uninterested in eating in the day. Advice from some people was actually that he might not be hungry and was just drinking because it was there and it was nice and cosy to be sucking on something. I decided that I had to start getting some sleep so had a few nights of absolute misery leaving him to cry. That would be my suggestion if you feel confident she is getting good meals in the day.

I'd also make sure she had something stodgy at supper time, (I did lots of rice pudding after supper) so that you can feel confident she definitely has something in her tummy.

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