HELP - 10month old wont sleep through night

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HELP - getting exhausted, baby used to sleep beautifully, but now is up for 2-3 hours most nights, and the only thing that will settle her is milk. She is obviously not eating enough in the day, but has such a small appetite I cant increase her food intake, so come 2am she is wide awake and hungry, we need to fix this as my husband and I need to sleep!

Its not unusual for babies to still be hungry in the night at 10 months. 10 or 12 hours is still a long time to go for that little tummy. Also (although I've forgotten the common timings for such things) they regularly go through growth spurts where they just need that extra feed for a while, then will start sleeping again.

Does she settle straight away for milk? If so, why not make your lives easier and give her a feed so you can all go back to sleep?

i suppose you are right, but I have so many people saying you shouldnt feed them at night as it just introduces another bad habit you need to break, but yes milk does settle her so should I maybe give her a feed at 11pm before we go to bed, or wait til she wakes in the night and just feed her straight away?

She's still so tiny. If she's hungry, she's hungry, but its definitely worth trying a dream feed type thing before you go to bed, to maximise your own sleep. If that doesn't work just feed straight away when she does wake.

Also, if you're that tired, go to bed before 11pm

I agree - I think there's a lot of stuff talked about 'letting them cry'. I was advised by HV to stop feeding my 9mo overnight as she 'didn't need it' and 'it's just a habit' that I was allowing to continue.

So I tried stopping - after ten scream-filled days when all her sleep and ours was wrecked (she stopped being able to sleep in the day too) I rebelled and went back to feeding her. Bingo. She has three minutes (I time her) at midnight or thereabouts and another three minutes at 3ish - goes back to sleep straight away as do I. I say feed your DD!

my ds is 9.5mo and he too eats very little in the way of solids and wakes about once a night and wants feeding - to my mind he needs it because he feeds both sides and for quite a while and won't settle with just a cuddle. The hv said if I feed him at night he won't want is solids in the day because he won't be hungry enough. I'm not ready to try that yet though! I tried the dream feed but found that then he'd wake again in the night anyway so I just feed him whenever he wakes up (usually about 3am) and he then sleeps for another 4-5hours.

Dont worry at this stage as your dd is only little and needs the milk. My 2.10 dd year old still does not sleep the night and wants a drink usually water and cries for different reasons. I have been told by some people that their 5-6 year old has just started to sleep the night so there you go

My son is 10 months as has been nearly sleeping through for the past two months. However, if he doesn't eat well during the day I know he will wake up for a feed during the night. If he does wake up, I give him water (sometimes he is thirsty), if he is truly hungry he bats the water away and starts moaning.