18 month old still wakes for bottles at night

[jammydodger5]

Hi DD 18 months still wakes up at nighttime for bottles she takes 600ml during the night so 2 bottles. She gets enough to eat during the day and enough to drink also HV recommended to stop using bottles at 1 year but I cannot get her to use a beaker she just plays with it instead and with this heat I'm worried about her getting dehydrated
Any tips on how to stop night feed she wakes up 5-6 times per night for a sip or a good drink
Also how do you encourage to drink from the beaker?
Thank you

You could try leaving water in a bottle in the corner of the cot? My LB has a bottle to fall asleep and sometimes wants it if he wakes up. It might be the sucking motion they want to get to sleep rather than the actual milk

Hi thank you for the reply my Dd doesn't even attempt to feed herself I have encouraged it not sure what to do or how else to get her to self feed she was premature and seems to be abit behind from what other friend 14 month old seems to be doing. X

We have the same issue with our DD and have been putting water in a bottle and giving her that in the night. She drinks the water instead of milk or sometimes then has a small amount of milk if she's realised what's happening! She's waking up in the night much less and we've only been doing this a week.

We had the exact same issue with my son...put milk in a sippy cup and he just ignores it, will only drink from bottles! He was drinking loads overnight and I think it did affect his daytime appetite. He is now 19 months and we are still working on it but give him water overnight in a bottle. He doesn’t take much but will then go back to sleep and seems to be eating better in daytime. He also has reduced his waking from twice to once as I think he realises he won’t get milk! Unfortunately I still have to give him 3 decent bottles of milk a day (morning, pre nap and bedtime) to keep his fluid intake up as he is awful with sippy cup!

Thanks so much for the replies I will try her with water tonight and hopefully she will overtime stop waking for bottles x

Dd still wakes in the night 2/3 times for a bf. She’s 19 months now, absolutely no idea how to stop it. Tried offering water and she shrieks, at 2am it’s easier to bf than settle her screaming. Probably not the right idea! So no advice, but will be watching with interest and showing solidarity.

My ds had a bottle at that age I was convinced he needed it as hungry. But it actually became a habit. We just stopped it and it wasn't actually much drama. Had to give him dummy instead a few times for the first few nights. DH did that most as DS expected bottle when he saw me.

He is 2.5 and still gets a bottle before bed. He likes it and he eats well so despite being advised against it I still let him have it.