Middle of the night bottles

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Just as I was feeling smug about the lack of dummies (DS loved his dummies more than he loved me and was a nightmare to get off the nighttime one) , we've developed a fixation on middle of the night bottles, waking at 1 and 4 and crying until they're supplied with water. We'd grown out of night feeds so this is new - they're 14 months and of say for the last couple of months.

If I don't give they just cry and I'm not comfortable leaving them to cry for want of a drink, but it's killing my sleep pattern and they always leak through their nappies by morning.

How do I wean away middle of the night water??

Are you sure it's the water that's wanted and not the dummy-like bottle teat? I think I would offer the water but in a free flow sippy cup. That way if your LO genuinely is thirsty you're not denying water. I think it's likely that it's the comfort of sucking they are wanting really which the dummy used to give.

I'd be giving a sippy cup at 14 months too.

Yep it does sound like it's about the bottle rather than the water. Definitely offer in a cup - I bet he will get bored quickly if it's not in a bottle!

I'm worried about a sippy cup leaking tbh, most of them you shake and the water comes out.

It could be the teat altho I do wonder if they're just v thirsty babies, they'll practically never refuse a bottle of given, in a bottle or in a sports top style kids bottle.

If they want a test and I give them a sippy cup were back to them wailing in the night. Sometimes only one wakes up, and sometimes they set each other off like last night and you're trying to work out which baby to extricate from the situation and which one iwll hopefully resettle of their brother isn't squawking