8 month old

[Lauren199]

So my 8 month old isn’t sleeping through the night. She was sleeping fright from about 4 months of age and then recently in the last month she has stopped sleeping through. But she has a bottle and goes back to sleep we have stated reducing the amount she has but she’s still waking. She is eating 3 meals a day was wondering if anyone else has had this problem or try the cry it out method? Any help would be great.

I should mention she usually has a bottle when she wake up and drink 5-7 ounces and then she has another 3 bottles through the days and drink between 4-5 ounces but she’s starting to drop her mid morning bottle too

My DS was like this until I stopped feeding him to sleep. It's the sleep association with milk that makes them wake up. I made sure he had enough throughout the day then when it came to bedtime just rocked him, no feed. He cried for the first few nights but settled and now he just settles being rocked and sleeps throughout the whole night

IT could be hunger depending of what her 3 meals are made of. If it is industrial food, chances are she is genuinely hungry. Pouches even labelled as meals are not very nutritious. Take the Chicken Casserole with rice. Only 10% chicken so 13 gr in a pouch, but 25% of stock so more water than chicken. The same critic goes to melty puffs or veggie sticks, and the rice cakes and similar. In this case, she might need the bottle in the middle of the night.

If on the other hand, you are giving her homemade food, such as stews, thick soups with rice, steamed fish and so on, it could be teething or overexcitement from the day activities, and then either cuddles, back rubbing and helping them get to sleep without a bottle.

It's quite common at this age- the 8 months sleep regression. It will get better again on its own! Please don't do anything drastic that you might regret later. IME all this talk of 'sleep associations' is bullocks- it just depends on the individual child, and they all get there in time