Bottle feeding to sleep

[ChateauProvence]

Hi All

my LO has never been a terrible sleeper but has always bottle to sleep for both night time , wakings and naps indoors- she will also nap in pram or car seat

we are in the middle of the 9 month sleep regression- how do I start training her to stop this so she self settles

at the moment she has a bottle at 7.30 which she falls asleep near the end I then put her in her cot - she then wakes between 11-12, 3am and 5-6am. She is bottle fed each time but for the last few nights has refused the bottle at 2 am- I had been rocking her but last night just put her back in her cot and she chatted to herself until she fell asleep

for the 11pm wake up she does usual Finish the bottle so i don’t want to deny her this if she is hungry

just really don’t know what to do for the best but i am worried that she will need to learn to self settle for naps at nursery and this current sleeping is exhausting me

thanks

Nurserys can be magical with babies' sleep. I read it on here but didn't believe it until my DS started at 11 months. Still now at 2 years I have to rock him to sleep myself but at nursery he's a completely different boy, who chats for a bit then falls asleep. Still can't understand it.

Cant really advise about the feeding to sleep though. I could count on one hand how many times mine did that.

I would get rid of the night bottle now. She is old enough, it’s a habit. Reduce it slowly and phase it out after 1-2 weeks completely. She will eat more during the day and drink more milk. Give her one bottle before bedtime and then less and less during the night. Offer water if she is thirsty.

leaving the bottle in the cot is a chocking risk, don’t do that. Also I didn’t you you are meant to give 4 hour old milk?

And yes nursery is different and most babies don’t struggle there. But you need to gently teach her to self settle to sleep, for your sanity and sleep and for her to learn that she can sleep without feeding every 2-3 hours. You want her to eat and have milk in the day and not rely on night feeds.

@SchoolDilemma17 i don’t leave the bottle in the cot or give her 4 old hour milk i feed her with a fresh bottle each wake up

Sorry I misunderstood. Try leaving out one bottle at a time.

Anyone else?

What time does she wake up after the 5/6am wake? I read that sometimes a 5am wake up can be due to temperature, as that's also the coldest part of the night. We've recently switched DD2 into a 2.5tog sleep sack as our room is consistently around 17.5c overnight now, and it seems to be helping her sleep through a bit better.

@Noodlesnotstrudels her room is 21 degrees so def not too cold sometimes we get ip at 6 and other times she will sleep until 8

Start with naps. It's easier. When she is getting tired around her nap times put her in the cot and help her settle with a back rub or gentle soothing.
It takes a while - I think we contact napped until around 9 months.

When naps are sorted I would then try at night.

Don't worry about having baby ready for nursery. They are used to dealing with that and can work some magic with babies

We started doing bottles strictly downstairs and not in babies bedroom from 10 months apart from the over night one . At 11 months we then weaned off the nighttime one very easily .

She’ll be fine. Just keep doing what works. When she doesn’t need to feed to sleep anymore, she just won’t.

The best thing you can do is carry on as you are and forget about nonsense like self settling. She's a 9mo baby, feed her to sleep, don't make things more difficult for yourself or have unrealistic expectations of what she's capable of

Waking is hard, but that doesn't mean your doing anything wrong, it's perfectly normal

THIS

@RedRobyn2021 and @Mrsmch123 thank you I really did need to hear that

i am worried about her teeth though if I do keep feeding to sleep ? Will it affect them do you think?

Night weaning is no longer advised until they are 12 months due to the phenomenal rate of growth they have in their first year.

Why did you post here if you weren’t planning to change anything.

of course it’s bad for the teeth. Every dentist will tell you this.

@SchoolDilemma17 aell as you can see from the posts there’s a lot of different conflicting info. I do know she needs to be able to self settle but do I need to teach her that now? I’m not sure

she is finishing her bottle in the night so should I wean her when she’s hungry

she has allergies so at the moment her food intake is a challenge but we are working through it

there is no need to be so snippy like at the end of the day why do you care?

Just coming back to this thread as LO self night weaned at 15 months - still doesn’t sleep through and now just takes a lot longer to settle. I offer water and a cuddle but she just thrashes around for an hour crying before eventually going back off

should I be doing something else ? Or do I just accept she isn’t ready to sleep through yet

Anyone?

Hey im on baby number 2 . First bubba had a bottle at night until 2 and had no problems what so ever with teeth. 2nd bubba is breast fed but ive introduced a night bottle and weaned her off night boob feeds. She still wakes and often needs rocking and comfort due to all sorts going on such as teething. I honestly wouldnt compare yourself to all these mums with strict routines and sleep training standards and do what your instinct tells you to do because they all grow and adapt and stop doing these things. The days are long but the years are short . Your baby is totally normal x

Hey im on baby number 2 . First bubba had a bottle at night until 2 and had no problems what so ever with teeth. 2nd bubba is breast fed but ive introduced a night bottle and weaned her off night boob feeds. She still wakes and often needs rocking and comfort due to all sorts going on such as teething. I honestly wouldnt compare yourself to all these mums with strict routines and sleep training standards and do what your instinct tells you to do because they all grow and adapt and stop doing these things. The days are long but the years are short . Your baby is totally normal x

Sorry you didn’t get any responses when you updated in May @ChateauProvence. Hoe are you both doing now?

@BunnyRuddingtonah we are good thanks, she does still have a bottle before bed but now sleeps through 7-7 so at least we are all getting sleep!

That is such good news. I think most LOs will have milk before bed. I know that the recommendation is to stop bottles at 12 months but in my r périe me most will be BF or Bottle Fed before bed.