I have boy/girl twins who are now 8 months - my first children.
Both babies were sleeping through the night by 8 weeks most nights (10pm til 7ish) and I thought I had cracked it!
However around.8 weeks later (so almost 4 months of age), boy twin decided to start waking up at night but could easily settled with his dummy or a bit of reassurance. Annoying but not a major issue as I could fall asleep quickly afterwards and everyone (my mum, HV, my friends with kids etc) all reassured me that this would resolve and he would do back to sleeping through like his sister.
But this hasn't happened.... and just after 6 months, he is now waking every night but won't settle until he's had a bottle of milk. He is a slow feeder and takes ages to wind, so by the time I've done all this and he's back to sleep it's an hour and then I'm wide awake and unable to nod off. I end up staring at the clock til 6am and feel terrible in the morning as a result.
Again everyone told me it was a phase, and that it would last a week or resolve once he was eating 3 meals a day. Nope - he eats like a machine during the day and is having between 30 and 35oz of formula during the day as well and yet he is still waking for a bottle overnight. It can be anytime between 1am and 5am but typically around 3am seems to be the most common time.
I AM EXHAUSTED!
Any tips or helpful tricks to get him to stop?
He goes to bed with his sister at 7pm, last bottle is at 6.30pm and is 8oz which he drinks in full and dinner is normally between 5-6pm where he eats loads - tonight was cucumber sticks, sweet potato stew and then cherry yoghurt.