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13 month DD now not sleeping without milk. Am I doing totally the wrong thing?

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SayYuleNowSayWhipTheReindeer · 05/12/2011 13:09

DD is 13 months. The past week or so she's been waking up between 12.30 and 2 and refusing to go back to sleep until we give her a bottle. She eats very well during the day, and usually has a bottle of milk at about 9.30 / 10 in the morning, and one before bed. Has anyone else had this? I thought we'd be reducing her milk, eventually giving it up by now, not increasing it!

Just now she wouldn't go down for her lunchtime nap without a bottle of milk. She drank a whole 200ml in a minute, only 20 mins or so after she'd had lunch!

I will pop this in the food topic as well as it's interrelated, but curious to know if anyone else had had this experience? Am I not giving her enough food during the day? Should I stop giving her milk in the night as I'm making a rod for my own back? (I HATE that expression, but it goes round and round in my head at 3 in the morning when she's gulping down her bottle as if it's her last meal)

Thanks in advance for advice.

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bebemoojem · 06/12/2011 09:13

DD went through this stage too, it corresponded with a growth spurt that lagged a little behind her desire for milk. What we did was put a bottle of milk in the corner of her cot (same place every night) so that when she woke up she could get it herself, drink, and go back to sleep. -we put the bottle in when we went to bed so she wouldn't drink it right away and want more again- It took abt 4 days of just giving it to her from the spot for her to cotton on.

Hopefully it sorts out soon. xxx

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