19mo waking twice nightly!

[imissredwine]

So, she's been sleeping from 730-730, regular as clockwork.
After a bit of a cold earlier this year, she's now waking at midnight and again at 5.

We've tried the 'Shhh..shhh' approach but only the bottle will do to get her back to sleep.

Have we made a rod for our own backs?

No bottle= screeching.

Help!

Afraid I can't offer many words of wisdom, redwine, but I'm joining the thread because I'm experiencing the same issue with my 11 mo. Never slept through every night, but would do often and otherwise, only ever woke up once. Now, after being ill for a few weeks after starting nursery, he's waking at 11 and then again about 4.30/5. He hasn't slept through since Christmas. Really hoping it's a phase...(I heard something about a sleep regression because of all the development at this age, but it seems to be going on for too long...? Anyway, sorry for hijacking, and here's hoping someone has some words of wisdom!

Hi there, if you can rule out illness and hunger, I'd say that at this age it might be worth looking at their daytime sleeps and if their naps are a little too long? My daughter would always fight going to bed/wake in the night/wake really early in the morning if her nap needed cutting.

Agree worth considering daytime routine, if anything just to rule it out as cause for the NW's. It does sound a little bit like she has come to expect the feeds that you gave her whilst she was poorly & she may be waking out of habit, especially if its around the same time every night.

Could you perhaps try diluting the feeds gradually so eventually they are just water, & then hopefully she will stop waking? Or if you are feeling brave/willing to do some sleep training you could just drop them cold turkey.