When will my baby sleep through the night?

[ShineSmile]

DD is 12 months.

From 4 months, she was up hourly at night. At 10 months, we went on a strict allergy free diet, and she now wakes up every two hours. So some progress there!

When will she start sleeping through? I'm so tired and want to go back to work!

Does she wake for a feed every 2 hours or for a cuddle?

Feed. I've tried giving her more feeds and food during the day, but it doesn't make a difference.

Have you tried just picking her up, giving a favourite blanket or soft toy, a cuddle and putting her back in her cot? To begin with it's more work than a quick feed every 2 hours but it may work long term.

My daughter didn't reliably start STTN without milk until 15 months (10pm to 7am), but even then would wake up once or twice every other night.

Have you tried anything else other than feeding? I know how easy it is to just feed though as you're so tired and it's the quickest way to get them back to sleep...

Thanks. I haven't tried anything else, I just feel like I'm not consistent with whatever I do, I just end up giving in. Especially because she is still teething and probably will be for the whole year!

It may be worth a try not offering milk. Good luck.

Full of sympathies Shine it's bloody hard isn't it? With DS he will go through good and bad phases so it's hard to predict what the night will bring. Teething and illness always upset his sleep and he always seems to have one or the other (or both!)

Could you try to settle without feeding for the earlier wake ups (pre midnight) when you have more energy? See if that works first before tackling the later wake ups?

I used to be able to get DH to settle DS pre midnight but that stopped working when he got to around 10 months old

Widdle, thanks! I need to do that, settle without feeds. Just need energy now to do that.