14 month old wakes every 3 hours!

[sweetninnocent]

So I'm new to this blogging stuff but I need a rant and thought this was a good place to start!

So my dd of 14 months won't sleep! I dont think there is an answer as to why or even if there is a magic wand which will make her suddenly sleep a whole night, but I think maybe I just need reassurance that actually this phase won't last forever? (Please tell me it won't last forever! )

we have tried everything to get her to settle herself back to sleep when she wakes (every 3 hours )and the only thing that is a winner is me bfding her back to sleep. During the day she hardly bfds at all and takes her nap fine, it's just during the night everything seems to go put of the window!

She has a bedtime routine which her and my ds follow religiously ( he is a great sleeper) and they share a bedroom so when she wakes up, everyone wakes up!

She won't settle with my dh, she won't take a dummy or bottle and controlled crying isn't an option!

So if anyone has any advice please please share!

Thank you, rant over!

Hiya :-)

Firstly I can definitely reassure you that this will not last forever! My ds who has just turned 2 did not sleep through the night at all until he was 18-19 moonths old. I bf during the night if he woke up as it was the only way to get him back to sleep and even by that age he would often wake up 2-3 times per night. I was convinced he wasn't hungry and that it was just habit and needing the reassurance that Mummy was there.

Weirdly the turning point was one evening when he refused his usual bedtime feed and wanted another story instead. From then on, I gave him a bottle of cow's milk before bed instead of bf and he started to sleep through more often and even gave us a lie-in for a few mornings as well! I was still bf if he woke up during the night and also first thing in the morning but that was getting less and less, and I had to stop a month ago completely when I got an infection in both breasts :-(

So I haven't got any magical advice and it sounds like you're doing all the right things with the bedtime routine. You could try a bottle feed before bed instead of bf and see if she settles with that but otherwise you might just have to accept that she's not a great sleeper now but it WILL get better. And if nothing else you can get through a lot of levels of Candy Crush Saga on your smartphone whilst you're bf in the middle of the night (maybe that's just me!)

Thank you so much for your response! It makes me feel a lot better knowing that it won't last forever and im not alone! Thank you for your advice! I will try her with cows milk before bed and see if that helps! Hopefully she will grow out of her night wakings eventually! (Fingers crossed! ) and like you say there is always Candy Crush!