Will she ever sleep through?

[TootToot]

Ok, DD2 is 9 months old. She is a good eater and naps well in the day (about 2 - 2.5 hours on average). She puts herself to sleep and doesn't require rocking etc. When very young she used to wake up many, many times a night but now only wakes up once a night (any time between 2am and 5am). When she wakes in the night I feed her some formula (3 - 6 fl oz depending on what she'll take), change her nappy and pop her back in her cot - takes about 15 minutes really. What I am wondering is, will she ever sleep through the night by herself or will I have to resort to some type of 'method' to teach her. Has anyone else had experience of a baby who woke up at night and then taught herself to not wake anymore! DD1 slept through (7am - 7pm) from a very young age and sleeps very well still. This waking in the night lark is new to me!

no. there are 18 year olds who wake up for a meal in the night....

sorry. seriously, well done you for having a 9 month old who only wakes once. She may just stop waking, but you can prompt her by gradually offering her less formula, or by offering water instead. I'd go with the second option, but on a weekend in case she wakes up earlier in the morning. she probably won't though. when you offer her the water, you can think of ds, who is nearly 7 months and has gone from sleeping through (3 months ago) to waking 4 or 5 times a night.

yes she will, eventually.

if you want to try and hasten it you could try offering water instead of milk at night - she may decide it's not worth waking up for...

xp senora - teach me to type slowly!

could she be doing with a bit more grub during the day? this was the case with my ds. the water idea sounds good too

She sounds like my DC who ate every 2 hrs in the day (between milk feeds & snacks & 3 course meals). They both (freakily) started sleeping through at 10.5 mths. One day, they just stopped. Sort of coincided with a slow down in growth.

thank you for all this. According to my HV it is just bad luck (but no advice given!) and my GP has told me to let her cry. I'll just carry on as I am at the moment and hope that she will, eventually, sleep through. She is beginning to get ready to crawl - maybe that will make a difference .

we live in hope toot toot, we live in hope

If it helps, dd (just one) has woken every night at least once since she was born - from 5/6 mths ish, she woke just once usually c 3am, would have milk (c 4oz) then comes into bed.
We tried water, she screamed. We tried making the milk water-y. She accepted that until we got below 50%, then would just scream til we her 'proper stuff'.
We gave up & did what she told us
For the last two weeks, she's been sleeping through. No idea why.

Like yours she naps well & settles herself fine, so we decided she'd get in .... eventually.

(DS didn't sleep through until 18 mths, depite not having any milk in the night from about 7 mths...)

Why do you change her nappy? You might be making her too awake and she is falling into a pattern of regularly waking. My DD seemed to take ages to do the magic 12 hours regularly and still gets unsettled and wakens. I've no magic advice but if she is taking her feed then settling sounds like she could be hungry. What about a feed at 10 pm to see if she would sleep through until 7am.

babies are minxes. Ds sleeps through when it suits him and gets us up when he fancies it. We get nights but never more than a fortnight in a row. None of this is helpful, just to say you aren't the only one and people who say their babies sleep through probably mean often rather than always.