14 month old never slept through night

[Nikkinoo06]

My 14month old has never slept through night he has bedtime routine but wakes from around 11pm ever few hours and cry’s until we either give juice or milk and ends up in our bed. We are both working so really drained with lack of sleep every night. Help please

Will he co sleep? I know its not ideal but I had to put mine in bed with me until he was around 2. I was on my knees so this way we both got a better nights sleep.

At 14 months he definitely does not need juice. Just milk or water.

I would just bring him into bed with you - is there a reason you don’t want to do that?

Juice in the night is a terrible idea for his teeth, stick to water. A fairly large minority of children don't sleep through the night til they're over 2 though - 2 of my kids slept through before 12 months but, one didn't til he was nearly 3, all treated the same.

My non sleeper would only sleep actually lying on me, it nearly broke me, good job he's incredibly cute...

He didn't "grow out of it" until he was old enough to understand verbal explanations and verbal boundary setting, and even then he didn't sleep through but learnt to stay in his room listening to an audio book when he woke up and then fall back to sleep by himself.

Good luck, it's exhausting but very common and does end eventually... People stop talking about it once they have a non sleeping toddler because they think they've done something wrong and other people who haven't experienced it are only sympathetic to sleep deprivation when you have a newborn, they prefer to think it's your own fault if your baby is older or a toddler. Its actually far harder by then of course because its long term.

If he does go to sleep OK and you are actually exhausted though, go to bed when he does during the week.

My non sleeper took an average of about 4 hours to settle to sleep but if he had gone to bed calmly at 7:30pm like his older siblings did I'd have gone to bed then too. A solid 3 hours before the first waking would have been life altering during that phase.

Will cut out juice try just water. He's all over the bed in night so not ideal to have him in with us. He seems to hate cot. Bangs head and arms off side of cot to think that wakes him. Let's hope he sleeps one day 🙏