Night bottles at 14 months

[Hedgehog26]

My 14 month old currently wakes up between 2-5 times a night. She has a bottle when she goes to bed then another around midnight. Sometimes if she’s having a bad night she’ll have another bottle.

For the past few weeks we’ve been keeping the water in her bottle the same but reducing formula. My theory is that when it’s just water she’ll stop waking for it. But DO thinks we should carry on giving her normal bottles then she’ll wake less/sleep later.

Did other people babies sleep better or worse when night weaned?

I did exactly the same with DC2. once the bottle was just water, I switched him over to a sucky drinking bottle (non-leaky) and he just helped himself in the night if he was thirsty.

We did the same DS just takes an ordinary bottle with water in it to bed now! We just did as you are doing gradually reducing the amount of milk to water! Sleeps through now apart from odd one off he wakes!

Sorry, didn't really answer your question....

he was a terrible sleeper and didn't sleep through till he was 7 (but for lots of reasons other than thirst).

My other child slept through from 6mths (just for balance).

That seems a lot. My children didn't have bottles after age one (one child actually never had bottles at all) and slept through the night anyway. Is she eating enough during the day? I'd check with your health visitor (or clinic) as that seems excessive. They may suggest a different eating and sleeping schedule. You must be exhausted!

She eats lots during the day. I think the bottle is more of a habit than something she needs, hence the weaning. But we want to do it gently.