We are facing a rather frustrating sleep issue with our toddler. He still tends to wake up crying once per night more often than not, and will only settle if he gets a bottle of milk. He has a bottle of water in his cot and that suffices on some nights, so we believe that when he cries for milk he’s indeed hungry.
This problem also tends to correlate to how much he’s eaten during the day and on his evening meal. If he eats well, he tends to sleep through or only drink water on his own in his cot.
The problem is that he’s a fussy eater and it’s quite difficult to get him to eat enough. He gets oatmeal porridge in the evening before bed, which he normally eats ok, but that’s not enough if he’s eaten poorly earlier in the day. We’ve tried giving other evening snacks, like egg and cheese, which worked, but sometimes he just won’t eat enough. He also gets a bottle of milk just before bed.
So as it seems now, he would probably sleep through a lot more often if he just would eat more. I don’t think we should just let him cry and go hungry either. Should we just accept he needs his milk at night? I’m out of good ideas. And sick of waking to his crying so often. This also puts pressure on the whole eating thing, knowing if he won’t eat we’ll again be up at night giving him milk 