Sleep and bottle addiction

[fairydust]

DD is 2 1/2 but is mentally only 1 1/2 - she has always used her bottle as a comforter hated dummy but loved her bottle - she has a bottle with water in to go to bed at 7 but then wakes at 11 as she is wet then at 1.30 and again at 4 then goes to 7 / 8 o clock.

We have tried only giving her half a bottle but she wakes in hystic's and the only way to calmer her is to give her a bottle - feel as though we're just going round in cycles.

i have absolutely no advice, but great sympathy's!!

My dd is 21 mths and i have been trying to give up breastfeeding since she was a year!! But some nights it has been the only way to get her to sleep. I begrudgingly offer her bottle now (which is no solution but i feel at least a bottle can be out of sight out of mind). Dd often wakes through out the night and gets into bed with us, shes in a bed now so can get herself in which is bliss for us no more getting up and down in the night!

I don't think its wet nappies that wake my dd - i never change them anyway! i just think its a bad habit, with her body clock waking at the same time.

I have spent so much time worrying about this and got stressed trying out different methods, i have now just decided to chill and hope that she gets out the habit herself eventually!

Sorry a load of waffle but no help to you. I hope somebody more useful posts to help us both out!

my dd is like this about milk. its def a comfort thing to help her sleep. but 2nite i ran out of milk, so instead of offering her a drink i just gave her a night time drink of v v v weak juice in a cup and put her to bed. amazingly she is asleep. but am not looking forward to the morning tantrum when she realises there is no milk till 10am.

i know she will be up at 12, and will crawl into my bed. its also a habit.

fairydust im sure you have probably thought of this but has she ot a favourite teddy she could use as a comfortersaying when she wakes up shh you'll wake (fave toys name) now come on be a good girl and go back to sleep to let(again ftn)get some sleep

no fav toy - her fav toy is blanket which she is covered up with and her bock bock (bottle)

dd won't drinkot of anything in the day apart from the bottle

don't know if its any use, as my DD is still having milk whilst asleep at 9pm,, but my mum informed me, she used to feed me ovaltine at 7pm to get me to go thru!?!