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14 month old has never slept through! Help.

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lilu38 · 27/12/2021 17:13

Merry Christmas everyone. I was hoping the power of Mumsnet might help me! My daughter has never slept through the night. She is nearly 15 months and I'm worried that I'm doing something wrong? She has three meals a day, and if she hasn't eaten much that day I top up with milk. She is happy and active throughout the day and we have a good bedtime routine (dinner, bath, bottle, bed)! Most of the time (unless she is Ill) she settles quite easily and on a good day will sleep 7-11/12! On an average night she will then wake two or three times in the early hours. I will offer her milk feeds (I know not ideal but anything to get her to sleep) and she will chug them down and sometimes resettle and sometimes cry and stand up in her crib until I go to her and it's at this point I take her into bed with me (again, sometimes she will settle and other times she will cry and struggle to settle)! I'm a single parent who works full time, and I really want to try and get her to sleep better! I don't mind her waking, if I feed her and when goes back down straight away. But I don't know what to do when she cries every time I put her back down. She has had an ear infection and has finished the course of antibiotics, but she is still pulling on her ears at night so I will call the doctor on Wednesday again. She can self settle, so I do wonder if she is in pain at night, hence why she find it hard to sleep by herself? She is fine during naps at home and nursery, so I am so confused why she won't sleep through at least most of the night. I also end up changing her nappy once a night too (probably due to the extra milk feeds). Any help or advice or support from those who have gone through similar would be greatly appreciated xxx

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ohthejoysoftoddler · 28/12/2021 22:00

Sorry to hear you are having a tough time.

I think the first thing is to try and drop one of the milk feeds, to eek out the time between feeds, so that they aren't waking habitually for milk. You could try swapping it for water, or some form of light sleep training.

I 100% know that the prospect of a week or so of awful nights is daunting, but it does pay off in the long run

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