Hi
My DD is one in two weeks
She has slept through the night without need for bottle or cuddles since 12 weeks. We've always put her down half awake and she's been great at settling herself and once she could put her dummy in it was even better. The only time we had problems was when her bottom teeth came through. She's had a solid routine two naps equating 3 hrs in total and 11 hours sleep at night.
At the end of November we were hit with a nasty cold which developed into Croup. The effects lasted almost 3 weeks. DD routine went out of the window, we were up every hour with her virtually because she couldn't breath with her nose or then it would be the agitation of her windpipe. (Calpol, Saline Spray and Throat Spray from the Gp round the clock!)
Her great eating also went out of the window, so we offered bottles around the clock as much as possible to keep her hydrated and full. After two hospital trips within that 3 weeks we eventually got her better.
Since then DD has been awake for hours on end at night, no pain - she just wants to play and cries til we pick her up. So we've pulled one nap and moved the single nap to late morning which seems to have helped improve the sleep at night but still nowhere what it was. However, she is still waking for a bottle - Which she has never done since 12 weeks. It's the only thing that will get her back off to sleep. She's eating three meals, some days better than others and is still having 3 bottles in the day (I'm aware this needs to be dropped to 2 as she has CMPA And the dietician said we need to start working to dropping it to two bottles, but I'm not ready for that until we crack this night sleep/bottle issue)
My husband has suggested crying it out or just giving into a bottle everytime she wakes. Neither seem helpful to improving the issue if I'm being honest.
I go back to work in two weeks and really need to crack this.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.