15 month old won’t sleep through

[Sophg1605]

Hi! My little girl is almost 15 months. She has never been the best sleeper but some phases have been better than others. For a long while now she wakes every 1-2 hours, and will basically scream the house down until we give her a bottle of milk. She doesn’t have it all, sometimes just a few sips but I know she shouldn’t be waking for this at her age.

is ANYONE else going through this??? Feel like I’m losing my mind with it. We’re soo tired!!

Shes fully weaned so there’s no reason why she would need milk at night.

Cant let her scream it out as she will wake our son in the next room who is 7. So it’s a difficult balancing act …

You could be me, we have a 7 yea old boy and 15 month old baby girl who wakes 1-2 times a night. She's also an early riser. No advice but wanted to say your not alone, we are also exhausted.

It might only take a few nights to shift her out of this habit. Can ds stay elsewhere for a night or two, wear earplugs, play white noise? Or at least tell him she might make noise but he's not to worry and go back to sleep. Worth doing while he's off school.

Offer her water in a cup, if she screams then so be it, comfort or use a sleep training method but don't give milk. She'll be pissed off but she won't stay awake forever. Within 2-3 nights she'll have adjusted, I should think.

Maybe start it at a weekend if you and partner are both off so you can nap in the day.

I’m going through this with my 16 month old to he would fall alseep at bedtime with a big bottle then wake regularly and only way to get him back sleep was with another bottle and bringing him into bed with me.
not sure if your LO fall asleep to a bottle but if she does then maybe try this try giving her milk in a sippy cup a hour before bed if she doesnt drink it or has some then loses intrest give it 10-15 mins then take it away then when you put her to bed only give her a small out of water in a sippy cup I tried this for first time with my little boy last night and he wasn’t bothered about his milk n because it wasn’t in a bottle so took it away and put him to bed with water and he didn’t cry he just lay there for awhile then fell asleep he woke up after. 2 hours and cried for about 2 hours maybe alittle less and he eventually went to sleep in bed with me after lots of shushing and cuddles after that he woke couple more times but he didn’t cry and went back off after talking alittle at nap time did the same and he moaned for 10 mins and then went to sleep it’s not easy with you having a older child but maybe if she doesn’t have milk right before bed might help I am sure to read they recommend dropping bedtime milk at age of 1 as they start to associate a bottle of milk with sleep maybe this could be why it’s happen I’m not sure if it will work for my little boy but it has been alittle easier than I thought it would be hope you find something that can work but from one tierd mummy to another you got this 😊

My 14 month has routinely woken at 5am and won't go down without a bottle. We used to leave her with it.

The first step was to not leave her with it but feed her sitting up. Now she is used to that.

Then we started watering the milk down. First 1oz water to 4oz milk, now down to 1oz milk to 4oz water. The idea is to get her less dependent on those calories at 5am. Each drop has been over 5 days.

Next week we should be to water only.

Then replace the bottle (well it's a soft teat sippy cup by Nuby) with a hard sippy cup.

I took the process from this link
https://www.thesleepstore.co.nz/sleep-information/toddlers/sleep-articles/weaning-your-toddler-off-middle-of-the-night-bottles

Because cold turkey was full on melt down!

Wishing you the best of luck!