DD is 15 months old. she WILL NOT sleep through

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its making me crazy!

she has 2 naps during the day (or one big one if she cant have 2). she goes to sleep no worries at night.

but then she wakes up.

when she wakes up it is to have something to drink. she sometimes goes through 3 bottles in a night. (170ml a time)

if i dont give her something to drink she really really wails, not just grumpy tired crying or give me what i want crying but, terrible heartwrenching sobbing. and then when i finally give her something to drink she sucks it back so fast she gets hiccups and then no one is going back to sleep.....

is this just something she will outgrow? i really dont know what to do.

Have you tried a weetabix before bed?
My DD is 12 months and was also waking in night for milk (only once). I wasn't prepared to let her cry to learn there wasn't anymore milk.
Anyway, HV basically said she is hungry, but you need to try and get her calories in over 12 hours rather than 24.
So, we do dinner at 5 and then she has a weetabix at about 6:15 then milk before bed about 7 and she now goes through the night.

yep, i have tried to up her calorie intake before bed but it doesnt seem to make any difference.

she is not a very good eater during the day, and is still on bottles. the doc said that i wasnt to worry about this and some kids come later to eating than others. and as she isnt fussy (will eat pretty much anything, but only tiny bits) not to push the issue and keep on doing what we are doing.

but its not his tired arse dragging round the house all day cos of permanent broken sleep, is it!

DD was very similar at 15 months. She would have up to 2 or 3 bottles a night and it would send her back to sleep. Can't remember what her eating was like at that age, but it was all right I think.

As I was back at work, I found it easier to put milk into her at night as I couldn't face the thought of being awake for hours at night.

When she was coming up to 2 I decided that bottles were going to go and so we chose some "big girl beakers" and the bottles went. I found that almost straight away the amount of milk she had at night cut down to one beaker's worth and within a few weeks she wasn't having milk at night anymore.

She still woke but just needed cuddles. I think around 2.5 she was reliably sleeping through and now at 4.3 she is an excellent sleeper.

I am having the same problem. DD is 15 months old. Will go to bed fine at 7pm. When at nursery she will sleep for up to 2 hours. When at home she will rarely sleep in the day more than 1 hour and today only 30 minutes.

Last night was terrible. Up at 10.30, milk at 11 - went dopey but not to sleep. She then kept standing up at her cot and laughed. She eventually gave in at 2pm when cuddled by DH in bed with us but only after having had a second bottle. (DH only got involved at the end end as I couldn't take any more and was in tears).

I'm praying tonight is better as I can't take 2 bad nights in a row. To add to the trouble I'm expecting DC2 next year and I fear I'll be getting up at night to 2 of them. Plus, we go to parents in law over Christmas so that's bound to mess up DD's sleep even more. At least MiL has already said she will get up with DD in the night when she wakes so I can get some sleep.

noahandthewhale, you recon she will jut grow out of it then? please god............

cbmum, yup, i feel your pain. DD is up anywhere from 3 to 6 times a night. and then is up for good at 5:30am.

we would co-sleep, but she hates it and only likes her own cot, so the getting up and down is a frikken nightmare.

we have a live in nanny, and the last 2 months (on her suggestion) she has been taking some night shifts so that DH and i dont end up in an early grave!

but obviously this is just band aiding things, having the nanny do it instead of us isnt really solving the problem (although it is a massive relief to get some sleep).

I had the same with DS, and in the end ditched the bottles too. For ages we just went with it as it meant a 5 minute feed and everyone back to sleep. We even gradually watered down the milk so he ended up on just water and it made no difference. I too think he liked the bottle and cuddle. He was also up around 5 for the day.

One day we went cold turkey, big boy cup for milk after his bath, read a quick story and in to bed. He woke once the first night, cried for a couple of minutes then went back to sleep. In the last 5 weeks he has only woken a handful of times - mainly this week with the cold (as soon as i cover him back up he's off to sleep again). He now gets up between 6-7am which is far more respectable! (Goes to bed at 7)

We also shifted his day a bit, let his nap as long as he wanted in the day and put a nightlight on in hs room - all on the same day. So something helped.

Good luck!

DS was 20 months, so not sure whether that helped too...

Hello, am new to mumsnet! My almost 14month old was an amazing sleeper until about 12 months old, when he started waking at night and then staying awake for anything between 1 and 3 hours. He doesn't usually cry; he just shouts randomly or babbles loudly. You can hear everything in our house so we can't sleep the whole time and after 2 months of this I am getting worried his strange new habit is here to stay!! Thought it could be teething or hunger but because he isn't actually crying (he doesn't seem to need us to go to him at all), that doesn't make sense. He naps well for 2 hours everyday and is always very tired and ready for bed by 6.30pm. Anyone else had anything similar and any tips? Thank you!!