9mth old will only eat yogurts...

[alphamummy]

and breast milk. I offer food at every meal time, i also offer snacks and things she can hold. Buts she eats very very little of anything. A mouthful here and there.

She wont sleep without being attched to me so therefore is feeding most of the night. I'm getting enough sleep to survive but feel permenatly tired.

She wont drink from a sippy cup or a bottle so she wont take any expressed milk or any other fluid. :( So i cant cut down on any feeds as she will get dehydrated.

She will only go to sleep while being fed or pushed in pram so i cant go anywhere for more than 2 hours.

I dont really know what i'm asking for maybe i'm just unloading.

She's such a happy smiley girl tho. I just want her to sleep at night and surely eating more during the day would sort this out? how do i make her eat???!

I think it'll happen the other way round - sort out her nights and then she will start to eat more during the day.

Poor you, you must be shattered and drained (in more than one way). I think it's time to try to teach her a different way to fall asleep. There are lots of different ideas about how to do this - pick one that makes sense to you.

Whether you've got enough energy reserves to do that is a good question, though. Do you have someone who can support you?

Yes your right about the sleeping. Its just as she is eating so little i hate to think of her going hungry.

I also have a ds who is 2.7 so my days are very busy! I do have lots of support in DH and my mum so i think your right she dies need to go to sleep unattached to me!

Thanks :)

dies - does!

Get your DH fully on board with sorting out her sleep then!

If being pushed in the pram sends her off to sleep, then you do have the option of a bit of a break - maybe send your mum off shopping with her and have a nap?

Good luck with it all!

sounds exactly like ds1 (except he didn't eat yoghurt at this age). at 10 months he tried his first baked bean, and things improved slowly foodwise from then. later that month we moved house and he got his own room (and cot) for the first time. we had one awful night, when I sat with him trying to pat him to sleep (I could feed to sleep, but he woke as soon as I put him in the cot). the next night was much much better, he still woke for milk every few hours (and less often than when we had shared a bed), but I could pat him back sleep afterwards in 10-20 minutes.

I don't know if the food influenced the sleep, but I think he was just ready to sleep more independently, just about the same time he was ready to try food. he's still not a great eater, but sleeps through the night since some months after he turned 1. hope this gives you some hope.