Hello,
My 7.5 month old was having 2 night feeds, one at 10.30pm (a dreamfeed) and then another any time from 2am-5am! She is now on solids, 3 meals a day, but we found that she was not taking them well, or any milk really, during the day as she was filling up at night. On advice of HV we started a new feeding pattern and stopped the 10.30 pm dream feed. She is now feeding much better during the day, having roughly 20oz of milk and 3 solid meals. She goes to bed at 6.30/7pm. She's generally a good sleeper, can self settle etc.
She is still waking up twice in night, I think it's habit more than anything as giving her water/watered down formula settles her. HV advised cc, I did this to get rid of dummy so don't mind her crying (bad mother?) but last night she did not give up, and I caved after about 50 mins, gave her 2 oz of watered down formula and she promptly fell asleep, making me feel awful! She then woke up an hour later but went back to sleep on her own, then again an hour later, I gave her water and this got her through to 6am, when she came into our bed until 8am (so she's obviously not starving).
I'm just wondering how to stop these night wakings, should I keep giving her water, as much as she wants and hope she gives up, or do I reduce the amount over time? Not really clear what to do, any advice gratefully received.
Thanks