10 Month Old still waking at night for a feed

[Jocooley]

Hi, my DS is 10.5 months and he is on 4 x 7oz bottles a day and eats loads of solids (we did BLW and so is eating full on breakfast lunch and dinner with snacks).

This is great and he is a big boy but he is still waking up in the night and having a whole bottle.

I am going back to work soon and this is really tiring me out (I have a 2.5 yr old DD too).

I was just wondering if anyone had any good tips on trying to wean him off this night bottle. I have tried not giving it to him but he just goes absolutely balistic and then DD will wake up too.

I feel that he doesnt need this bottle anymore and is capable of sleeping through but that we may have got into a habit at night (as its easy to give him a bottle so DD doesnt wake up too).

He is also still in pur room with us and i am dying to get them to share a room, but cannot do this until he is sleeping through.

Please can anyone help???!!!!

Sorry no use at all, my 11 month DS has milk at regular intervals throughout the night. Still bf tho, so slightly easier as I don't always wake up. Dreading going back to work.

No help from me I'm afraid...moral support only...my 10mo old wakes to feed about 3x per night and I'm back at work and exhausted.

No help here. You might think he doesn't need it, but your DS might think differently

DD didn't drop her night bottle until around 13-14 months

I don't think it is uncommon I'm afraid. Mine stopped needing regular night feed at around 9-10 months and I don't think that was particularly late - lots of friends with older babies who still have night feeds.

If it's a whole bottle then I think he is probably still hungry. You could try offering water to see if he is just thirsty rather than hungry, but it's entirely possible that you will need to keep giving him milk.

You have my sympathies. My now 14 mo is the same. Big chunky boy, eats really well in the day but was demanding a bottle still at 11pm or if I leave him at some point overnight or sometimes both

Nothing I did worked so I went with the theory that it was a habit and stopped giving it to him at 11pm, letting him wake up whenever he really was hungry (that'll be the 12am, 1am, 2am, 3am wakings then, thanks).

At the moment, fingers crossed, he seems to be going without which is a relief as he really is chunky! But who knows, I don't think it's anything I've done, it might change at any time and now I shall quote Mumsnet...this too shall pass.

How about you give him hungry baby milk even just in his last bottle before bed?

Worked for ds but not for dd. She's 10 months and is now (mostly) sleeping through. We were jumping at the first noise too to avoid waking her brother but, one night when he was at grans, neither of us could drag ourselves up. She was crying, though not sorely, but went back to sleep after a few minutes. Can you let him go just for a few minutes to make sure he's not just starting a new sleep cycle.

Do you have anywhere else to put him? I think it's difficult when they're no longer small babies and in with you. I think you disturb each other.

What time is he waking for his last bottle?

The best thing I ever did was put my DD in her own room to sleep. She went through every night after that. Might just be coincidence though. If you are ready to let him sleep in another room, you can always try & if he still wakes, at least you can rule this suggestion out.
I don't know what else to suggest I'm afraid. Sorry

Unfortunately we only have two bedroom house which is v small too so there is nowhere else for him to go. I do think this is part of the problem as he knows we are there when he wakes up. So it would be v unfair of us to put him in with dd now. It seems from these answers I may just have to go with it and hope it passes v soon. :(

No help I am afraid but if DD (11 months) only woke up once a night for a feed I would be in heaven! Three feeds is a good night and up to 10 feeds is a regular nightmare of a night.

I’m having the exact same problem. I’m wondering if you found a solution?

My 10 month old goes to bed with a bottle. She wakes atleast 1-2 times in the night and will cry/scream and will only settle if I give her a bottle.

It’s hard not too because I also had a 2.5 year old who will wake if she hears her crying/screaming.

My oldest always slept through so I didn’t have this problem with her and it’s driving me mad waking everyone night 😩