9moth old waking at 3 am hungry

[Ironmaiden]

dd has just got over being ill and still has not got a great appetite, she'll eat but no way near as much as she was a few weeks ago and she has very little interest in bottles.

So, she's not hungry during the day but at 3-6am she keeps waking up and bawling until I give her a bottle! Whats's that about?

ds2 is 9 months too. He had a cold a couple of weeks ago and virtually dropped solids, and so was living on milk. He was therefore having to wake up for a 3 a.m. feed. After a few days he did pick up his daytime food again (although we've now moved him exclusively onto grown up food and binned all the baby food, he seems to be more interested now if he can feed himself). But he kept on waking up at 3am. I noticed that at the 3 am waking he was crying as if he was desperately hungry, but as he was eating again I didn't feed him and cuddled him back to sleep instead. And then 3 nights ago I did controlled crying, and he has now gone back to sleeping through. The first night of controlled crying I realised that the desperate crying was more a tantrum than anything hurting him.

Thing is, she acctually is hungry and drinks a bottle in the middle of the night. I've settled her a few times without it only to be woken 10mins later by the hungry cry.

ironmaiden you have to get her to take it in the day, shes not hungry in the night but will associate going back to sleep with a bottle if u give it to her, she must get the idea thats its for day and last thing at night.

otherwise it'll take forever to break the habit.

she may wake after 10mins becuase shes got a burp not hunger. i'd reduce the amt u are giving her in the night and build up her daytime amt to the normal amt and get her back on her food when her appetite comes back.