I have a huge problem with milk at night? HELP!!!?

Question

Here's what happened...About a month and a half ago my son's molars came in (he's 17 mnths). He had 103 temp 3 nights in a row. He ended up in the emergency room. I gave him milk in a sippy cup to soothe him and calm him down. I was seriously concerned.
Now that he is better he is still waking up for milk. If he does not get it he cries like a crazy baby being tortured. It got to the point that I just let him cry until he wore himself out. The 1st night it lasted for 45 min, the 2nd night 35, and the 3rd night...after 35 min the police came to my door and said that there were numerous complaints, even from 2 apartments over.
We were questioned and it was horrible because that day he actually fell on his forehead and had a huge scrape and bruise.
After the initial shock that my baby's crying was really annoying everyone I knew that I was just doing the right because he slept through 2 nights.
But now he's back up again screaming for it. What do I do?

Ok, let me rephrase. I do give him milk before bed and when he wakes up. I'm talking about in the middle of the night. Sometimes twice too. Don't you think that's too much milk. That's unhealthy.

Answer 1

Tell all the neighbours & the Police included to go f*&% themselves instead of giving you parents more stress. Whats up with these people, its just a child crying for God's sake!!! The piece of shitty Policemen should really tell the complainaint to go get a life......As for your little situation here, go with abit of logic & a whole lotta luvvvv.....alittle milk wont hurt; of course lessen it over the nex few days or so and give water.

Answer 2

Personally, I'd give him the milk! Actually, I DO give my daughters the milk! I've done it with all of my kids (4 total - 7, 6, 3, 1) and they're all happy, healthy kids. It's not going to hurt him in any way to give him milk at night. It's not unhealthy. If he was drinking 2 - 3 gallons of milk a day, okay - that would be unhealthy. But no, not a sippie cup of milk during the night. Besides, isn't it worth it if it means you all get your sleep?

And I would MUCH rather give my baby a sippie cup of milk that has MUCH less sugar than juice in the middle of the night. Juice in the middle of the night would be just as bad as a bottle full of soda!

But I would try giving him a filling before bed snack. It might just be that he's getting a little hungry when he wakes up and the milk is filling him up just enough to get him back to sleep.

Answer 3

You have a couple of option here that would be safe for his new teeth, which at his age is a real concern simce milk will cause his teeth to decay super fast if he's drinking it as he's falling asleep. 1. Give him a sip of milk, followed by a sippy cup of water to sleep with until this "phase" works its way out. He will be going through a growth spurt soon which will get him sleeping again through the night soon. 2. Put him to bed with a sippy cup of just water, or almost all water and 1/4 juice. He will benefit from this and the phase WILL pass. Good luck. (the third option is to let him cry it out, which is NOT working- he is too old for that!

Answer 4

I'm sorry about your situation... what a tough one! The fact that you live in an apartment building complicates matters, because if it didn't bother anyone else, you could easily just let him cry it out. At 17 months there is certainly no need for middle-of-the-night feeding.

My suggestion: make sure that he has a really big dinner, and give him some oatmeal or something like that (a cereal) before bed just to give him a little something to fill him more. If he wakes up, try water instead of milk to at least fill the tummy a little. Hopefully that'll help lessen his dependence on midnight calories while still allowing your neighbors to have a peaceful night's sleep.

If this keeps up too long, though, call your doctor just to make sure everything's okay.

And FYI, children don't get fevers from teething. They get fevers from infections they pick up from chewing on stuff while they're teething. Not too pertinent to your question, but just some info I never knew before my doc filled me in... :-)

Good luck!

Answer 5

Try leaving a sippy cup of water by his bed that he can get if he wants it. Once you start the habit of coming to him when he wants you at night it will be hard to break. Trust me I made that mistake with my 1st child who was 7 years old before She would sleep through the night without checking to make sure we were still there. Also if you give him milk in the middle of the night whick is more filling than water you could set him upto become a midnight snacker. give him water and leave it were he can find it you willteach him to be self sufficiant

Answer 6

You shoud give him a full cup the first night, then a 3/4 cup, then a half and so on until he is down to none at all. It sounds as though those couple of nights he just got off of his routine and you need to reset it for him. Don't worry about the neighbors though, they have obviously never had children.

Answer 7

you have not mentioned what time he gets up for milk but may i suggest that you give him the milk before he sleeps so that all of you have a peaceful night. or just give him the milk when he wants it...keep it ready and then just heat in the oven and give...no harm done ...right?? better than the police coming to ur door. toddlers are very routinistic if he liked the milk u gave him one night he is going to wanna make it a routine...so do what makes him comfortable.

Answer 8

Try a sippee cup with really cold water. It won't be the milk, but he'll still get the sucking that he's looking for for comfort. It's tough, but just a little water might help.

Answer 9

you have an excellent sort of milk I assure you. toddler is clusterfeeding at evening because of the fact she began sound asleep all evening long. in case you probably did no longer have sufficient milk, you does no longer be waking up at evening engorged. I promise you you have sufficient milk if toddler is getting her proper quantity of moist diapers. that's everyday to cluster feed. that's everyday for toddler to nurse greater generally at evening top earlier mattress. you do no longer ought to offer her pumped milk. it would seem as though she's nonetheless hungry, yet bottle feeding is diverse than breastfeeding. A bottle has milk dripping out of it, so toddler has to suck/swallow, which in turn motives toddler's mouth to top off with greater milk. So by utilising the time toddler gets achieved with the bottle, she's overfull. you somewhat have not got a situation. basically shop feeding her as generally as she needs to earlier bedtime. you're doing the marvelous ingredient by utilising cluster feeding. She doesnt ought to have the pumped milk. I promise

Answer 10

He's just a baby. It won't hurt to give him something to drink in the middle of the night. He will grow out of this phase. Doesn't it make you nuts to hear him cry for 45 minutes??