How do I get my 14 month old son to sleep through the night?

Question

I give him about 4 oz of milk in a bottle twice a night when he wakes up and he goes right back down, but I'm over it!

Answer 1

14 months is a little old for a bottle, try a cup of milk and a little rocking in a chair. Remember each baby is different. I had two that did not sleep through the night until they were three.

Answer 2

Ahem, the world has lied to you, most children do not sleep through the night. Most babies do not go through a night requiring NO parental intervention until age 24 months. Sorry, that is just the way it is, and if you really pin down most moms who claim their babies sleep through the night they mean "some of the time"

"However, even in the 12-month-old group, 50% of infants typically required parental intervention to get back to sleep after waking. Results emphasize the individual and contextual factors that effect the development of self-soothing behavior during the first year of life. "
Goodlin-Jones BL, et al. Night waking, sleep-wake organization, and self-soothing in the first year of life.
J Dev Behav Pediatr 2001 Aug;22(4):226-33

"At 12 months each dyad participated in the Strange Situation procedure; 77% were securely attached. Mothers' description of the infant's fussiness was not found to predict the attachment pattern, but was associated with the sleep habits. It was found that 55% of the secure and 60% of the ambivalent children were described as night wakers. To a sub-group of 37 infants, a sleep monitor (actigraph) was provided for two nights' recordings. The frequency of the objective awakenings was higher than what mothers reported but similar for the secure and insecure infants. The findings confirm that night waking at the end of the first year is a common developmental phenomenon. Among this group of non-risk infants, sleep characteristics were only marginally associated with the quality of the child's attachment relationship. "
Scher A. Attachment and sleep: a study of night waking in 12-month-old infants.
Dev Psychobiol 2001 May;38(4):274-85.

"Sleeping through the night: 71.4% did this on at least one occasion by 3 months of age, but many of these relapse into more frequent waking in the 4 to 12 month period. It is not until after 24 months that regular night waking (requiring attention) becomes much less common"
Armstrong KL, Quinn RA & Dadds MR. The sleep patterns of normal children.
Medical Journal of Australia 1994 Aug 1;161(3):202-6.

"Baby's age % babies waking at night
3 months 46%
6 months 39%
9 months 58%
12 months 55% "
Scher A. A longitudinal study of night waking in the first year.
Child Care Health Dev 1991 Sep-Oct;17(5):295-302.

Answer 3

I have the same problem with my son...but hes almost 11 months...What helps me ALOT is to give him a nice warm bath before I put him to sleep...and give him an 8 oz bottle...If your son is 14 months he should be getting more than 4 oz...or maybe hes not getting enough solids throughout the say?...but yea that works for me...try cuddling him next time he wakes up...Its just a habit...Hes so used to mommy getting up for him...Its a comfort thing...

Answer 4

The best advice I was given I will gladly pass onto you. A book practically sent from the sleeping gods...! The New Contented Little Baby Book by Gina Ford. Basically it gives you a complete routine of when to feed, when and how long to let them sleep etc. It was FANTASTIC. My little boy (who is now 2) started on this routine when we got home from the hospital. At 1 week old He slept through the night from his last feed at 10:30pm until 7:00am the next day. He soon grew out of this late feed at night and slept through from 7:00pm until 7:00am at the age of 4 months when he started on some solids. To this day, 7:00pm is when the house is quiet and a bit of grown up time begins - we don't hear a peep from him until 7:00-8:30am the following morning.
I can't stress the wonderfullness of this book enough - apart from the routines that change as your little one gets older, there are heaps of advice Q&A sections about different concerns etc and experiences of other mothers and their children.
GET IT BEFORE YOU GO CRAZY :o)
Wishing you all the best - I promise it WILL get better.

Answer 5

k, first of all, if you are feeding him at night, at 14 months, he is going to wake up b/c he has to potty. feeding for that age should be during the day.

also, what are you doing when he wakes?
are you sitting quietly with him and rocking him back to sleep or are you sitting in front of a tv while he eats?

he needs to be quickly and quietly put back to sleep as soon as he wakes.

at this age, he is retaining information like crazy. if you make a habit of feeding at 2 am, believe me, he's going to keep wanting that food at 2 am.

it's going to take a few nights for the new habits to form

GOOD LUCK@!
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Answer 6

he's screaming for thus long becuase the "cry-it-out" technique - actually the place the youngster screams till they are hysterical with distres - has taught him that his needs is basically not met. bear in mind babies are demanding-under pressure out to choose human touch at evening - not getting this alerts conceivable so provide your newborn what he needs, pass to him, consistently or much greater effective convey him into the room and function him rigfht beside your mattress the place he may well be comforted. in reality this may be able to cut back his misery significantly. much less probable motives may well be evening terrors - lower back this calls for you pass to him and convenience him. starvation - he may be able to be dealing with a improve spurt. Or much less probable, he could have a nutrition allergic reaction or sensitivity. with the aid of out history, human beings usually have not often slept in the time of the evening - human babiea at the instant are not any exception

Answer 7

the only reason why he is up in the night is cuz he is hungry. if u try to give him milk a little often then before it will help you. but before you take this action u should definately talk to his doctor. dont do anything withouth any consultation with the doctor.

Answer 8

let the baby be a wake during the day. so that he/she can sleep at night.

Answer 9

Estrogen

Answer 10

Try the baby cereal addition to the bottle first.
If it doesn't work, then try it plus Hylands Calm Forte tablets:
http://www.amazon.com/Hylands-Calms-Forte-Tablets-tablets/dp/B000FYT4JY