help.....baby is 13 months already?

Question

Ok so we are finally transitioning dd to milk. She has always got up once during the night to eat(I know we should stop feeding her), but she has only slept thru the night maybe 5 times, anyway, since the transition to milk, we are doing 1/2 and 1/2 she is waking up 2 times a night wanting to eat. She went to bed at 7:00 last night and took a 8 oz. bottle(1/2 formula,1/2 milk) woke up at 11 and drank 6 oz. and just woke up at 4 and took 4 oz. She drank almost an entire days worth of milk in 9 hours. I know the milk is less filling and she has actually been eating some food so what is going on. Is this normal? I thought getting up once was bad , now twice. I am trying to tackle one battle at a time and getting her off formula was first, next is sleeping thru the night. I still am concerned she is hungry and I don't want her getting so worked up she vomits. She is starting to drink out of the nuby cup, but only water. if I put milk in there she freaks out. She refuses anything but water, but I guess that is a start considering she wouldn't use it at all a week or so ago. Advice please! thanks Debbie

Answer 1

hi there so youre little girl is now 13 mths and you to still are not getting a full nights sleep ......how the hell have you managed .....ok here is some advice that might help you out ......first things first this all night drinking milk ......does she have a favourite ceral......right tonight just try it ....it could work what have you got to lose another night sleep??give her a warm bath at say6pm then get her out the bath ...into warm pjamas and then some warm cerial......what ever kind she likes and then the warm bottle of milk and then bed do not break this routine when you get this strted ....im telling you she will sleep all night and so will you .......her tummy will be filled right up and she wont eat any more then she wants .....the other thing is you do not need to mix half and half she should be eating the exact same as you now she is 13mths her tummy is as good as youres ......not unless you know different .....with the half and half you are bagging her up on milk that she doesnt need ......trust me ive been here 3 times and they are all well up now the youngest is 14 years old and the same height as me ......good luck and take care xx

Answer 2

I had similar problems with my daughter! She is 18 months and actually still sleeps with a bottle of water! I know it is soooo hard, but you just have to let your baby cry. She doesn't NEED the bottles during the night...it's more a habit. She will get plenty of nourishment during the day. How much is she eating? Do you feed her breakfast, lunch, supper, and snacks? Keep introducing her to foods and she'll come around. I would also suggest, the next time she wakes up for a bottle, bring one in...full of water instead of milk. I bet she won't like it, but that's the point. Pretty soon it won't be worth it to wake you up anymore! Most of all, just hang in there, stick to your guns, and remember, it only gets harder to find the answers as they grow!!

Answer 3

My daughter is a year and what i do is put in one of the spoons that come in the formula can of rice cereal.......it helps her get a little more full i also warm her milk a little bit ..she actually started to sleep Thru the night once i started to do that............good luck

Answer 4

It could be that she is teething at night (those molars hurt!) and is waking up and wanting to drink a bottle and be held for comfort. It could be that she's cluster feeding at night because she's not eating as much during the day. Just follow your child's lead... it could be a number of things... bad dreams, growth spurt with growing pains, etc. As long as she is thriving and happy... she should be fine. If, however, she starts to lose weight, act listless, and just not herself... contact her pediatrician.

Best wishes.

Answer 5

you additionally could make an person-friendly burrito by skill of having an entire wheat tortilla, including refried beans and cheese and rolling it up after which you will bake it or warmth it in a pan on the range. My daughter enjoyed this as a one 12 months old. you purely chop it into products after that. additionally, attempt making candy potato pancakes. they are candy sufficient, you do no longer desire syrup yet you will desire to upload applesauce to the precise or yogurt. Then purely chop into products. i'd additionally purely make pasta and precise with a low sodium tomato sauce. rather boring, yet all my young ones enjoyed this as a infant. it is messy to enable them to devour it with their palms, yet once you do no longer placed too lots sauce, it is not so undesirable. or you will desire to do exactly a sampler: bits of total grain bread, little products of rooster, bits of cheese, chopped fruit, etc. I additionally would scramble up eggs now and returned. and that i made campbell's bean with 1st Baron Verulam soup (because of the fact i like it) and then i'd purely drain out the soupy section and supply the beans.

Answer 6

I think she needs more solids to satisfy her hunger not milk.