my baby sleeps through she's 9 months?

Question

not amasing i know but i've read on hear people that still feed babies at night at this age nuts!!! should the baby not be geting everything in the day by know or are they just helping baby to form bad habits

i'm not being nasty just wondering why they still do it

Answer 1

I agree with you! After 4-5 months of age, it's no longer nutrintionally needed for a baby and should be discontinued. My daughter was off be bottle by 9 months. Night waking is normal yeah (because babies only go into REM sleep and not any deeper) but feeding at 9 months old is nuts. BUT it's not me who is causing my child to develope bottle rot, indigestion, IBS, and then possible obesity too. Plus....the child will be crazy h*ll to break that habbit, so they will be up with a screaming 3 year old still in two years! So, to each their own! I just wish some of these people would READ things once in a while...ya know the American Acedemy of Pediatrics websites, books....something! Ah well!

Good Luck!!

Answer 2

Try making him wait just a little bit before getting up each night to feed him. If you jump to feed him as soon as he wakes up, you're encouraging his habit of waking instead of sleeping. Over the next few weeks, you should be able to extend the time longer and longer. ALSO, be sure to have a solid bedtime routine at the same time each night that includes warm bath, feeding, and story before telling him he's going to sleep. By 9 mos, my daughter was sleeping through from 8-9 at night until 6-7 in the morning. Good luck!

Answer 3

It is great that your baby sleeps at night, but not all babies do at this age and that is COMPLETELY NORMAL.

Babies can wake for a variety of reasons throughout the first year, even if they were "sleeping through" before.

This includes:
Teething
too hot, too cold
illness
learning a new skill (walking, pulling up, crawling, talking)
dirty diaper or a diaper that is too wet (my son will wake up if he is too wet and every so often he will stool in his sleep)

and if a baby did not fill up enough during the day then yes even at this age they may want to nurse or need a bottle to get them settled back for sleep. Some babies do not eat as much as others and take mostly formula or breast milk at this age (this is especially true for premature infants, infants with developmental delay, or infants having trouble starting solids.


Babies before 6 months of age should not be expected to "sleep though" the night. It is only after 6 months (and for some maybe longer) that a baby does not need to nurse/or have a bottle to make it longer than 5 hours at a time.

Babies are unique and all have different needs. Some babies are high needs babies and need more physical contact than others.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11530895&dopt=Abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8680184&dopt=Abstract
http://www.kellymom.com/parenting/sleep/sleep.html

So, to answer your question, No, I do not think it is a bad habit to attend to your child if you think they are really needing to feed at night and I do not think it is bad to attend to your child when they wake to make sure that they are OK.

Answer 4

I'm not sure what your question is unless you wanted to know why other still get up and feed at night To that my answer would have to be I have no idea. Just be glad you don't have to. I think it's the baby's choose not the parents so be thankful.

Answer 5

if your baby is sleeping through the night then leave her/him be.... i think that if your child is developing good habits at a young age love it!!!
with my first child I was still living at my moms place... one night she found me getting a bottle for my son around 3 am -- she said "I didn't hear him wake up", I said he hadn't but it had been 4 hours since he'd eaten last and the doctor said he should eat every 2-4 hours.... my mom just about hit the floor laughing at me!!! If they want to sleep, let em sleep!

Answer 6

Reasons my son would get up at 9 months:
He had problems eating due to a birth defect, he needed extra calories throughout the day, so sometimes he would get up and be hungry.
His father was deployed, so he was scared.
My neighbors were jerks and would wake him up
We lived next to an airport, the planes landing would stir any person up.
Sometimes babies get up due to teething, nursing or a bottle comforts them.
Sometimes babies get sick in the middle of the night:ear infections are usually to blame

I'm a mother day and night, my son doesn't have "bad habits".

Answer 7

I dont get either, my son stopped needed a bottle in the night at 3 months, i was very lucky he was sleeping through the night so early. But I can understand if they are breastfeeding because breast fed babies get hungry more often.

Answer 8

Just do what is good for the baby, if he wants to eat at night let him eat. Not every baby or child should follow the same routine, babies are individuals too, they dont come from factories. I know its hard waking up at night, but hey you knew what you were getting into when you got pregnant.

Answer 9

I guess it depends on the baby. But I would be pushing for no night feedings. My daughter slept through the night at about 8 weeks. My son is 6.5 weeks and gets up at about 3 am and then 6 am.

I think bad habits...

Answer 10

All babies are different. Mine slept through from when we brought her home from hospital she was 7 days old.