He wakes up for a bottle every night around 2:30am. It does not seem to matter what I give him for dinner (around 7:30pm). He has only slept through the night once in almost a year now! This mommy is tired!!!
2007-05-26 21:10:36 · 14 answers · asked by alicia l 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
At this stage, he is getting up more out of habit than out of hunger. He is old enough to cry it out, as long as you are feeding him adequately at dinner. He will not stop the behavior until you stop giving him a bottle when he wakes up.
2007-05-27 04:23:11 · answer #1 · answered by None Profound 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi I am so sorry you are still getting up in the middle of the night! This is something that has worked for everyone in my family. Add a little bit of the first stage cereal to the last bottle that the baby has before bed. I hope it works you just have to make sure it is thin enough for the baby to get out of the bottle with our straining or chocking. NEVER give the baby a bottle laying down and if the cereal doesn't work start giving the baby water in the middle of the night and it will be hard because baby will cry but the other person that said they will get used to it is right. Good Luck let us know if any thing works for you
2007-05-26 23:04:00 · answer #2 · answered by afwf2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son is also 11 months old but I'm so grateful that he almost always sleeps through the night. Have him eat his dinner at around 5 or 6 pm. Then at around 9 or 10 pm give him a bottle of milk with first stage cereal (I measure it this way, 7 ounces of water + 6 scoops of infant formula + 1 scoop of first stage cereal). He might not be able to finish it off, but it's okay. If you tend to sleep late then feed him the remaining prepared formula before you sleep. I follow this routine and the earliest time my son wakes up is 7 am. Hope this works for you as it is now working for me.
P.S. Don't overtire your baby since it would also end up in sleepless nights.
2007-05-27 02:06:24 · answer #3 · answered by Veronica M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Play with him and keep him active so he gets tired in the evening, then a nice bath and some baby fruit with a little rice cereal in it as a snack before putting him to bed for (hopefully) the night. Right now he is going about 7 hours without eating so he may just not be getting enough to hold him all night. I remember those days (or nights!) Welcome to the world of Motherhood!!! Good Luck!!
2007-05-26 21:22:43 · answer #4 · answered by DixeVil 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you can try giving him warm milk before going to sleep. What time do you put him to sleep? If it's early you might want to try putting him to sleep a little bit later. My husband and I stay up until about 1-2am every night because he works late so I don't put my daughter to sleep until about 10:30pm and she sleeps at least until 11am the next day. She's been that way since she was born. So I get at least 8 hours of sleep. Sometimes more. Lucky me!! Anyway, I would suggest feeding him right before he goes to sleep and possibly putting him to bed at a later time. Good luck.
2007-05-26 21:21:26 · answer #5 · answered by I smile because of them ♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That sounds undesirable! My 12 month old has in basic terms been snoozing throughout the time of the nighttime because of the fact she grow to be 10 months or so. formerly then she might wake a minimum of as quickly as. It feels like your son is uncomfortable for some reason? or perhaps his diaper is annoying him. working example, an entire diaper. in line with possibility he get's warm or chilly? in line with possibility his mattress isn't very mushy? or perhaps highway sounds are waking him, in case you reside near to a hectic highway. Or it might desire to be that he's incredibly needy, wakes up fairly and realizes which you're actually not there, and desires you to convenience him. Do you feed and alter him everytime he wakes? whilst my daughter wakes I provide her a bottle of milk, and permit her cry for a couple of minutes till she falls back asleep. this may be very onerous, and that i think sympathy for you. :( desire you could verify this quickly.
2016-10-08 22:24:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i understand... however your child is almost a year so it will be time to get rid of the bottle... your child is not waking up b/c they are hungry, they are waking up for security... that's all he has ever known. i know this is hard... b/c i went through it w/ my son, but what i did was get one of those light show lights that displays on the ceiling, i got a soft classical lullaby cd and when he woke up I would turn them on and pat him for awhile. he cried and stood up and yelled that he wanted out but i just shhhd him but didn't say a word. i kept putting him back down to sleep. after about 10 or 15 minutes i would walk out and listen to him cry (the hardest thing to do). after about 15 minutes or so i would go back in and do teh same thng. this lasted for about 3 days and then it wasn't so hard... but it was the best for him. good luck with whatever you choose!
2007-05-27 03:02:50 · answer #7 · answered by tiyona17 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh u poor mommy, im glad my baby has been sleep threw the night since she was 3 months old......
i would try not feeded at 230 am anymore and just letting the baby cry it out, call out to ur child to let her know that you are still there but its time to go back to sleep and in the morning is when you can have more to eat, also i would try feeding pablem to your baby before bed because it is heavy and might make the baby feel fuller for longer.....
2007-05-26 21:20:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wait one more month! My son first slept through the night when he was a year!!! I was so jealous of other mom's kids....
2007-05-27 01:26:00 · answer #9 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
instead of giving him his dinner at 730 try giving it to him at 530 then just a bottle at bedtime. if he wakes just give him bottle of water. soon get fed up of waking up just for water. worth a try. just gotta keep persevering.
2007-05-26 21:32:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋