My daughter is 1 and slept through the night from the time she was 2 months until she started crawling. Since then she has not slept through the night and wakes up to 3 times to be fed. we feed her right before she sleeps(usually oatmeal and veggies) and she gets a bottle. She wakes at 10:30, 1am and sometimes 3:30. Any ideas to help ween her from the bottle and to help her sleep throught the night? She usually goes right back to sleep after a feeding. We have never used a pacifier and the only thing that seems to work to quiet her is the bottle. This has been going on for 5 months and we are getting very sleep deprived. Thank you!
2007-09-12 09:07:37 · 6 answers · asked by Ginger B 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I started just giving a bottle of water at night. Eventually he figured out he would just get water and stopped waking up for it. During the day I only gave him a sippy cup.
2007-09-12 09:19:27 · answer #1 · answered by proud mommy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before she goes to bed give her something to fill her up. She should be eating most foods that you are eating. If she does wake up threw the night give her a sippy cup with milk or juice in it. You can take her off it slowly by giving her a sippy during the day and maybe one or two bottles a day or my friend she put her sons formula in a sippy cup and he drank it that way. Me before my son was one I started giving him less and less bottles I would do half milk and half formula and then a cup of milk instead of a bottle one time and then a week before he turned one I stopped the bottle all together. My son is 16 months now but since before he was one he would sleep threw the night and if he does wake up I give him a sippy and turn his music on and he falls back asleep before his drink is even gone. However I gave my son a binky and that and his music are the one thing that would put him back to sleep. You could also try a fan the noise helps a lot of kids sleep. Or I don't know how she sleeps but my son and all my friends kids have to sleep on there stomach, just make sure her head is to the side so she can breath. I lay him down on his back but he rolls over to his stomach and sticks his butt in the air. Hope any of this helps. Good Luck.
2007-09-12 17:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by jennie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both of my girls were weened by age 1 year. When they could toddle on their own, I would give them milk in a baby cup with the cover that has the drinking spout. That is how they got their feedings in the daytime. Also, from the time they were first born, I never gave them a bottle to go to bed on, daytime or night. They were held until the bottle was gone and then put to bed. They got into that routine so they never demanded one. So when it was time to go onto the cup with the lid, they still got their milk before nap and bedtime and then went to bed. If they wanted some in the middle of the night, they got it the same way as a child gets a glass of water if he wakes up. They never had to be broken from the bottle because they just learned the cup that replaced the bottle and finally were changed to the glass without the cover when they were old enough not to spill it when they drank by themselves. They also were not dependant on Pacifiers either. Pacifiers were used when they were still driniking from the bottle if they needed to suck and it wasn't feeding time so when we went to the cup with the lid, they no longer needed those either.
2007-09-12 16:22:35 · answer #3 · answered by 'Sunnyside Up' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will take patience and alot of time but what you need to do is after you feed her make sure that you burp her so that wont be the reason she is getting up (tummy hurting). When she gets up at 10:30, 1 a.m. and 2:30 go into her room. Lay her down on her tummy and pat her back until she falls back asleep. If she really needs it you can give her a bottle with about 2 or 3 oz of water (everything else will slowly rot her teeth). make sure she burps again.
eventually with you only patting her back she should get into the habit of staying asleep because she is not receiving a special "meal" in the middle of the night.
another thing i did to wean my daughter from the bottle was during the day (for the first couple of weeks) i would tell her that bottles are nasty and were for babies and that she wasnt a baby but a big girl. during that first couple of weeks her bottles would slowly "come up missing" (i would put them away in a box or trash them) eventually she didnt have any bottles. i had to listen to her complain about not having a bottle for about 2 weeks ( i kept telling her that bottles were nasty anyways and for babies) and after that she pretty much just forgot about bottles altogether.
oh and you can also get her started on sippy cups or even normal cups. Just tell her mommy, daddy, uncles, aunts, grandmas, and grandpas use cups like big girls and boys, your a big girl...wanna drink out of a cup like a big girl too?.
good luck and i hope you find patience!
2007-09-12 16:27:44 · answer #4 · answered by andie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately there is only one answer that worked for us which was letting our daughter cry it out. Suffer through three nights of letting her cry and you will never believe the results. They will be the longest 3 nights of your life but it is the only way you get your life yet. In terms of the bottle, we cut it down to only at night (so once a day at night) for about a month and then after that we cut it out completely. At one she no longer needs it for nutrition and will eat more at night if she is still hungry.
2007-09-12 16:17:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
give her a sippy cup of juice or something appealing and a bottle of water, You tell me which one she'll take.
2007-09-12 16:15:08 · answer #6 · answered by tsurthang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋