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help please re night feeding!
Hi all ...i would just like some advice please my dd is coming up for 19 months and is STILL waking for milk ...well i say still ,she has slept through from about 9 months and usually only wakes when teething ....however over the last 6 weeks or so she has been waking 2-3 times a night and will cry until we give her milk to go back to sleep :roll: ..she has milk after lunch to go to sleep (not in nursery) and then a bottle in her cot at bedtime to drink before she drops off to sleep!!
now i think we have got ourselves into teaching her to associate milk with sleep and now she relies on it so how am i going to stop this habit ??? were both quackered and with my ds waking still cos of the monsters in his room *sigh* :roll: somenights were awake 5 times ....
advice appreciated
now i think we have got ourselves into teaching her to associate milk with sleep and now she relies on it so how am i going to stop this habit ??? were both quackered and with my ds waking still cos of the monsters in his room *sigh* :roll: somenights were awake 5 times ....
advice appreciated
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My dd sometimes wakes and asks for juice but we give her water as obviously the sugar in juice etc isnt good for there teeth overnight and she really doesn't know the difference at night which is funny as she wont touch water in the day! Its very rare she wakes though, its usually when shes hot or teething (still got 4 more teeth to come grrr)
Hope you get some sleeps tonight xxx
I personally would start by breaking the assocation during the day. I would give the bottle after her nap instead of before and the bedtime bottle downstairs 1/2 hour before bed. Once this has been established for a good 3 days if she is still waking in the night i would refuse to offer milk.
Its obviously going to be hard for the first day and the first night, so i wouldnt start unless your going to see it through.
HTH XX
Hope S settle soon x
my second lo, didn't have a dummy until i took his bottle off him, he was the same as your lo, but once i swapped bottle for cup he quickly took to a dummy. xx