My 13 month old DS2 has always been a bad sleeper, but he did at around 9- 10 mths sleep through the night. However when hes teething it all goes pear shaped, he quits eating for days and sometimes the only milk he would drink would be at night. Then he went through a patch of waking at 4.45-5am for a couple of months. This was leaving me wrecked at work, so I started giving him a bottle at 5am and he would go back in his cot and sleep for another 2 hours. Gradually though he started waking earlier for the bottle till it became a real middle of the night one. Tried giving him a dreamfeed bottle one night at 10.30pm, and didnt he wake screaming for it round this time for the last few weeks. Now have created a worse situation than ever, where I know I have made him milk dependent on getting back to sleep. He is having at least one bottle every night.
To make it all worse he is badly constipated since going onto cows milk, so feel I just cant leave him to cry. He is on laxative for it, but still things arent back to normal.
He downs complete 6oz bottle when he wakes so does seem def hungry. Have tried walking him for up to 2 hours but end up feeding him. If he cries too long it wakes up DS1.
Cant seem to get him to eat more during the day - he is a real fussy eater too! But on the days where he has had more to eat doesnt improve night sleep.
Plese help, or let me know if anyone else has made such a mess of things.
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13 month old - needs bottle during night to get back over to sleep
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TuTu · 28/05/2006 08:19
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