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Waking at night

morethanreadymorethanready
in Georgia Babies
Quick question. I know that as the months go on, the babies go through different growth and sleep changes. Our LO is now 1 Yr and 2 wks. He eats A LOT. Suddenly, he's waking at night hungry. He's up about every 2 hrs or so after he sleeps for roughly 4 hrs. Did anyone notice change in sleep habits once LO hit a yr old? Thanks!
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  • slwprincessslwprincess member
    I seem to remember him going through a waking spell around the 1 year mark but I don't remember it being hunger related.  I think it was developmental.  Can you increase the amounts of solids/formula he's getting throughout the day and see if that helps?

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  • morethanreadymorethanready
    I did increase his meals and activities. Think it could be developmental. But he wakes the SAME time every night! It's tiresome. He was a great sleeper.
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  • slwprincessslwprincess member

    imagemorethanready:
    I did increase his meals and activities. Think it could be developmental. But he wakes the SAME time every night! It's tiresome. He was a great sleeper.

    Yeah, Gavin does this too even at 3.5 years old, he still has phases of waking up and it drives us crazy.  He'll go months of sleeping all night without a peep and then for like 2 weeks he will wake up every night, sometimes multiple times.  It sucks, but its normal for some (even most) kids.

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  • scarlet115scarlet115 member

    My DS was doing this at about 14 months...waking up every night around 2am crying and crying. I would go in there and pick him up..rock him..settle him and put him back to sleep. I did this for about 2 weeks until I got so tired and just let him cry. 3 days later, he completely stopped waking up at night.

    When I was trying to wean my twins off their middle of the night bottle, my pedi recommended filling it with half formula/ half water..and to keep increasing the water. It really worked, and they stopped waking up for their night bottle because their bodies weren't craving the calories at night.

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  • morethanreadymorethanready
    We need to try the bottle thing this way. Our pediatrician told us to put a bottle of water in the crib, but that made him MAD!! :(
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  • lindzedlindzed
    The same thing happened to me about the same time.  I actually decided it was time to totally get rid of the bottle.  It was a rough 2 days but we havne't had a bottle since then and the waking at night completely stopped.  He was becoming dependent on the bottle to help him go back to sleep.  We did cold turkey.  The water thing made him mad too.
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