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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
erin5332
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9 month old sleep
erin5332
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Ok so LO will be 9 months this week. He still wakes up for a bottle 1-2 times a night and chugs the whole thing. At what point did you guys stop doing this with your LO's? I totally did this to myself by running in and feeding him every time he cries, and at this point I feel like just letting him cry would traumatize him. I've tried CIO a couple times, and he just cries for over an hour, and it's just easier to go in and give him a bottle and he's back to sleep in 10 minutes. Any suggestions to undue what I"ve done? We've had a handful of nights in the past 9 months where he's STTN, but lately the getting up 2 x a night seems a little crazy to me at this age...
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Re: 9 month old sleep
My LO was doing that but he wasn't hungry, he just wanted to suck (but wouldn't take a paci). So instead of formula, I used water bottles. (he was only taking about an oz so it wasn't a ton of water).
He got used to not having a real bottle and it cruelly only took two nights. Now he occasionally will wake up and I might still fix a bottle, but I think it helps because it's completely random and he isn't used to getting a bottle every single night.
It sounds like you're ready to stop the nighttime feedings or you wouldn't be posting about it. My LO's pediatrician told me when our son was 6 months old "when he cries tonight, don't go in there". Me and DH were like "well, should I give him half a bottle or water or a paci", she's like "no, just don't go in there." So that night he cried at about 2am, we watched on the monitor that he was ok (safe) and after about an hour and a half (felt like 5 hours) he went back to bed until morning. Next night he woke at the same time, cried for 15 mins and went back to sleep, and next night it was only 5 mins. Now, he sleeps through the night EVERY NIGHT. If he ever wakes up at all, he cries for 5 mins or less and knows how to put himself back to sleep. That's how I look at it... we have to teach them how to put themselves back to sleep. It's a learned skill. And it only takes a few nights usually. Go for it!!!
I don't think you should be so hard on yourself. I know you will find a lot of people tell you that babies his age don't need to eat at night and its just a bad habit and you'll have a 2 year old wanting a meal in the middle of the night and stuff... but I think that people really shouldn't judge everyone else's children on their own standards, or from what their child was like. From what I read, it is perfectly normal for a baby to still need to eat at night even up to a year old. In fact, I still nurse my LO at night if she wakes up and she is now 13 months old. She has gotten progressively better on the nighttime feeding as she ages and I don't see any reason to believe she won't continue to get better and eventually not need to eat at night. So maybe that's just me and other people will think I'm a moron for it, but oh well. To each his own.
Plus, he might be hitting a milestone or going through a growth spurt and just need those extra feedings.
https://www.troublesometots.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-sleeping-through-the-night-part-i/
This is a great article another mom posted. There are 3 parts to it, but it's very informative and gives helpful suggestions. Basically baby needs to learn to fall asleep on his own. Good luck!