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8 month old- still gets a bottle 1-2 times per night!

SaraJaneKregelSaraJaneKregel
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I don't know what to do at this point.  Our DS is going to be 8 months old and still does not sleep through the night.  He wakes up screaming 1-2 times/night and will continue to scream until I give him a bottle.  DH thinks he's actually hungry, but I think it's because he knows he can get what he wants.  Is there any other method other than letting him cry it out?  This is going to be horrible for us.  Also, I'm worried his older sister is going to wake up since he screams so loud. (She slept through the night at 5 weeks old, so this is new to us).  Any advice would be great, thanks!

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Re: 8 month old- still gets a bottle 1-2 times per night!

  • erindawnerindawn member
    I hear ya.  Our guy is up 4 times!  And he eats each time.  Since he had actually lost weight somehow at his last appointment, we're stuck doing it. 
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  • oliversmommy32912oliversmommy32912 member

    I think the only options are to cry it out or wait it out. He won't wake up in the middle of the night forever. Is he taking a full feeding when he wakes or just sucking and falling asleep? Could you try using a pacifier instead of a bottle and cutting the pacifier time down by a little bit each night or leaving him pacifiers in his crib to find and insert himself?

    Our LO was waking up two or three times a night and then one night he just went to one time a night by himself. One night we forgot to turn on the baby monitor and realized he wasn't really crying very loud if it didn't wake us up. The next night we let him cry to see what he would do and he cried for a couple of minutes and then went back to sleep. He did that for a day or two and then slept straight through and has ever since. Every once in a while he will wake up and cry for about 30 seconds but when we watch him on the video monitor he is really just crying in his sleep. Hopefully your LO will get the hang of it and start sleeping on his own soon.

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  • jeffsjaymejeffsjayme
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    I think the only options are to cry it out or wait it out. He won't wake up in the middle of the night forever. 

    This.  I'm in the cry-it-out camp, but that doesn't have to mean "cry his little head off for hours at a time" crying.  There are gradual approaches you can do, should you want to. 

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  • SaraJaneKregelSaraJaneKregel

    He's been getting about 3-4 oz's each time.  We are trying to decrease the amount gradually to see if that helps- in case he really is hungry at night.  So I'm planning on only doing a 2 oz bottle tonight.  He has a pacifier- loves it- and I try to give that to him, but he just cries until he gets fed.

     I think we will try over the holidays to let him cry it out and send DD over to her auntie's house for 1 night.  Then I don't have to worry about him waking her up.

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  • ToastieSimonsToastieSimons member
    imageSaraJaneKregel:

    He's been getting about 3-4 oz's each time.  We are trying to decrease the amount gradually to see if that helps- in case he really is hungry at night.  So I'm planning on only doing a 2 oz bottle tonight.  He has a pacifier- loves it- and I try to give that to him, but he just cries until he gets fed.

     I think we will try over the holidays to let him cry it out and send DD over to her auntie's house for 1 night.  Then I don't have to worry about him waking her up.

    If he's eating 6-8 oz per night (presuming he wakes twice) that's a lot of calories.

    Are you increasing his daytime meals in order to replace the lost calories?  If you don't increase his day time calories he'll still need those nighttime bottles.

    The other option is to push him 15 minutes later every few night to get used to going a longer stretch between bottles. 

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  • Amanda2011Amanda2011 member
    We are in the same boat there too. Since 5 weeks she has hated hated sleep. She would stay up all night if I let her. We first tried taking her binky away as it is a sleep prop if you have to get up and keeping giving it back. The we did CIO with intervals. It's been about a month if doing it. We have days she will go right to bed others she cries off an on for a hour. I have read every book and tried ever suggestions people give me. None has worked. She is down from like 13 wake ups to 4 or even 1 wake up. It is had but I decided I was spending so much of my energy try to just figure out what was wrong. For us it seems like there is nothing I could do to get her to sleep all night. It will come when she is ready. I still really want it to come soon and have feelings of doubt but every child is so different. What works for some people does not work for others.
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  • juliane2004juliane2004 member
    imageToastieSimons:
    imageSaraJaneKregel:

    He's been getting about 3-4 oz's each time.  We are trying to decrease the amount gradually to see if that helps- in case he really is hungry at night.  So I'm planning on only doing a 2 oz bottle tonight.  He has a pacifier- loves it- and I try to give that to him, but he just cries until he gets fed.

     I think we will try over the holidays to let him cry it out and send DD over to her auntie's house for 1 night.  Then I don't have to worry about him waking her up.

    If he's eating 6-8 oz per night (presuming he wakes twice) that's a lot of calories.

    Are you increasing his daytime meals in order to replace the lost calories?  If you don't increase his day time calories he'll still need those nighttime bottles.

    The other option is to push him 15 minutes later every few night to get used to going a longer stretch between bottles. 

    This. How much is he eating in the daytime?

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  • RedDDDRedDDD member

    Agree with other post about the baby monitor.  I turn it off most nights now because he will wake up and fuss but then gets himself back to sleep.  His room is next door to ours so I can hear him if he really gets going but I was waking up a few times a night just because of the monitor and then I would jump to make a bottle...one night I jumped to make a bottle and by the time I got back he was asleep.  How long have you let him cry?  I find it really hard to let him cry for very long especially in the middle of the night when you just wake up and act without really thinking it through.  I was just jumping to the feeding.  the monitor being off helped a TON.

    Also I think he will start weening himself when he is ready.  My son was waking up at least once a night for a LONG time....then one day he didn't and add that to the monitor not being so distruptive and bam!  

    Only other thing that helped us was a room heater.  Not sure how cold it is where you live but one of my co-workers suggested a room heater because that is what helped her son STTN.  I bought one at Target that has its own thermostat and auto-shut off etc.($30)  I set it for two degrees warmer then the rest of the house because I like it cold when I sleep.   I tried putting him in fleece sleepers etc but he would just get all sweaty and then was waking up more.  So I tell you the night we used the heater he slept 7 hours.  It works great for us.

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