My 1 Yr Old Still Not Sleeping Through the Night

My 14 month old twins still wake up once at night. Sometimes not at all?? I am clueless what happens different each day. So I feel for you.

However, at 9 months, they were waking up every 3 hours. It was driving me crazy. I got most of my help from Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Baby by Marc Weissbluth.

We would let them cry, which felt monstrous. But it worked, within a week they were only waking up once, maybe twice.

I would have had to check into a mental institution if I did not get some sleep soon. Doing so much better now.

My idea is to let him have the bottle himself. I do this with my girls. I run in there hand them a ba and go back to bed(my girls are drinking soymilk). At least this way they are getting used to soothing themselves. I check on them about 20 minutes later and they have usually fallen back to sleep. I am hoping this will eventually phase out the ba and the girls will wake up but then go back to sleep on their own.

Good luck. It will happen!

Just because he's drinking the whole bottle doesn't necessarily mean he's hungry. Maybe he just needs to be comforted and the bottle is his comfort. Try just holding him and rocking or even a pacifier. When I weaned my daughter of night feedings I just stopped giving her the boob and found other ways to soothe her. It took about a month but she stopped waking up and now sleeps 7-7 like clockwork. If it's only you giving him the bottle see if your spouse can get up with him and tell him mommy can't come she's sleeping. Maybe he'll get the idea. Good luck

My son turned 2 in dec. and still wakes once a night for a bottle. YUP, cant get him off of it. I do not push the issue with my child, simply because to me he is still a baby. He still depends on me to comfort him and still needs the bottle to comfort himself to sleep, just as if he needed a binky or special blanket or if he sucked his thumb (which thank god he doesnt). So he drinks from a cup all day and at nap/bed time he still needs his bottle. So i dont mind, i get up and give it to him and we both go right back to sleep. Good luck.

What time is his last bottle? Do you give it to him right before he goes to bed? If so, I would think he's eating out of comfort and schedule, not because he's truly hungry (at least not every night). I would say to nip this in the bud too or else it's going to only get worse the older he gets and he'll just get more and more attached to the bottle.

Maybe tell him he can only have water in a sippie cup in the middle of the night. Sure the first few nights might be rough, but he may start to realize that it's not worth it to get up for a cup of water!

By the way, my daughter is 2.5 and just started sleeping through the entire night a few weeks ago. She stills wakes up 1x per night about 3 days a week.

nip it in the bud. You can do it. We went through the same thing. They are conditioned to eat in the middle of night. You can just start giving water. You didn't say how many nights you tried this. He'll cry for a few nights but when he realizes he isn't getting anything he will go back to sleep. I cut the middle of the night feedings at 7 months. Then I cut out the early morning feeding but waiting later and later each day. My exceptable time was 4 am. Then it 5 am. then 6 am etc. It got later and later. You have to retrain him to not drink in the middle of the night or you'll be doing this forever. It is better to stop now. At 11 months I got my son from once waking every 3 hours to sleeping 12 hours straight. It can be done. Instead of feeding him you need to go in and pat him, sing to him, rub his back and tell him it is night night. Give him a little plain water in a bottle and tell him to go back to sleep. Keep doing this and the middle of the night wakings will be a thing of the past (until he starts teething again).

I don't know what to tell you. I have 2 yr old twins and neither one of them sleep through the night. If you find something that works please let me know. I feel for you.