15m still waking for milk at night

My boy is 15m and still waking up at night and won’t settle without milk!! I’ve tried giving water, soothing / comforting without a bottle, he just gets more and more worked up until we give him his milk. Anything I can try to stop it??

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Same.. help

Same here my little boy slept through the night but the past 2/3 months he wakes up around 3:30/4 for a bottle and will not take water he just gets more annoyed has to be milk! It happened when he hit the 13 month sleep regression now he does it every night 😢😢

Mine is the same and it's so tiring

Have you tried watering the milk down? My health visitor recommended this as they don’t need to milk for nutritional reasons at this age. Start by adding an ounce of water and taking away an ounce of milk night by night. I did this when my son was 13 months and it took about 5 days but he stopped waking for the milk as it wasn’t satisfying him anymore

My boy turned 14 months on 2nd still wakes up for milk, I give him formula at night.

Same! My baby used to sleep through the night but has been waking the last few weeks 😩

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Just out of curiosity, why do parents love zipper onesies?

Don’t get me wrong, I tried zipper ones it’s easy to zip in and out when putting it on the first time and taking it out, but I find it difficult when changing diapers especially when baby is asleep.

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Is everyone thinking the same or different? Lol

At this point I’m not enjoying motherhood

My 22 month old is horrendous at the moment🫣 biting, hitting, pushing, pulling and shoving not only adults but children he also wants what other children have and will just snatch it away from them.

We repeat ‘nice hands’ ‘be gentle’ ‘let’s share’ etc

But how do I make him understand what he’s doing isn’t very nice? At the end of the day I feel like I’ve just been saying his name all day and nothing else.

What can I do?

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The first day no dummy was fine, the second bit rougher. But now it feels impossible she just moans and cries all the time it takes ages for her to go down to sleep (she’s always been an amazing sleeper)

I thought it was meant to get better as time went on not worse. I’m at my wits end I dunno what to do.

Currently typing this as she screams uncontrollably in the car and I cry with her cos I can’t do anything.

Of these two, which seems more overall “demanding” to you, overall? Lighthearted poll, not putting anyone down 🫶🏼

As a mum who breastfed for 3 years, I think formula feeding seems 100x harder and more demanding. I give those mamas all the credit because I could not keep up with that faff haha. I truly don’t understand why people say breastfeeding is more effort, other than the fact that no one else can do it. But personally I’d take that over endless bottle prep & cleaning.

Is this normal?

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