I nurse or rock to sleep and she wakes up 2 times at least.
We still hold our 2year old going on 3 to sleep but she sleeps through the night meaning no feeds or having to wake up and this has only been in the last 6months. But I don’t think rocking baby to sleep means baby doesn’t sleep through the night however, if you are still doing 2feeds then baby definitely isn’t sleeping through the night.
I don’t rock, I put her in her cot awake and just leave the room hoping for the best. She does have her pacifier to self soothe only for sleep & some white noise. Has worked for us😭 & doesn’t wake up all night (except for a few “phases” or regressions that she’s been through on odd nights)
I don't rock but I sit by his cot till he falls asleep. Then I leave his room. He sleeps through most of the time. Sometimes comes into our room half way through the night if teething or unwell
It’s totally normal for our little ones to need support to fall asleep, and those little ones that don’t need that still wake up overnight too! It’s considered normal for babies ages 6-18 months to still wake for a feed and the average is 1-3 times a night :)
My 4 year old still wakes 1-4 times a night 😭
We did sleep training between 12-18 months, but he's always been a pretty good sleeper anyway luckily .
My 13 month old used to be rocked to sleep but recently she has part of her bottle in our bed with daddy usually at around 8pm then wants her own bed chats away to her big brother and they both go to sleep until around 7.30am
I don't rock him to sleep and he sleeps all night but I don't think it has anything to do with that. We did a few rounds of sleep training and he can now settle on his own but we use a dummy at night. He also falls asleep on his own but again, this is due to sleep training
I only rock if he needs it. So when he's poorly or teething and wants extra comfort. Otherwise he pushes himself away from me after his bottle and just wants to get put down in his cot and he grabs his bunny and rolls over and goes to sleep. I don't think being rocked to sleep is why your little one wakes in the night x
I lay her down wide awake and she goes to sleep on her own with no problems. She still wakes at least twice a night and it’s been nearly every hour this past week. if they wonna wake they’ll wake😂
I was very sceptical, but we have just started putting our little one down awake instead of rocking to sleep (18m), and I'll be honest, he doesn't wake us in the night anymore, previously it was anywhere from 2-10 wake ups per night. I believe it's to do with learning to self settle if he wakes up. However there is nothing wrong with night waking if it works for you! ☺️
My boy is 6.5 months and i put him down in his cot awake and he puts himself to sleep and I wouldn't say we have wake ups but he can sometimes be a little restless. Most of the time I'll just leave him and he'll settle back down but sometimes he needs his dummy.
I used to nurse to sleep, then she used to go down awake and settle herself then back to nursing since going back to work. She sleeps through and has done regardless of how she’s settled to sleep
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My son is 6 years old he will be 7 years old in September and we let him watch a show and take his melaton and lay down and then after awhile on deep sleep music and go to sleep but he sleeps tell our 8:00 am alarm goes off or gets up at 7 am
I don't rock i just lay down with her dummy and she will more than likely go to sleep but some nights she doesn't all depends on nap times ect but she's not on a bottle anymore she's 13 months old. So, no night feeds, but sometimes she will wake up, and I will just give her the dummy,lay her back down, and she will go back to sleep
Hey mama! I also have a 14 month old who was eating twice during the night. We just got him to sleep through the night THIS week 🎉 so your baby boy is definitely hungry at night.. But only because he’s used to eating at night. It’s just his routine 🤷🏽♀️ both of my kids were older than 1 when they started to sleep through the night (we did not sleep train) We just began to refuse night feedings 1 bottle at a time. Your baby boy will probably be upset, but he will be okay! He’s big enough to go through the night without food, he just has to get his body into a new routine. Hope this helps
He needs to eat more during the day, he is waking up at night due to habit and hunger 😬 try to drop to one feed at night, try to soothe to sleep the first wake up instead of offering a bottle — then when you start increasing daytime eating then drop the second night feed. Feeds at night can also contribute to dental decay 😞
My son is nursed to sleep and if he doesn’t fall asleep he puts himself on my shoulder to be rocked. He will wake up at 11 sometimes 11:30 for a milk top up and goes straight back to sleep until the morning. @Bianca formula causes decay but breast milk doesn’t. I don’t know how I’d manage if breast milk did cause decay though
At this age I would rock and/or feed to sleep. Most nights she would sleep through, occasionally she would wake but most of the time would be settled with a cuddle, wasn't having night feeds at this point.
Does he eat well during the day?
Is it milk for comfort possibly? Rather than hunger?x
My little one has to sit up for 20 mins after feeds. She normally falls asleep then. If not quite asleep I’ll lie her down in my arms. I may get up once or twice to put a dummy back in but normally sleeps from about 8:20ish, wake her at 6am for dream feed then back down till 9am ish!
Yeah he has 3 meals a day, 2 snacks and 3 milks. My husband thinks it's habit. Our community midwife told us to wake for feeds even after he was over birth weight. Surely he can't be hungry? He's only having 3/4 oz each bottle now so slowly going down...
I don’t rock I lay on my bed with him during his feed and then move him over he still also wakes up 2/3 times in the night for a feed