14 month matured drinking too much milk at dark?
But only just he has been unwell and even though he is in a minute better he has started eating enormously little during the day and wanting 2 or 3 bottles of milk during the night.
I nurture him at 7pm before he goes to bed. I've after been trying giving him a bottle of milk before I progress to bed at 10pm but he still wakes up hungry in the dark. I've tried not feeding him in the hours of darkness but he just cries and cries with hunger and not a soul gets any sleep!
I've also tried doing my best to get him to get through more during the day. He DOES eat - pretty much anything I supply him, but he doesn't eat huge amounts.
He is walking and very moving and seems to be getting quite skinny.
Does anyone hold any suggestions as to how I can reduce the night feed and get him to eat more during the daylight?
Answers: it could be purely comfort that he keeps waking up within the night...i mean it might not be the milk he's getting up for..if you gain him out of his cot then not only does he see you but he get a really comforting experience of sitting on your lap with his bottle...its gona be relatively difficult to get out of this 'habit' but if it was me i would stop beside the milk and only have a bottle of marine..secondly i wouldnt be getting him out of cot.i would silently just hand him surrounded by a bottle of water and then way of walking away with out speaking.i know that sounds a little tight-fisted but youve really got to nip this is the bud so that everyone can go wager on to having a peaceful night sleep..like i said, it'll take some getting used to for him, but he will work out contained by the end that there is no unadulterated point in getting up in the hours of darkness just for water..you'll also find that once he's stopped drinking so much milk at dark his eating will pick up during the day.and he'll travel back to sleeping from 7 till 7...good luck next to it all.
As Georgie says try dampen.
My son was exactly the same and started to get up up 3 or 4 times a night after he had be unwell, I didn't want to keep giving him milk so I swapped it for water, I give attention to all he wanted be the comfort of the bottle not the milk, I gradually put less and smaller quantity in the bottles until he didn't bother anymore.
I never got him out a short time ago left the water where on earth he could get it.
I would try to substitute the milk for water, he may be thirsty a bit than hungry. And hopefully that would make him more likely to increase his portion sizes. you can dilute the milk by accumulation half water..and can make available hom a loby or a soft toy or blanket to sooth him when he wake up at night..
Try giving him a build-up shake for toddlers next to his food, if he didn't eat alot during the day. They tend to get up up more during the night at that age-maybe teething or something. I would say offer no more than 2 bottles during the night. try giving him water to drink at hours of darkness, he may be thirsty, especially if he's just been unwell. you should find he after eats better during the day.
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