could it be that your lol has not learnt to go back to sleep on their own without props such as rocking to sleep, soother or giving bottle to get back to sleep - when my lol was waking up during the night and early morning i was giving him milk so he didn't learn to go to sleep on his own then i decided that the next time he woke in the night i would go in and settle him not talk to him and go back out he would cry for a little while so i would go in periodically and settle him and walk out again leaving it longer and longer before going back in by the end of the first week of doing this he learnt to go back to sleep on his own and has slept through the night ever since i did the same with him waking at 5am in the morning has he had to learn that this time of the morning is not a sociable time to be awake and again 1 week and he started sleeping until 6am so he now goes to bed at 7.00 and sleeps through until 6.00 - this is not advice just something i did and it worked for me

God, you're so brave!

Having Lily waking all the time has really put me off having another cos I'm so knackered, god knows how you must be feeling being 38+2.

Good luck but I'm sure you'll be fine, I saw someone today my husband works with & they have 2 LO's under 2, she said its hard work but you do cope, I suppose you have to.

I know some of it is my fault, my mum says she can probably feel my anxieties surrounding bedtime. I must admit I'm getting worried about the night time now & we're only just running the bath. I cant help it I just want a full nights sleep!!!!

Cant even get a babysitter & go out once in a while cos got no family round here & no one else would have her all night. Still, I'd never swap her for the world, although sometimes it feels like I have swapped her with a gremlin in the day light LOL!!

Hi girls can I just say u are not alone my ds is 18 month old and still wakes through the night, I am shattered as I am 38+ 2 as well so not sure how I will cope with baby and lo.

My dd does sleep thru now, however i went thru her having 2 bottles thru the night for a few weeks, and had to change bedtime from 8pm to 9pm. She now has an 8oz bottle before bed and likes to settle on her own so we r lucky but all babies arent the same.... (she has a half hour nap in the afternoon) it takes time to find a routine that works to both your advantage and sometimes a little more time than usual.

I started to take up a bottle of water when i go upto bed as she must have just been thirsty thru the night and now a 5oz bottle of water lasts thru (she wakes for a drink twice around 1am and 3am)  until 6am when she has 6oz of milk, then sleeps until 9.30am some mornings. Some nights she doesnt wake as she must think, 'its not worth it for boring water' lol

I am lucky as ive never had any major problems but i do understand what your saying..... and teething times r a nightmare sumtimes!

Keep trying different things hun and especially the water thing - it may just work.... good luck x x

Thanks so much!

Was beginning to feel like it was just us going through this!

Everyone else’s babies are sleeping like text books & you feel like you’re doing something wrong. Especially when people say "oh she shouldn’t be doing that anymore"

Hi my ds is 16month old and has NEVER slept thro, so don't worry your not the only one. I have tried everything inclu only giving him half strength bottles during the night so he would hopfully begin to realise he's not getting anything when he wakes... did it work....NOOOOOOO.

I've just come to the conclusion he is a hungry boy so needs his milk through the night (he has approx 2 8oz bottles during the night) he has a big breakfast, lunch and dinner and snacks - he's not fat by any means but very tall and extremely active.

He goes to bed between 7-8pm wakes at 11:30 for a bottle and has one again at 1am then he wakes about 3:30 but doesn't have one he just setlles back down with me rubbing his tummy then he gets up at about 6:30am, it is exhausting but there isn't much i can do, not all babies sleep through.

HTH and makes you feel not so alone.  xx

Hi

My 16 month old DD hasn't slept through now since she was about 8 months old. Everyone puts it down to teething, but surely she should be sleeping through?

We had 7 weeks of her waking every night for at least 2 hours then we went to see HV & she said to wake her after a 20 min sleep in the day, which we did but god, she was a moody moo!! It semmed to work for a bit she only woke for probably half an hour tops. But now she's at it again, and its a couple of times a night. She'll only settle & stop crying after a bottle of milk, yet she stopped feeeding in the night at about 4 or 5 months. But now shes having bottle almost every night. If she doesn't wake in the night, she's always up by 4am.

We have an excellent bath bed milk routine, and we're trying to drag it out so she stays up past 7pm to see if that helps, but she's that tired she's asleep before I get her upstairs.

I've tried letting her cry to settle herself back off, but you just know the cry that says, look mum i'm up get in here now! Believe me, I'm no soft touch, I dont run in the  nursery at the first whimper, but I cant leave herr screaming. I did once & she was proper sick!

Just wondered if any one else's LO is having trouble?