My son just turned 1 year old yesterday and he still has a night bottle habit. He will usually do good till 3am when he wakes up for a bottle. After that it is random if he wakes up. He has also been sitting up in his sleep often and I have to run over to lay him back down before he just lets himself drop onto the crib bars.He doesn't need a bottle to go to sleep as long as he has had something to eat within the hour before.
So far I've tried picking him up to sooth him back to sleep, nighttime music, offering water, and watering down the formula. None of it seems to have worked. He will wake completely up if I put water in his mouth. He hates water for some reason. If I do get him back to sleep he wakes up 10 minutes later and will keep waking up often. With the watered down formula he wakes up more often during the night for more bottles.
He use to sleep most of the night without any problems. There were 3 months that I would only have to get up once or twice and it was either for a bottle or diaper change. Ever since he started rolling over to sleep on his tummy or should I say fetal position on his legs has he been waking up more. I wasn't sure if his legs were falling asleep with him laying like that. His knees are usually red. He was getting stuck at rolling back over but he learned what to do. He started sitting up in his sleep after this. The problem with that is he lets himself drop back down and he has hit his head on the crib before and it woke him up crying.
We were having a diaper size problem and I finally had to order size 7 diapers. Yup, that is right a size 7 for a 1 year old. He is very tall and stocky for his age. His upper legs are so big around like his dad's that I have to buy bigger to have more waist adjustment to make the leg holes bigger. He was leaking often with the other diapers at night. I think the size and fit weren't working anymore with the size 6 due to the way he sleeps. It would soak up the front and leak out the top.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it. I need to break this habit mainly due to his teeth. I don't have good teeth and I don't know if it passed down to him or not. I don't like the formula sitting on them all night.
So far I've tried picking him up to sooth him back to sleep, nighttime music, offering water, and watering down the formula. None of it seems to have worked. He will wake completely up if I put water in his mouth. He hates water for some reason. If I do get him back to sleep he wakes up 10 minutes later and will keep waking up often. With the watered down formula he wakes up more often during the night for more bottles.
He use to sleep most of the night without any problems. There were 3 months that I would only have to get up once or twice and it was either for a bottle or diaper change. Ever since he started rolling over to sleep on his tummy or should I say fetal position on his legs has he been waking up more. I wasn't sure if his legs were falling asleep with him laying like that. His knees are usually red. He was getting stuck at rolling back over but he learned what to do. He started sitting up in his sleep after this. The problem with that is he lets himself drop back down and he has hit his head on the crib before and it woke him up crying.
We were having a diaper size problem and I finally had to order size 7 diapers. Yup, that is right a size 7 for a 1 year old. He is very tall and stocky for his age. His upper legs are so big around like his dad's that I have to buy bigger to have more waist adjustment to make the leg holes bigger. He was leaking often with the other diapers at night. I think the size and fit weren't working anymore with the size 6 due to the way he sleeps. It would soak up the front and leak out the top.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it. I need to break this habit mainly due to his teeth. I don't have good teeth and I don't know if it passed down to him or not. I don't like the formula sitting on them all night.