22 Month Old Daughter Waking up One - Two Times a Night for "BABA"

I wouldn't give a bottle in the middle of the night unless she is fully awake (milk and juice cause teeth to rot) If she still takes a pacifer let that pacifer her. If not, to break her of this ritual stop taking a bottle to her. She will eventally go back to sleep

Hi K.,

This is very normal. Her main reasoning for doing that is to reassure her that you are still there. My son used to do that also and it wasn't because he was thirsty. He is now almost 7 and once in a while he will still wake up in the middle of the night and come into my bedroom just to make sure that I am still here. Cherish each moment you have with her!!! She obviously loves you very much that she feels comforted to fall right back to sleep after seeing you.

L.

You could try to give her a snack before bed time and some milk. That is what i do with my kids and my youngest will be 2 in may. He sleeps through the night. She should really be off the bottles. Kids that go to sleep with bottles tend to have problems with their teeth later on. I learned it the hard way with my oldest. If her tummy is full before bed time then she won't get up at night. IT always works for me.

L. R

my daughter (19 months) wakes up in the middle of the night wanting a bottle too. I just recently found out I was giving my daughter to much milk (36 oz) but that is what she wanted. The doctor told me to cut her milk intake down to 16 oz a day because the body can not break down all the iron which would cause her to be anemic. I give my daughter juice She also like Propel it's flavored water. Hope I helped.

I would try to get off the bottles, just for your own sleep's sake and also bottles are much more of a pain than cups. Start putting water in the bottles instead of milk. I suspect she'll quit being interested soon enough.

Hilariously, we can't even use our baby monitor anymore. It has two channels, and one of them picks up the neighbor's baby two houses down, and the other the baby diagonally behind us. It took us awhile to figure out what was going on...we would hear this weird crying in the middle of the night, and we would look in the crib and our baby was sound asleep. The neighbors certainly let their baby cry for a long time!

Also, with Easter coming up (don't know if you celebrate or not), my best friend's mom got rid of her bottles by telling them that the Easter Bunny needed the bottles for her bunny babies, so they set them out for the Easter Bunny and they were gone the next morning and they were actually excited to be rid of them!

I'm reading through these responses and I'm afraid everyone's going to think I'm mean! BUT, I did want to say that at this point, she doesn't actually need that milk for any nutritional reason. She gets all she needs during the day. That said, she it just waking up to see if you're there. Weigh your options--would you prefer to go in and remind her you're there to satisfy the habit she is in, or would you rather have a full night's sleep? I had it a bit extreme with my son, where he would wake up every 2 hours for mama to nurse him back to sleep. As soon as the doctor told me that he should be able to sleep through the night, I decided to break him of that habit. The first night was hard, because I got even less sleep waiting for him to realize that I wasn't going to go in there. His longest crying spurt would be for about 10 minutes. Would you believe me if I told you that was all it took? Just that one night. The night after, I got my first full night of sleep since he was born. At 18 months now, he sleeps amazingly well, and he knows that mama will give him all the nurturing and comforting he needs---during the day. If he wakes up at night now, I know there is something truly wrong. That's only happened once, and that's because he had to poop. haha....Your daughter is older than my little guy, so it might take longer than one night to break her of this habit. However, I feel like breaking her of this habit will be very good for both you and her.

Hope I helped :) Good luck!

A.

I have to say i feel you pain. My daughter started sleeping thru the night at 2 months my husband and were over joyed. Then everything changed at 22 months we found ourselves been woken at 2:35 am on the dot at least 3 to 4 nights out of the week this lasted for about 3 months. For some reason she was just waking up in the middle of the night she would call for either mommy or daddy she did not always want something sometimes she just wanted to see us. As far as milk we started giving her a healthy snack before bed such as applesauce or yo baby yogurt and a 10oz sippy cup of milk. Knock on some wood she has been sleeping thru for a whole month now. When i spoke to my pedo she said it would be something she would have to work out her self sometimes they go thru a stage of insomnia. I am not sure of a limit on milk but i know juice is no more than 8 ounces a day. Maybe try cutting down the ounces of milk you do give her at night when she to where it may not mean anything to her if she is not getting the full bottle. If not hate to say this but if she is not crying for more than 5 minutes do not answer because she could just be playing with you because she knows she can. I learned that the hard way. I quit using my baby monitor so i could sleep.

Hi K.. I have a 3 yr old son. Every night I went through the same thing. He would wake up and cry for the bottle and as soon as I gave it to him he would got back to sleep. Not even drinking it sometimes. I was just the security thing. ! I guess! Anyway, my friends and doctor told me to just start ignoring him. It was so hard. I would cry and cry. He would scream. I then put water in the bottle, WELL...needless to say he didnt like that. But I would talk to him during the day and reassure him that big boys dont need the bottle and milk all the time. I would drill it into him! It was hard but now he is better. He is 3 and he does wake up in the morning and the first thing he says is"Can I have my cup" ....:) I guess its better then getting up all night. Good luck and she will grow out of it. It takes time...and alot of patience!