My dog walked on my keyboard and posted it before I was done! So here's the rest....

I can't practice the CIO method with her that late at night as my fiancee has to be up at 6am for work. I have tried giving her a sippy cup of water instead and she will drink it then fuss until she gets her formula.

I'm at my wits end. Her nights have become a constant sleepless struggle for me. It seems she is regressing back and now she wants to cluster feed at 1am!

She's been doing this for about two weeks now. I just want to be able to cut out the night time bottle and get a decent nights sleep again!

Have you tried adding a solid to her last feeding before bed? Maybe a few spoonfuls of cereal will help get her over the hump.

we have a snack about half an hour prior to bedtime. Sometimes cereal, sometimes yogurt, sometimes just some rice crackers, depending on her mood and desire to eat.

delay that last night time bottle by an extra 10 minutes if you can, so she's good an dhungry, then add RICE cereal to the bottle to thicken it up a bit. You may hve to cut the nipple to help her drink it down then. I found taht the rice cereal helped my son have a full tummy for longer. Then if she does wake up, try to just give her a pacifier to get through the first few nights and that should do the trick. GOOD LUCK!

ps - if that doesn't work, your fiance might have to bite the bullet and just deal with some crying at midnight for a few nights....i agree though, at your daughters age she's READY to go all night....the bottle is a habit I'm guessing.

lol, I wish he would bite the bullet but he's a big baby when it comes to his sleep!

She's on a sippy cup, so cutting the nipple won't work well. I'm working on trying the pacifier instead and it's worked twice in the past two weeks. I'm hoping if I keep at it it may sink in.

She is sort of phasing out the pacifier on her own though. The closer her tooth gets to coming in the less she want's that in her mouth. She chews on it occasionally but rarely sucks on it. She has actually started tongue sucking but that's a habit I want to break so we discourage it.

put the pacifier in the freezer....she'll love it cold!

Feed her something high in protein for dinner.. any kind of meat, cheese cubes.. or yogurt. Protein keeps you full longer than anything.. holds true for adults and babies as well :) What time does she eat dinner? My DD eats around 5:30 and is in bed at 7. She eats a full dinner at 5:30 (meat, veggie, fruit and a little cereal sometimes) and then usually drinks 4 oz before bed at 7. She doesn't wake up until 6am and then she drinks about 6 oz then, before breakfast. She's 10 months now but she's been doing this pattern since 7 months.

It may be that she wakes because she's hungry but I kinda believe that at that age they wake up because of a habit. She's also used to the bottle and will not give it up without a fight. Unless she's really easy tempered ... So I think you have two choices. Either continue to give bottles at night or move with her to another room and do CIO.

As for doctors saying "baby should do this" I learned to ignore it. Yes most babies do sleep through the night but there are still plenty that don't. My son's almost 14 months and is still up twice a night and I nurse him then. My friend's son is 3 and still wakes up at night. Not for milk but he wakes up and wants her attention.

Figure out what works best for YOU and do that. The rest of people (your DD, your fiancee) will have to adjust.

Maybe try the CIO with an early bed time? Once we did that Connor slept through the night like a champ. The only time he gets up at night is if a tooth is about to poke through.

I feel your pain! My son is 7 months old and still wakes up 2-3 times a night wanting a bottle. This week has been the worst. Last night he was up every 2 hours on the dot! I think my son is doing it out of habit. When he wakes up crying there is nothing other than a bottle to get him back to sleep. We've tried to ride it out and let him cry but he seriously never stops and we cave. We are at our wits end and have to get this problem solved.