Help no sleep yet!!

I have an 8 month old who still eats once during the night. She goes to bed bet 9-930 and still wakes at 3ish to eat, then goes back to sleep till 830-9am. What can I do? Do they grow out of it???

[have 2 kids]

Eventually she will sleep through the night.   I think your lucky she only wakes up once a night.

[mami1323]

Are you sure she's hungry or just used to you getting up to feed her?  With my son, he would wake up but I would stick a bobo in his mouth and he would go right to sleep again.  When he was going through his growth spurt he would wake up and not even the bobo would satisfy him, so he would cry until he got fed.  Plus, I let him whine a little before I get up...sometimes he goes right back to sleep, other times I just go up to him and put a hand on him and he falls asleep again.  

[energy_train]

I would have given my RIGHT ARM for my daughter to only have woken up ONCE in the night. She woke up every 2 hours until I stopped nursing completely at 14 months.  I stopped all nurses but her night nurse at 12 months and until I stopped completely, she was up every 2 hours.  Not to nurse from about 12 months on but she was so used to it and it was terrible getting her back to sleep.   We didn't get good sleep until she was about 18 months old but she will be 6 next month and STILL isn't a good sleeper. Wants to stay up till 11pm and is back up at 6am with no nap and hasn't napped since she turned 2.  My little guy is COMPLETE opposite and sleeps all of the time!  GOod luck and be very very thankful you are only getting up once a night!  I'm still doing that between the two kids and they are 3 and almost 6!  It's never ending!

[mslkpage]

Every now and then my DS (who is also 8 months) will sleep through the night, but usually I'm up around 2 or 3 am making him a bottle. The only difference is I then have to get up at 5:30 to get ready for work, but I've just come to accept it.

[jpsayahh1]

Thanks for all your help and input everyone makes me think that my baby is weird and that their kids sleep thru :-)

[mami1323]

Your baby is not weird at all...every baby is different.  kris who has a post gets up 5 times during the night with her 9 month old.  You will get there, it just may take some time.

[mami1323]

sorry kris' son Ryan is 1 already...geesh, time flies.  I remember when she was pregnant.

[deanne11]

Jake is 8 mos and still wakes at 2-3a for a bottle....but then he goes back until 6:30 when he has to get up for school.
I don't mind...compared to the early days of waking every hour and a half.

He goes down at 7p....so he does sleep for quite a long time before needing that bottle.

My DD was the same...then she turned a year old.....and it just stopped....I'd say for her about 14 mos....now she is almost 4 and sleeps so hard it's like a freakin circus trying to wake her up for anything.

[Crritter]

Your baby sounds like a dream to me too, and she goes a good 6 hours, that's a long time.  She will grow out of it, she's just growing.  I still get up with Cam, but do not feed him anymore, unless he's hungry.  In another year this will all be a memory.