My son is 5 months old and hes a big boy we took him to his 4 month check up last month and he weighed at that time 19lbs:dizzy: he dosnt look chubby hes just big, well anyways at night he wakes up through the night maybe 4 times wanting a bottle he use to sleep through the night about 2 months ago. I just dont know what to do:confused: i just want him to sleep through the nite. Help please:yawn:

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MY son is 8 months and is 19 pounds. Well my suggestion is to feed him a lot during the day so he gets most of his calories then. My friends baby is like yours, big boy, by 8 months he was eating table foods! Mine is nowhere near table foods he only eats pureed food still. Are you doing solids yet? SKip right over rice cereal and start with sweet potatos or butternut squash. If he eats it right up you know he is ready for food. Feed him as much as he wants during the day and he should start sleeping better at night. I feed my baby every 2 hours all day long and he sleeps 10-12 hours straight at night. He eats 4 meals a day of solids and at least 20-24 oz of formula a day. I mix at least 2 of his meals with cereal/formula to keep up protein and iron. Good luck!

Well I started giving him cereal but it just sits in his mouth until he spits it out. Should i still try with the sweet potatoes?

My little guy hated the cereal. He would get a strange look on his face and the cereal would sit on his tongue. But when he got some applesauce it was a different story (although he still did find it strange). He loves sweet potatoes too. I would just skip the cereal if he's not interested in it. THere's no reason for him to have to eat cereal.

Try to give him 80-90% of his bottles during waking hours (this may take awhile to accomplish as you slowly push the feedings closer together).

He may be waking at night again because of teething issues, not due to hunger. Try soothing him first to see if he goes back to sleep on his own. My DH gave our 5.5 month old 6 oz the other night at 2:30 am (ack!!!) when she woke up and was tossing and turning. He didn't just sooth her back to sleep (paci, lovey next to her face, pat her belly, etc.). It took me 5 more nights of cutting back that bottle (1 oz at a time) to get her to sleep all night without a bottle. It's common for her to wake up and fuss a little, but she doesn't need that bottle. She drinks 30 oz during the day, plus a morning and evening "meal" of 1/2 jar of stage 1 or 2 food and 2-3 tablespoons of cereal mixed with formula.

Try mixing the cereal with a little of the applesauce or something. I wouldn't totally cut out the cereal because it has a lot of vitamins and minerals they need. I agree with filling him up in the evening.

I would let him fuss it out a bit too before you get him. At 19 pounds, I doubt he needs to eat at night. With my first daughter we did the crying it out thing about 6 months old. With my second, it was actually a little earlier. I struggled with it, even did research to see how long I should really wait to let her do it. I knew she was fine. She had just nursed, diaper changed and was sleeping on my shoulder. She just didn't want to be put down. She was driving me crazy. So I decided, for my sanity, I needed to let her fall asleep on her own. She cried for, maybe, 10 minutues for one night only. After that, I put her down awake and that was that.

Now we have a third child and I just tried from very early on to put him down awake. At night, I nursed him in the living room with all the noises so he didn't get used to falling asleep with me. Now I just weaned him at a year and it's like he never even misses it because he was accustomed to falling asleep on his own.

I would think about how you are putting your son down. When babies wake, they look to back to sleep like they went to sleep in the first place. If he is given a bottle, rocked, etc, then when he wakes, that's what he looks for. Think about if you woke up at night and you called out and someone brought you a piece of chocolate or something. You would eat it, roll over and fall back to sleep. Then you would do it again and again if someone would run over and give you some chocolate each time you woke up. Same thing with a baby and milk or rocking or whatever.

It's hard to hear the crying at first, but after a couple of days it's like it didn't even happen. You just got to be strong and hang in there.

Try giving your son a little less at night when he wakes. How much are you feeding him? Sounds like he needs to learn to sooth himself back to sleep. Does he use a pacifier?

Also, many people post on here about their babies suddenly waking several times a night when they hit a certain age. I know I just posted the same question about a month ago - when DS hit 5 months. I thought I was going to pull my hair out. He was waking every 1-2 hours! I wonder if it has to do with teething?

Best of luck. I feel for you b/c I have been there.