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Following!! My 9 month old still takes one MOTN bottle. We sleep trained at 6 months and he did well. But then teething, hand/foot/mouth, and colds happened and he has since been waking once per night for a bottle. Once this bout of teething is over, we are going to let him CIO. He definitely doesn't NEED that one bottle.

My kids (twins) were not close to sleeping through night at a year. We tried sleep training (a variety of methods, including CIO) and it sometimes helped a little but it never actually helped them through the whole night. I truly believe they needed to eat (nurse) during the night, even though everyone (including our ped) said they didn't really need to. I just know my kids and believe they were legitimately hungry. What finally helped is that around 2 I stopped nursing them on demand all day. I ended up scheduling them to 4 or 5 nursing sessions, which caused them to eat their solid meals better which led to sleep through the night on their own. People probably thought I was crazy for letting them nurse on demand 24 hrs a day for that long, but I guess I just needed to do what felt right for us.

He sttn at 14m, once we weaned.

My daughter started STTN at 16 months. Didn't wean or push the issue, but she was only waking up once a night at that point. Her metabolism is crazy fast and she was genuinely hungry in the middle of the night for way longer than all the books say. We still have to stuff her with tons of food and protein up until right before she goes to sleep.

She started climbing out of her crib around 19 months so we had to switch to a bed way earlier than I had anticipated, but it went great! We do lie with her until she falls asleep, though (she's in a full-size bed in her own room). Maybe you could try gradually weaning and seeing how it goes?

I'm waiting it out. My 14 month old seems to be really sensitive to teething, and also really likes to nurse. She almost slept through the night last night, but a coughing fit woke her up and then she just had to have milk... I have seen her STTN a handful of times though, so I'm hoping she can do it and will be a much better sleeper when nothing is bothering her.

That said, she's handling day care much better (health wise and emotionally) than her big brother did at that age. Maybe it's all the nursing. It's so tiring, but if it keeps her happy and healthy, I can live with it a little while longer.

She started sleeping through the night when we night weaned at 13 months.

So glad to read all this. My son is 13 months. His sleep is very hit or miss. He actually STTN last night. He will STTN maybe once a week/once every 2 weeks. Sometimes only 1 wake up, sometimes 2. It is what it is. My greater issue is that he can't fall asleep on his own - we have to nurse, then do a lot of rocking/bouncing/walking - and it's exhausting.

CIO is not for us. We are sleep training dropouts and for various reasons don't feel comfortable with it. We are still BF as well but I don't think it's really impacting his sleep that much.

I feel like sleep is developmental, like walking or talking.

Never ever STTN until 14.5 mo when I night weaned. Still BF until 18 mo. The STTN milestone is the one I remember with the most clarity, ha!

We weaned and she still woke up at night every night until a little after 2. At 3 she still is up once at night 1-3 nights a week. But she goes right back to sleep after coming to get me. I'm not quite sure why she came to my room half the time. At least DD2 is a beautiful sleeper...

Weaning is what worked both times. DS started STTN just after 12 months and DD around 14.5 months.

My 3-year-old still wakes up at least once a night. It sucks and I wish I had been more consistent and firm earlier on about trying to get him to STTN!

Both of my kids didn't start sleeping through the night until just after a year. I don't think they were developmentally ready to until then. Now they're both amazing sleepers!!

DD is almost a year and wakes between 4-6 am for a bottle, eats and goes back to sleep 'til 7 usually. Not sure if that early wake up is considered "middle of the night". She seems really hungry though and chugs a 6 ounce bottle and falls right back to sleep so I think she still needs it. She's a skinny baby so not a lot of chunk to sustain her over night after her last meal/bottle at 7 pm. I'm hoping she'll drop it soon but I feel mean doing CIO when I think she's just really hungry! We've done CIO before for random wake ups when we knew she wasn't hungry 9 (at like 2 am).

@MrsA: @avivoca: @MenagerieMama: @BrandNewMom: I've got to ask, HOW did you night wean? Was it your initiative or the baby's? I don't even know how to start, nothing else will settle DD unless she's 100% positive I'm not in the house. She loves nursing, will even come up to me randomly and try to peek and make sure "her milk" is there so I think she'll be nursing till two if I let her. I'd love some ideas on gently getting her to stop...

@Mama Bird: she was down to just one MOTN feed. We had my DH go in to her when she woke up. She was pissed, and cried, and he consoled and sang as long as necessary (maybe 1.5 hrs?) No issues after that.
My ped's "off the record" advice (that I SO wish I'd taken!) was that I should go spend the night at a cushy hotel and let DH tend to baby without me in the house.
Oh, and I still nursed morning and evening. We just night weaned.

@BrandNewMom: @MrsA: @MenagerieMama: eeeek, it sounds like I'm going to have to involve DH if I want results. And he doesn't deal well with sleep deprivation. Maybe we'll dedicate a long weekend to this