Forums offer answers for moms
By Esme Infante Nii
Hawaii MomsLikeMe.com Editor
What to do when your toddler keeps waking up at night for bottles?
When one mom, who goes by the screen name ChubbyCheeks, came with her plight to the women who network on www.HawaiiMomsLikeMe.com, they offered their wisdom and warm encouragement — as well as some cries of "My kid, too!"
And in the end, ChubbyCheeks found a solution.
Here are excerpts from their online discussion.
My daughter is 14 months, and she still doesn't sleep through the night. Is this normal? She has before, when she was about 9 months, but then we moved from a room downstairs to upstairs. When she didn't sleep through the night, at first, I thought she was just "adjusting" to the move, like she could sense she was in a different place. But she still wakes up for a bottle or two throughout the night. ...
(Also), my daughter almost always needs a bottle to go to sleep. I read that it's not good for their teeth. I haven't tried using water, but how do I help her adjust?
— ChubbyCheeks
Some of the responses:
— wahinekehau
— mike5miko
A few weeks later, ChubbyCheeks posted that she had succeeded in getting her daughter to quit pleading for a milk bottle by having her go cold turkey. She said it was tough to hear the baby scream, but after just two nights, she began sleeping through the night again.
