My little boy has just turned one and I've found a set routine really helps. It may not work to start with but I think if you stick with it it'll pay off in the end. We have breakfast and a drink of milk on waking, dinner at 12, tea at 4 then about an hour of play before bath, milk and bed. He settles really well usually and I've used this routine since he was 6 weeks old. Recently he had a bad cold and a sore throat so feeling sorry for him I gave him a bottle in the middle of the night. After this we went through a stage of him waking for a bottle for the hell of it, knowing if he whined I'd give in so I started to give him a cup of water instead and he soon decided it wasn't worth waking for! I'd definitely give the night bottles up, you'll get tears but stick to it and it won't last long. Best of luck, I hope I've helped a little x

My little boy was 1 on the 7th of November he is by no means a terrible sleeper but he will only sleep all night for a few nights once in a while. I dont have any rountine he used to have bottle, pjs, kiss & cuddle then lights off bed however he still didnt sleep through now i give him his bottle before i go to bed as he has his dinned to close to bedtime to want a bottle. He wakes in the night up to 3 times and will have 5oz of milk one of those times or he will not settle. I have only started giving him 3 meals a day resently but this means he will only dring the milk in the night some on brekfast and before we go to bed about 18oz in totlat so with out him walking in the night im worrie he will dehydrate or lose weight he has only put on 11lb in a year. Oh and to top it all off he has desided he doesnt want to nap in the morning so he went down finally at 2pm and is still in bed now. HELP HELP HELP all advise appriciated. x x x