9 mths old

I mixed whole milk in my sons formula little by little starting at 10 months. And I always made his bottles room temp. From day one.

Have you tried feeding him a thick cereal before bed? If he’s waking because he’s hungry, then he needs something to fill his stomach for the night, and milk isn’t enough. Are you putting him to bed to early? An early bedtime means he has to go for a longer period of time before breakfast.

Some babies just seem to need that little extra in the night and usually grow out of it on their own in time…be patient.

It is important that your son consumes atleast 20-30 oz. of formula a day until he reaches the age of 12 months. Then with his pediatricians okay, you can then switch him to whole milk. I know you said that he eats what you eat but, it is important that what you are feeding him has the appropriate vitamins and minerals that he needs. As far as the water and the applejuice, water is great but, you shouldn’t be giving him full concentrate apple juice, it should be watered down just a little. He is probably waking in the middle of the night because he is still hungry. a lot of doctors don’t recommend it but, have you tried the cereal in the night time bottle trick. It worked well for my son. As far as the milk having to be warm…try slowly tapering the warmth off and eventually he will get used to the taste of it being cold. Because when you start him on whole milk, then you will be able to pour it straight from the bottle to a sippy cup. By this age he needs to learn to self soothe and get his self back to sleep. Don’t run right to his side if he wakes up. See if he can get his self back to sleep without you. I don’t believe in letting them cry it out because that teaches them that they can’t depend on you when they need you. But, allowing him a few minutes before you rush to his side, may help him to learn to self soothe. Hope this was helpful, good luck to you.

ichibanarky suggested the same thing I did with my son. But with my cereal I just put it in formula to make it extra thick. Gave him the bottle and he went right to sleep no problems. I would stick to formula though, its important for the development of a baby.

I have a 1 1/2 year old brother that I babysitting on the weekends and he gets up in the middle of the night wanting milk too, but he drinks cold milk. What I do is give him half a bottle of milk and rock him in the rocking chair then if he drinks all that and wants more I usually just ignore him and keep rocking him untill he goes back to sleep

well my son is now 1 yr and 2 weeks old…at 8 months he began to not want his formula…it was close to a month when I tried feeding it to him with babyffod and cereals and nestum but nothn worked…he got so used to real food because since he was 4 months old he had teeth lol… what I did is I tried giving him whole milk with cereal (nestum) and worming it up (just enough for the coolness to go down) that same day he drunk 2 bottles down together…jajaja I was stuck at home with about 36 cans of goodstart formula…now he goes thru 6 gallons a week lmao plus eats everythn and anything… just try the whole milk or 2%milk and c his reaction…my son had not negative reactions sooo

wish you luk