Can any-one tell me can you give to much milk to your children. My little hannah is 11months old, she has milk now during the day and still threw the night.
As I worked last night to get sleep I just give in and gave her bottle she would have bottle and straight back to sleep. But she had four at 250mls.
i got told off for this, not that it does any real hard, but they recommend that around 1 yr old they sld be having approx 2 bottles a day if you over do the milk she may become constipated and may refuse solids that have other nutrients she needs as she is full my sons now 19 months and still has 2 cups of milk and yoghurts a yoghurt before bed might heklp fill her litle tummy, i wopuldnt try and alter her diet to much just gently replace her milk feeds with more filling solids and she will settle into her routine when she is ready, she wouldnt be crying if she wasnt hungry although id beware of teething...
So does that mean she drank a litre of miIk before she actually went to sleep?It can become a problem as my mother always said to me that milk is a food and it can fill them up just like food does and then they wont eat their regular meals.Maybe if she wont sleep you may have to persist at it for a while and only offer the second bottle as water.She will get to know that she wont get more milk and only water and come to not want the second bottle at bed time.Good luck.
If it is interferring with the amount of solids she is having then it could be a problem. But if it is a one off then i'm sure that would be ok. As others have suggested if she is waking for the milk then it's not a good idea, also having milk at night and going back to sleep is not good for a babies teeth. The sugars in the milk will stay in the mouth and could contribute to decay. Water would be a better option.
Is your little girl eating her meals during the day? Sometimes too much milk will reduce a child's appetite for meals. The nutrition from the meals offers a wide variety of vitamins and minerals and fibre. If a child constantly replaces meals with milk, they will not get an adequate variety of nutrients.
If that quantity of milk was a rare event, then it will do no harm. You may find a change in her nappies for a day or two. She may be having a growth spurt or teething.
When you're not so tired it would be a good idea to try the water instead of milk as recommended by Idybqsqma99. We did that with our children and it worked. It made getting rid of the nightime bottle easier too.
When my children were babies, my grandmother who was this wise old English woman, told me that if you give a baby water when they wake up in the middle of the night, they will decide that it isn't worth waking up for and will stay asleep. I tried it with my children and from the time they were two weeks old, they took a bottle of milk at bedtime and then slept all night long. I hope that it helps a little.
Yeah, i used to give my kids a bottle of water when they were younger in their cots once they were asleep, they knew some how the bottle would be in there, and half the time like you said, they never bothered to cry etc for a bottle of milk, but they all slept through the night anyways from when they were vertually babies.
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