Re: suggestions
Have you tried doing the pull off method (in the book) where you wait until her sucking slows with the bottle, then try to take it away?
Is it possible that she is teething at all? My little guy is pretty close in age and his molars just finished coming in... it easily made him wake up 6 times at night! It made me pretty cloud-headed and forgetful to be on that little sleep... he only just started sleeping this past week (knock on wood) after those last molars came in... The whole teething thing can really do a number on them... and their sleepy parents... and it can really drag on as the last few teeth come in around just before 2 years! We were lucky with our first son because all his teeth came in before he was a year old... but wow... between the 7th-12th month he was VERY wakeful because of it!
I think you have a good routine going there, and a good game plan for the bottle... just thinking about that pull off idea. She does have a lot of ideas about how to keep the room dark, quiet with the least amount of stimulation possible for any wakings which really helps. Even nightlights can be too bright unless they are not in direct view. We were in a room with a nightlight at my inlaws over Christmas, and even though it seems really dim, once you are down for the night you expect darkness, and even a very dim light can seem like a neon sign - I had to cover it with a book to get some sleep!
Let me know if any of these ideas may help, or other questions or problems that you see in the ideas I had... we can work through it!
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