9 months old routine

Have you tried giving her a later bedtime? Like 6.30pm instead of 5.30pm? Kylahs routine at the age was pretty simular except she was going to bed at 7pm and waking at 7am.. I would give her dinner at 6pm, bottle at 6.45 and bed.. That way she was full.

Not sure.

This was the routine that was introduced to Blair and myself when I sought help for him sleeping, by the wonderful women at a unit here in Hamilton. It was very structured whilst we were there but I have now adapted it to suit us a little bit more. Blair was days off turning 7 months when we went

7am get up, BF then solids allowing an hour from the time you start to the time you finish. I found this worked well if he had a small break between milk and solids.
2 hours after getting up, back to bed for 3 hours - sometimes he would sleep all 3, otherwise he would sometimes be up earlier.

The next feed would take place 5 hours after the last one started.
so 12 feed, play, 2pm bed
5pm feed, play/bath 7pm bed
and I would do a late feed/dream feed at 10pm.

The first day we just took the start of the day from his last feed - ie he had his bfast at 9 that day so worked from then, and then I dragged by lazy self out of bed at 7 the next morning.

I'm not saying it's right for everyone, but it worked for us, and after I had had broken sleep every night from mid Jan to mid May, this was amazing. (and it's still only 4 BF)

Otherwise, if not wanting to adapt something like this, I would also suggest a later bed time, and hope for a eg 7 - 7 sleep

Edited by MonicaMouse

We are now solids before milk, I slowly intro'd it a meal at a time over a period of a week, and now try to have a decent break between dinner and the milk feed a the end of the day - usually bath or shower before a BF, as I'm wondering if it's time for me to start looking at dropping the dream feed. (Blair doesn't think so after waking at 1.30 this morning and not settling without) but when I do it will also be gradual.

How much is she taking at her last 2 BF? I would be tempted to stretch it out, and intro a dream feed

when Ella was that age (and up until very recently) her routine was

wake around 5ish for a b/f then back to sleep
6.30/7 wake up, then b/fast
8.30ish b/f
9.15-10.30ish sleep
10.30 small snack
11.45/12 lunch
1 b/f
1.30-3 sleep
3.15 afternoon tea
4.45 dinner
6 bath then b/f and in bed by 6.45

Hi Alanismum. Our DS is a couple of weeks younger than your bub, and we have a similar routine to you ... and similar waking issues some nights. However, DS stays in bed from 7pm-7am and we use a dummy to send him back to sleep, which he does with no fuss. Sometimes he won't settle until his nappy is changed, but that's quite a rare occurrence.  Was just wondering whether you could try extending bedtime out by allowing for a quick nap around the time you usually feed dinner? DS gets really tired by 5pm and wouldn't last until 7pm without that nap, or sometimes just a rest in his cot.

At the moment our routine is:

7.00 am breakfast (bottle first, solids 30 mins later) 
around 9.00 back to bed (sometimes sleeps 1 hr, other times 2hrs)
11.30 am bottle
12.00 lunch
around 1.30 pm back to bed (usually sleeps for 1 or 2 hrs)
4.00 pm bottle 
around 4.30 back to bed for quick nap (30-45 mins)

5.30pm dinner then bath and last bottle at 6.45pm. In bed by 7pm

Hi, my boy is only 7 months old, but this seems to work for us:

7am - bottle, solids at 7.45am
9am - back to bed
10.30/11 - up and snack
12pm - lunch
2.30 - up and bottle
3pm - bed
4.30/5 - up
5.30 - dinner
6.45 - bottle and bed

So we have a combo of solids and bottle first. Jack sort of switched himself over and also only takes 600ml now which is apparently very normal.

Does she eat well in the morning? If she seems ravenous, she probably hasn't had enough the day before, but if she's not hungry then those night time or early morning feeds should be cut. We also give milk as a last resort if Jack wakes up, and he'll take water from his cup before I give him milk. Bad habits and all that.

Thanks for your great input ladies. We had our 8-10 months Plunket check today, so I brought up the issue as well. The Plunket nurse also advised me to switch to solids before milk first and having quite a big time gap between solids and milk feed. She also said if it doesn't work to try introducing a dream feed.
I've already dropped our afternoon milk feed as she seemed to fill up on that not wanting much for dinner an hour later. Instead I am giving her a little snack around 3, have dinner between 4.30 and 5. so far it has worked once this week and she slept through for 12 hours.
Now another question, for those of you who have been breastfeeding and started to introduce formula quite late, how did you do it? Alani doesn't take a bottle and it seems to make more sense to give her a cup. I would really like to start weaning her slowly, so I can have my body back by the time she is one.