Waking for water at night, 21 months

Where, oh where, have our 12-hour nights gone? They're waking once or twice at night for water. When I go in, they say, "Cup, cup, cuuuuuuuup (insert whine here)" then chug like crazy when I give them a sippy. They'll each drink about half of a full cup (it's a 9 ounce cup) and go right back to sleep. I'm offering water after dinner and they drink then too. They have water available all day. Does this mean it's too hot in their room?

 

I don't think that it necessarily means that it's too hot in their room. Most likely its more habit than anything else. At that age I used to leave a sippy cup of water in their crib with them. Sometimes they would drink it and sometimes they wouldn't. I don't think it's a problem as long as it's only water.

 

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I don't think that it necessarily means that it's too hot in their room. Most likely its more habit than anything else. At that age I used to leave a sippy cup of water in their crib with them. Sometimes they would drink it and sometimes they wouldn't. I don't think it's a problem as long as it's only water.


Ditto. DH and I both have a glass of water on our night stands when we go to bed. Sometimes we drink it, sometimes we don't, but it's there just in case. We kept sippy cups of H20 in the cribs until we were ready for nighttime potty training.

 

Agree with everyone else, if it were juice or milk they were asking for, I'd be concerned and not allow that. Water should be fine. I keep water on my nightstand, so if someone wants a drink, I'll let them have a sippy with water in their room at night.

Gabe prefers juice, but at night time, i won't let him have it. He usually will just refuse to drink the water, but that's alright too. If he was truly thirsty, he'd drink it!

 

It might be too hot. Since it has been hot here one of mine has been guzzling two bottles of water a night which I leave in his crib. When it's not so hot he usually only drinks one when he wakes up in the morning. I would leave a sippy cup or bottle in their crib so they can get it themselves.

 

Mine have been doing this too, and I'm contemplating putting sippies in their beds with them. I bought a night light and just need to put the sippy in, but DH hasn't completely bought into the idea yet. I figure if I tell him he can get up and give them the water if they wake up, maybe he'll be more likely to buy in.

The only thing that I worry about with all of this is eventually taking it away when we decide to try potty training.

 

Moshe only drinks water in his sippy 24/7 and has a sippy in his bed every night. It's usually empty by morning and sometimes he even cries during the night for a refill. I also drink a lot of water through the night. I wake up parched, no matter the season and must drink. I don't see it as an issue. If you get them used to having a water sippy at night, they might just drink and roll over without waking the tired mommy and daddy.

 

I've put water sippies in bed with my girls too some nights. MOre b/c they won't let it go when they do go to bed though. I wonder if they are waking up and just wanting a bit of attention in the middle of the night. Who knows!