Find times other than while your child is falling asleep to cuddle after the first three months of life. Night waking is responded to with nurturing efforts . Place your baby in bed sleepy but awake. Security objects such as night lights and stuffed toys are appropriate around six months old. Minimizing social contact in the middle of the night will help your child to understand that night is for sleeping not socializing.
Fluid is more likely to build in the middle ear.
Your child will be more susceptible to ear infections. Sleep associations are very important. If the bottle is hard to find in the middle of the night, your baby may have trouble self-settling. This can also be true of the pacifier. One mother chose not to use a connector and reported that she solved the problem by placing ten pacifiers in her baby's crib so that one was always within the child's reach.