Help and suggestions needed for tonight

[IzzyTheTerrible]

I've posted about this before, but I really need help with it now.  We're going to have our first cold snap tonight and I'm really worried. 

We've had 8 month old for 2 months (abandoned) and he came to us with a single sleep association - his bottle.

Immediately we started implimenting a routine and other possible sleep associations, bath, reading, rocking, singing, mobile and stuffed animal.

I know falling asleep with the bottle is not a good thing and we're doing our best to try to help him move away from it, but we haven't been successful yet.  Unless he's 100% exhausted he will not sleep without it in his mouth, pacifiers of all shapes and sizes do not fit this bill.  He curls up with it.

So my concern is that he will not be held while he drinks the entire bottle.  At about 1/2-3/4 he starts kicking and wiggling to get put down.   

If I sit in the room with him, he will watch me and not fall asleep (which is why we moved him out of our room, he just won't sleep if he can see us unless he's practically forced into it - aka rocking)

.  If I take the bottle away from him, he starts bawling.  About half the nights he doesn't completely finish his bottle and falls asleep with it on his chest or in his arms and it ends up draining onto him or into his sheets, so he wakes up cold and miserable. 

If he wakes up in the middle of the night, the only way to get him to go back to sleep is either in my arms (which is fine but he freaks out if I put him down) or with another bottle (any type of contents work), but again he will not be held through the enitre bottle, he wants to be put back in his crib and left alone.

So I'm worried that he's going to be a babycicle tonight if I don't figure something out.

Options:

1. Bundle him up even more and hope that compensates for wetness and that it doesn't overheat him.

2. Return to his room after we think he's fallen asleep to swap the bottle for an empty one and risk waking him up and starting the cycle all over again.

3. Something else????

I don't want to leave him alone in his room to cry, and I also don't want a frozen baby. 

:(

[stellabluz]

Try a wool sleepsack, then he wont be wet, maybe his sheets, but he'll be dry and cozy warm...

Heres a good and cheaper one!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BABY-SLEEPING-BAG-Sleep-Sack100-ORGANIC-Sheep-WOOL-/160667530860?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item256887f66c

or

http://www.etsy.com/listing/38723556/little-baby-sleeping-sack-or-bag?ref=sr_list_17&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=wool+sleep+sack&ga_view_type=list&ga_ship_to=US&ga_order=price_asc&ga_page=0&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade

Or if yer crafty make one!

best of luck!