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wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
So the last two days, Logan only had 5 feeds instead of his normal six. And then slept 10+ hours! So... maybe we're dropping a feed at 9 months??
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@josina: Aww! One step at a time!
We had epic bad sleep last night She went down so easy too and I thought it'd be a good night! I don't know how I'm gonna last all day at work...
pomelo / 5298 posts
@Adira: We dropped a feed recently as well. We are on 5 feeds. But I think we are working on dropping one more. We make 6 oz bottles for K and she's pretty consistently only finishing 2 of those 5 per day and leaving at least 1 oz in the others. Yesterday at daycare she only drank 2 oz from one of the bottles. Over the weekend we did 4 feeds and she seemed fine.
pomelo / 5298 posts
@snowjewelz: Are you co-sleeping? Sorry you had such bad sleep last night.
pomegranate / 3973 posts
@Adira: Yes, for tubes. I've heard a lot of good things about them, but I will be a wreck when that day comes, more so b/c of the anesthesia I think.
Yay for the 10 hours of sleep. We are typically at 6-7 feeds. I'd like to drop obvi the MOTN feed, but 1 daytime feed since I'm only pumping twice at work.
@snowjewelz: Aww, sorry for the bad sleep! Lots of Caffeine?!!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@Adira: He is doing great! Maybe you can naturally wean him down the road... He is making it easy for you
@MamaG: Yeah, generally it's been working, but I'm waiting for DH to install these new black out shades I bought, plus lower the crib, and then I'm gonna try to put her in her room again... I'm also hoping this is just a one night fluke since normally she isn't that bad (but normal being at least 2 wake ups still)
nectarine / 2053 posts
I'm still here! We've just been super busy! Nothing new to report though. Still not crawling, but he wants to pull up on everything!
@snowjewelz: I feel you on the bad sleep. Hopefully lots of coffee will keep you going!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@whenoceansrise: I'm adding @theotherstark too... When any one of our babies STTN for real... We need to throw a huge party for each other
pomegranate / 3045 posts
@whenoceansrise: @snowjewelz: oh tell me about it ha. I cant even imagine a full night of sleep at this point. Sounds too luxurious.
...Coming from the mom whose kiddo was up at 4:15am
pomelo / 5298 posts
@josina: You know how mentioned "graceful" yesterday? K came home with a black eye. Her eagerness got her standing up in front of the wood glider at school. When she lost her balance she fell and caught her cheek/eye on the edge. It's very "boxer" like. My graceful baby!
C also is routinely covered particularly on her legs in bruises and scrapes. I've got not graceful and active girls!
pomelo / 5298 posts
@whenoceansrise: @snowjewelz: @theotherstark: I'm in this club too right now, thanks to teething. We just don't feed. K was crying last night at about 11 and her Dad went to soothe her. I wasn't so kind at 3:00 when I heard her. It took her a good 30 minutes to work it out but I'm not willing to fall into a routine of going to her MOTN. Stubborn, mean mommy!
pomegranate / 3045 posts
@MamaG: you do what you gotta do!! I know I need to let him work things out more, but we are still in a one bedroom with him in the room with us, so I usually still try to get him back to sleep as soon as possible so that I can get back to sleep as soon as possible. bah.
pomelo / 5298 posts
@theotherstark: I commend you! I'm not sure you really have a choice in the matter, but moving K (while hard at the time) was the best thing we did for everyone's sleep! I couldn't imagine having her in our room at this point.
nectarine / 2053 posts
@theotherstark: @snowjewelz: @MamaG: here's to hoping better sleep is in our near future!
pomegranate / 3045 posts
@MamaG: believe me - I know!! Haha. Although at this point I've said to myself 'if he only had his own room...' so many times, now I worry that I'm jinxing it, and his sleep will still be crappy when he moves out. Not much we can do about it right now, but I am counting the days until he can have his own room
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Thanks for all of the reassurance on the nanny. Today, I decided to just pump and leave the house to work since she has both kids (T starts school tomorrow). She is definitely quirky and I'm totally anxious over all of it...but I think we'll stick it out.
R keeps trying to crawl up stairs. And stand without holding on to things. SLOW DOWN baby boy!
Interesting on feeds....My mom had the kids about 24 hours and he drank only about 21 oz. He had five 5 oz bottles but only 4 oz from each one, except the one before bed he finished. With me, he pretty much does 6 feedings, except if he STTN then it's 5.
How does one go about weaning if you're mostly just breastfeeding, only doing occasional bottles? I have zero interesting in breastfeeding after 12 months.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@Adira: oh yeah I pumped when I was away! He nursed at like 1:30 and then I passed him off to my mom around 2:30....then I pumped at 6, 1 am (and had to dump it...too many drinks lol!)...then 8 am, then 1 pm again. My supply didn't seem to suffer from the gaps between pumps.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
@winniebee: Did you have to pump while you were actually out and about? Just curious how you did that (if you did it) and how much a pain it was. Glad you had fun!
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@Adira: nope! we stayed at a hotel I pumped in the hotel room before we went to dinner and then when we came home from the bars....and then again in the morning. Used hotel fridge for my milk. My other friend is also BF and pumped when I did.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@MamaG: My attempts to feed are often futile lol. And you are not mean! I really have a non existent threshold for crying!
@theotherstark: K has her own room and she's not even in it, lol!
@winniebee: I saw that pic of him trying to climb up! So cute!
pomegranate / 3973 posts
@MamaG: Did you document her first black eye? I probably should've gotten a pic of his first bruise, but didnt. E LOVES standing on our glider, so I'm actually surprised he doesn't have a bruise from it yet! I think he actually made it all day yesterday without hurting himself!
pomelo / 5298 posts
@josina: Unfortunately, this isn't her first black eye, but I think it's worse than the prior one. This kid has more marks on her head than C ever did. I might have been more protective of the firstborn
eggplant / 11861 posts
Sitting in driveway in car apparently G naped like 15mjms total today :(,she is passed out now..... Poor girl!
So I will catch up!
@Adira: G drinks a lot less most days I am guessing 20oz in 4-5 feeds 2-3 nursing sessions and 1-2 sessions of straw cup
@snowjewelz: Sorry about last night, hoping K LOVES her room and sleeps like a baby....
eggplant / 11861 posts
@winniebee: No idea on the weaning as I think I will have a harder time then G....lol
We are down to 2 possible 3 a day BF sessions and no MOTN
So I truly would only have to wean the 1st and last.
Which I hear are hard
pomegranate / 3045 posts
@winniebee: such a big boy!! We don't have stairs, but any that we encounter (story time, playground, etc), h just climbs right on up too. Makes me a little relieved that we don't have any. Haha and I have no idea how to wean! H still isn't eating a ton of solids, so I don't think he is eating much less when we nurse.
@FaithFertility: poor girl! Hope she got a good nap in.
pomegranate / 3045 posts
@josina: @MamaG: yall are making me feel better - h has a bruised chin and shin and I was feeling like a horrible mom. Glad my kid isn't the only one with bruises Active little kiddos!
honeydew / 7283 posts
@Adira: @MamaG: I feel like such a dummy but when you say that they dropped a feed are they refusing to nurse or are you not offering? J is such a food monster he would never refuse to nurse. His schedule is so set right now that it's hrad for me to imagine when / how it will change. He does seem to be less interested in his two post-nap feeds. Maybe at some point I will offer him a snack instead of nursing?
honeydew / 7283 posts
@MamaG: poor baby with a black eye I hope she's feeling ok!
@winniebee: I totally don't understand what weaning will look like. J takes bottles 2 days / week but he loves nursing. The whole thing is hard for me to picture...
@FaithFertility: Aw - she must be exhausted!
honeydew / 7283 posts
J is almost mobile! He's doing his crazy plant position with some sort-of crawling in between. I'd be happy to have a few more weeks of non-mobile baby
pomelo / 5298 posts
@MrsF: When K really ramped up on solids at daycare, she naturally stopped taking one bottle. She was previously taking a bottle about every 2.5 hours. She stretched out so that now it's closer to 3.5 hours. I think she could probably go 4 hours during the middle of the day.
Over the weekend it was bottle at wake, another 3 hours later. The next one was 4 hours later (due to nap). And the last one was about 4 hours later as well at bedtime.
And generally I think she'd be content to just eat food and skip the bottle almost entirely.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
@MrsF: I didn't offer. For example, on Sunday, he went longer in the morning between feeds than normal (because Hubs let me sleep in after his 6:00 a.m. feed), and that threw off the rest of the day, so by 7:30, he was only on his 5th feed instead of his 6th. I decided to skip the dreamfeed at 9:00 and just see if he'd make it without, and he did. Then on Monday and Tuesday, I had to work late, so after daycare, Hubs fed him solids instead of me nursing him and then I nursed him around 6:30/7:00 to bed and he ended up sleeping through the night.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Ryan napped one hour yesterday. So I put him to bed at 6:30. He woke at 7, 11:30, 4, and up for the day at 5:45!!!!!!!!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
I think K is gaining a lot of weight, b/c she drinks just as much milk and eats a ton too, lol! Her thighs are getting chubbier!
@winniebee: Yikes! I feel you. K wasn't as bad last night but I'm still not recovered from her horrible night haha!
nectarine / 2053 posts
sooo where do your babies sleep when you are on vacation? we're going to houston to visit my mom and i guess i could bring the pack n play but he has never really slept in it and i'd have to lower it all the way to the ground since he'd try to stand up in it and i don't know how i can lower him all the way down there without waking him up!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@whenoceansrise: But isn't your crib the same way now? Tho not as low as the pnp?
We still co-sleep so I can't help you there
nectarine / 2053 posts
@snowjewelz: no, the crib is definitely not that low! he's never tried to stand up in the crib though.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
@whenoceansrise: We used a Pack 'n Play when we've gone other places. It was definitely hard lowering Logan all the way into it when he's asleep without waking him up, but it wasn't too big of a deal and he got used to it quickly.
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