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honeydew / 7283 posts
@Adira: Yay for scooting! So adorable with his circles
Boo for HFM though... I hope all our babies are feeling better soon!
honeydew / 7283 posts
@winniebee: That sleep sounds horrible I can see why you're thinking about weaning!
@snowjewelz: Glad that K ate better today!
@MamaG: Ugh - I hope her tummy is feeling better soon.
honeydew / 7283 posts
@winniebee: Just to clarify - have you completely weaned at night? I think so, but can't quite remember.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@winniebee: Well.. Weaning doesn't apply to us since nursing her at night stopped working consistently and we just weaned.
K doesn't STTN these nights due to her cold (and I am sure she won't STTN every single night anyway). I've always been in the camp of wait it out.
Do you think weaning will help? If so I would try that before anything as for sure!
pear / 1961 posts
@winniebee: did you have to/try to feed him every 2 hrs when he woke up? Or was he just awake? It seems like something else would be going on to regress that much.
pear / 1961 posts
@winniebee: assuming he's not sick (slash you dosed Tylenol anyways)...and knowing that being away from home can create chaos...do you think it's just separation anxiety? And that he likes to nurse back to comfort with you but maybe would just settle for someone else (grandparent...husband if he could help)?
I'd be nervous about weaning in the middle of this in case he is looking for the comfort and then that is gone too. But there are those babies that don't STTN until weaning so who knows?! Stubborn, that one.
pear / 1961 posts
So many sick babies...and it's only October! Not looking forward to a winter of germs.
We were in Chicago for the weekend and left the girls with grandma. E 100% refused any breastmilk from a bottle but did take some from the zoli. Not very much (maybe 10oz a day), but apparently made up for the lack of milk with extra solids. I give up trying to predict baby eating/drinking habits.
nectarine / 2210 posts
@snowjewelz: We normally send a morning snack and then lunch to daycare. The snack is normally fruit or yogurt. Lunch is normally leftovers. But I definitely feel like I'm running out of ideas for food. Which is kind of crazy since I've only been doing this for a few months and I know there's years of lunch packing ahead of me!
pomegranate / 3973 posts
@winniebee: Is he still waking every 2 hours now that you're back at home? That's sooo rough.
I'm not sure what I would do... with Ethan, thank god, he just figured it out on his own although it's been on and off. Some nights he's up once, some nights he sleeps through, 9 to 6.
I don't use a monitor anymore, and so only hear him if he's really upset so there may have been some nights where he cried himself back to sleep. I try not to go in for min. 5 minutes of crying just in case.
Also when he was waking more often, I would feed him at 1, and if he woke up before 4 I'd let him CIO. Maybe try eliminating one at a time? Comfort the first time, CIO the 2nd?
I dk, hope he figures it out!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@Miss Ariel: Haha, I know! I follow some food accounts on IG, and honestly the lunches they make are not that complicated and not too much variety. I guess we are the ones that get bored...
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
Previously I was not feeding him at night for 2 weeks....I thought we had night weaned. Then he randomly started having blowouts MOTN and nursing was the only thing that got him back down. Then he got a little cold. And a tooth. But then STTN a few nights. Then the horrendous 2 hour wakes.
Since we got back, he woke at 2 and 5:30 the first night and Ferber checks did not help at 2 am. So I fed him both times. Then last night he slept 7-3:30 and then I let him cry for 45 mins (with 3 checks). Finally fed him at 4:15. He was hyperventilating and I felt terrible. He slept til 6:15.
I'm just not sure what to do. I want him to sleep through the night. Even until 4 am I would be fine with. Because I know he can go 10 hours without eating. But he seems to get so very worked up when he doesn't get nursing comfort when he asks for it. He is such a good baby....but the sleep is just overwhelming.
pomelo / 5660 posts
We have drop cameras in both kids room, so I keep tabs on them with our tablet. They are both pretty regular (no wake ups) so I don't look too closely at them.
pomelo / 5660 posts
@winniebee: Does he have something to help him self soothe? Ex: paci, lovey? Darcy self soothes with her paci. I put like 5 wubbanubs in her crib.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@KayKay: So strange - was she previously taking a bottle ok??
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@BandDmommy: Yep, he soothes with his paci and has multiple....as well as 2 movies. He had both the paci in his mouth and one in his hand last night...and his lovey within reach.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@KayKay: He was awake and CRYING every wake up when we were away. It was brutal! I wonder if he wasn't feeling well.
pear / 1961 posts
@winniebee: no, not really haha. she took the bottle fine when she was super-tiny (like 5 weeks old) until about...4-5 months, despite having one at least a couple times a week. Then she was hit-or-miss with sitters, but did fine with bottle when I was in Paris for a week. Then hit-or-miss with her regular sitters again. Honestly, since we moved, she hasn't had many (any?!) because it just wasn't worth it. So I was expecting potential issues, but figured she'd give it up when she realized I wasn't there. But she took what she needed from the Zoli, apparently, because she still kept sleeping through the night! I really expected some night wake-ups/bottle chugging.
If you're over nursing, I'd probably wean and see if that helps. But if you still like it and would ideally keep at it, then I'd probably just set rules that are kind of a compromise bewteen sleeping and waking (e.g., no feeding before a 3a wakeup or whatever) and just go with that until either he figures it out and/or you wean.
ETA: E slept totally through with gma for 2 nights while we were gone. As soon as I came back, again with the 4-5a wakeup/feed. I've just accepted it
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@KayKay: I am not ready to wean. Now that I'm not pregnant, I want to nurse until 12 months (and he's only 10 months). Not at night though, haha. I guess I should cut him some slack since 7-3:30 IS 8.5 hours straight of sleep.
pear / 1961 posts
@winniebee: ha. yeah, then i'd probably just plan to feed if he wakes up after 3 or whatever. but i think any wakes (including that one), i'd give him like 10-15 minutes to see if he would happen to settle himself. maybe i'm weak, but i'm at the point where it's just easier for me to accept that early a.m. wakeup when/if it happens then to deal with the headache of getting rid of it! then again, she has also been a pretty good sleeper and doesn't do it every night. maybe i'd feel differently if i was constantly tired!
honeydew / 7283 posts
@winniebee: That's so hard I keep trying to think it through but I don't even know what I would do.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@winniebee: I am so sorry it's been so hard! Really hope it's a a short phase (in the grand scheme of things). When K wasn't STTN I was waiting it out!
eggplant / 11861 posts
@winniebee: Again so sorry, I think I am a wait it out kind of gal, although I've been letting her fuss/cry if she wakes for a few minutes usually that leads to going back down, but if she full blown cries like you say R does, I feel ya that is hard!
Hopefully back home he gets better soon! Sending you sleepy dust!!!!
eggplant / 11861 posts
@Adira: Hope L is feeling better with HFM and scooting all around
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
@FaithFertility: Thanks! He's definitely recovering and he's looking a lot better, though still is shedding the blisters. And he's a scooting champion now! He goes surprisingly fast at times, haha! And he seems a LOT happier now that he can actually move around!!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@Adira: Shedding blisters just sounds wonderful, lol. But they great thing about kids is their perfect skin will grow back
nectarine / 2053 posts
@winniebee: i am soooooooo with you on the sleep. we're on the third week of every 2 hour wake ups. i've just been riding it out but i am losing my mind!
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@whenoceansrise: I'm so sorry!! Last night was just up at 3:30....I've given in and am just feeding him because he goes right back to sleep. Sleep training did not seem to work.
nectarine / 2053 posts
so we've been dealing with this newborn every two hour wake up nightmare which is seriously making me crazy. last night at his 2:00am wake up i decided to let dh try to get him back down. ha! i think micah wanted to punish me for sending in dh instead of me because he didn't go back down until after 4:00am.
honeydew / 7283 posts
@Adira: Sounds like he's doing well!
@whenoceansrise: @winniebee: Sorry you guys are having a hard time with sleep
J has been sick in one form or another (virus, fevers, now ear infection) for at least 3 weeks and all of our sleep is suffering He had been fairly well sleep trained but I can't bring myself to let him CIO when he's sick. Now I've been resorting to nursing him overnight because he's so congested and presumably in pain from his ears and he just can't go back to sleep (giving Tylenol too). Now last night that didn't work and he was up from 3-5 and then finally fell asleep with me on the couch about 5:15. Uuuuugh I'm so exhausted from a short time like this, I don't know how some of you are handling bad sleep for so long!
and now of course I'm terrified that this is going to turn into a long-term sleep problem. I'm assuming he's still feeling sick because he's not eating well (absolutely shocking for him).
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
@snowjewelz: haha, yeah, HFM blisters are gross! They form and then they just peel off, lol. And they cover his entire hands, so it is gross looking!!
@whenoceansrise: Ugh, your night sounds so brutal! I'm sorry!!
@MrsF: I'm sorry! Sick babies are so hard. And when nursing to sleep doesn't work, I'm completely lost. Hope you get some good sleep coming your way.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@whenoceansrise: Yikes I am sorry!! Hang in there mama! Lots of coffeeeee!
pomelo / 5660 posts
Is there anyone else suffering through the food throwing and horrendous diaper changes? She also likes trying to stand up in her high chair... anyone.. anyone???
nectarine / 2053 posts
@BandDmommy: yep! micah is more interested in throwing food on the ground for the dog to eat and he will not sit still in his high chair. it makes dinner time rough because the food doesn't keep him occupied because all he does is throw it on the ground and then he's fussing and trying to get out of the high chair soooooo we have to eat fast.
nectarine / 2210 posts
@BandDmommy: diaper changes are awful! She basically screams the whole time because she tries to roll over and crawl away. I try to hold her down with one hand, but you can't really change her diaper with one free hand. Sometimes if I let her hold a toy she'll calm down but not often!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
@MrsF: It will be okay! I am glad he's getting all the snuggles he needs. It's def so tough when they're sick and then we're all sick!
@BandDmommy: We'r okay in the food dept; K likes to play around with her straw cup but she will pretty much eat all the food. For diaper changes I have to let her watch something on my phone Otherwise she screams and won't lay still. I also change her clothes not laying down anymore.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@BandDmommy: diaper changes are and have been awful for months. i have no advice....except if I try to take it slowly and tell him calmly all of the things that I'm doing and about to do, he reacts better than me swooping in to change him and trying to distract him. I used the phone trick for Tyler...and I don't want to get into that habit again b/c it's hard to break!
R has started using his water cup as a windshield wiper wiping anything he doesn't want off of his tray. I forgot how annoying this phase is!
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