https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:32:06 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615760 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 16:56:53 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2615760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Like every 2 hours at 2 months old. My son was the same forever. She does like a 7-8 hour stretch at night though. So I can't complain... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615741 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 14:24:34 +0000 Magna Doodle 2615741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 4 month old eats every 2-3 hours </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615733 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 13:50:03 +0000 JenGirl 2615733@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think he was around every 3 hours at that age, with longer stretches at night </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615728 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 13:36:07 +0000 catomd00 2615728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 3.5 month old eats every 2 hours during the day but sleeps 10-12 hours a night without waking up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615727 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 13:26:08 +0000 justjules 2615727@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think at that time he was eating every 2-3 hours. Around 6-7 months when he started solids it spaced out to about 4 hours which is 4x a day for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615726 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 13:19:57 +0000 Pumuckl 2615726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DS had 6 feeds throughout the day, my DD 5-6. So that makes 3h stretches during the day and longer stretches at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615715 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 12:56:45 +0000 meadow 2615715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD and DS are coming up on 14 weeks and eat every 2 hours during the day (with one or two 3 hour stretches if they are napping soundly) and every 3 or 4 hours at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615706 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 12:28:35 +0000 brownepiano 2615706@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 12 weeks and eats about every 3 hours during the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615699 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 11:53:18 +0000 futuremama 2615699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD is 10 wks and eats every 2.5-3 hours with the exception of one stretch at night of 4-6 hrs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615696 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 11:38:59 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2615696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's hard to remember, but I know it was fairly often. Her feedings started to space out when she started solids. Now at almost 11 months she nurses 4 or 5 times a day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-often-does-your-bf-baby-eat-1#post-2615687 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 11:17:29 +0000 AnnabelleG 2615687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My baby is almost 4m and it seems like he eats all the time (breastfed). How often does or did your baby eat around this age? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532687 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:27:42 +0000 lamariniere 2532687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We skipped the sippy and went to straw cups with water around 8-9ish months. When we switched from BM to WCM, we put it in straw cups. My younger child moved on to open cups at daycare at 13 months and was using them effectively by 15 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532685 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:26:30 +0000 ShootingStar 2532685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We eliminated the night time bottle at 9 months. It was getting too hard to fit it in to our routine, so we switched to a sippy with formula at dinner. We vary between spouted ones and straw ones.</p> <p>Then at 11m we slowly replaced his daycare bottles with solids and offered sippies of water. His last bottle to go was the morning one, at 12m, which I replaced with breakfast and a sippy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532660 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 05:26:00 +0000 looch 2532660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We skipped the spouted sippy. We began using an open cup and did quite well with that. I added a straw cup for outings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532649 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:07:54 +0000 sapphire 2532649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We fully transitioned by 12 months. She did well with the sippy cup so there was no point in keeping the bottle. She had been drinking water out of a sippy for a long time. She has her last cup of milk for the day at dinner, not at bedtime, so we can get her teeth brushed. So far we just use the Take N Toss cups. No extra parts to clean and they are cheap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532626 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:42:28 +0000 gingerbebe 2532626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He did best learning the actual sucking part by us squeezing up on those take n toss straw cups. Once he got that the Tommee Tippee trainer straw cups with the handles were easiest for him. DS still does not like cups that require hard sucking to get the liquid out and we found the Tommee Tippee ones to be fairly easy to suck liquid out of. We were willing to sacrifice leakproof technology or whatever because they pissed him off. His favorite cup at home now (cuz it has not lid or cover for travel) is the Zoomi cup from Amazon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532619 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:19:37 +0000 Mrs. Turtle 2532619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: what straw cups did you start with? We have a sippy cup for T and he loves it (just with water) but isn't really getting the tipping part. He really prefers if we tip it for him. I thought I might try a straw to see if that works better. He's a rough and tumble kind of boy so I was afraid of him stabbing himself in the mouth with the straw! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532617 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:13:25 +0000 gingerbebe 2532617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We offered straw cups of water at meals starting at 9 months and had them out in his play areas, mostly to get familiar. By 11 months we were offering formula in the straw cups at meals and water with snacks. DS self weaned mostly so by 12 months he just got a 2-3 ounce snack bottle in the morning while we prepped his breakfast and the rest of the time he was on straw cups. We did straw cups because my son never held his own bottles so he didn't understand tipping his head back and using sippy cups. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532531 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:48:28 +0000 Alba4 2532531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We switched to cups sometime between 12-18 months. It was gradual. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532485 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 17:36:56 +0000 runnerd 2532485@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We transitioned to sippy cups about half the time at 13 months, but then we kept the nighttime bottle until 15 months since that was the hard cutoff on bottles that our doc gave us </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532418 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:39:29 +0000 Truth Bombs 2532418@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We dropped the bottle cold turkey at 12 months and gave her WCM in a sippy cup from then on (though she did still nurse morning and night). When LO was first learning to use a cup with water (around 7 months) she did much better with straw cups than sippy cups. When we started doing WCM she did best with the cheapo take and toss sippy cups you buy at the grocery store! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532414 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:34:02 +0000 snowjewelz 2532414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We transitioned at 12 months (but she was using sippy with water before that). After 12 months, we kept the night bottle for a few more weeks and eventually went to sippy also. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/transition-to-sippy-cups-from-the-bottle#post-2532408 Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:25:54 +0000 Mrs. Pickles 2532408@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>at what age did you fully transition from the bottle to a sippy cup?</p> <p>did you still keep a bottle at night with formula or did you just use a sippy cup?</p> <p>what kind of sippy cups are your favorite? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-school-or-daycare-droppickup-with-2#post-2138799 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:18:14 +0000 Andrea 2138799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The baby was always over tired at drop off and I always had to wake her up for pick up, since she napped 3-4x a day. So that was the worst part of it for me when DD2 was a baby, not the actual drop off/pick up logistics. That part must've been easy since I barely remember it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-school-or-daycare-droppickup-with-2#post-2138744 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:32:26 +0000 tysonja 2138744@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>great thread!! i'm in the same predicament come Sept (3 year old starting preschool). I've also got another one in between as well (will be 2 in sept) as well as a baby due around then. ack!! we can do it! :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-school-or-daycare-droppickup-with-2#post-2138598 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:18:04 +0000 mauxie 2138598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our daycare is a large center-- ramps, multiple doors/gates, so I found using a stroller/car seat was more of a pain. Most parents don't use strollers and if they do, they are those super lightweight umbrella ones, not suitable for infants. I prefer to use the ergo and have one big tote bag ready to hold everything else-- lunch/bottle bag, papers, clothes, etc. My daughter is 2.5 so she just walks and holds my hand when we get out of the gate to the parking lot. I pick my son up first, stick him in the ergo, then make my way to my daughter's class. </p> <p>When we get to the car, I open her door and she climbs in to her seat. I then buckle my son in his seat, and come back to buckle my daughter. My days of using the ergo are probably numbered though and soon I'll just have to walk with the both of them. </p> <p>My husband does most of the drop offs. When DS was smaller/sleepier, he would take him in the bucket seat. But now he just holds his hand or carries him in. My daughter usually gets dropped off first and while DH is getting her situated, my son just stands around/explores her classroom.</p> <p>You'll figure it out! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-school-or-daycare-droppickup-with-2#post-2138392 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:41:03 +0000 lamariniere 2138392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a car, so I never used a car seat, but I would take the stroller with the bassinet, pop off the bassinet attachment so I could take it up the stairs, and get DS that way. When the baby was no longer in the bassinet but in the stroller seat, I would pop off the seat attachment and take it up the stairs. Our new daycare doesn't have stairs, so I just wheel DD in and leave her in the stroller, but the entrance is right next to the coat room so I can see her the whole time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-school-or-daycare-droppickup-with-2#post-2138350 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:23:30 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 2138350@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it's no more complicated than any other thing you do with two, meaning that there is a learning curve but once you get used to it it's not too bad. The key for me in the morning was getting myself and baby ready first and then waking my toddler at the last minute and getting dressed/quick breakfast in as short a time as possible. If we drove I would get the toddler out, have him hold his backpack and then grab the baby. I found it easiest to just carry baby in and not bother with carseat/stroller/carrier. But usually we walked so it was easier. Also, we were late (a lot). :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-school-or-daycare-droppickup-with-2#post-2138341 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:19:00 +0000 daniellemybelle 2138341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Everyone at our preschool who is dropping off an older child uses the carseat and snap &amp; go. I have seen a few that baby wear, but they usually have two older little ones. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tell-me-about-school-or-daycare-droppickup-with-2#post-2138317 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:07:10 +0000 yin 2138317@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I open the door to let LO1 climb into his seat. Then I put LO2 in his seat and buckle him in (at the time he was already in a convertible). Go back and buckle LO2 and drive to school. Once there I let LO1 out and wear LO2. I have my hands free and can help my oldest get situated and sign him in. Baby wearing stopped once LO2 started walking, and I just carry him in. I let him walk around in the hallway and classroom while I help LO1. Other moms just carry the infant bucket seat with them or use a stroller. I'm the odd one in the bunch. </p>