https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 21 May 2026 08:18:06 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504619 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:26:16 +0000 pinkarmadillo 2504619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: good thinking with the dream feed. I just always hate waking her when she's peaceful but I'm definitely going to give it a try and see how she does. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504562 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:26:15 +0000 gingerbebe 2504562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe try the 530pm bottle, dinner, bedtime bottle, and then institute a dreamfeed around 10pm or whenever you would go to bed? That might at least get you a long initial stretch of sleep and then perhaps reduce the night waking to once per night. Sometimes its enough to shake up the timing of the bottles so that she would sleep through times she might normally wake up. Then as she eats more solids, you might be able to get her to drop that MOTN feeding and reduce the dreamfeed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504560 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:23:39 +0000 pinkarmadillo 2504560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayLou: I'm sorry for the both of us :( my husband keeps saying it's a phase and I hope he's right!</p> <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: that's an idea. I may test it this weekend and see how she does with it. Thank you!</p> <p>I'm also going to try to feed her solids between every bottle during the day and see how that goes. Suggested by a ped friend </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504559 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:22:27 +0000 maddyz 2504559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sounds like my guy, but we breast fed. I just stuck it out, and by 10 months he was eating lots of solids and we managed to night ween. As long as he was eating and going right to sleep it seamed like that's what he needed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504555 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:18:32 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2504555@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe daycare could try feeding her with a nursing cover over her head? You could do it on the weekend first to prepare her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504552 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:16:08 +0000 LindsayLou 2504552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No advice, just commiseration. My daughter is almost 7 months and distracted by every little thing during the day, but seems to want to just camp out and nurse all evening long, plus several times during the night. I'm hoping it's just a phase. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504539 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:55:40 +0000 pinkarmadillo 2504539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She's in daycare so that makes it a little tricky. She's such a busy body that everything distracts her. She will turn her head to the side and push it away or bite the nipple if you keep offering.</p> <p>She starts loading up at night though. She will take a full bottle at 5:30, eat solids for dinner and will take a bottle before bed too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504533 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:48:40 +0000 BabyTsMom 2504533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>sounds like reverse cycling to me, though I've only heard of it w breast fed babes. I don't see why it can't happen w formula fed babes though. I'd try feeding her during the day in a darkened, quiet room with little distractions. And/Or try upping her solids at the same time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504531 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:45:37 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2504531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just curious what seems to be the daytime distractions during feedings? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-my-baby-has-a-nocturnal-tapeworm#post-2504526 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:42:48 +0000 pinkarmadillo 2504526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Kidding...kind of. She ate 18 oz from bedtime, 7 pm, until her wake time of 6:30 am last night. She's almost 7 months old and formula fed. She doesn't eat great everyday and seems too distracted to be bothered with it a lot of times. I've tried slowly reducing her night time bottles but that isn't going well. She just wakes more often to eat a small amount. I went from 6 oz to 5 and then down to 4 and that's where she began waking more.</p> <p>Any ideas or advice on how to reduce her nighttime intake and up her daily? I'm not into CIO and she sleeps in her room and crib the entire night. We do solids twice a day and she usually does 2 oz at each meal.</p> <p>I wanted to add that she eats and then goes right back to sleep so it's not like she's awake for a long period of time. She downs the bottle and is right back to snoozing. </p>