I'm going to a concert Tuesday night with my sister and leaving the kids with DH. I haven't left A very often because she's a complete bottle refuser. The 3 times I've left her at bedtime she's just refused milk and fallen asleep without, then nursed all night once I was home. But now she's drinking milk from a cup! Yay! I've been giving her an ounce or so at dinner every night to practice. But how much do I leave for bedtime?
We have a wedding this weekend and MIL is watching and I had the same question. I think a regular feeding for a BF baby is 4 oz. I figure she prob drinks a little more before bed, but I also don't want to waste milk.... so maybe start with 3-4 and then add more if she will take more. That was my tentative game plan.
Post by sunshineshades on Oct 2, 2016 14:00:34 GMT -5
Figuring only one feeding? E takes 3-4 oz of breast milk when she has a bottle (once a week or so). I'd figure about that much. Leave extra though, in a separate bottle so if she only takes a couple oz you aren't wasting it all.
I need to try straws again and that sippy cup we bought. Maybe we'll try and tackle that tonight.
Not that you asked me but we use the Nuby sippy cup with handles and have had great success. LO has never successfully taken a bottle.
This will be the first time anyone has watched her while awake and I'm not also home (the nanny watches her but I'm in the house) I am FREAKING out. I do not really have high hopes but maybe she will surprise us!
I need to try straws again and that sippy cup we bought. Maybe we'll try and tackle that tonight.
Not that you asked me but we use the Nuby sippy cup with handles and have had great success. LO has never successfully taken a bottle.
This will be the first time anyone has watched her while awake and I'm not also home (the nanny watches her but I'm in the house) I am FREAKING out. I do not really have high hopes but maybe she will surprise us!
I know how nervous you must be, but I'm sure she will be fine. It's hard not to get the anxiety out of your head though. Try to enjoy yourself!
Not that you asked me but we use the Nuby sippy cup with handles and have had great success. LO has never successfully taken a bottle.
This will be the first time anyone has watched her while awake and I'm not also home (the nanny watches her but I'm in the house) I am FREAKING out. I do not really have high hopes but maybe she will surprise us!
I know how nervous you must be, but I'm sure she will be fine. It's hard not to get the anxiety out of your head though. Try to enjoy yourself!
I definitely plan to enjoy myself. It's just an intense weekend. I am in a wedding on Sat night. So we have a rehearsal dinner Friday night, I have pics, hair, bride time, etc on Sat, then the wedding. Then Sunday we are driving 2 hours to go to another wedding that afternoon. Lol. MIL is coming with us for the whole weekend to watch LO and help out. Our hotels are close to all the venues, etc. so we can go back and forth if needed.
LO has an extreme lack of tolerance for all people that are not mom and dad. It takes her a long time to warm up and she hates to be held by others. I have just made a new deal with work so we can reduce our nanny hours bc it's excruciating. She is great when it's just the two of us and I get more done without the nanny here. I actually think of her as fairly independent, as long as it's just us. I can put her on the floor with some toys and take a shower, or clean up, or drink my coffee and it's no problem at all. If someone else is in the house I have to be touching her or she freaks out.
H and I were talking about this last night, like did we do something, or is she just like this. We didn't really get a lot of visitors when she was new. Like between 0-4 months she didn't have a lot of other people holding her and around, etc, then at 4 months we stayed at my parents beach house for a month and suddenly it was lots of ppl, and that's when we really noticed she wasn't crazy about other ppl... so maybe from that... who knows. I am not trying to complain, bc it works for me I'm just sorry other people don't get to see this side of her as much.
So last night was sucky. The concert wasn't what we were expecting. Vince Gill (old country singer) didn't play any of his own music. He's joined a bluegrass/blues band and it was their music. Not my type of music, although I have to admit they were amazing musicians. And we say next to a weirdo that tried to give us a history lesson through the whole show. DH said A cried all evening. He had his mom come over and A cried every time she came near her. She drank her milk though. I got home at 11 and A woke up about 2 minutes after I walked in and then woke up every 2 hours all night. After getting down to 1-2 wake ups it made for a long night. Needless to say, it'll be awhile before I go out again 😕
So last night was sucky. The concert wasn't what we were expecting. Vince Gill (old country singer) didn't play any of his own music. He's joined a bluegrass/blues band and it was their music. Not my type of music, although I have to admit they were amazing musicians. And we say next to a weirdo that tried to give us a history lesson through the whole show. DH said A cried all evening. He had his mom come over and A cried every time she came near her. She drank her milk though. I got home at 11 and A woke up about 2 minutes after I walked in and then woke up every 2 hours all night. After getting down to 1-2 wake ups it made for a long night. Needless to say, it'll be awhile before I go out again 😕
What about going out during the day? Or early evening. Then it might not mess up nighttime that much. Even for a couple hours. I know it's really hard when your baby doesn't do well with you being gone, E can be like this. But giving her and others the opportunity to figure it out will be better in the long run.
Sorry after all that your concert wasn't even worth it
So last night was sucky. The concert wasn't what we were expecting. Vince Gill (old country singer) didn't play any of his own music. He's joined a bluegrass/blues band and it was their music. Not my type of music, although I have to admit they were amazing musicians. And we say next to a weirdo that tried to give us a history lesson through the whole show. DH said A cried all evening. He had his mom come over and A cried every time she came near her. She drank her milk though. I got home at 11 and A woke up about 2 minutes after I walked in and then woke up every 2 hours all night. After getting down to 1-2 wake ups it made for a long night. Needless to say, it'll be awhile before I go out again 😕
What about going out during the day? Or early evening. Then it might not mess up nighttime that much. Even for a couple hours. I know it's really hard when your baby doesn't do well with you being gone, E can be like this. But giving her and others the opportunity to figure it out will be better in the long run.
Sorry after all that your concert wasn't even worth it
I've done the occasional run to target or wherever, but she's just starting to take a cup (no bottles) so I haven't really gotten that far yet. Daytime outings are a good idea. Maybe I can find a weekend day that I can do something for me soon. We have until the end of October and then DH's schedule gets nuts with Christmas light installation (he has a business) and banquets for work.
LO only drank 2 oz while I was gone and wouldn't let MIL help her with the cup, so MIL gave it to her reclined in the stroller. We had to leave early from the wedding yesterday but other than that the weekend was mostly a success and really fun!
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