After all the agonizing I did about DS not babbling consonants, he started saying "baba" this weekend. It sounds more like beh-beh, but I'll take it! In fact, he's doing it so much I almost miss when he didn't do it. This morning, after hearing bababababa for like 10 minutes, my mom turned to him and said, "All right, rain man, that's enough." Made me LOL.
You were?! No, no, no dude, don't!
I'm using "agonizing" loosely. I just complained about it a lot, haha. I wanted to hear him talk!
Sweetsurprise - I'm sorry your baby is still crying so long. Each time we did this with our older son we saw a cut of crying time by about 1/2 each night. If you go three or more nights and don't see progress it could be that your baby isn't ready for it. I forget the rules but you may want to look at the ferber book. I also really like happy baby healthy sleep (I think I messed up the title).
We are seeing progress but it's still horrible. He did cut his MOTN scream fest from two hours to one hour last night. Fx that it's 30 or less tonight.
I'm using "agonizing" loosely. I just complained about it a lot, haha. I wanted to hear him talk!
Ok good. I'm not saying I'm some expert and I worry about things too but sometimes I want to lovingly shake people (not necessarily you over this) and say "STOP WORRYING! IT'S A WASTE OF TIME!!". Just because I've been there and now I know! haha
Anyone still having a squirmy baby on the changing table? Any wins in this arena? DS seems to stop moving around when I give him his sock to play with. I'm also mastering the belly change. Any other tips?
Squirmy is an understatement she flips over and pulls on wipes counter to standing. No amount of toys or distraction helps! And if she remains still its to pee on herself! She takes pity on DH and remains still for him!
Hi lads. I got DS's 6 month pro pics back and I'm dying over the insane level of cuteness. I have to share at least one. It's for your health and well being, really.
I just died. But it was the best death ever because CUUUUTTTTEEEE!
Post by americanninjamommy on Jun 1, 2015 12:23:54 GMT -5
Hai ladies.
This is the last week before the big leadership meeting next week that I am prepping a presentation for. This is my office right now. (For real or not for real)
I'll be around more later this week once I hand this off to my boss to send out for review and panic. People hate to be held accountable.
Anyone still having a squirmy baby on the changing table? Any wins in this arena? DS seems to stop moving around when I give him his sock to play with. I'm also mastering the belly change. Any other tips?
OMG so much yes. I give him a stuffed animal to play with and he always pushed the animal into his junk. I mean c'mon kid. I can get the diaper and pants on. I've resorted to picking him up and sitting him up on the bed or on my knee when I need to change his shirt because that is the WOOORRRRSSTTT experience in his life.
sweetsurprise, - Hope DS is doing better soon! I am sorry you guys are going through this right now! Regarding the changing table, DD is always trying to roll around on me. I try to distract her with small toys. I have resorted to toys and changing her on the floor because I am afraid she is going to roll right off of the changing table. Its awesome when she does this after a blow out
This is the last week before the big leadership meeting next week that I am prepping a presentation for. This is my office right now. (For real or not for real)
I'll be around more later this week once I hand this off to my boss to send out for review and panic. People hate to be held accountable.
I am an idiot, I was just going to ask you if your office was ransacked - DUH
I am feeling really conflicted about weaning. How long before she wants the formula. We've just done a gradual mixing and I tried a whole bottle last night and she wanted nothing of it. blehhh
sweetsurprise - sleep training sucks! Just try and be consistent and FX that you see results soon.
We waited until DS1 was a year old before we did CIO and once he started STTN (before that he consistently woke up once a night), it was amazing! You don't realize how sleep deprived you truly are until you consistently get a full night of sleep for several days in a row.
I just got home from my first therapy session. Went ok. Looking forward seeing a treatment plan and hoping to see some progress soon. I am really glad I made the appointment.
I think DD is cutting a second tooth - this makes 2 in less than a week, on top of her crawling and pulling herself up on furniture. She was a beast before bed last night and climbed up on the side of the crib and grabbed the baby cam before falling in the corner of her crib and hitting her head on the side. It took over an hour to get her to bed. She is not usually that bad. These changes are happening SO DAMN FAST. SLOW DOWN BABY!
I just got home from my first therapy session. Went ok. Looking forward seeing a treatment plan and hoping to see some progress soon. I am really glad I made the appointment.
I think DD is cutting a second tooth - this makes 2 in less than a week, on top of her crawling and pulling herself up on furniture. She was a beast before bed last night and climbed up on the side of the crib and grabbed the baby cam before falling in the corner of her crib and hitting her head on the side. It took over an hour to get her to bed. She is not usually that bad. These changes are happening SO DAMN FAST. SLOW DOWN BABY!
holy hell! The climbing babies have me all messed up. Mine was just turning the xbox off and on for 10 minutes and dancing to the chime sound it makes. Lol
I am feeling really conflicted about weaning. How long before she wants the formula. We've just done a gradual mixing and I tried a whole bottle last night and she wanted nothing of it. blehhh
Hang in there. I would continue trying it and giving her a bottle of formula, eventually she will take it. Good luck!
sweetsurprise - sleep training sucks! Just try and be consistent and FX that you see results soon.
We waited until DS1 was a year old before we did CIO and once he started STTN (before that he consistently woke up once a night), it was amazing! You don't realize how sleep deprived you truly are until you consistently get a full night of sleep for several days in a row.
And for us, by day 3 or 4 he was STTN.
Ladies - can you tell me what you are doing?
DD gets up 1-3 times a night depending on the night. She eats a good amount each time she wakes up and she seems ravenous.
I am feeling really conflicted about weaning. How long before she wants the formula. We've just done a gradual mixing and I tried a whole bottle last night and she wanted nothing of it. blehhh
Hang in there. I would continue trying it and giving her a bottle of formula, eventually she will take it. Good luck!
So should I feed her and then try formula at night? Or is that dumb?
sweetsurprise - sleep training sucks! Just try and be consistent and FX that you see results soon.
We waited until DS1 was a year old before we did CIO and once he started STTN (before that he consistently woke up once a night), it was amazing! You don't realize how sleep deprived you truly are until you consistently get a full night of sleep for several days in a row.
And for us, by day 3 or 4 he was STTN.
Ladies - can you tell me what you are doing?
DD gets up 1-3 times a night depending on the night. She eats a good amount each time she wakes up and she seems ravenous.
How do you know when to start sleep training!?
Is your LO getting enough during the day calorie wise? When DD was going through her daytime bottle strike, she was drinking like 2-3 bottles in the MOTN and it was super annoying. She was super distracted during the day and wouldn't eat but that passed and now she only wakes at about 4am, sucks down a bottle and goes back to sleep.
Otherwise if your LO is getting enough during the day, solids too, she shouldn't need 3 feedings in the night.
Hang in there. I would continue trying it and giving her a bottle of formula, eventually she will take it. Good luck!
So should I feed her and then try formula at night? Or is that dumb?
I don't think that is dumb. I think I fed DD her first formula bottle before bed. I think we slowly introduced that way and it didn't seem to bother her. We did formula at night and then BM during the day then started introducing it a bottle at a time during the day. Its worth a shot
I am feeling really conflicted about weaning. How long before she wants the formula. We've just done a gradual mixing and I tried a whole bottle last night and she wanted nothing of it. blehhh
Good luck. We tried 3 different formulas before finding one A would take.
sweetsurprise - sleep training sucks! Just try and be consistent and FX that you see results soon.
We waited until DS1 was a year old before we did CIO and once he started STTN (before that he consistently woke up once a night), it was amazing! You don't realize how sleep deprived you truly are until you consistently get a full night of sleep for several days in a row.
And for us, by day 3 or 4 he was STTN.
Ladies - can you tell me what you are doing?
DD gets up 1-3 times a night depending on the night. She eats a good amount each time she wakes up and she seems ravenous.
How do you know when to start sleep training!?
We are in the same boat usually eats 2 sometimes 3 times a night. She is totally distracted during the day and doesn't always take her full bottle. I have tried giving her more ounces before bed to see if that stretches out her first round of sleep but haven't noticed a difference unfortunately.
I am feeling really conflicted about weaning. How long before she wants the formula. We've just done a gradual mixing and I tried a whole bottle last night and she wanted nothing of it. blehhh
GL with this decision. I think about it every now and then and then decide to put off making the decision to transition. I agree with pp to try different formulas and see if that helps.
sweetsurprise - sleep training sucks! Just try and be consistent and FX that you see results soon.
We waited until DS1 was a year old before we did CIO and once he started STTN (before that he consistently woke up once a night), it was amazing! You don't realize how sleep deprived you truly are until you consistently get a full night of sleep for several days in a row.
And for us, by day 3 or 4 he was STTN.
Ladies - can you tell me what you are doing?
DD gets up 1-3 times a night depending on the night. She eats a good amount each time she wakes up and she seems ravenous.
How do you know when to start sleep training!?
We started sleep training at 4 months. BUT don't get me wrong - we did not do CIO. I moved him to his crib at 4 months and started a bed time routine. I generally try and put him down sleepy but not asleep and he will generally fall asleep on his own. It took a while to get him that way. I read him a book (the same one every night since 4 months), then sing him a song and rock him for a couple of minutes and lay him in the crib with his paci. I stay in the room until he falls asleep and just listen to him. If he fusses, I will give it some time then go and rub his head or his belly. I will only take him back out of the crib if he is frantic and will only rock him until he is calm, then I'll put him back in he crib.
This routine doesn't work every night. And there have been nights where we skip his routine or we rock him completely asleep because nothing else works. So far, we're down to 1-2 wakeups a night and he is learning to self-soothe on most of them.
Post by americanninjamommy on Jun 1, 2015 13:35:16 GMT -5
On the eating at night thing, our pedi recommended that we try the paci pop first and if that doesn't work, to go ahead and give something to eat, BUT to lessen the amount that we would normally give.
We were feeding 2-3 times a night until we started doing this. It dropped to 1 time and we have have recently gotten him to drop all night feedings. We do not always feed right before he goes to bed, but if it's been a couple of hours, I will give him a bit to top off his belly. He wakes up ready to eat though!
Hang in there. I would continue trying it and giving her a bottle of formula, eventually she will take it. Good luck!
So should I feed her and then try formula at night? Or is that dumb?
mrsbabe614, with DS1, we started by giving him a bottle of BM mixed in with formula and gradually increased the formula. So start with 75% BM, 25% formula, then 50/50 then 25/75. If he rejects the 75% BM bottle, I would try a different brand of formula. We used Gerber Goodstart with DS1 because our pedi recommended it and he seemed fine with it. On hindsight, I wished we had used either Similac or Enfamil because Costco carries both those brands but not the Goodstart.
DD gets up 1-3 times a night depending on the night. She eats a good amount each time she wakes up and she seems ravenous.
How do you know when to start sleep training!?
Is your LO getting enough during the day calorie wise? When DD was going through her daytime bottle strike, she was drinking like 2-3 bottles in the MOTN and it was super annoying. She was super distracted during the day and wouldn't eat but that passed and now she only wakes at about 4am, sucks down a bottle and goes back to sleep.
Otherwise if your LO is getting enough during the day, solids too, she shouldn't need 3 feedings in the night.
I think she is getting enough during the day. Maybe we need to make a better point of making sure we feed in a quiet spot. She is easily distracted. She does great with solids during the day. I am thinking about adding in a third solids feeding in the evening to see if this helps at all. I just don't know what I can do as far as sleep training if she is eating so much at night. Maybe I need to find a way to shift that.
This is the last week before the big leadership meeting next week that I am prepping a presentation for. This is my office right now. (For real or not for real)
I'll be around more later this week once I hand this off to my boss to send out for review and panic. People hate to be held accountable.
I am an idiot, I was just going to ask you if your office was ransacked - DUH
sweetsurprise - sleep training sucks! Just try and be consistent and FX that you see results soon.
We waited until DS1 was a year old before we did CIO and once he started STTN (before that he consistently woke up once a night), it was amazing! You don't realize how sleep deprived you truly are until you consistently get a full night of sleep for several days in a row.
And for us, by day 3 or 4 he was STTN.
Ladies - can you tell me what you are doing?
DD gets up 1-3 times a night depending on the night. She eats a good amount each time she wakes up and she seems ravenous.
How do you know when to start sleep training!?
When to start is totally up to you. It really depends on how much you like/dislike his current schedule to be honest. With DS1, I was totally fine with getting up once a night (he started waking up once a night maybe around 4 months old). Total wake up time when he woke up was 15 minutes (this including climbing the stairs to his nursery, nursing, putting him down and getting back to bed). We took a trip to Asia around the time he was a year old which totally screwed up his schedule. He still woke up once a night but getting him back to sleep took a much longer time.
I tried several things before using CIO. We had a bad habit of nursing/giving him a bottle right before bed so I moved the bottle up in his bedtime routine and started reading to him before bed. That helped for a little while. After a month or so though, he started regressing so we did CIO. The mistake I made though was to still give him a bottle when he woke up at night (DS1 was low of the weight percentiles so it took us a long time to get rid of that MOTN bottle because we wanted him to get the extra calories). CIO helped to get him back to bed quickly after the MOTN bottle but he still woke up at night until around 18 months when we got rid of the bottle completely (we moved him completely to a sippy cup at that point, super late) and stopped feeding him in the MOTN.
On hindsight, not feeding him at night might have caused him to STTN on his own - DS1 was and is still a great sleeper though (he frequently took 2-3 hour naps as a newborn and even now will nap that much once a day).
With DS2, we plan to transition him to the crib shortly (long story) and when we do, I will probably change up his bedtime routine as well (we currently nurse right before bed) and will night wean in conjunction with CIO if we go down that path.
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