Formula Fridays 8/7

[dreemkin]

It's Friday? Let's chat.

Age:

Formula amt per bottle & day:

Solids share:

Comment corner:

GTKY: I'm making it BR this week. How many times a night (let's say 7pm-7am) are you getting up with the baby? How many times are you feeding said baby?

[taberbtb]

Age: 6.25m (27w)

Formula amt per bottle & day: 5x 6oz

Solids share: After getting the ok at B's 6m appointment I am excited to try scrambled eggs for breakfast this week!

Comment corner: Hmm… nothing here either. Boring!

GTKY: B usually has a bottle and goes down around 7-7:30pm and sleeps until 4-5am. Has one more bottle and then back to bed until 7-7:30am. I feel very lucky!

[dreemkin]

Age: 6 months

Formula amt per bottle & day: 6oz bottles, 5 times a day.

Solids share: tried avacado today. She liked it better than I thought she would. She was a little confused with the texture.

Comment corner: I feel like my baby is going through something. She's been clingy and not sleeping as well without screaming inconsolabley until given a bottle. See answer below.

GTKY: she gets up/fusses 2-3 times a night. Last week it seemed like we were down to one feeding. This week she's been wanting to eat twice a night (even when we feed her right before going to bed). Just curious as to everybody else's night schedule.

[missys]

Age: 5.75ish months

Formula amt per bottle & day: 5 6oz bottles and a 4 oz MOTN. Reading the Happy Sleeper and trying to wean the night feeding by .5 oz every other night.

Solids share: he's a good eater. Moved up to stage 2 purees and doing great. When will you all start proteins? I will discuss with the pedi at our 6 month appointment next week but wasn't sure if anyone had any prior knowledge.

Comment corner: I am mourning the loss of my good sleeper to teething...

GTKY: 6-6 over here. It used to be one wake up and bottle a night before teething. Now it's 3-4 wake ups but still one bottle.

[abseptember]

Age- 6 mth yesterday

Bottles- both boys take about 32-36oz/day

Solids- dinner time only still and they LOVE them... except prunes

Comments- I hate teething. My one guy just popped his 5th tooth and I can tell # 6 and 7 are coming soon. The other twin still has no teeth.

Q- some nights we get random cries just for a few min and other nights they are silent until they wake to eat. They were making it to 4-5a but have regressed the last 2 weeks or so to 2-3a. They go down at 8a and wake for the day bt 6-7a with one MOTN feed. One twin would for sure sleep later than the other so I'm hoping one day the shorter sleeper will increase nighttime sleep. Planning on gradually decreasing bottle size at night after next dr apt on the 18th.

[dreemkin]

Aug 8, 2015 5:49:58 GMT -5 @holachica said:

Transition to formula is not as easy as I was hoping. He'll accept a bottle of 2/3 bm and 1/3 formula, but nothing more.

I think I'm going just stop nursing tomorrow, pump, and give all bottle mixtures for awhile. Maybe if he's not nursing at all, he'll start to accept the bottles of more formula.

No experience with this but good luck! It sounds like a tough thing to be going through. Hopefully he'll get the memo

[emilyz320]

Aug 8, 2015 5:49:58 GMT -5 @holachica said:

Transition to formula is not as easy as I was hoping. He'll accept a bottle of 2/3 bm and 1/3 formula, but nothing more.

I think I'm going just stop nursing tomorrow, pump, and give all bottle mixtures for awhile. Maybe if he's not nursing at all, he'll start to accept the bottles of more formula.

I'm sorry, good luck - let us know how it goes

[emilyz320]

Age: 5 mo

Formula amt per bottle & day: 5 or 6 6oz bottles a day

Solids share: none yet

Comment corner: last week I was commenting on how dd is an animal in the eating department and demands her bottles every 2-2.5 hrs. This week was a really good week - she hardly cried for bottles at all and I fed her every 3-4 hours. She went from always having 36oz (6 bottles) a day to usually having 30oz (5 bottles). I wonder what happened? Maybe she hit the 6mo growth spurt early?

GTKY: I'm making it BR this week. How many times a night (let's say 7pm-7am) are you getting up with the baby? How many times are you feeding said baby? Dd sleeps from 6 or 7 to anytime between 3 and 5, takes a bottle, then goes back down until 6:30 or 7:30. I have tried to give her paci or let her cio a little, but I think she still needs that bottle. I'm hoping the addition of solids or upping up her formula intake per bottle (but less bottles a day) at some point will help.

[dramacat]

Aug 7, 2015 22:11:24 GMT -5 abseptember said:

Comments- I hate teething. My one guy just popped his 5th tooth and I can tell # 6 and 7 are coming soon. The other twin still has no teeth.

Holy cow! Your six month old has 5 teeth? My 5.5 still shows no sign of teeth. Late teether here I guess.

[emilyz320]

Aug 8, 2015 8:15:58 GMT -5 @holachica said:

Oh I have a question, since I had an ahem, "discussion" with my mother about this...

Do you use nursery water for your bottles? Our tap water is good and flouride treated.

Nope! We use tap. But my dh is paranoid so we do boil and cool it first.

[dreemkin]

I use bottled water but it's bc my DH is paranoid. I think regular h2o is fine and would use mine.

[abseptember]

Aug 8, 2015 7:18:25 GMT -5 dramacat said:

Aug 7, 2015 22:11:24 GMT -5 abseptember said:

Comments- I hate teething. My one guy just popped his 5th tooth and I can tell # 6 and 7 are coming soon. The other twin still has no teeth.

Holy cow! Your six month old has 5 teeth? My 5.5 still shows no sign of teeth. Late teether here I guess.

No, he is just ridiculously early. I honestly can't believe how quickly his are coming in. My older singleton got her 1st tooth at 7 mths. I think the other twin will get his about then too.

[missys]

@holachica we just bought a cheap Brita filter and use tap in that

[taberbtb]

Aug 8, 2015 8:15:58 GMT -5 @holachica said:

Oh I have a question, since I had an ahem, "discussion" with my mother about this...

Do you use nursery water for your bottles? Our tap water is good and flouride treated.

I use bottled distilled water. Not fluoride treated or anything, but we are on a well and the water is so high in iron it turns everything yellow. DH and I don't even drink it. Also DD has enough constipation issues she definitely doesn't need any extra iron in her diet.

[GeekBeagle]

Aug 8, 2015 8:15:58 GMT -5 @holachica said:

Oh I have a question, since I had an ahem, "discussion" with my mother about this...

Do you use nursery water for your bottles? Our tap water is good and flouride treated.

We use tap. My mom was paranoid about this too. But I asked our pediatrician and she said our tap was fine because it's fluoride treated.

[GeekBeagle]

Age: 5 months, 1 week

Formula amt per bottle & day: 5-6 oz 5x a day. I've thrown 7 oz in a few times for the last feed of the day. Usually around 28 oz.

Solids share: None until 6 months. I feel like we're going to be the last ones on solids, but his pedi doesn't want to start any earlier because of his allergies.

Comment corner: DS has become a good eater again. We had been dealing with distracted eating and not finishing bottles, but now he's finishing everything like a champ. Yay!

GTKY: I'm making it BR this week. How many times a night (let's say 7pm-7am) are you getting up with the baby? How many times are you feeding said baby? Don't hate me, but none and none. I know I'm very lucky!