September 2016 Moms
jenkar01
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May Randoms
jenkar01
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How is it May already? Babies are/will be turning 8 months. Only 1/3 of a year until they are one year olds. Time slow down. Also we are now able to upload pics just FYI. I have been in communication with the IT folks and sent them a screenshot and they said they would fix it. Well they did their jobs. So tomorrow hopefully we can see some babies.
Re: May Randoms
Also LO is starting to throw little fits especially if I take something from him that he is not supposed to have it usually doesn't last too long luckily
Also im eating some multigrain oatmeal that is like dirt and sticks. No, it's not yummy.
I've tried overnight oats and they are pretty tasty and you control the sugar content. Sounds better than sticks and dirt! Lol
@jellybiehn we never got a crib for LO because we were only supposed to be in our loft condo for a few short months. We got a really nice playpen that had a bassinet portion on top. We figured LO will sleep in the bassinet and when we move we will buy a crib. Fast forward 8 months later our home is still being renovated and lo now has to sleep at the bottom portion of the playpen. It has mesh sides. I know I'm bypassing the stage where they pull themselves up by the rails and need to get set back down by a parent. I'm worried though I'm somehow hindering his development. He does pull up on me and furniture during the day. He just doesn't have an opportunity to do it at night.
For about a week now he is completely sleeping through the night but has started getting up at 5am. He can't go back to sleep after 5am so now we are up for the day. I honestly preferred getting up once per night because he'd eat quickly and go back to sleep instead of waking up an hour and a half earlier than usual.
My H thinks we should stop getting him at 5 and get him at 6am so that he'll start waking up at 6 instead. I'm in disagreement because 6am is still too early in my opinion.
Not sure how to adjust his schedule now. Anyone else experience earlier wake-up time times due to cutting out MOTN feeding?
1. Moving her bedtime earlier by 30 mins. This seemed counterproductive to me but actually seem to work for a while. We actually transitioned her bedtime from 930 to 730 overtime and she would still sleep straight through.
2. Add extra feeds in the evening. I did make sure I nursed a little extra around dinner time and tried both removing and adding solids at dinner. Still not sure this helped anything.
3. Strengthen her bedtime routine. I had not really been too hung up on a strict routine so I changed to a bath, book, bottle, bed routine every night.
Really I have tried to adjust every variable I can think of but at this point I think it is just out of my control. Between growth spurts and now teething she is still waking up anywhere from 430 or sleeping right to 630. One whole week she slept until 730! It has been frustrating to say the least and we have even wondered if our expectations for her were unrealistic and just embrace that the slept 8 hrs instead of her usual 10.
In the end we focused more on helping her to settle herself in the early morning or get up and settle but not nurse until 630. I had to get over thinking we were starving her but honestly my husband has been getting up with her first at 630 and she plays quietly until I get down there 10 - 15 mins later and she isn't even crying to nurse. Makes me feel much better about the choice to end early nursing.
Honestly I think it is growth spurts and teething and hopefully a phase that will end soon!
Also, he's still napping 3 times a day and I think he is ready for longer awake periods and possibly cutting down to 2 naps. Although if he keeps starting his day at 5am, I'm not sure how we are going to get to 2 naps.
@jenkar01 that's crazy! I've been counting down the weeks until I can say the same but I went until 41.
I hope you are feeling better today!
When my LO was about 3 months old my husband and I both got really sick. We thought it was food poisioning until my mom ( who had come over to look after the little girl) got sick and gave it to my dad as well. Felt really bad...then bleached the entire house! At least my LO was spared.
Now naps on the other hand is where we are struggeling. It has gotten so bad since she learned to stand that I have had to go back to rocking her asleep every time. Big step back but it is saving my sanity. Seriously the people who came up with CIO didn't know the stamina of this LO!
I'm sorry about the nap situation. I feel like as soon as we get in a good place with anything, it's only a matter of time before what was working doesn't work any longer. I guess we have to remind ourselves that all these difficulties and regressions are due to our LOs development evolving.
BTW, my lo STILL naps in his swing and I feel terrible/embarrassed by it. I started nap training sometime ago, but then LO got a really bad cold and I let him go back to napping in the swing. Because we live in a loft his room doesn't get very dark during the day, and isnt always the quietest, so I feel badly about not having better sleeping conditions for him. I've just come to accept that he will probably nap in his swing until we move into our new house.