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2Q's: sippy cup & 4month wakeful

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DD will be 4 months in a week and a half and i had a question about this whole 4month wakeful thing. what happened when youre LO went through it? were they just up all night and day with little naps? or did they nap the same and up all night, or what? im just wondering what to expect.

secondly, reading about sippy cups. this may be a very stupid question but are you saying whenever youre ready, 4-6 months, introduce them to a sippy cup with formula in it? i wasnt sure when you can introduce them to actual juice. my parents were going on and on about how they gave me watered down juice whenever i was like 3months haha.

 

TIA ladies.. :)

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Re: 2Q's: sippy cup & 4month wakeful

  • JennicapJennicap member

    My son never went through a wakeful period, he's almost 5 months now.

    sippy cups we aren't introducing for quite a while and not juice, juice will be next year sometime, we're doing cereal right now but won't start veggies until at least 6 months possible wait until 8 months and then fruit after that, I figure around a year I might try and sippy cup with water and then after that goes well I'll had a little juice in the water to flavor it.

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  • Flowr4246Flowr4246 member

    They CAN have juice as early as 4 months.  That doesn't necessarily mean they SHOULD.

    I plan on waiting on the sippy cup introduction until DD is at least 6 months.  But that's also because she's still on a pretty slow-flow nipple (#2 Avent).  If I gave her a sippy cup now, without first upping her nipple size a time or two, the formula would be all over her face instead of in her mouth!

     
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  • mojito14mojito14

    With DS1 we didn't introduce the sippy cup till close to a year. Instead we gave him drinks during his meal with a normal cup. We wanted him to get use to swallowing without having to suck. Once the sippy cups came around, we always took the stopper out of it, so he never actually had to "suck" to get the liquid out.

    As for the 4 month wakeful. DS2 has not gone through that yet. He is 4.5 months now.

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  • Raffes484Raffes484

    I didn't give DD a sippy until she was able to hold her own bottle 7ish months, I think, and she was completely off the bottle by a year. As far as juice, she would have sips of juice here and there (like if I was drinking it), but didn't have juice in her cup until she was over a year old.

    Oh, and when she went through the 4 month wakeful she would nap normally during the day, but at night she would wake up and instead of falling easily back to sleep she would be WIDE awake...happy, but awake and not wanting to just hang out in her crib.

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  • zoe021601zoe021601

    We give DD a sippy cup, it is a Munchkin brand trainer cup. The flow is SUPER slow, I had a hard time getting anything to come out! She absolutely loves it. Mostly just to hold it and gnaw on it though, not to really drink out of it. She does manage to finish the BM I put into it each day, but I don't think that's her first priority, lol :) 

    As far as juice goes, I don't plan on giving her any till she's at least a year old. 

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  • joyfulgirl1joyfulgirl1 member
    imageRaffes484:

    I didn't give DD a sippy until she was able to hold her own bottle 7ish months, I think, and she was completely off the bottle by a year. As far as juice, she would have sips of juice here and there (like if I was drinking it), but didn't have juice in her cup until she was over a year old.

    Oh, and when she went through the 4 month wakeful she would nap normally during the day, but at night she would wake up and instead of falling easily back to sleep she would be WIDE awake...happy, but awake and not wanting to just hang out in her crib.

    This! 

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  • lite-brightlite-bright member

    Both my girls went through the four-month wakeful. Horrible naps, and up more often at night. With DD1, it slowly got worse and worse until at six months, she was up once every hour at night until we did sleep training. That got us back to four-hour stretches. 

    DD2 went from STTN (6-8 hour stretches) to being up every two hours at night at the worst point, and fighting naps like crazy during the day. Last night we had our first 6-hour stretch since 3.5 months, so I'm hoping we're in the clear now.

    My pedi doesn't recommend anything other than breast milk or formula until over 12 months, and doesn't recommend juice be a daily drink at all -- water or milk in cups. We didn't do juice with DD1 until maybe 18 months? We started her on a sippy of water at 6 months. And she didn't get juice very often at all until age 2. Now she might get a bit of juice once or twice a week as a treat, and sometimes not at all. We don't regularly keep it around. 

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