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April 2012 Moms
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Waking at night
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Hi ladies. I admit I haven't posted in awhile. A long while. We moved, I started back to work, etc. You know how it goes.
So forgive me if you guys discussed this recently. But, Matt is STILL waking up. He's 7 months. I think there is several reasons. One being that even the fast flow nipple I was using was too slow. It would take him 45-55 mins to eat a 6-8 oz bottle. So he gets bored and won't eat much after 3-4oz. So hes only getting 20-24 oz during the day and he's hungry in the middle of the night.
So recently I cut big slits in the top of the nipple so more comes out faster. He now drinks his bottle like in 20-25 mins. So hopefully he'll drink more during the day.
I constantly feel like I"m doing something wrong. People are always asking me "WHY is he STILL waking up!" Believe me, I don't want to wake up every night!
So, how many of you are still getting up at night? Any suggestions? We recently upped his food intake (he LOVES food) so we're trying that too.
Thanks. I'll post more! Promise!
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Re: Waking at night
glad you are back! Hi
we arent still waking at night, but be assured some children just do. We use white noise at night to help block out other noises and we make sure she has an evening "meal" like rice and peas. We were having dinner at 5 and her last bottle of the day at 8 and she started waking up. we then changed to having a snack at 4 when I get off work and her dinner at 6. This helped. But I also attributed her waking to her teething potentially.
good luck
Hi!
Thanks for responding! I still use white noise also. He seems to like it. And we do an evening "meal" too. We started stage 2 about a week ago and he loves them. Interesting though about you changing her meal time....we do give him his last bottle right before we lay him down at night, usually 730-8. I guess my thinking was that it would hold him over longer...maybe I should try doing it earlier like you do.
We were doing awesome on sleeping at night actually from the beginning of the month until around Thanksgiving. He started waking up again. Then two teeth popped through! So I was hoping he'd start going back to sleeping all night again?! Hasn't happened yet!
If he's not interested in a bottle, then I wouldn't assume that he's frustrated by nipple flow, I would assume he's full. 45-55 minutes is a LONG time for a bottle. We changed nipple flow when he screamed at the bottle the entire time. 24oz in a day is fine, especially if he's gaining at an appropriate rate. That's all my LO gets in a normal day. I'm a little surprised that you cut slits into the nipple. If it's working out for you, then great, but I wouldn't increase milk to reach a specific number at the end of the day unless the doctor is telling me to increase.
Some babies just won't sleep all night, regardless of how much they get in during the day. If there was a magic - feed them this and they'll STTN - then I promise you everyone would be doing it. My LO still wakes 2-3 times a night to eat, and sometimes more for cuddling. It's all totally normal.
Micah Leonard
I just want to clarify that we give her a snack and bottle, then dinner and a bottle at 8 also I just started moving dinner hoping that would equate to a fuller belly longer. ( it also changed poop time- now daddy always gets it bwahahah)
Hi Steel!
Thanks for your input! I hope I didn't make it sound like I was forcing him to eat during the day; totally not. I did the slits because even after 6-7 hours ( of naps, playing, etc) he STILL was only eating 3 ounces and not any more.it's like he gave up. And when he drinks it sounds like he's sucking so hard and swallowing so much air. And since I did the slits, he's hardly spit up at all and drinking the entire bottle in 20 minutes.
I guess I should care less about the people that question my parenting. Matt is such a happy, pleasant baby. I guess I'm just exhausted.
Hi Skate! After Matt took 45 minutes to drink a bottle, I though 25mins was pretty good! Do you think that's still to long?
And yes-I tried the playtex liner ones and the nipple was so so different than mine (We use Tommee Tippee) he hated it!
I'm glad to hear that other babies are still waking up. Makes me feel much better!
Tommee Tippee actually makes a cross cut nipple for their bottles. Supposedly they can be slow flow or fast flow depending on how hard your kid sucks. Anyway, my DD usually has her dinner and a bottle between 6-8:30pm (it varies each day depending on when we get home) then she goes to bed at 9-9:30. I still go in and give her a dreamfeed bottle before I go to bed whatever time that my be. Most nights its around 11:30. I found this keep her happy until I've had at least 5-6 hrs of sleep.
Hi there, I have not posted in FOREVER! But I saw this and it is exactly what I am going through right now with my 8 month old. I EBF and she eats at 7, gets a 5 oz bottle at 10:30, 5 oz bottle at 2:00. breastfeed her at 4:30, breastfeed her at 7:00 before bed (she goes to sleep at 7:15 on the dot every night). She then wakes up in the middle of the night one or two times to eat and I breastfeed her when she wakes up. EVERYONE in my life (my friends, my family, etc) tell me that I am crazy for waking up with her in the middle of the night to feed her and why don't I just "let her cry it out already" OR "this is a habit now" etc. I don't care. I know she is hungry because she is acting hungry and I am going to feed her until she is no longer hungry in the middle of the night.
One thing I don't know is if she is getting enough solids. She gets 3 - 4 tablespoons of oatmeal or brown rice cereal for breakfast. She gets 3 tablespoons of homemade babyfood for lunch (right now it's carrots and sweet potato mix) and for dinner 3 tablespoons of a different food (right now it's peas, zuccinni, and leeks). She also gets to snack on puffs if she wants. I think this is enough but I'm not sure.
Some babies just wake up in the middle of the night and some don't.
I have to say this... Don't let other people and their judgment make you second guess yourself! If you feel like something is off, then maybe take a second look. I've learned to stop listening to the chatter. If my gut tells me to check something, I do. Otherwise it's in one ear and out the other.
At our house we play things by ear. DD is FF and takes 30 oz a day pus solids. She only takes 5 oz at a time because giving her 6 makes her little belly slosh. Her last bottle is at 7:30pm and she sleeps until 4am on the dot. I feed her at 4 and put her right back to bed. She sleeps until 6:30 or 7am. I think getting up for one feeding is pretty normal. I say whatever your baby does is normal for him. I also only feed solids once or twice a day. She gets about 3 to 4 oz at those feedings. My DD seems content with the amount of food and if she's happy, I'm happy.
Yes, Matt used to do this! Sleep from 8 to 5, eat, then sleep until 7 or 8. I loved it and would like it back! That was when he was also getting 30 oz.
I started getting the comments that my son should be sleeping through the night when he was about four months old. I swore up and down my child was not waking in the night out of habit, and instead thought he was just hungry. The nurse practitioner supported my opinions, and so I continued to wake in the night to nurse. Finally around five and a half months, I started to question this when he would fall asleep on me at nap time or after nursing in the night, and then wake and cry when I would lay him in his crib. I decided to let him cry it out. I found that it just made him cry more when I went in his room to comfort him without picking him up. What was incredibly difficult, was I had to leave him to cry for three nights. Literally not a peep after that. There are times when he still has tried to start the habit again, and I have to stick to my guns. It took me a long time to learn that babies need to learn to put themselves to sleep and that nursing cannot be a pacifier. My health had started to decline and I truly think not sleeping really wears on everyone. He was a happier baby when he slept through the night. Best of luck.