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Food and sleeping

DublinMamaDublinMama member
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I had to chuckle tonight. I didn't give DS any cereals as solids. When I wasn't doing solids, all I heard from MIL is how if I did start giving him cereal or food, he'd start sleeping better. Just wait and see! And wouldn't you know, he didn't. Starting solids didn't make a lick of difference on how much he slept at night. So I scoffed a little when she told me tonight that, "Wait until he starts eating food food. Then he'll start sleeping through the night. You'll see." I told her he was eating "food food" (as opposed to what, fake plastic fruit?). She said, "Yeah, but you puree everything. I mean real food." Mmmkay.

1. Pureed food is still real food. Just mushed up real food. I don't add water, so none of it gets washed out. In fact, I usually make it with more "food food," like applesauce.
2. I told her DS has been eating "real food." He gets chicken, meatballs, cheese, hummus, toast, yogurt, oatmeal, eggs..... And his sleep is the same. So of course, I was told to wait until he's "really eating it all the time, and you switch to milk." WTH would milk do? Formula is more filling than milk. And he's currently at 3 meals a day. How much more often is he expected to eat?

Why do some people insist that stuffing a baby full of food is a sleep solution? I don't know about anyone else, but when I overeat, I feel like crap and it can make me sleep poorly, if anything.
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  • tamarar5tamarar5 member
    ByeByeBooze said:
    But didn't you know that MILs know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING? Since you keep proving her wrong, she needs to keep changing her story so that she stays right.

    My DD still wakes up and I've gotten the same comments. My response when someone asks if she sleeps through the night now is something along the lines of: "No, but I don't mind. There's only so long that I'll get middle of the night snuggles, so I enjoy them. I'm so used to it now that it doesn't bother my sleep at all." That usually helps me avoid silly sleep advice.
    Wish that line would work for me, but one look at me and everyone KNOWS that it does bother my sleep.  LOL.  It was so bad on Sunday night that I was sitting on the bed sobbing with the baby when he wouldn't just close his eyes and go back to sleep. :(
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    downtown80 said:

    Just tell her that you're waiting for thanksgiving when you can stuff him full of turkey. Ya know....because turkey has that effect and makes people sleepy!!!!

    Yeah, it's the minute amount of tryptophan, not the face you ate like a fucking pig. That's my absolute favorite things about thanksgiving, all the tryptophan talk.

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  • octobermama87octobermama87 member
    Well, since MY MIL knows everything about everything too, she suggested that I just keep DS up later so that he'll really be tired when he finally goes to sleep and then sleep in in the morning. Yeah, I don't think so. I don't want an over-tired cranky baby. Thanks anyway.
                                                 
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