DS, who is 3 now, hit the stranger, danger phase from 6-9 months. Nobody except my dh or I could hold him, or he'd scream bloody murder. My parents were always around him, but they couldn't even hold him. He'd smile and giggle at them as long as we were holding him. That was a long 3 months!
I've read that's normal. Kind of dreading it starting just in time for Christmas!
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Married in 2006, TTC #1 since Jan 2012
Baby Boy born June 1, 2015
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LO has started having weird stranger danger reactions randomly when she turned 5 months. Not all the time. And one time was my mom, who she's met um, a million times in the last 5 months, obviously. Weird.
Someone said to me today "the 6 month sleep regression is no joke".... wth. It's like the leaps. You get 17 storm cloud weeks for ever 2 sunshine weeks. Wth x2. I can't keep up with all the baby development issues and the next time someone asks why she has never sttn I'm gunna say BECAUSE SHES A BABY!!!
@Marcantonio I'm going to pretend there is no 6 month sleep regression. Ignorance is bliss. DS never had a problem at 6 months and just in the last few weeks has LO started sleeping better. We didn't really hit a 4 month sleep regression but that's because when you're up every 2-3 hours, there's really no where to regress to...
My LO is happy as long as someone is holding him - he doesn't care who...I figured it was because he spent 5 weeks in the NICU with a multitude of nurses passing him off in shifts. My husband has a large family and of course they all want to hold him and he goes happily from one set of arms to the next. I figured that if we keep it up he will be friendly and well rounded. He will definitely be behind in some development stuff though just because of his premature birth
My LO is happy as long as someone is holding him - he doesn't care who...I figured it was because he spent 5 weeks in the NICU with a multitude of nurses passing him off in shifts. My husband has a large family and of course they all want to hold him and he goes happily from one set of arms to the next. I figured that if we keep it up he will be friendly and well rounded. He will definitely be behind in some development stuff though just because of his premature birth
Does anyone else have put marks in their fingernails? It's like a dotted line across all my nails. I was wondering if it corresponded with LO's birth. Change in hormones maybe?
ok soo i don't know why but my app is all screwed up again! UGHH! it won't tell me where i am and nothing is highlighted. Apparently I'm also not in another group all of a sudden. I tried logging out/ in again but it still isn't working. any ideas? hopefully this comes up the right name.. nope. i tried logging in on computer so its under the wrong name. (caitlincunn)
That happened to me a little while ago. It regulated itself again. I logged onto the computer and the app and kept clicking on all the threads I regularly read. It finally kept track. I don't know what I did to have that happen though. I guess keep trying to log in and out of the app and computer.
@caitlincunn the app does this to me sometimes too. Once it was for a couple of weeks, which was a bit frustrating. If you want those little yellow badges to reappear while the app is being finicky, just hit the refresh arrow at the top right corner. Annoying, yes...but it's a temporary fix.
I'm pretty sure my LO recognizes her name, but probably just as a word we use frequently. Like how she recognizes her favorite book when i starts, or when we say "where's the kitty kat?" and she looks around for him
We should probably chill with the nicknames though or else she will think her name is "stinko".
Well - my kid hates a bath before bed! I usually bathe him during the day and my MIL suggested trying before bed to make settling down for the evening a little easier - FAIL!!!!!!!! It took 1.5 hours to put him to bed tonight - he lost his s$&t and I tried all the tricks in the book to get him down. DH usually puts him to bed while I get to wind down a bit with a bath and when I was done my bath DH threw up his hands and said that LO was my problem since I'm the genius who bathed him...not sure what I will do when I am back at work and don't have the luxury of bathing him during the day.
Leap 5, growth spurt, and teething may kill me. Witching hours are back in full force, and since we didn't have a 4 month sleep regression, we apparently seem to have a 6 month one. He's lucky he is cute.
My dude's name is too short for a good nickname, and since it was my grandfather's name, we had to get ourselves used to it. So from Day 1 we've used the baby's name a ton.
He's responded to his own name for quite a while now. That is not a brag (I believe my kid is solidly average, except that damn 10% category of not STTN!), but is to say that I do think recognition is due to use of the name, and not a milestone. But my sample size is one, so who knows.
LO definitely knows her name. My sister came to babysit while we went out to dinner tonight and she hadn't seen LO in a month and was like "oh my god she's so different!" It's good to know there's change even if I can't see it because I'm with her all the time.
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@virginiaunicorn11 I'm not buying the 90% thing. If you talk with many breastfeeding moms many will say there LO's wake up through the night past 6 months many to 9 especially if they Cosleep. I am having trouble finding the actual study that showed the 90. Kelly Mom lists actual studies and they show a different picture. Link below. I do see where a sleep training method that claims 90% effectiveness. I feel like the 90 is an assumption that's been passed around as fact. If I started pumping again and bottle feeding I know my LO CAN sleep through the night but we are nursing now and he has to wake. Sigh, Doctors, they annoy me sometimes. Don't feel you are abnormal or doing something wrong.
Thanks @janit368! I agree but was too lazy to look up any facts to back my opinion. I'm lucky that my pediatrician really doesn't push any particular way of parenting or this is best type attitude. Her only comment was that my LO is still waking at night bc she's probably hungry. Now what I want to do about that is up to me. I'd also like to know what qualifies as STTN (how many hours in a row & how many nights). My LO slept 8 hours one night, just one. Does that count?! I do know in Dr. Sears book he says it's normal for a baby to wake 1-2 times per night to feed during the first year of life so I'm not worried. I'm taking this whole parenting thing one day at a time & one night at a time.
@janit368 Our pedi said STTN is sleeping 8 hours. They said 90% was sleeping 8 hours and "most" were sleeping 11-12. That makes more sense than 90% sleeping all the way through the night.
@virginiaunicorn11 - I feel your pain...we have been on a 3 hour loop during the night and 2 hour loop during the day for a few weeks now. He was JUST starting to give us 5-7 hour stretches at night and then he just regressed back to "kitchens open on demand all night...scratch that 24/7"
It never ceases to amaze me how much "baby things" vary. I was just reading an article on Baby Center that indicated STTN is considered a 5 hour stretch.
Lol no wonder we are all confused.. 5-10hrs is a big difference!
LO gave me 2x 7+hr sleeps in a row and then reverted back to waking to eat every 3hours. He's just hanging on to those nighttime feeds.
For the past week or so lo has been sleeping 8-6/6:30. Hopefully this keeps up. She has been waking to eat 1 time from 12 weeks until 20 weeks, before that she was sttn completely until 7 am but I think maybe going to bed later? I can't remember
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@lovethatcolosun I'm dying!!!
Eta: editing the damn auto correct.
We should probably chill with the nicknames though or else she will think her name is "stinko".
He's responded to his own name for quite a while now. That is not a brag (I believe my kid is solidly average, except that damn 10% category of not STTN!), but is to say that I do think recognition is due to use of the name, and not a milestone. But my sample size is one, so who knows.
https://www.owletcare.com/?gclid=CLr5wc-rjskCFQutaQodJAULeg
https://kellymom.com/parenting/nighttime/sleepstudies/
Lol no wonder we are all confused.. 5-10hrs is a big difference!
LO gave me 2x 7+hr sleeps in a row and then reverted back to waking to eat every 3hours. He's just hanging on to those nighttime feeds.
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