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No advice from my corner since my son is only 7 weeks today but I'll certainly commiserate on the exhaustion - and I haven't even gone back to work yet. I was thinking today about what my day is going to look like and how long they will be and then getting up with each night waking since he is breastfed and my husband can't help. How do mom's survive? Obviously we all do but wow! I started reading the No Cry Sleep Solution and Sleeping Through the Night so we can start establishing our routine now even though it will be two more months until we can maybe see a reflection in his sleeping patterns. It is naps that I am struggling with. I'm kind of hoping daycare will straighten some of that out for me. Wishful thinking? Probably.
@Mrs. Spring: Have you tried giving her the formula in a sippy cup during the day. My daughter decided she no longer wanted bottles at abt 9 months or so but she would drink from a sippy cup.
@Pelikila: Idk, I've heard some babies nap better when they get into day care. Here's hoping! Also, I read TNCSS book, and it was super helpful; Addie went down to only one night waking before I even went back to work, and she was sleeping through the night before she was 5 months old. Unfortunately, we've just had a complete turn around of those wonderful nights ever since she started teething. :(
Thanks for commiserating. It really is hard, right?
@JamaicaBride: This we could try. I'll mention it to our day care provider today.
I can commiserate :) I found I was able to deal with the loss of sleep so long as things seemed to be improving over time. Like in the beginning, getting 3-4 hours of nonstop sleep felt amazing. BUT going backwards is soooo hard. I might sleep from 10-6 now, but if I have to even get up a few times to soothe my son for a minute or two it feels so exhausting because I had a few weeks of pretty good sleep!! But if I had gotten a night's sleep like that at 2 or 3 months I would have been beyond excited!
I would say for your sanity you need to break this whole night time eating thing. Hopefully others have dealt with it at this age. We purposefully cut down on feedings while I was nursing by getting him at his wakeup time and soothing him back to sleep without feeding. Another thing I have heard is to try water in a bottle although I have no idea if that would work. We have not had to resort to CIO but I guess that is also always an option- I know a lot of people who use it, and use it repeatedly when sleep habits change. We have just always found other ways to get there so far....
@Janna19: We've tried cutting back on her night feedings hoping she would then start taking formula during the day again, but so far, no luck. I try to just put her back to sleep before giving her a bottle, but she'll literally be up for hours until I give her a bottle. If I make her a bottle right away, she'll go right back to sleep afterward, though, so I think she really does need that formula (and that makes me unsure about substituting water instead). I'm just not sure how we can switch her back over to getting it during the day instead of at night.
I totally feel ya on moving backwards! Right after birth, I was on cloud 9 if I got 5 or 6 hours of broken sleep a night! Now, I have to take naps on the weekends just to function!
Well, we had a really good night last night; Addie only got up once and she only had 5 ounces the whole night, so I think we're moving in the right direction. We've been putting formula in her sippy cup and offering her the bottle right before her naps, when she's not as distracted and wound up. I think it's helping her relax a little for her naps, too, since she's gone down quite a bit easier the last couple days.
Thanks, bees!
@Mrs. Spring: Wonderful!! I'm glad Addie is sleeping better and good strategy with the formula. I'm so glad I'm looking ahead to what's coming up with my growing baby through your postings and you are always so faithful in the follow up story!!
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So Addie is now 10 months. :) Anyway, basically since she started day care she's been self-weaning herself off formula. She went down from about 25 ounces a day to now only taking around 16 a day. Which is fine; her doctor said as long as she is getting 15 ounces at this point, she is ok and we don't need to switch to milk yet.
However, she's also stopped taking bottles during the day. Occasionally, she'll take 4 ounces or so, but for the most part she doesn't want a bottle at all, only juice or water out of a sippy cup. Which means she's getting all 16 ounces of formula at night. We've been having sleep issues for months now with all the teething she's been going through, but now I'm pretty sure she's only getting up a night for a bottle. She's up 2-4 times a night and I am just exhausted. Her wakings usually only last about half an hour (just long enough to get a bottle and go back to sleep), but it is really tough to only get about 6 hours of broken sleep a night. And I know it's affecting her as well because she seems much more tired and cranky more often lately.
Has anyone gone through this? If so, how long did it last for you before your baby completely weaned him/herself entirely? Or does anyone have any advice on how to get that formula in her during the day time? Or does anyone want to commiserate with me on the exhaustion that comes with parenthood? :)