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eggchaser1987 said:
We have been at this for about 9 months and now is the time he is deciding to wake up in a state twice a night. Lesson to all in what ever tiered state you are make sure, if you sterilise bottles in the microwave, you have it on the right setting!
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t!! That's like £50 worth of bottles! argh. Happens to the best of useggchaser1987 said:
We have been at this for about 9 months and now is the time he is deciding to wake up in a state twice a night. Lesson to all in what ever tiered state you are make sure, if you sterilise bottles in the microwave, you have it on the right setting!
Oh mate thats guttering!!! I'm feeling for you!anonymous said:
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It's truly hard. No question. With our first we weaned on specially made roast squash, purees, etc and then moved to "grown up" food.The second we just liquidised whatever we were eating (we mostly cook from scratch so we can watch salt levels), or blitzed some peas, or had a few sachets at hand.
if anything she has grown up to be less fussy then the eldest.
anonymous said:
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Sorry to hear this dude! It sounds like the lack of sleep in the day is what's causing him not to sleep at night. The Baby Sleep Solution: The stay-and-support method to help your baby sleep through the night
We have followed this book below since about 3 months and if I'm honest it's changed our lives. We follow bits of it loosely and others strict but it means our 5 month old sleeps 7pm-6 at the minute and has 4 naps in the day ranging from 2 hours to 30 mins each time in the afternoon. It's hard to start with but if you can persevere it will get better. Again only my experience might not work for you but thought I'd mention it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/071717154X/ref=cm_sw_r...
anonymous said:
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Remember the "should" is an average and there is a range. They are all different and haven't read the books.I'd have to check, but once weaning ours were well below 13 hrs. At nursery (8 months) it was 1hr in the day and maybe 10 at night (probably split as 2-4-4hrs).
A friends is sleeping in 30 min stints at the moment and it is driving them mad.
Huntsman said:
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Exactly the same as ours. They don't seem to have read the books. You just have to wake up to the fact, that like us, you have a nutter.We are having the same, he used to be like clockwork wake up, bottle, sleep, wake up, other half would walk the dog and have have the pram, lunch, nap, etc etc, bed at 7ish and sleep until the morning.
Now he wakes up at 5, if he won't settle we do a small bottle, then wakes at 7:30ish again for a feed, has a play and breakfast and only tends to nap for 30mins to an hour at lunch then awake until 8ish.
We are having a bit of a problem with a cow's milk allergy and being given different milks from the doctors to try so we are putting it down to that at the moment. On out 4th type of milk so fingers crossed it will work.
OH was feeding from boob but the birth wasn't straight forward and where she had to have an emergency C-section got infected and had to have antibiotics, that put a stop to that, and he was born with sepsis so the first week had to be by bottle on the hospital.
Sure or will get more straight forward as things go on, but it's worth it so far. Even the dog is starting to like him
eggchaser1987 said:
We have been at this for about 9 months and now is the time he is deciding to wake up in a state twice a night. Lesson to all in what ever tiered state you are make sure, if you sterilise bottles in the microwave, you have it on the right setting!
Gutting to see - hope Amazon deliver quickly to you!!Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
Thanks to the poster who recommended the baby sleep book. Mine is three and a half months old and doesn't like sleeping either. She hardly naps in the day unless we go walking with her in the pram or go out somewhere in the car, and then she doesn't want to sleep after bath time so stays awake quite late. Once she's asleep she generally sleeps over night quite well but only if she's sleeping next to mum... So that means seperate beds at the moment for me and Mrs GPM and mini GPM hasn't ever slept in the cot properly, even though it's one of those that is right next to the bed. I'm going to get that book and have a good read!
Gallons Per Mile said:
Thanks to the poster who recommended the baby sleep book. Mine is three and a half months old and doesn't like sleeping either. She hardly naps in the day unless we go walking with her in the pram or go out somewhere in the car, and then she doesn't want to sleep after bath time so stays awake quite late. Once she's asleep she generally sleeps over night quite well but only if she's sleeping next to mum... So that means seperate beds at the moment for me and Mrs GPM and mini GPM hasn't ever slept in the cot properly, even though it's one of those that is right next to the bed. I'm going to get that book and have a good read!
No problem if you have any questions about it feel free to PM me or I'm in the dads fb group! There are some good bits and some other not so good bits but overall we liked it. They give suggested sleep patterns to try and follow and it helped and also it says no matter how crap your night is get up no later than 7:30 which has helped get a routine in place. We started to follow it about your daughters age and has put us in good stead!The Moose said:
Gutting to see - hope Amazon deliver quickly to you!!
Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
NHS Guidelines is 12 months (we have followed for both our girls), but I believe you live over the pond, so maybe there are different guidelines for the States?Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/s...
The Moose said:
Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
We gave up when we found ours chewing a shoe, IIRC.Dishwasher and Miltons once a week for bottles (actually I do them all - school water bottles and adult water bottles).
chip* said:
The Moose said:
Gutting to see - hope Amazon deliver quickly to you!!
Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
NHS Guidelines is 12 months (we have followed for both our girls), but I believe you live over the pond, so maybe there are different guidelines for the States?Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/s...
Nola25 said:
Hi
Another 1st time dad to be here at the ripe age of 47!
After 5 attempts of IVF resulting in 2 missed miscarriages and 3 non takers, we’ve got lucky on the 6th and final try. We reached the 12 wk point today, scan and tests has confirmed everything is going really well and we have found out we’re having a boy due on 31st July.
Happy as a pig in ste is an understatement!!! 
Many congratulations. Another 1st time dad to be here at the ripe age of 47!
After 5 attempts of IVF resulting in 2 missed miscarriages and 3 non takers, we’ve got lucky on the 6th and final try. We reached the 12 wk point today, scan and tests has confirmed everything is going really well and we have found out we’re having a boy due on 31st July.
Happy as a pig in s
te is an understatement!!! We finally crossed the line after our 3rd cycle thankfully (especially as we agreed it would be our final attempt), so great to hear your positive news. Total respect for going through with 6 cycles as its physically demanding process (regular to clinic for scans and blood test, the daily injections etc.), and then having to deal with the emotional aftermath....
Fingers crossed everything works out for both of you.
eggchaser1987 said:
chip* said:
The Moose said:
Gutting to see - hope Amazon deliver quickly to you!!
Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
NHS Guidelines is 12 months (we have followed for both our girls), but I believe you live over the pond, so maybe there are different guidelines for the States?Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/s...
At 6 months she was picking up everything as well as playing with the dog and cat and as they all do, everything went in her mouth. It seemed funny to sterilize bottles with that going on. On a slightly related topic dog bones apparently give a bit of teething relief ( we're not that bad at the parenting bit, promise
).The Moose said:
eggchaser1987 said:
chip* said:
The Moose said:
Gutting to see - hope Amazon deliver quickly to you!!
Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
NHS Guidelines is 12 months (we have followed for both our girls), but I believe you live over the pond, so maybe there are different guidelines for the States?Serious question here - do you really need to be sterilizing bottles at 9 months? Emma is 10 months today and we pretty much haven't sterilized a bottle for the last 4 months.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/s...
At 6 months she was picking up everything as well as playing with the dog and cat and as they all do, everything went in her mouth. It seemed funny to sterilize bottles with that going on. On a slightly related topic dog bones apparently give a bit of teething relief ( we're not that bad at the parenting bit, promise
).We did think that as he's rolling around and grabbing/chewing on the dogs toy and leg when we have our backs turned for a few seconds
, luckily the dog seems more concerned about his toy rather than his actual leg. All the teething bit we have for him and he still goes for the dog!
chip* said:
Nola25 said:
Hi
Another 1st time dad to be here at the ripe age of 47!
After 5 attempts of IVF resulting in 2 missed miscarriages and 3 non takers, we’ve got lucky on the 6th and final try. We reached the 12 wk point today, scan and tests has confirmed everything is going really well and we have found out we’re having a boy due on 31st July.
Happy as a pig in ste is an understatement!!!
Many congratulations. Another 1st time dad to be here at the ripe age of 47!
After 5 attempts of IVF resulting in 2 missed miscarriages and 3 non takers, we’ve got lucky on the 6th and final try. We reached the 12 wk point today, scan and tests has confirmed everything is going really well and we have found out we’re having a boy due on 31st July.
Happy as a pig in s
te is an understatement!!! We finally crossed the line after our 3rd cycle thankfully (especially as we agreed it would be our final attempt), so great to hear your positive news. Total respect for going through with 6 cycles as its physically demanding process (regular to clinic for scans and blood test, the daily injections etc.), and then having to deal with the emotional aftermath....
Fingers crossed everything works out for both of you.
As many will know, the IVF process can be a rollercoaster of emotions, we’re lucky to have got as far as we have but are still taking one day at a time.
Hasn’t stopped me making a shopping list of things the little guy will be getting at some point though, Scalextric and a new Gibson at the top of the list so far
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