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> A lot of questions
wcs40110
  Posted: Sep 3 2007, 03:35 PM
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Okay, Baby starting to walk. AHH Shes 11 months now and shes all about it. Anyways. I plan to try to start weaning her soon since she can have cows milk. I at least plan on going to cows milk during the day (while Im at work so I DONT HAVE TO PUMP ANYMORE!!!) but she wakes up literally like 5 times a night and I am a giant pacifier. I dont know how to take care of that. I cant let her cry because I already only get like 5 hrs sleep a night and shes persistant. I work full time too so i dont have an option of napping later. I have some formula I was send in the mail, the 2nd's enfamil stuff thats susposed to be better than reg milk but I still dont think thatll help because id have to get up each time since bottles are only good for like 2 hrs???? Uhh she wont take pacifiers either.. Any ideas...
Also, My friend asked me why im not starting to break her into cows milk since i told her i plan to wean kota at a year. She said just add a little water and make it a little less each time but I though they were STRICKLY not susposed to have cows milk until a year old due to potential allergies. I dont know, I think Im too by the book sometimes. Also, ive been thinking if giving her that formula I got in the mail while im at school because i have a 5 hour class thursdays and dont pump so dada just gives her water but i dont want to cheat and formula has NEVER passed thru her lips and Im think its 2nd stages , so its not the same... Okay, sorry this is long...
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Posted: Sep 3 2007, 04:41 PM
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I would say try bottles during the day, check with your pedi about giving her milk at 11 mos...we started shy of a year with no probs but it's always good to check first. Some people have better luck weaning when the child sort of instigates it but I think it takes some persistance no matter what.

The fact that she'll take a bottle from daddy tells me she understands that she's going to get a bottle at times, the trick is just to get her to take it more often. I know it sounds awful but at that age she is capable of sleeping through the night and it may help if you try a little CIO on a weekend or something when you don't have to work.

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Posted: Sep 3 2007, 04:42 PM
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I started weaning my son to cows milk at 11 1/2 months, but he was on milk based formula before that, so I had a feeling he would be okay with it. My 15 month daughter still isn't on cows milk, because I had her on soy formula and I knew she wouldn't tolerate whole milk that well. Now I have her on milk based formula. I don't really know much about weaning to milk from the breast, since I never made it to that point with my children. (unfortunately)

as far as her getting up all the time in the night, I would suggest CIO, ( I know it can be a touchy subject) It worked for us really well. My daughter was still getting up twice a night at 11 months, and I knew she was just doing it out of habit. I dropped her feedings one at a time, letting her cry the first feeding out, and bumping her second feeding up a little, until she was only getting up once a night. It took about 3 nights. Then I dropped the second feeding out too. the whole thing took about 2 weeks until she was consistently sleeping through.
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Posted: Sep 7 2007, 06:41 AM
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Weve been CIOing her at her initial bedtime and it shes usually down in about 10 mins, the problems is in the middle of the night. I have tues and fris off work and dad doesnt so we cant really let her cry. She sleeps in the same room and im not ready to move her out (Yes I realized that I am the one whos not ready. uhh.. snooze.gif I know im difficult but I really need the 5 hours of broken sleep I already get ya know wink.gif
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Posted: Sep 7 2007, 06:50 AM
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I BF my daughter until she was about 17 months, but I night weaned her at about 10 or 11 months. Before I night weaned her, she didn't sleep through the night. My daughter also would not take a pacifier... I was her pacifier.

I couldn't CIO... I'm not going to debate whether it is right or wrong, but I just didn't have it in me to do it. So, here's what we did. If she woke up in the middle of the night, Daddy would go in and comfort her. He would either pick her up and rock her back to sleep or he would pat her back in her crib and put her to sleep. It had to be Daddy because if she saw me then she wanted to nurse. All it took was a week of this (Daddy putting her back to sleep and no BF), and she started sleeping through the night. Your husband will probably have a week of sleepless nights, but after that both of you will get much more sleep.

Good luck, and keep in mind that this is a phase and will end soon. Time flies so fast. You may not believe it now, but there will be a time when you look back and miss these sleepless nights with your baby. wub.gif


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Posted: Sep 7 2007, 11:02 AM
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Emily tried that trick with me and I didn't want to be a pacifier. I would let her nurse in the middle of the night but kept cutting down the amount of time she was allowed to nurse. For instance for the first week it would be 10 mins, next week 5..blah blah blah. We also used the cio but she was in her own room so it was easier. I hope you find something that works for you


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Posted: Sep 16 2007, 07:52 AM
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Where does she sleep? if she sleeps in your room try putting her in her own room after she falls asleep one night. When she cries in the middle of the night, have your dh go in, not you and lay her back down to sleep. she might wake up and cry a couple times for the first couple days or week. we just did it with our son. on thursday night we put him in his own room (before that he was in our room mostly in our bed) and he got up about two times cried for no longer than 10 minutes and now we have goen three successful nights with no breastfeeding at night. I can't belive it and i am kind of sad at the same time, but it's time. He will is 18 months. he is doing so well with it. Try the own room things, i think that you will be surprised
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Posted: Sep 16 2007, 08:02 AM
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QUOTE (MommyToAshley @ Sep 7 2007, 09:50 AM)
I couldn't CIO... I'm not going to debate whether it is right or wrong, but I just didn't have it in me to do it. So, here's what we did. If she woke up in the middle of the night, Daddy would go in and comfort her. He would either pick her up and rock her back to sleep or he would pat her back in her crib and put her to sleep. It had to be Daddy because if she saw me then she wanted to nurse. All it took was a week of this (Daddy putting her back to sleep and no BF), and she started sleeping through the night. Your husband will probably have a week of sleepless nights, but after that both of you will get much more sleep.

Thanks for the tip Dee Dee, I'll have to try this...if DH goes for it! Wesley still wakes at least once a night and wants to nurse. I'm the human pacifier. Rich sometimes goes into Wesley's nursery, but he gives it a few minutes and then he brings Wesley to me in bed. Not what I want to do, but I feel bad since DH has to get up early. But maybe I can promise to DH a week of backrubs or something if he does this.

I obviously don't have any advice since I'm totally in the same situation as you. I do let Wesley CIO from time to time, but not for very long. Sometimes it works and he is down in five minutes, but other times he is up forever and I'm in there nursing him. It really is hard, especially when they are teething and you know they need some extra comforting. hug.gif GL.


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Posted: Sep 16 2007, 09:10 AM
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Has she had jar food? That definitely would help fill her up better at night.
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