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Jack stopped sleeping through!!!!!
Hi everyone
Jack was really good and slept through from 7.30-8.30pm till about 5-6am from about 7 weeks old.
This past week though hes been waking at 2-3am for a feed then waking at 5am still!! He is drinking 6oz when he gets up through night so i no hes hungry. Ive tried upping his intake thru day to 7oz instead of 6 but he was still getting up.
Any ideas girls?
Jack was really good and slept through from 7.30-8.30pm till about 5-6am from about 7 weeks old.
This past week though hes been waking at 2-3am for a feed then waking at 5am still!! He is drinking 6oz when he gets up through night so i no hes hungry. Ive tried upping his intake thru day to 7oz instead of 6 but he was still getting up.
Any ideas girls?
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How old's Jack? Think he's a similar age to Gracie (14wk tom) but i forget!
My eldest son was 15 wk when weaned as he was on 9oz bottles and still not sleeping thru! He started sleeping thru when we weaned him.
Does he take the extra ounce? If so, it could be hunger, if not...???
Sorry not much help! Hope he sleeps better tonight!
Jack is 13 weeks tomorrow and you could be right when i go in his room ge has got his fists in his mouth. I bought some of those gummies but he wasnt sure what to do with them. Went to Tesco and bought some of those beads today and some teething gel so may help.
What do you do when Gracie stirs in night? Or does she go back off?
Amy xxx
Gracie also doesn't know what to do with the gummies so i bought a teething blanket yesterday which i'll give her once it's dry.
Hope Jack likes his beads!
He had been grouchy and crying all moring and chewing on his hands so i gave him some calpol which settled him. He then slept for 3 hours had a feed and bath now in bed so hope he sleeps better.
Ali he likes to hold the beads but hit himself in the head with them!!!
Hope it was just a one off....
Gracie was in our bed from 12.30 and woke us up at 5.45 doing a huge nappy-full!
He seems ok today a bit grumpy but not as bad as yesterday! xx
Gracie also better - couple o plug stops then i went into her at 6am to her giggling back at me! Brought her back to our bed where she slept til we had to get up.
Good babies - keep it up!
Hope all the other babies are happy and healthy and very sleepy at night!
Em x
Cole slept till 5.30am this morning! Not good!! We have just rearranged his bottles and hopefully he'll sleep longer! We tried upping him to 7oz cause he was often finishing 6oz, but then he seemed to end up having only 4 bottles instead of 5, so today he's had 5 x 6oz bottles - only one of which went half finished, and he's had most of his bedtime bottle, as well as bf before his bath so heres hoping for 6.30 tomorrow!
The paediatrician said yesterday that as far as stomachs are concerned los can hold about approx 120-130ml per kg of body weight, so if your lo weighs 6kg, they should be on 6x120ml =720ml of milk a day in how ever many bottles they have, if that makes sense? Gracie weighs 6.33kg, so should be on 5x5.5oz bottles a day - she's actually on 7oz - so that may be why she's being sick so much! I'd never heard of that ratio b4 and it's only a guide but interesting to see how greedy our los are!
My ds1 was very greedy and on 9oz bottles too so we weaned him at 15wks.
Ali - I've never heard of that ratio either - you learn something new an all that.
Thanks all for msgs.... Fee seems to be a bit better, Tristan is better but feeling sorry for himself as only teenage boys (or grown men come to that) can, Bryn has still got a runny nose and is now coughing a bit.... but on the whole I think the house is a slightly healthier one today! Bryn even slept a bit better last night - yeah!!
Em x
HV said at the post natal group a couple of weeks ago that it was 2.5oz to every pound which put my mind to rest a bit as i thought i was over feeding Philip but he was only haveing .5oz too much which is probably the dregs left in the bottom of his bottles over the day anyway! We have just put him onto the hungry baby milk as he is wanting feeding every 3hrs, even on 8oz bottles so thought i'd try that before putting in an extra bottle.
Cole was 14lb 11 on Monday and I hope he's getting 7oz out of me bf-ing him cause thats what he's short according to Obi's hv! He has 5 6oz bottles a day now - but he doesn't always finish them plus bf in the morning and a couple of random times in the day.
He actually slept in to 7am this morning which is the best its been for a while - think switching him to 7oz bottles definately wasn't working cause he was only getting through 4 of them a day.
I'm guessing we'll have an early start tomorrow though cause my poor boy had his injections today and hasn't fed well at all
I'm tempted to ask the hv next time I go to get Cole weighed how much he should be having...just to see if she says anything useful!! My regular hv seems to have vanished and the replacement one is vague and I think she thinks we are dumb!!