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Pushy Mothers was cancelled as only 2 of us turned up, it was bucketing rain and the paths were flooded, so Kirsty & I went onto the HV instead.
She was 16lb 9oz last week and 17lb 2oz this week
The HV wasn't too much help in advising how to do the feeds. She said it's fine if she takes 4 x 9oz feeds and even ok if she took an extra feed at 5am. But she advised me to increase solids now and cut back slightly on milk to see if it will help combat these early morning wakings. She said I could even give Kirsty a little porridge before bed.
She said to keep doing milk before solids for breakfast & dinner, but for lunch give her solids before milk, and give her 2 courses, like veggies & fruit, or veggies and yogurt. Then whatever milk she would take, so I did that today, she had broccoli & a little yogurt, followd by approx 4oz milk.
Hopefully more solids will help get out of 4/5am wakings!!
It should do Fi, although i have no idea why my son has decided to wake at 4/5/6am the apst week...oh wait he does this when his dad is away haha, forgot about that. Oh well one more sleep.
Shes a good weight Fi. Think Christian was around 17lbs at 6 months. Do you ever feel that sometimes the HV gets a bit bored and doesnt seem interested?
She's doing great Fi!! I think more solids during the day is definitely the way forward, Kirsty is old enough now to be having 3 proper full meals a day and less milk... but I really don't know why she'd say to give her porridge before bed!
yay for weight gain!!!!!!! I always give Theo baby cereal in the evening as I found giving fruits made him wake up early. Sometimes they have thickened milks that can go in the bottle before bedtime
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Our HV seems to listen & nod but doesn't offer much solution/advice. Plus the clinic next week is cancelled so today was mobbed, never seen it so busy.
Lucy, i don't really like the idea of porridge before bed, it's encouraging 4 meals. Her dinner & milk should see her through the night. So I think I'll try and work out how it works best on milk at 7, 11, 3 and bedtime (7pm). and work her solids in somewhere, somehow. I just don't know how. She really wasn't helpful.
She said "try to give her one meal with milk"... I asked what she meant but she didn't explain, just said give one meal with milk. I don't know what she meant
Have you thought about halving the milk (to 4-5oz) at lunch (11) and dinner (3) after her solids. Then eventually when you are ready you can give her more food and replace those bottles of milk with juice.
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Yeah i wouldnt give her porridge before bed. it will sit in her tummy all night. I know they are trying to get the bedtimes milk banned so why she would sugest you do that i dont know.
If a baby is hungry it will wake during the night, so baby should be fed. Has she had her 6 month growth spurt already Fi?
She didn't suggest nighttime milk. I wouldn't use it anyway.
Lucy, I think I will try that, make 5oz milk for lunch & dinner with increased solids, see if it works. I've wondered if 3pm is too early for dinner solids but it's 4hours after lunch so makes sense, but then she has from 3pm until 7am the next morning before her next solids.
She's completely resisting daytime sleep now. She was doing so fab and now I'm back to square 1. She has been up since 4am today, and has had an hour 8-9am and an hour 1:30-2:30pm. She's exhausted but refusing to nap just now.
I never thought of it like that 3pm-7am without solids... but then I don't normally give Max breaky so he can go 4pm-12noon but I always count milk as food though (hence the replacement) so he gets a feed before bed and when he wakes up.
There's so much different advice online and friends/family on how the routine "should" go. I feel so confused. So many people tell me to do milk then solids but at the same sitting, others say solids then milk at the same sitting, others say milk every 4hrs and solids 1hr after the milk.
I've never heard any different Fi... but then I've not really looked for advice in many places. I've just always 'known' to replace the milk with food. It worked so well with Emma I didn't need to think about it with Max. Everywhere I've read to do milk before food before 6 months and milk after food after 6 months. In all honesty though Fi, if she's eating, drinking and you're both happy who cares how it's done
I KWYM Lucy about it being ok whatever way works. and that doing both at same time makes sense to me also, I just wondered if Kirsty having solids slightly later than 3pm would stop the waking early morning if indeed it is due to hunger.
I guess I'm clutching at straws because I'm fed up of getting up so early. I know this has only just started happening again (the early waking), but I had gotten used to her going back down or sleeping until 6/7am... ok so 6am is only 1 hour after 5am but 5am is wayyyyyyyyyyyy too early. I can cope with 6am getting up. No probs. 5am is middle of the night and a big no-no.
Tmor deffo gonna go for full milk feed with solids for breakfast, reduced milk & 2course solids for lunch & dinner and then full milk for bedtime.
This is all such a huge learning curve!! Mummyhood was always portrayed as being easy & straightforward... until I became a mummy
I really hope introducing more solid feeds help Kirsty back on track and stop her waking so early. 5am is definitely way too early to be starting your day!
Oh yes Fi!!! It's far different from what you expect isn't it!!
I would just keep giving her the dummy and ignoring her at 5am you are right, it's middle of the night!!!!
This is what I do until 6am but it's the fact that she doesn't sleep. Meaning when I get up with her at 6am, she's tired & ready for a nap almost right away
you are right, it's middle of the night!!!!
and WTG on the weight gain!
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