My wife is in Barcelona for work this week so it is just 'lil Rabid (10 months) & I. Reading some of these recent posts about sleep makes me feel blessed. On Sunday night he woke up at 4 am and wanted a bottle but immediately went back to sleep. Last night I gave him an extra 2 oz before I put him down at 7:00 pm. He slept (little wake ups here and there but he put himself back to sleep with no help) until I turned the lights on at 6:40 this morning.
my son used to be like this as well.. i hated it! he finally grew out of it once he hit 2. now he sleeps through the night.. i have a 4 month old who will sleep 10-12 hrs a night(minor wakeups) and its like heaven lol
That stupid preschool fight club story going around a couple weeks ago didn't help. And yeah, "he's going to school" makes me crack up. 5 hours a week of what is essentially day care while you grocery shop and go to the gym isn't school. If he learns how to talk and develops a healthy interest in using the potty from being around other kids it is a big, big win. Because mommy certainly didn't teach him those things in the 2.75 years she had him at home every day.
We tried it. Several times. He never went to sleep. He just cried and yelled until he was exhausted, then laid there for 5-10 mins, awake and gathering himself to yell again. We felt like going over an hourof continuous screaming at a time was not doing anything productive so I guess he outlasted us. His intervals never got shorter. Now he just hogs the entire bed. Pretty soon he will be capable of being reasoned with so I guess that is the light at the end of the tunnel.
Haha, kid went to preschool, had fun, woke up from his nap and went peepee in the potty for the first time. Big day. He's tried it a couple of times, but this was the first time he's had success. We've been waiting for him to potty train himself, and that time is apparently now.
It's a spectacular, momentous occasion. Man, feels so good to not have to deal with diapers anymore. Wife sold the diaper pail for like $10. I wanted to celebrate with $10 worth of hookers and blow, got ice cream instead.
Our diaper pail, when it is truly no longer needed, will be treated as the hazardous waste product it has become. I.e., I'll put it in a garbage bag and throw it in recycling. I can't even fathom a used diaper pail.
As king of my castle, I have made a royal decree that when our final child is potty trained, we will be having a celebratory bonfire for all of the remaining diapers, the changing table, etc. Much alcohol will be consumed in honor of this future momentous occasion. On a related note, we spent last week at the in-laws cabin in the woods of bumfuck northern WI. Whenever little Odin had to piss, he just went outside and pissed wherever he wanted. Now that we're back in civilization, he keeps trying to piss outside. While this is normal male behavior, I had to explain to him that if the sun is out and you can see another house, you can't pee outside.
The boy pooped in the backyard yesterday. The wife turned her back for just a moment and when she turned back, he was just standing there pooping. Lol. Gave a real proud "I poop outside!'. Unfortunately the wife left the dog unattended a little later and the dog rolled in Deetoo's deuce.
This. I have no personal experience but talking to friends that do...good luck. And no offense man but at the idea of reasoning with him why he can't sleep in your bed.
We got my kid a bed at 18 months because he refused to sleep in his crib. Was up like every hour or so. It was the worst thing in the history of things. A bed helped tremendously. I know how awful it is with shitty sleepers. We tried everything and things generally worked for a time but then he reverted. The bad news is that for shitty sleepers, it doesn't get that much better as they get older. Better, for sure, but my 3.5 year old wakes up more than my 1 year old because shitty sleepers are shitty sleepers. You have my pity.
My daughter is almost a year and a half and has only really puked once, am I getting really lucky or does the puke normally start later?
My kid is still sleeping in a sleep sack in his crib at 2.75. We'll probably convert it to a bed this winter, but I'm not looking this gift horse in the mouth.
All things considered, I'd rather have my kid puke on me than hurl in the car seat. Those car seats have nooks and crannies that are impossible to get to. Even after you completely dismantle the thing, soak it in bleach for a week, and then hit it with a fire hose, there will still be hidden chunks of barf that will make your vehicle stink for weeks.
He has had his own bed for a while. He will walk into his room and put himself to bed when it is close to bed time and if he is tired. He just has no interest in staying asleep
Yeah reason is not the right word but he already understands short term cause and effect like- we can't read that book until you eat more dinner. So he will protest and try to get me to read it and i tell him again and he goes and sits down and eats some food and then asks again.
I think part of it is he likes to be confined while sleeping and he shifts around and wakes himself up. Once that happens, he realizes he is alone, and them he is instantly awake.
Unsolicited advice from a stranger aside, takes measures now or you're going to have a kindergartner in your bed. BIL's wife was a huge enabler for shit like this. He just this past summer got his 7 year old out of his bed, huge issues had to be resolved. Another couple lets their 3 year old sleep in the bed with them and he pisses the bed every fucking night. He refuses to leave. Wife tried to bring min dolphin into bed around 10 months, I didn't get laid for probably a month but that little fucker never stole my bed from me.
Learned the hard way earlier on in the pregnancy that I need to be at every appointment, even if no scans are planned. Got a reminder why today. Was supposed to be a routine 30 week check up with one of the other doctors in the practice we hadn't seen before. Appointment got bumped from morning to mid-afternoon, then again until 4:30, and we didn't actually get seen until 5:00. Well, long story short, the doctor thinks she "may" have heard an irregular heartbeat. She ordered an unplanned sonogram (doctor left the room for this), and the tech said everything was fine, the baby wasn't in distress (which we didn't even know she was looking for that, or what that meant). Doctor came back and said the imaging was fine, but she was still concerned about the heartbeat and referred us to a pediatric cardiologist. We're like "what is going on?", and she just gave us the run around, "it's probably nothing, need to take a look and see if it's an abnormal heartbeat, etc." Just a really shitty bedside manner, and no ability/desire to explain the situation or articulate her concerns. So we're left wondering WTF is going on. My understanding is that most fetal irregular heartbeats resolve themselves and/or aren't serious, but her body language and tone after she came back in the second time was concerning to me. Oh, and stack this on top of the fact that they referred my wife to a hematologist (who we haven't even heard from yet to set up an appointment) late last week based on elevated WBC count in one of her routine blood tests (without getting into it, we think that referral is a waste of time and they are being ridiculously over-cautious). Every visit it's been one "red flag" or another, though this is the first one that really has me scared. Wife feels the same way, and without wanting to come off as insensitive to people who have more serious complications, it has really sucked a lot of the enjoyment out of pregnancy, and I guess we both resent these doctors for that, fair or not. It's just a really shitty feeling to not know what's going on, to not know how serious these things are, and to not get adequate explanations from the doctor. We will not be handling any future pregnancies with these OBs. I would appreciate any positive thoughts or prayers any of you other dads might have until we can get in to see the specialist and get some more info on this. Hopefully it's nothing like everything else has been so far...
My son is 14 months old and goes to bed at like 9-10 pm and wakes up at like 8-9 AM (when we let him, obviously we have to get him up to go to daycare when I'm working). He has done this since he was like 1 month old. We started him out by giving him a much bigger bottle at night, then later had to add rice cereal to the bottle and it would hold him through the night. My couch potato genes are strong
We were high risk and saw a specialist in addition to the OB. He was great but did scare us the first time because he'd tell you everything. We had the irregular heart beat deal but he told us it will likely resolved itself. It did and everything was fine. My son is 19 months now.
I'm sorry to hear that. Keep your head up though, we went through the same thing and his heartbeat corrected itself.
How much were you feeding him before bed at 1-2 months? We have a 2 month old and we will give her like 4oz before bed, sleeping still inconsistent. Only had 1 night of 8hr sleep out of her so far. Also, how much formula were you feeding during the day, compared to the feeding at night before bed?
Sorry to hear that. We had twins and wife was considered high risk, so we were seeing a specialist the whole time. Everything went fine, but i was always really nervous at the appointments. They would say shit like the heartrate is 150 beats per minute....well is that good or bad? Explain this shit like I'm not a doctor and dont know what conditions are normal.
We saw a high risk Dr also (everything turned out fine), and he was awesome. He explained it very simple, very straight forward guy. I remember him saying something to the effect of ... is it possible? yeah it's possible you walk outside and a cow falls on you and kills you, this is about as possible as that.
Yeah it's crazy because our specialist would point out everything that could be slightly off. Oh the cord is close to the edge of the placenta. Oh there is a slight irregular heart beat. Oh this, oh that. Good guy and I think he's required to tell us everything that he is watching, just scary.
My wife is due Sept. 30. We spent the entire month of August worried she wouldn't even make it to Sept. 1. It's now Sept. 23 and she's still pregnant. He's now been in there longer than our other two. I want him in there as long as possible, but the wife is growing more and more miserable by the day.
Due sept 28th and no movement. Now doc tells her that its probably going to be a c-section and the preggo is stressed out.
I really think it is all related to having been breastfed, kid has had zero bottles at home. So he is used to waking up, eating etc.
mine was breastfed. She pumped and we gave bottles. We would give a bottle of formula right at bedtime.
8 ounces at bedtime. 4-6 ounces every 3-4 hours during the day. breast milk (pumped and put in a bottle) during the day, with a formula bottle before bed (the eight ounce bottle). We stopped breast milk at 6 months
also Dr. Brown's bottles are awesome about preventing gas/ throwing up. Mine would spit up a lil, but he was also eating a ton (so that was likely quite an accomplishment that it wasn't more)
Wife and I went out of town for 4 days. Lil Mo slept like a champ, till 7 every morning. She flew back yesterday (I had business so flew back today) and he woke up at 5:30am Me: he clearly knows you will get him if he wakes up and bring him into bed Wife: I don't think that's it Me: he slept 11+ hours in his crib every night while we were gone. First night back he screams for you to get him. Wife: no, he just randomly woke up early