What exactly is “real food?” We started whole food purees (single items testing for allergies) at around 4 months. Is that what you are talking about or are you talking about eating off of your plate?
Same. 4.5 month and we started purees. He's now 6 months and he still gets puree for lunch and pieces of what we're having for dinner. We just cut off a portion of what we're having for dinner and either don't season it or cook it to well done.
Doc said we could start testing purées at 4-6 months, we were a little slow and began closer to 6, mainly just doing it to get him acclimated and exposed to allergens. He gets a few spoonfuls a couple times/day, basically whatever he’ll take, doesn’t seem to enjoy it much right now.
Our first 2 we started oat cereal, rice cereal, etc at 4-5 months but that is basically just thickened milk/formula and progressed to avacado and purées right around 5-6 months. Our 3rd is 7 months and started purées this week but he has a host of other issues that delayed the timeline.
Both of our kids were not fans of purées and we gave up on that pretty quick for baby led weaning or whatever it’s called.
Last night my son who is almost 5 months old decided it was a fun idea to roll onto his stomach in his crib and scream until one of us would roll him back onto his back. He did this about 10-15 times in the night. I'm struggling today. Anyone have ideas how to deal with that? He doesn't really know how to roll himself back on his back on his own
So that thread is in the archives now. Do you know if there are any newer non-lechnerd Vasectomy threads? I have questions.
8 months in with our first. He has FINALLY gotten to the point where he sleeps from 7-7 straight. I feel like I am 10 years younger with all this energy.
Ours has been a handful. Was not giving us more than 2 hours straight until 3 months. Then about 2 weeks he gave us only 1 or 2 wake ups a night and twice through the night, but then immediately he's back to up multiple times a night now consistently. I'm a zombie this week
It's so much easier for me to deal with him before I fall asleep even if I'm tired than it is to try and wake back up after falling asleep so I ended up staying up way too late a lot of nights too because I knew "he gets up between 11:30 and 12:30 every night, ill just stay up until we get past that one" and would be up until 1 sometimes waiting for it. Man I was under 6 hours of sleep and a lot of nights under 4 pretty much consistently. People aren't lying when they said you don't know tired until you have a kid. Probably got 3 hours of sleep last night. Hoping tonight goes better
This is like 99% of parenting stress for me. I know what's often coming and I just get anxious over it.
Mine did this for about a week or two. Would cry once on his stomach but it was only a couple times a night. Now he has mastered the side sleep and he does great at it.
Everyone’s mileage seems to vary on this, but we had amazing success w/ cold turkey sleep training. We tried a more gentle approach, but our little guy just refuses to acknowledge any type of soothing once he works himself into a cry. So I banished LadyPokes to the guest room, popped in some earbuds and long podcasts, and just let the tyke wail into exhaustion. First night was brutal, next two got progressively better, and by the fourth he was sleeping completely through the night and self-soothing. That was @ 4 mos, he’s been sleeping like a champ from 8-7 ever since (2 mos ago). I’ve read and believe that the cold-turkey approach doesn’t work for everyone, but for a baby that seems overly dependent on your interventions, I think it’s worth a shot. You can always give it a few days to see if he’s making any progress and worst case scenario you just revert to your normal routine.
My seven month old daughter (second child) finally started sleeping through the night last week. Our first child was a horrible sleeper until I laid the law down far too late. I was not going to let it happen again. I said she is going to cry it out. It was so tough on my wife for a couple days but now it appears to have paid off. This is far and away the worst part of it all. It never failed that once I started to get into a deep sleep the crying would begin.
My boy turns 1 in ten days and still doesn't sleep through the night. Wife won't do the cry it out method so he's up at least 3 times a night. However, I work which includes times like this morning where I have to do calls with clients in Southern Africa at 4:30 a.m. and my wife doesn't. So I don't ever get up and we have a day bed in his nursery where she typically crashes after getting up to soothe him the first time and I sleep through the rest of the night.
Just lying there listening to the white noise come through the baby monitor just knowing that you’re going to hear them start crying at any moment sucks too. My son was an awful sleeper until past a year and it was torture. Daughter has never not slept through the night. It’s amazing and we didn’t do anything differently with her.
yep. same here with mine. it's why i roll my eyes at people when they go on and on about how effective their sleep training technique was. Some kids sleep well and some don't. There isn't some magic trick to turn them into great sleepers.
It’s insane. Hardest part was getting my wife on board. But it just takes 3 nights, and boom they are good to go.
It is hard. I hated doing it as well, but we got to the point where we had to try something different. I made the deal with her that if it didn't work after 5 days we would stop. Like Snakes said, no method is perfect. Just got to roll with what brings LESSSSSSS stress to the house and what makes your child the happiest.
yeah we started letting my son cry it out around the 6 month mark and that was effective. He's 4 now and still a challenge to get to bed. He just likes to stall and have us lay in bed with him for a little. It can be tiring and my wife and I alternate every other night. My almost 2 year old little girl can be put down in like 5 minutes, easy peasy. Kids are just different.
That's my thing at this point. I'm not saying it will for sure work. I just want to try something different because doing the same thing over and over again expecting something to change is stupid. But she says she's fine getting up with him and I work from home even pre covid so there're times throughout the day I can give her a reprieve to rest up.
My wife has yet to comprehend cluster feeding. Kid will be an angel all day because he gets fed every 2-3 hours, but at night, the wife will try to stretch it out to 4+ hours so she can get some sleep. The result is a screaming 1 week old from midnight to 2 am until she finally relents and lets him eat his fill.
I can't imagine the exhaustion of breastfeeding. So I say this with that in mind, but my wife couldn't get that either. She would feed him in short stints because she would get frustrated or bored with it, take a break and then resume. Wrecked havoc on us at night.
3 yo is stall king. More singing! (Okay one more song) I need a drink! (chugs water) I need to go potty (sometimes poop usually dribble piss) I need to line up my stuffed animals! He’s a pro and it’s annoying as hell.
We've already punted on full time breast feeding and have resorted to pump and bottle feed for most of his food. Because she had a C section, it was just too much to ask her to be on call 24/7 while recovering from surgery. It's simply a matter of stubbornness that she is right that feeding him too much will give him a stomach ache.
We had this issue and then developed a clear bed-time routine. Bath > diaper > read a book > pajamas > teeth brushing > one more book > bed. It takes about 45 minutes all in, but she is wired for it now and moves from stage to stage on autopilot.
yeah i don't think gender has anything to do with it. i've heard horror stories about both girls and boys with sleeping. Now potty training I am convinced it's easier for girls. But there's a physical explanation for that.
We kept #1 in our room until 10-months and he never really went more than 3-hours without waking. The first night in his own room he slept through the night. #2 is is about to be 7-months and still in our room. For the past 2-months he has been waking every 2-hours. Last week I lost it and finally spent a week on the couch. We don’t have an extra room to put him in right now so we have used our “slumber pod” the past few nights and it has made a big difference since he can’t see us.
Day care is closed for 2 weeks bc shitty parents gave thier kids Covid. Also, idk how the fuck some ppl are working and then taking care of an infant So home school... Shit Posting 101
Our kid is 6 month. First 3 months were easy bc wife was off work. Next 2 were fine because he slept most of the day. This last month has been a nightmare. He's up most of the day and he's old enough to want to play and do things, but not old enough to really play on his own. He starts daycare on Monday and wife and I are taking the day off to relax for once. Finally be able to work in peace and quiet and not have to coordinate who watches him throughout the day
When this whole thing started our daycare shut down for 2 months. Given my wife and I both work and our daughter was about 1.5 there was zero chance we would have been able to do anything productive without help from my folks (who basically watched her every day). To give it perspective, I've had some friends without kids mention how WFH is probably so great since "you won't have to pay for daycare anymore." No one gets it until they live it.
yeah these next two weeks are going to be chaos. just bought a 5x6 play pen yo set up in the living room. he wants to be active and crawl everywhere.
Daycare for me is the most rest I get during the week, best 2k a month we spend. I can do stuff around the house, workout, watch my shows, take a nap, well worth the money
$2K a month for both kids in Birmingham, AL. I would pay much more. Being able to work from home with kids out of the house is a gift from god. No idea how I will manage if/when I am asked to come back to the office.
same thing happened to us and it was two weeks of working at home with 3 kids 3 and under. I almost lost my sanity.