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Ok ladies, help me out. R will be 7 months tomorrow. We've tried feeding him with a spoon since he was about 5 1/2 months and haven't really gotten anywhere. Yesterday I finally got him to take 3 bites of oatmeal w/banana but mostly he eats puffs, cheerios, and any fruit or veggies I can put in those mesh feeders. Mostly its puffs and cheerios right now, which is fine with me. If he wants to be a kid who feeds himself I'm not arguing with him.
But my question (yes, I know get to the point!) is does feeding solids usually mess with their sleep in a bad way? We pretty much had his sleep down to bedtime at 6 or 6:30, wake up once, eat and go back to sleep, get up somewhere between 5 and 6. Monday night and Tuesday nights he slept fine but got up at 5. Last night he wouldn't go to bed until 8:15. We tried about every 30 minutes starting at 6, he wouldn't take the bottle and if you put him to bed he'd scream bloody murder. Sometimes we let him CIO but I can usually tell from his cry if its going to work - last night it wasn't. Finally at 8:15 he went right to sleep like the past two hours had been no big deal. So he wakes up at 3:45, I feed him and he falls right asleep but as soon as I put him in his crib he screamed bloody murder. I tried 3 times and finally gave up and slept in the recliner with him from 5-6. DH didn't have to be at work until 8 so he got up at 6 so that I could get at least another hour of sleep.
Today he won't nap. Usually 3 hours is his max for awake time before both his naps, this morning he was up from 6-10 and then fell asleep in the carseat on a way to a friends and woke up as soon as we got there so he got maybe 10 minutes. He then fell asleep on the way home and slept maybe 20 minutes. He also won't take his bottle. He's had nothing but puffs and cheerios and MAYBE 4oz of fluids since he got up at 6am.
I've checked his teeth, I don't see any swollen gums - I'm at a TOTAL loss. We're going to my inlaws this weekend, I have no idea what we're going to do if he doesn't sleep.?????
But my question (yes, I know get to the point!) is does feeding solids usually mess with their sleep in a bad way? We pretty much had his sleep down to bedtime at 6 or 6:30, wake up once, eat and go back to sleep, get up somewhere between 5 and 6. Monday night and Tuesday nights he slept fine but got up at 5. Last night he wouldn't go to bed until 8:15. We tried about every 30 minutes starting at 6, he wouldn't take the bottle and if you put him to bed he'd scream bloody murder. Sometimes we let him CIO but I can usually tell from his cry if its going to work - last night it wasn't. Finally at 8:15 he went right to sleep like the past two hours had been no big deal. So he wakes up at 3:45, I feed him and he falls right asleep but as soon as I put him in his crib he screamed bloody murder. I tried 3 times and finally gave up and slept in the recliner with him from 5-6. DH didn't have to be at work until 8 so he got up at 6 so that I could get at least another hour of sleep.
Today he won't nap. Usually 3 hours is his max for awake time before both his naps, this morning he was up from 6-10 and then fell asleep in the carseat on a way to a friends and woke up as soon as we got there so he got maybe 10 minutes. He then fell asleep on the way home and slept maybe 20 minutes. He also won't take his bottle. He's had nothing but puffs and cheerios and MAYBE 4oz of fluids since he got up at 6am.
I've checked his teeth, I don't see any swollen gums - I'm at a TOTAL loss. We're going to my inlaws this weekend, I have no idea what we're going to do if he doesn't sleep.?????
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