PamE
03-03-2003, 04:39 PM
Howdy all! I thought I'd give a quick update on ds2 and ask a few questions. He's doing quite well. No trips to the hospital in February at all (yea!) and his "colic" or whatever it was seems to be getting steadily better. His weight gain seems to have come to a stand still (11 lbs, 24") but I'm hoping that's going to kick-start again. One huge blessing is that he is sleeping 7 - 10 hours at night. I figure with a good night's sleep I can face just about anything during the day! :)
My first question is about eating. How much and how often should he be eating now (he'll be 4 months on the 7th)? I know it's supposed to be on demand as much as they want, but that kinda freaks me out since I'm not breastfeeding anymore. At this point he takes 4 - 5 ounces every three hours and sometimes 6 - 7 ounces. I think he could go longer than 3 hours but ds strongly disagrees!! :D
The next question is about sleeping. How do I get him to sleep during the day??? He does just fine in my arms, but I'd rather not spend the majority of my day in the recliner feeding and napping this little bugger! When he gets sleepy looking/acting I put him down in his crib an let him fuss. (I can't let him "cry it out" but I can let him fuss for a bit. If he gets truely upset I get him up) He generally falls asleep within a few minutes, but rarely stays alseep longer than 20 minutes. All attempts to let him fuss himself back to sleep don't seem to work. Should I just continue with the routine of putting him to bed and letting him sleep for as long as he will in the hopes that he'll get the hang of it? At night he does fine. I put him down, he fusses a minute and then is out for the night. I'm just trying to avoid the mistakes I made with the other three by rocking them to sleep and letting them sleep in their swings, etc. I really want him to be an independant sleeper.
Gosh, this has turned into another book of a post, but thanks for bearing with me! :)
My first question is about eating. How much and how often should he be eating now (he'll be 4 months on the 7th)? I know it's supposed to be on demand as much as they want, but that kinda freaks me out since I'm not breastfeeding anymore. At this point he takes 4 - 5 ounces every three hours and sometimes 6 - 7 ounces. I think he could go longer than 3 hours but ds strongly disagrees!! :D
The next question is about sleeping. How do I get him to sleep during the day??? He does just fine in my arms, but I'd rather not spend the majority of my day in the recliner feeding and napping this little bugger! When he gets sleepy looking/acting I put him down in his crib an let him fuss. (I can't let him "cry it out" but I can let him fuss for a bit. If he gets truely upset I get him up) He generally falls asleep within a few minutes, but rarely stays alseep longer than 20 minutes. All attempts to let him fuss himself back to sleep don't seem to work. Should I just continue with the routine of putting him to bed and letting him sleep for as long as he will in the hopes that he'll get the hang of it? At night he does fine. I put him down, he fusses a minute and then is out for the night. I'm just trying to avoid the mistakes I made with the other three by rocking them to sleep and letting them sleep in their swings, etc. I really want him to be an independant sleeper.
Gosh, this has turned into another book of a post, but thanks for bearing with me! :)