Baby Wont Sleep

baby first

When did you feel your baby first move?

I know that most women begin to feel their baby move between 16 and 22 weeks. When did you feel your baby first move?

i have 3 kids felt my first son at 17 weeks my daughter at 21 weeks and my third baby at 20 weeks. i am also very thin…

baby feeding routine

How often should my 15 week old breast fed baby be feeding?

I feel like i am constantly feeding her, she goes about every 2 hours, longer at night, roughly about 5 hours. i know that bottle fed babies go about 3 or 4 hours and i just feel like i am bein a terrible mum having no set routine or letting her get the boob every time she wants it.

YOu are doing great, just as everyone has mentioned. All your baby needs is your milk and nothing else to at minimum 6 months of age. Do not introduce formula because it will actually impact your milk production. If you start giving her 1 bottle a day of formula, your body will stop producing milk for that feeding. If you need to go out or be away for a feeding, you can always pump and store milk in the freezer. Then that way if you are out or you want to sleep during a feeding someone can give your baby a bottle and then you can always pump when you wake up, or at some other point in the day. I got in the habit of pumping in the morning before my son woke up (one side) and would then feed him on the other side. Then you don’t impact your milk supply negatively.

DO NOT give that baby apple until at least 6 months of age though. All it does is fill them up without giving the nutritional requirements they need. The same goes for water, no water until the baby is on solid foods and even at then, if the baby is under 12 months, no more than 1-2 oz per day. They get all the water they need from the breastmilk (or formula)

Keep it up! YOu are doing fantastic!!

getting baby to sleep through the night

Any ideas on getting a baby to sleep through the night?

My almost four-month-old daughter was sleeping pretty well but has completely regressed. She also won’t nap for longer than 45 min to an hour. Any ideas?

hi ,
you must make the room very dim and avoid eye contact with your baby.
a very good website is www.babycenter.com which gives great ways to deal with every other problems regarding babies.
good luck

old sleep

How can I make my 6yr old sleep longer?

I have 2 kids aged 3 and 6. My 3yr old sleeps for 12 hrs through the night. My eldest only sleeps for 8 hours no matter how early or late I put her to bed. Im worried that this isnt long enough as she is tiring by tea time. I have tried all kinds to encourage her to sleep more to no avail. Does anybody have any serious ideas? Is it normal for a 6yr old to sleep so little?

You’re right. She should be getting about 10hrs of sleep each night. But sleep is a very individual thing so it’s normal for each of your children to have different sleep habits.

During my early childhood certification training, I was taught that some children need naps or a rest time to sleep longer at night regardless of age. My 6yr old son is such a case. When he comes home from school, he often has a 20min rest period (I’ll read to him or he listens to a cd). Since we initiated the rest time, he sleeps longer and more soundly at night because he isn’t overtired.

If you think that’s too much, try easing her into sleep. My 7yr old daughter is kinda high-strung. When she’s really stressed, I use breathing techniques and massage before bed time to help her relax so she can fall asleep easier.

Also no beverages, tv, computer, or vigorous activity right before bed. No caffeine.

Good luck!

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baby sleep

How long does an unborn baby sleep during the day…?

I’m 26 weeks and notice my baby girl’s ’slight’ movement as I wake in the morning, like really small twitches, and during the day i’ll be lucky to feel her move, at night when i’m ready to hit the hay at about 10.30-11.00 she moves like crazy. So how many hours sleep do unborn babies get?

During the day when you are moving around the movement usually soothes them to sleep. At night when you are still they are more active because they aren’t been soothed to sleep. They usually follow the same sleep pattern when they are born.

infant sleep training

Toddlers, Sippy cups at night, and an infant!?

I have a 2 1/2 yr old little girl and she is potty trained, and since she got off the bottle at 1yr old she has been going to sleep with her sippy.. Our step daughter (3 1/2yrs old) is coming to live with us and doesn’t do the sippy at night.. Im trying to get my 2 yr old off her sippy so our 3 yr old wont start and also i know for a fact our 2 yr old will stop peeing the bed at night if shes going to bed without her sippy, and hopefully sleep threw the night… should i try the substitute for a goodnight stuffed animal thing?…. and im also breastfeeding a 1 month old, how do i get her in training for sleeping threw the night and on a schedule…

we slowly lowered the water amount in the sippy cup, and everynight when he drank it down the rule was thats all he got, NO REFILLS,,, we started he had a fill cup… then over the course of 2 weeks we were down to just 2oz, then one day i distracted him and lauched right into the story with out his cup, (he was playing with a favorate small toy while i read laying on his back in bed) and we never gave him a sippy at night again

i was getting up to change his diaper at least 1 time if not 2 before we did this, his diapers would be so wet if i didnt he would leak onto the bed… since then i was able to let him go all night and no leaks, then a few weeks later he was waking up with a dry diaper and i could get him on the potty before he “wet” his diaper

so just the lack of liquids should help her stay dry(er)

also when my son knew there wasnt a sippy around he stoped waking for it

as for the year older child, if your 2 yearold isnt off by the time she comes just DONT let her start… tell her its for babys,,, she gets her drinks in a cup BEFORE she gets ready for bed.. not in the bed

baby walking

how can help my baby start walking?

my baby is 14 months and she is quite normal but she cant stand& walk on her own!when i hold her hands she enjoys walking very much but she doesnt like standing and walking without help!would you pls recommend me what to do?

you just need to give her time she will walk when she is ready

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baby product

What baby product could you not live without?

Apart from nappies, wipes, milk etc?

Bouncer. Sometimes it is the ONLY thing that we can do with him to calm him down. He loves to kick and go to town with it making it bounce (kicks so hard that one day he will probably end up hitting his head on the floor).

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baby doesn t sleep

my baby doesn’t sleep unless…?

My 9 months baby girl doesn’t sleep unless i am lying beside her and she is holding my finger. i need her to learn to fall asleep by herself in her cotbed…
i tried the ferber method several times before but i couldn’t at all…she keeps crying for an houre non stop! until her lips turn blue…

Whats wrong with using a crib? Sleeping with them is a BAD habit to start and not easy on any marriage.
You just have to ignore her, I know it sounds bad, but she needs to learn. What we did with both of ours is just ignored it, if it got to where I couldn’t take it anymore, I went in there and just rubbed and patted thier backs, but I DID NOT get them out of their cribs. They knew I was there and they were secure with what we did, it took a few days but soon they were both sound asleep on their own every night befor they were 6 and 7 months. Good Luck.

P.S. you might want to stock up on something for a headache as well.

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infant crying

Need help (infant reflux/crying)?

Here’s a little backround: I bottle feed with enfamil lipil with iron. My 2 month old was screaming and extremely gassy he was diagnosed with reflux and started on zantac. The crying during feeding slowed down but then he started spitting up more, so his pediatrician told me to add rice cereal to his bottle. We have been doing this for almost 1 week now. He still is spitting up but now I think he likes the taste so much as he sucks down his bottle (6oz and 6 teaspoons rice cereal) in about 2 minutes and screams when you take the bottle out to burp him. I don’t think that the zantac is working as he sometimes seems worse to me now. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? I am going to talk to a lactation consultant to relactate on Thurs as I heard that breastmilk may help with the reflux (if he even has it)

Have you considered that it may be an allergy? My little girl was the same way, she would cry through feedings and scream for long after the bottle was gone. Once we switched to hypoallergenic Similac Alimentum and switched to the Dr. Brown’s bottles it was like having a new baby within days. We also figured out that this Miracle swaddling blanket helped keep her tummy settled when she laid down. Here is a link to all the stuff I’m talking about…

http://welcomeaddition.com/product8.aspx

http://www.handi-craft.com/Bottles.shtm

http://www.miracleblanket.com

They made a HUGE difference for us and I hope that they might help you too! My little girl is a happy healthy 8 month old now (still on Alimentum and can’t have dairy foods…but otherwise GREAT) but like you I spent the first few months agonizing over what I could do to make her feel better.

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