Which issue do I address first?

Hi,

at the moment I'm rather confused and at a loss where to start. So many opinions and not sure which ones to believe!

Up to a few weeks ago my little boy was fed at 6 and going to bed by 7, waking any where between 11 and 1 for a bottle (pediatrician said we shouldn't interrupt his sleep cycle by waking him ourselves) and then slept until 6. Fantastic as far as we were concerned and we were working on stretching his apparent love of 6 hours but now with the increased amount of solids his sleep routine seems to have gone out the window. Before we introduced the 2nd meal of solids he was on 8oz bottles at 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm and midnight. the 6am,midnight and 6pm bottles he was drinking completely but the other 2 he could leave between 2 and 3 oz. His naps during the day are a disaster also.

He goes to bed without any problem at night but putting him down for naps is always a fight. We rock or hit the pavement in the buggy to get him to nap. His feeding routine also seems to have gone up in smoke too.

Today for example he woke at 4, went back to sleep(with the soother) until 5 then refused to settle with the soother so I fed him his 8oz bottle which he sucked dry. He then slept until 7.30. Had porridge at 8 and then refused his bottle in the creche until 2pm when he only drank 4oz!! Came home and he was like a hoover with his solids and drank 6oz before going to sleep.

Is it possible that like some babies get day and night confused for sleeping he has his feeding routine backwards? If so how do I go about changing that? How much milk min a day should he be drinking considering how much he drank before the introduction of solids? Should we try giving him fruit in the morning then veg for lunch with the heavier porridge in the evening instead?

Hope you can shed some light as we don't know what is going wrong lately.

written 12 weeks ago by Sleepy10251 - 5 replies - viewed 83 times

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Category: Just Starting

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