The Parenting Thread • Page 14

It's a shot-sized solo cup filled with Cheerios. She cracks me up.

 

Goodbye to sleep. I'm almost positive the little guy is going through the four month sleep regression. Hooray for developmental milestones, but oh my god am I exhausted.

 

Here's to hoping it gets better and you're able to get some rest!

I know @aspeedomodel went through this as well if you need advice haha.

 

Yeah, we had that too, was a huge fight between mom and I every night, eventually went to the Ferber method, things have been amazing ever since.

 

I think that's probably what we are going to end up doing because I'm not sure what else to do

 

I know it's not for everyone, and not every kid reacts the same way, but it was the absolute best thing for us. He was good by day 3; now he sleeps every night from 8-430, eats at 430, then sleeps again to 630 when all of us get up. We're working on getting that 430 back a little bit now.

 

Welp, my 11 year old son broke his toe the day before yesterday. Took him to the ER yesterday (wanted to see if it felt better over night) and he has one of those chipped bone type breaks. Got a little boot thingy to hobble around!

 

Yes we did....good times...

He still barely sleeps through the night haha

 

Any advice/insight?

 

I will say it is true they do sort of learn on their own. My wife does not support the cry out method and so we've never let him cry for long, he did sort of adapt to sleeping better. Some days are better than others.

But seriously, just hang in there because it is rough as hell. I was going crazy. Got to the point where wife would bring him into our bed because he'd sleep like a baby with us and he was old enough that it wasn't an issue. But....yeah, after a few months of that I put a stop to it.

EDIT: Also the sleep regression stuff is so real haha. Like...we'd have a solid week or so of NIGHTMARE nights and would check and it's like "oh....this lines up perfectly with a regression...yay" It's tough. He had a 4 month, 6 month, and 9 month regression haha

 

We've been fortunate when it comes to sleeping luckily. First 2 months was pure hell then we caved to co-sleeping(sorta) until it got to the point he didn't need to eat in the middle of the night, switched to crib and he sleeps 11-12 hrs every night since December(3 months).

What ever method you figure out that works, stick with it and it'll get better!

 

I have a 6 month old son (he's the fourth) and we've never had problems with our boys. For some reason, they've always slept during the night and would wake up like twice during the night. This one guys to bed when we do around 9:30-10 and will stay asleep until about 1, then up again at like 4, sometimes just once per night.

I've always told people who are having their first kid that after the 3 month mark, there isn't too much to worry about until you hit teething.

 

Any way you got him to not need to eat in the middle of the night? He sleeps for 8 hours straight now, but that means he's up around 430-500AM, he eats plenty before he goes to bed so we're not sure how to get another hour of sleep out of him.

 

First off, if I recall y'all breastfed/pumped right? We didn't so that may be a factor. He was eating 4-6 oz formula every 2 1/2-3 hrs throughout the day(turns out that's ALOT). At first he'd wake up once per night wanting food so I'd feed him 4-6 oz. a lot of the time he'd fall asleep while being fed. When I say co-sleeping I mean he slept on my chest for a good month or so. Eventually he got to the point where he'd get restless and start moving around and I'd just grab a pacifier and give it to him and he'd go back to sleep.

Honestly we didn't really do anything he kinda just got there on his own. I don't know how good of a self-soother Ash is but Ryker was good about it. Towards the end I almost felt like when I had to get up to get ready for work and I'd switch him to the wife I would wake him up, so that's when we knew we should transition to the crib and it's been that way ever since.

Hope this is helpful, I'm not the most eloquent haha.

 

Yeah, he still eats from the boob, but for a month or so now he's been eating fruits and veggies. He's great at self-soothing, he just gets hungry at exactly 8 hours - gotta get that stomach a little bigger so he can sleep a little longer!

 

I wish ketchup was the only thing the body needed. My son would be set.

 

7 weeks old today, and they've both started regularly smiling in response to seeing us and hearing our voices

 

Grayson turned 2 yesterday and my mind is still blown.

 

Apparently Celia is a little delayed with her speech -- she's 14 months now and doesn't really say any words, and apparently by now she should be able to say 5 or 6 words. She talks plenty, but it's just her own language. I know that's a common sign of autism but the doctor said she doesn't display any other signs so I guess I'm not worried? It's just weird/surprising to hear because she was so early with crawling/walking and everything else.

 

I remember being worried that Sophia was showing signs of autism. She wouldn't say much and wouldn't make eye contact for a while but then she started talking and hasn't really stopped since, haha

 

My nephew was late in his speech, like really late, but I think they found that it was some sort of ear infection/ear issue. They put some weird contraption on him and took him to a speech therapist and not he doesn't stop talking.

 

I feel like this is how my son is gonna be. Already standing up and everything but no words. Wife and I said our first words at 7 months and walking at 14 months seems like he'll be the respective opposites roughly.

 

My wife was late so she took a pregnancy test yesterday just to check. Oops!!!!!

 

What number will this be?

Congrats to y'all!

 

Number 2. We always said we wanted 2, but it took 3 years of trying and fertility meds to get our daughter. We tried for another after a year or so, but decided we didn't want to go through the heartbreak of failure again after 6 months of trying. Now, at 35 and 36 respectively we get it without trying. She was charting, but we obviously weren't being too careful!