Mason is 10 weeks and been fine sleeping since birth and has 7oz every 3-4 hours yet his feed at 5 he has then hour or so later wanting more n has bm until bed at 9 and started waking at 1-2 for his night feed now. Any help on how to help him sleep longer my mum said she gave us a rusk but i thought he still a bit young yet?x?
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Zazu
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Babies digestive systems aren't developed enough to have solids until 17 weeks, so I wouldn't give him a rusk. He is still really young, so I don't think there is much you can do, maybe try giving him a dream feed wen u go to bed? X
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from personally experience and i shall explain 7oz is an awful lot to have and so often, speak to your health visitor about the other types of formular as there is one for hungry baby. he may not actually be hungry but uncomfortable
the reason i say this is i did the EXACT same with my daughter around that age i gave her 7oz every 3-4 hrs and she took it no problem, then she started crying every 3 hrs so i would feed her again, not long after id say a few weeks she would not stop crying infact it sounding like she was getting ripped apart i panicked and rushed her to hospital, turns our she was VERY constipated
doc asked whati fed her and when i said her jaw droppd, she explain very nicely that some babies will just take the feed and all of it even if they are not hungry and basically i made her ill - not what any mom wants to hear.
i saw health visitor and told her about feeds and she went mad at me, told me to go onto hungry baby if my daughter appeared hungry and to give her 3ox every 4 hrs - i was livid and thought how dare u all tell me this
tried it and they were right lol, so def worth seeking advice about feed from health visitor hun xx
the reason i say this is i did the EXACT same with my daughter around that age i gave her 7oz every 3-4 hrs and she took it no problem, then she started crying every 3 hrs so i would feed her again, not long after id say a few weeks she would not stop crying infact it sounding like she was getting ripped apart i panicked and rushed her to hospital, turns our she was VERY constipated
doc asked whati fed her and when i said her jaw droppd, she explain very nicely that some babies will just take the feed and all of it even if they are not hungry and basically i made her ill - not what any mom wants to hear.
i saw health visitor and told her about feeds and she went mad at me, told me to go onto hungry baby if my daughter appeared hungry and to give her 3ox every 4 hrs - i was livid and thought how dare u all tell me this
tried it and they were right lol, so def worth seeking advice about feed from health visitor hun xx
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thats really good if he's only waking once in the night?? solids arent proven to help sleep either......But nontheless i would propably say 10 weeks is really early to give him solid. he wont have the reflex to move it around his mouth and so it will just sit there in his mouth.....we also got advised yusks arent great to give babies apparently. they are just a baby biscuit.....(according to my hv but i thought well if i eat them and i do as a snack and like it then its probably not good for LO) xx
Thanks roxanne only just seen your reply and as it goes i had health visitor today and i had already started hungry milk as i was getting worried and hes now on 8oz every 3-4 hours and she never said anything wheni said what do i do and i also actually said i think hes constipated as he really screams for food and bowel movements arent regular and she said that normal too but now im worried so got nurse tommorrow im going to askif she knows anything.xxx
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Does he have a dummy?
We really didn't want to use one but A was having 6oz every 3 hours and that was hungry baby food, night times were a pain as he'd wake 3 times every night. Turned out he weren't really hungry he was just drinking it cos it was there! Really he just wanted the comfort. Now ge has 7oz every 4-5 hours and sleeps from 7:30 to 6:30, we managed thus by just giving him a dummy during the night and it worked, I try it during the day sometimes just to make sure. If he's definitely hungry he'll just keep spitting the dummy out and crying but ifbhe keeps it in he's content with that until his next feed.
We started that at 6 weeks and he's been in his routine properly from 8 weeks
We really didn't want to use one but A was having 6oz every 3 hours and that was hungry baby food, night times were a pain as he'd wake 3 times every night. Turned out he weren't really hungry he was just drinking it cos it was there! Really he just wanted the comfort. Now ge has 7oz every 4-5 hours and sleeps from 7:30 to 6:30, we managed thus by just giving him a dummy during the night and it worked, I try it during the day sometimes just to make sure. If he's definitely hungry he'll just keep spitting the dummy out and crying but ifbhe keeps it in he's content with that until his next feed.
We started that at 6 weeks and he's been in his routine properly from 8 weeks
Yeah i didnt want a dummy but hv told me to use it from the start as he always been hungry and i do try to use but he spits out and carries on screaming so then feed him although he does go 5 hours at night after going bed at 9 waking at 2 then up at 6 which one feed i think is good but i just cant understand why e so hungry my mum said try the water for night feed as it eventually stops them from waking but as he downs his 8oz i dont want to make him hngrier.xx
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Aiden wouldn't take a dummy at first, I had to just keep trying, up to 40 times in one try sometimes (it drove me that mad I had to count!) half the time he just cried himself to sleep which is heartbreaking to go through but it helps get them into a routine and it doesn't last forever! I found holding the dummy in and yapping it a few times worked a apparently it kick starts the sucking motion (god knows why). Don't know if you've tried that or if it will work but its worth a shot! If the HV says it's ok to feed him 8oz or so every 4 hours then don't worry about that but definitely peservere with the dummy at night time, it's good to get them in a routine quite early, makes life a hell of a lot easier!x
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Just read your other post properly, I'd definitely mention it to the nurse tomorrow as being constipated is awful for a bubba (and mommy too!) I'd have thought shed be more helpful with that. If he looks like he's trying to go, lie him flat on his back and push his legs back and forward, like you do on a bike. That helps them go easier and maybe try some extra water between feeds.
Back onto night feeds, about an hour after his last feed (when you put him to bed) feed him again without waking him, this sometimes works but doesn't for everyone, just trying to think of everything we did to get A to sleep through!x
Back onto night feeds, about an hour after his last feed (when you put him to bed) feed him again without waking him, this sometimes works but doesn't for everyone, just trying to think of everything we did to get A to sleep through!x
I have been giving him honey and water and doing all the above to help him its just sooo horrible bless him and i atopped breast feeding altogether about a week and half ago and its still loose but i will just have to ask nurse today and see how it goes and i will trythe extra feed when i go bed tonight. Thanks for all the tips. xx
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Babies under 1yr can't have honey. It's to do with the bacteria in it. I didn't know until my health visitor told me but she was adamant that it was dangerous to give a baby.
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Your doctor?!?! Seriously? It was the one thing she was really really adamant about.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10225536
Honey can cause infant botulism which can lead to paralysis and even death. It's rare but still, you wouldn't take the chance. I would seriously complain about your doctor if I were you!!
Also as for rusks - avoid! My auntie put rusks in her son's bottle and just basically over fed him. He ended up in intensive care in hospital at 3 months old.
Some babies just don't sleep through, they get hungry quicker than others. Mine is one of these. He wakes at least twice in the night and nothing seems to work but it's one of those things you just have to put up with and hope they grow out of. These days it seems the measure of having a good baby is if he or she sleeps through. It's not necessarily normal for them to do this. Every baby is different and although it's knackering for us mums it's not necessarily something that is cause for concern and out of the ordinary.
Hope Mason feels better soon hun xxx
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10225536
Honey can cause infant botulism which can lead to paralysis and even death. It's rare but still, you wouldn't take the chance. I would seriously complain about your doctor if I were you!!
Also as for rusks - avoid! My auntie put rusks in her son's bottle and just basically over fed him. He ended up in intensive care in hospital at 3 months old.
Some babies just don't sleep through, they get hungry quicker than others. Mine is one of these. He wakes at least twice in the night and nothing seems to work but it's one of those things you just have to put up with and hope they grow out of. These days it seems the measure of having a good baby is if he or she sleeps through. It's not necessarily normal for them to do this. Every baby is different and although it's knackering for us mums it's not necessarily something that is cause for concern and out of the ordinary.
Hope Mason feels better soon hun xxx
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Yeah hoeny can be quite bad!! As well if they end up with too much then it can turn there teeth black before they come up. My gtan did that with my aunt and she needed all her teeth removed as soon as they came through! Could u not try a little bit of prune juice heavily diluted with water?? Apparently works wonders!! X hope he's ok hun! Also about sleeping through, deffo try a dummy (maybe a variety of them so he can find one that fits) and also not every baby does.... Take gem and blake!! Also I'm not sure if she commented but Chaz (laceys mummy) and her son charley didn't sleep through once till he was 5 months old x
Im fine really that he wakes up just once as some have it alot worse and since he was born hes only woke once so i suppose its fairly good!!!!! Its just the amount hes drinking i dont want to over feed him but if he wants it i suppose i will just go with it for now as nurse said could be a growth spurt!! As for the honey im absolutely livid i dodnt see this til iv just got back from doctors, how irrisponsible of her to tell me to harm my baby, i shall be phoneing them... Thanks so much gals xxxx
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Charley only slept through the once! He's back to waking once or twice a night! I don't mind though cos I know he's waking for a reason as he's def hungry!!
Babies will sleep through when their ready! If their hungry then their hungry unfortantly! x x
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Ellie was a prem baby and is only 14 weeks corrected and she is eating Ellas kitchens pouches already 3 times a day she was having problems with weight gain and her paediatrition said its not advised but to try i and she went from getting up at 10pm 12midnight 3am 5am and 7am to now sleeping from 8pm to 7pm and she has been having her solids fot about a week and a half now xx
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a bottle of cool boiled water is what we give Ellie evertday and that keeps her bowels moving too x
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sorry only just replying, how is the little one now? its horrible when they get constipated my daughter was always getting it, but i'd give her a warm bath and sometimes some boiled water that was just luke warm to elp loosen things up the water helped alot as it didnt make her bottom runny just easier to get it out xx
i deffo wouldnt give rusk yet. my lo has only just this last week started to sleep from midnight-5am, and thats heaven for me! he was waking every three hours for a feed for months and months!!! im sure your lo will get there in his own time as tiring as it can be for you, hes still really young to be sleeping right though, his belly is still so tiny!!! x
