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My baby is 9.5 months old and is a very aggressive eater. I’ve tried BLW and he just stuffs his face and it scares me so bad 😭 so we’ve been doing purées but I need ideas for chunkier/lumpier purées! He eats scrambled eggs with cottage cheese almost every morning. And I made chicken in the food processor mixed with sweet potato. But that’s really the only ‘chunky’ food he’s gotten. I tried ground turkey last night and he just spit it out lol. I saw a post about stews which is a great idea! I’ll definitely be making something up. Any other ideas???
I know so many people make these big BLW plates but he literally eats like he hasn’t eaten in a week the way he stuffs his mouth so I’m really trying to take it slow 😭

Baby is 8.5 months old and LOVES food. But 99% of the time we’re doing mashed food. Well I finally got the courage to make baby pancakes and he loves them! Yesterday was the first time he ate one and did so well. Well this morning he took a bite and was so excited I could tell he was gonna inhale with excitement, which he did and then he started choking 😭 I feel like since I knew it was going to happen because of his excitement I was very prepared for the choke and I took him out quickly and patted his back and everything was fine. But it was slightly traumatizing, VERY traumatizing for my husband. Do babies just learn with more experience to not do that again??

I’m a SAHM to a now 8 month old!! He’s on 2 naps a day but they are always contact and tbh I don’t want them to be anymore 🤣 I know it can take time for them to get used to napping in the crib, but I need advice on how to start!
What is everyone’s nap routine? He does really good with his bedtime routine, so I think I need to implement a nap routine, but when do I start and what does it entail? I also know consistency is key, but how long should I be expecting it to take to get crib naps down??

My baby will be 8 months old next week and I would like to start combo feeding but I’m not sure how really? I feel like with baby starting to move around and burning more calories, it’s been hard to keep my supply up, especially when I’m about to start my period! It’s been stressful. And now that I want to start combo feeding it’s been emotional 😭
I gave him a 2 oz bottle of formula today and he LOVED it! He was trying to steal the empty bottle for more lol.
I guess my question is HOW do I combo feed?? On a schedule??
Do I top off nursing sessions with like an ounce of formula? Or do I skip a nursing session and replace with a bottle? I feel so lost with it lol
I really love breastfeeding and I do feed to sleep most of the time, I just feel like he needs a little bit more with how much he’s starting to eat at night + during the day

I exclusively nurse and the past few weeks baby has been waking up at midnight every night and will not go back down until I nurse to sleep. But this starts a cycle of him waking up every 2-3 hours until morning and usually around 4 he won’t even go back down unless I bring him into my bed.
Would topping off with a bottle after breastfeeding before bed help?
At this point I truly think it’s habit not hunger but I’m exhausted. I’ve asked my husband to help me to see if he can settle him at midnight but he literally won’t wake up and get out of bed, which is a whole other issue that’s starting resentment. So obviously I can’t trust him to be there for me, what do you recommend me do? I don’t mind feeding at night, but if I could push it back later to like 3am that would help save my sanity. He used to only wake up at 3 to eat so I know he can do it. Baby will be 8 months on the 11th

Baby is 7.5 m old and LOVES food. I do a tiny bit of BLW, but honestly mostly puree’s/mashed with small chunks to ease my mind. I want to do BLW because he literally loves food so much, it’s to the point where if we’re eating without him he reaches over and tries to grab the food from us lol. Today at lunch I gave him a piece of thick toasted sour dough, big enough to gnaw on. I thought it would be ok because he loves pizza crust and can’t really take a bite out of it. Well he was able to take bites off the sour dough and there were 2 bites stuck on his tongue. My husband is way more anxious than I am and he tried to reach to stick his finger in to get it out and I stopped him saying don’t because you’ll push it farther back and he’ll choke. I took the toast away so he would stop shoving it in his face lol which lead to a meltdown. After he stopped crying, I gave him some marinara sauce on my finger so he would swallow the pieces on his tongue, which he did no problem. But what am I actually supposed to do when food gets stuck on his tongue like that? TIA!!

My baby is 7.5 months old and exclusively contact naps unless we’re in the car. He falls asleep in his crib easily at night and stays there until 4-5am and then I bring him into bed to sleep a little longer. But am I creating a bad habit by only contact napping? How do I even go about trying to crib nap? He’s napped in his crib before but it’s been months tbh. I feed to sleep during naps and then just keep holding him. Some days I would like for him to be in the crib so I have some ‘me time’ but if I try and transfer he just screams and won’t go back down to sleep. I need help lol

My baby was down to feeding/waking once per night until he hit 6 months. Now at 7.5 months, there has been improvement but he will wake up at midnight recently every night and will not resettle on his own! I wait the 5-10 minutes like I see suggested, do I wait longer??? I don’t want to wait so long that he just full on wakes up, if that would even happen? Sometimes I can rock him back to sleep which is nice, but other times he demands to eat lol. But when he breastfeeds, he’s up every 2 hours until morning time to keep eating 😩 how do I fix this?! And is this even the right sub for this issue?!

Baby is 7.5 months old and we’ve been doing either contact naps or car naps for a while now… not going on a car ride just for him to sleep, but we end up going somewhere and I plan it around his nap time. I would like to start doing crib naps though because contact naps are getting hard, takes a while for him to go down because he would prefer to nurse the whole time. I feel like we’re teetering on wanting 2 naps per day, but will only work if his naps are longer than 40 minutes which hardly happens. So I’m thinking they’ll happen if he naps in his crib?
I really just don’t even know how to start nap training though, do I need a routine like at bedtime? Should I change him into a sleep sack?
He’s been falling asleep mostly independently for about 6 weeks now at bedtime, sometimes it does take 15-20 minutes though for him to finally settle. His WW are about 2.5/3/3/3.25 give or take. He wakes up around 6 am, bed anywhere between 6-7:30 depending on his naps

Today we got home from a weekend trip where we stayed with friends. It threw baby’s sleep off pretty bad, doing a 4 hour roadtrip, staying somewhere new and being busy basically all day everyday. His sleep was pretty horrible and since we were at my friends, I would pick him up quickly and nurse back to sleep right away then around 3 would cosleep for the last few hours. All I was thinking about at night was how hard it’s probably going to be to get ‘back to normal’ when we get home.
Well tonight, he was soo tired, his last WW was 4 hours and it’s normally 3 but he refused his last nap so I put him to sleep at like 5:45, fully prepared for him to treat it like a nap. And lately he’s been having a hard time connecting sleep cycles and will cry through them, but he was like crying in his sleep? Idk it’s been really weird and I truly don’t know how to stop it. Well I just woke up at 11 and realized he hadn’t made a peep, but he did roll to his side, which he also hasn’t done in like a month. So I snuck into his room to check on him and his sound machine had died! Is this why he’s sleeping so well??? We’ve been using it for months and maybe it’s why his sleeping hasn’t been great?? I’m honestly shocked! It feels weird being in a quiet house. I never had it like super loud but it was always on all night

Hi! I’m looking for some advice. My baby will be 7 months old on the 11th and my milk supply has tanked. He has been exclusively nursing since about 3 weeks old and it has been going great. Since then, I haven’t really pumped. I had about 3 bags of breast milk in the freezer. Last night, he was getting very frustrated at my boobs and then started crying. At first I thought he had gas, because we started a new solid. But then I realized it was because he was still hungry and I was empty.
I made a bottle with one of my bags of breast milk, and he downed it. He had no issues even using the bottle. Overnight, he cluster fed a little bit and I could tell he was actually eating. And same with this morning. But I just tried to pump and got nothing from my right side, and maybe a teaspoon from my left. So I think I’m going to switch to formula + solids.

I have a sample pack of kendamil and if he likes it I’ll probably stick with it. But I have no clue where to even start with formula lol.

Ay 7 months old, how much does each bottle contain? And how often do I give him a bottle? Is there anything I should suspect happen, GI wise? If I start formula, plus 2 solid meals a day, what would that schedule look like?

Thank you!!

Does anyone have their exclusivity nursing (no bottles) baby on a feeding schedule? My baby will be 7 months old next week and I feel like since wake windows are longer/naps are shorter, my timing hasn’t been the greatest and he has his last meal before bedtime like 2 hours before bed lol. I try and nurse him right before bed and he isn’t hungry. I’m also terrified to do a 10pm dream feed cause I do not want to wake him up 😂 he usually wakes up around 1am to eat.
Also trying to add in solids here and there but I’m honestly not the best with it. Maybe I should have a solids schedule as well?

Baby is 6.5 months old now and for about 3-4 weeks just is not sleeping unless my hand is on him. Before this he was in his crib with only 1 wake in the night. And now he wakes up twice to eat, sometimes a third time just cause he realizes I’m not there. But the past 2 nights at his 3am feed, he won’t go back to sleep unless it’s in my bed. I’m about ready to buy a mini crib cause I really do not want him to think cosleeping is the answer lol. He’s the happiest baby during the day. I just wish nights were smooth again 😩

I’m almost 7 months PP and want to feel like myself again! 😩 I’m a SAHM and it’s honestly really hit or miss if baby and I sleep well, and I think sleep deprivation is really taking a toll on my skin. I drink about 3 liters of water per day plus a cup of coffee. And I try and eat healthy but I look in the mirror and I just look so blah. My hair is long but it’s always in a messy bun or a braid, I’m tempted to cut it to my collar bones to see if that helps me look refreshed. I also never wear makeup anymore because if I leave the house it’s mostly just to the grocery store. But I’m also tempted to start getting lash extensions just for something. I’m trying to get back in the routine of working out, unfortunately it’s over 100° now so stroller walks are out the window. I told my husband I don’t like how I look and he replied ‘you just look like a mom’. Like what does that even mean? It didn’t make me feel any better lmao.
Any tips, tricks or advice is appreciated!!

If you didn’t teach your baby to fall asleep independently, how long did it take them to learn to connect sleep cycles by themselves?

The past week or so it has been a nightmare putting baby to sleep😭😭😭 he was going to sleep independently about a month ago and then he started rolling as soon as I would put him to bed and it was freaking himself out. So I went back to rocking him to sleep for a couple of weeks which was working out fine. But now even after I rock him to sleep, as soon as he feels me setting him in his crib he pops awake and screams. I try drowsy/awake and it’s even worse. He doesn’t even try and self sooth anymore except has his pacifier in his mouth. I don’t know what to do?? I even made sure he got solid naps today to see if it would make bedtime easier. As soon as I pick him up he falls asleep in my arms but it takes me soothing him on and off for like an hour before he finally sleeps. Last night he woke up screaming around 11 so I just brought him to bed and he slept through the night. Is anyone else going through this?? I need help😭

Does it ever end? This is way worse than the 4 month regression. Literally every night I wonder why people do this more than once. Baby knows how to fall asleep independently but won’t anymore. I give him 3-5 minutes to try and figure it out but have to end up rocking/bouncing him to sleep and it takes so long for me to be able to set him down without him immediately waking up screaming. Then he’s awake screaming every couple hours and just won’t settle until I end up cosleeping so I can get sleep. Am I missing something that needs to be done to make this easier??? His last nap of the day is iffy which I’m sure does not help his nights. But I seriously don’t understand why we’re doing this every single night.

My baby turned 6 months old on the 11th and he officially has started screaming all hours of the day if I set him down and walk away. At 5 months, I got him to fall asleep independently and it was going great. For about 2 weeks, and then he became a spring board when I laid him in his crib and he would start crying cause he was stuck on his tummy. Now, he doesn’t immediately roll to his tummy but he starts screaming as soon as I lay him in the crib, awake, drowsy/awake and asleep. I don’t think I have the heart to let him CIO completely. But tonight I did let him cry for a good while to wear himself out. I finally got him to sleep but I’m sure it’s gonna be a rough night for the both of us. How do I reintroduce getting him to fall asleep independently? What sleep training technique will work the best without full on CIO?

Baby will be 6 months on the 11th. A few weeks ago I taught my baby to fall asleep independently and it worked wonders and made naps and bedtime so nice after the 4 month sleep regression. Now, for about a week, he started rolling as soon as I put him down awake/drowsy but awake and he won’t even try and shut his eyes. He doesn’t know how to roll tummy to back. So I’ve resorted back to nursing to sleep. Has anyone else gone through this? It I leave him on his tummy will he eventually fall asleep? I feel horrible leaving him like that when he’s crying and staring at the door waiting to be put back on his back lol.

Another thing that just started! Is he started waking up at 3am to eat, but wants to stay awake for at least an hour! I will finally get him back down around 4 until 7 ish. What do I do? He’s been on 3 naps per day anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. Wake windows are normally 2/2/2-2.5/2-2.5 kind of depending on the day. He normally goes to bed between 7-7:30

Should I dream feed around ten, in hopes he’ll sleep through the 3am feed? Does he need a schedule change or stricter schedule?
Please help!!!

Baby will be 6 months on the 11th. A few weeks ago I taught my baby to fall asleep independently and it worked wonders and made naps and bedtime so nice after the 4 month sleep regression. Now, for about a week, he started rolling as soon as I put him down awake/drowsy but awake and he won’t even try and shut his eyes. He doesn’t know how to roll tummy to back. So I’ve resorted back to nursing to sleep. Has anyone else gone through this? It I leave him on his tummy will he eventually fall asleep? I feel horrible leaving him like that when he’s crying and staring at the door waiting to be put back on his back lol.

Another thing that just started! Is he started waking up at 3am to eat, but wants to stay awake for at least an hour! I will finally get him back down around 4 until 7 ish. What do I do? He’s been on 3 naps per day anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. Wake windows are normally 2/2/2-2.5/2-2.5 kind of depending on the day. He normally goes to bed between 7-7:30

Should I dream feed around ten, in hopes he’ll sleep through the 3am feed? Does he need a schedule change or stricter schedule?
Please help!!!