So here's where we're at: Tiny Boy generally nurses one or more times between pickup and bedtime; if he wakes before 12:00 sometimes I nurse him sometimes I don't (sort of depends on if I have the milk or not). Then he's cut off until 6:00 am; sometimes he takes a bottle in the morning, sometimes he nurses, mostly up to him...
How we've been dealing with the night wakings: I'm keeping a lunchbox next to my bed with 3 2-oz bottles of rice milk. When he wakes, he generally requires that I pick him up, hold him in the rocker; we go through the ritual of me offering a bottle and him crying "mama mil" and shoving the bottle away with me holding down my shirt and telling him there's no more milk in the night, if you are thirsty you can have a bottle. At which point he generally takes the damn bottle; I hold him for maybe two minutes and then tuck him back in. He takes some sips and throws the bottle on the floor or leaves it to leak milk in the corner.
What that means is, although most nights he's still waking me like 3-4 times (what the fuck is up with that?!) I'm not spending huge amounts of time dealing with him, and more often that not, both of us go back to sleep.
Starting Sunday, I'm going to start diluting the rice milk, and I'm hoping a week after that I can just give him water in the night. Also hoping to start holding him next to the crib and then, well, not at all. But as it's turning out, the weaning and the wakings, although related, are two separate issues.
That's where we're at. And this morning, after I boobed him at 6:00ish and still put him back in the crib, I was able to get up and do some things before kids woke up around 7:00. That was new and different.
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Next up: some of the nonsense about morning drama with a 9-year-old girl and whether or not LG will do her own laundry. Argh.
How we've been dealing with the night wakings: I'm keeping a lunchbox next to my bed with 3 2-oz bottles of rice milk. When he wakes, he generally requires that I pick him up, hold him in the rocker; we go through the ritual of me offering a bottle and him crying "mama mil" and shoving the bottle away with me holding down my shirt and telling him there's no more milk in the night, if you are thirsty you can have a bottle. At which point he generally takes the damn bottle; I hold him for maybe two minutes and then tuck him back in. He takes some sips and throws the bottle on the floor or leaves it to leak milk in the corner.
What that means is, although most nights he's still waking me like 3-4 times (what the fuck is up with that?!) I'm not spending huge amounts of time dealing with him, and more often that not, both of us go back to sleep.
Starting Sunday, I'm going to start diluting the rice milk, and I'm hoping a week after that I can just give him water in the night. Also hoping to start holding him next to the crib and then, well, not at all. But as it's turning out, the weaning and the wakings, although related, are two separate issues.
That's where we're at. And this morning, after I boobed him at 6:00ish and still put him back in the crib, I was able to get up and do some things before kids woke up around 7:00. That was new and different.
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Next up: some of the nonsense about morning drama with a 9-year-old girl and whether or not LG will do her own laundry. Argh.
George now is surely trying to catch up on his two years of missing sleep. I do hope TB does the same, around the magic age of TWO, the darn switch flips (already!!) and he starts sleeping. Without waking up for sips or giggles. That is if your plan is hijacked by some freakish occurence. Which would be a shame, because your plan seems solid.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Mina, LG also started sleeping reliably at age 2. I attributed it to food issues (she'd only recently switched from Neocate to real food) but maybe it's developmental...
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