Are you using Formula? If you are, have you changed it to Follow On Formula?
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Are you using Formula? If you are, have you changed it to Follow On Formula?
No ours is fully breastfed.
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Honestly it's just normal, sleep goes up and down in those early months, often with no obvious pattern. The books talk about the common periods of "sleep regression". Neither of my kids slept through until well over a year, the first we tried everything suggested with no obvious benefit and the second we just rolled with it and it sorted itself out.
Especially a breastfed baby at 6 months, very few will be sleeping through.
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Parenting is about stacking the deck in your favour and then hoping that you come out on top. It doesn't work for some people but there is often a reason why things are suggested. There are far more people who refuse to do certain things they probably should be doing and suffer for it than people who don't do these things and don't suffer for it.
Sleep training/management comes under this IMO.
On an unrelated note, our boys are nearly 2 and emotions are a bit too big for them. When do the big emotions calm down a bit?
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My boy turns 6 months of tomorrow and I'm thinking the same. Before I know it he will be 21 too. I know its only 6 months but it's gone so fast.
Almost 3 and a half and still going....
God damn. Do the size of the emotions stay the same and the child grow into them at least??
Crazy ain't it, My two are 6 & 9 and I still look back at memories and think it was not long ago..
In a way they do because they can express themselves better, but it can also be funny, you might get called a poo head and laugh then it makes the rage worse
But they get stronger... so can easily break stuff in a rage too, or when they go through the biting stage... seems to be around this 3yr old stage, he's not bitten anyone in Nursery (yet) but he has been bitted a few times recently.
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Wife is constantly laughing at daughters outbursts which makes it 10x worse. I find ignoring it works best, or changing the subject to something exciting.In a way they do because they can express themselves better, but it can also be funny, you might get called a poo head and laugh then it makes the rage worse
But they get stronger... so can easily break stuff in a rage too, or when they go through the biting stage... seems to be around this 3yr old stage, he's not bitten anyone in Nursery (yet) but he has been bitted a few times recently.
It's the chicken pox life for us at the minute, slightly annoying timing as we'd just started potty training! Delaying that by a week or two as she works through it all - and also doubly relevant as we'd just booked for a chicken pox vaccine so that's been cancelled for a lovely 150 quid refund.
So, we are expecting twins in June and we already have a 4 year old next month - both have crazy careers. This is going to be interesting... Our daughter always slept well, and still does sleep for 11-12 hours now.
Just had the yearly fee increase email from the nursery...that's another £100ish a month to find
Much longer to go until the 15 free hours? We get the 30 free hours in September. That's going to feel like a massive pay rise
Edit: My current daddy ongoings.
I'm in an odd position where I find myself wanting another child but also trying to be considerate and respect that it's my partners body. She keeps talking about another, so I think she wants/open to another also, but then always comes back to how much she hated being pregnant and the emergency C-section didn't help. Then she gets conflicted because she thinks she's being selfish and worries our daughter will hate her if she's an only child.
Finding it a hard line to skirt of saying what I want, what my opinion on the matter is but also not wanting to make her feel guilty about not wanting to be pregnant. I do see her side of things though. She's a very active person and really struggled not being able to run and then finding all her fitness vanished over her pregnancy so it's a lot for her to give up whereas for me it's just 45 seconds of fun
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We've got the 15 already, she's 2 in a couple of weeks so still a full year until we get the 30. I can't fathom how people with multiple kids in nursery afford it.
Oh I suppose as a silver lining think what it would be like without those free 15 hours!
When our 30 hours kick in, it'll basically be free for us as she's only in for 25 hours as it is. We'll probably increase as she gets closer to reception.
My only advice is it can take almost a full year between making the first call about a vasectomy before finally getting the all clear...