Everyone - how many sleeps are your babies having now? I have noticed Ella is doing: gets up 6am, bed 7.30am-9am, bed 12noon - 2pm and bedtime 6pm. Any suggestions on getting her to stay up later????


Rhi - you are right, they are both reading the same book. Ella loves water in the sippy cup but turns her nose up at formula. I told DH he should be the one to try that more.

Sorry to everyone else not interested in BF information.

Because I am going back to work, I actually don't mind that Ella is feeding more at night now, I have been giving her more solids during the day and she is just have a little suck at lunchtime, so that my body isn't used to feeding much during the day and now she is having her 3-4 a day with 2 -3 bf at night. Some nights it is not too bad, when I go back to sleep straight away (sometimes I lay awake for 2 hours) but DH is worried how I will cope being at work and being tired. We'll have to wait and see. Given that I will be tired I may not have much milk and she might wean, unfortunately. Ella is putting on about 500g in 6 weeks, so not much either but then she spends all day crawling and standing and is way too busy to bf. The nurse wasn't worried.

To answer your questions:
When your DS weaned himself at 10 months, did you give him formula in a sippy cup all through the day, or just at bedtime? Did he just keep refusing the boob, or did he cut back gradually?

I had been back at work 5-6 hours a day (just missing one feed) for 3-4 months when he weaned and my days had been getting longer and he had been drinking formula from a sippy cup a little during the day (they don't drink as much as bf) and on the day he weaned it was a sudden thing. He fed at 4pm when I got home from work then at 6pm he wouldn't feed again (or anytime after) and kept crying and wouldn't have a bf. Eventually I worked out he was hungry so gave him ff in a cup and he slept through the night from then on! So it was a sudden thing and I got mastitis even though I expressed. I got AF for the first time at the same time so I thought the taste might have changed or something???

You are doing a great job, and have given her a great start and even though it is sad when they wean, it also brings a sense of freedom (for me anyway). I am still hoping to get to 12months but will take each day as it comes.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!