I should be able to work this one out on my own, but I would like to share and see if anyone has any helpful advice.
My DGD is 5 months. She was previously very happy with a routine of 6 am 10am 2pm 6pm 10pm 2am etc. She is now having tastes of solids at 10 am and 6pm. All of a sudden this routine doesnt work for her or for us. She wakes at about 1 am no matter how late we stretch the 10pm bottle and wont settle with a cuddle and her dummy. So we feed her. She feeds well. Again at 4 am, feeds well. Goes back to sleep, sleeps while 9am (bliss!).
Then at 10 am when she would normally have baby rice and milk, she has ceased to be hungry or particularly interested in eating. But I persisted with the routine and she fed at 2pm and 6pm as usual.
Today when she was so wriggly and fussy at 10am that she hardly had anything, I decided to try some solids at 12 noon. Again not interested.
Obviously we need to change the routine because she has outgrown it. We also need to persuade her to be more hungry in the daytime and less hungry at night. Something that we havent relished, but perhaps ought to try is water at 1 am. But we have put off doing this because we dont want her waking us again in a couple of hours.
Any ideas? I know I should be able to figure it myself but Im a bit stressed and also have sleep deprivation.
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Changes to routine (bottle fed) 5 months
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peaches27 · 04/05/2006 13:47
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