Hey Judy:
Well I am happy to report that my son is eating his bottle SO GOOD now. During the day is eats all of his bottle 6 oz. four times a day and seems like he wants more. He is still waking up in the middle of the night. Last night it was at 2:30, the night before at 12:30. He eats a full 6 oz, but I am in the processing of changing that.
I took your advice on several things. I started a notebook to take back and forth to my sitters (and it working great). Also we are waiting until he gets to the sitters at 7:00 to have his first feeding. Now today was the first day of our new plan and so far so good. I actually had to wake him up this morning to get dressed, but could have been because he woke up at 2:30 and had a full bottle?
I figured that if he does FINALLY sometime start sleeping through the night and he wakes up at 6:00/6:30 screaming for a bottle, I will try to give him his pacifier or something to hold him off and if I have to feed him, then it will just be 2 oz. at the most and at 7:00 he can have his normal bottle.
I also decided to start solids back again. I know he is deft. ready for them. He is getting hungry almost every 3 hours.
So this is how his new Routine is going to look and please wish us luck. Oh and I dropped the "Catnap" and just putting to bed earlier
Less time for us, but I have the weekends.
So here is the plan:
Wake up 6:30: Get dressed and drive to sitters
7:00 Bottle 6 oz. with 3 teaspoons of cereal (per our doctor because of reflux)
8:00 Breakfast - 1/2 cup oatmeal mixed with formula and a little tiny tiny bit of applejuice to make it take better
Between 8:30/9:00 - Nap (1 hour) He normally will only sleep 45 minutes
11:00 Bottle 6 oz. with 3 teaspoons of cereal mixed in
Between 12:00/12:30 Lunch oatmeal again (I will eventually do a vegetable here once he has his 6 mo. check up next week)
1:00 - Nap (2 hours)
Between 3:00/3:30 - Bottle 6 oz. with cereal mixed in
Mom pick up at 4:45 Home by 5:00
5:30/5:45 Dinner - 1 Stage 1 Jar of fruit
6:00 Bedtime Routine starts, Bath, Change into Pajama's
6:45/7:00 Last Bottle 6 oz. with cereal mixed in.
And hopefully NO MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WAKINGS. If so then here is my plan:
He normally takes 6 oz. in the middle of the night so:
Nights 1,2 & 3: 6 oz.
Nights 4, 5, 6: 5 1/2 oz.
Night 7, 8, 9: 5 oz.
and so on until 0 oz. If he takes less at any point then that is my new starting point
For example: Night 4 he takes 5 oz. instead of 5 1/2 then the next 2 nights he will get only 5 oz.
I know I should not mentiom another book on here, because I LOVE the Baby Whisperer and the Book is Awesome, but I got the idea above from a book called: Twelve Hours by Twelve Weeks old by Suzy Giordano, The Baby Coach. She has sleep trained tons of babies to sleep 12 hours a night by 12 weeks old 100% guaranteed. She has ALOT of the same beliefs and techniques as the Baby Whisperer. ROUTINE is the key.
Anyhow Keep in touch and I will let you ALL know how it is going. We will see.....
You asked what I do for a job: I am a Loan Specialist for a local bank and my hubby is an Engineer. I was very lucky to have a job that works with me and my schedule which is 7:30-4:00 (not your normal "banking" hours).
Talk to you soon
-Wendy