Can someone help with my EASY??

[ills84]

She has 4 bottles a day and is 1.5 weeks off from being 9 months. Her total milk intake ranges from 550mls-800mls.

She was really cranky after about 3.5hrs from the first nap, so I put her down and she slept from 3.25pm-5pm.

[creations]

Her milk intake is fine so no need to panic about the slight drop in the morning feed.  LOs will often keep the morning and evening feeds and drop the mid-morning and mid-afternoon feeds but it is fine for the morning one to drop a little, it might also increase a little when you drop to 3 bottles per day. Intake guidance up to 12 months is 530-6ooml, roughly a pint.  Don't panic either that it is sometimes higher than this, it's guidance, not a rule.  Too much milk is only an issue if there is little or no interest in solids between 9-12 months.

[ills84]

So she woke this morning at 6.15am, left in cot until 6.40am.

1stnap she went down at10.32am, she woke after 40mins and stood up, I went in laid her back down and patted a bit and she went back to sleep, then woke at 11.45am, so total of about 1.10hrs.

Every nap length is different!!! If I was to do a short am nap and long afternoon nap what A time would I do in the morning?

Iam just rolling with everything at the moment. I would also like to drop down to 3 bottles, but with her 2 naps so unpredictable it is so hard to sort it out.

She wakes anywhere between 6-7am, stays up for at least 4hrs A time and goes to bed at 7.30pm. She has her morning bottle always between 7-7.30pm.
Any thoughts of creating a routine based on these things with 3 bottles and 2 naps ranging from 40mins-1.5hrs

[ills84]

Again today she woke at 6.20am, so I think threw are gone for now (touch wood). She stayed in her cot chatting until 6.40am then came into my bed for cuddles until 7am.
She had her first nap at 11.10am, I feed her her bottle before the nap, she woke after 1.10hr. Tried to get her back to sleep, but she was up. That was after 4.5hr A time, if counting when she woke.

Yesterday's afternoon nap she went down at 3.30pm and woke after 1.10hr and that was after 3.45hr A time.

[ills84]

I spoke to soon didn't i 

My DD woke up at 5am this morning, chatting and playing. We left her and iam pretty sure she fell back to sleep at 6am, then woke at 6.25am

She has been crabby all morning (iam thinking maybe top teeth are on the way), Iam still keeping to the 4hr A time. So the first nap started at 10.30am, she woke after an hour, standing up, I went in laid her down and patted her a little and she went back to sleep and she is still slept til 12.30pm, so 2hrs asleep. (yesterday was the same and she only slept for an hr???)

Iam just thinking Iam def in the 2-1 transition. If Iam going for a long am nap, should I leave her to sleep as long as she wants, or cap the nap at 2hrs so I can get a CN in for the afternoon?

I would love for this morning nap to be at least a bit consistent.

Also with bottles/food, she had her morning bottle 5oz at 7.20am, so she can go 5hrs between feeds. How do I fit the 4 bottles in or should i be dropping to 3, so 7.20, 12.30 and 7.15pm bottles or 7.20am, 1pm and 7.15pm bottles? Her milk feeds have dropped,but that could be teething.

[ZacsMumme]

If you want a long am then yes leather keep as long as she likes. Well I did. Then EBT or CN based on nap length/time.

So you have WU
A 4 hrs
Nap...

When we did long am with my ds1 I had these rules
WU 6-7
A 4-4.5
Nap ~10.30/11 for as long as he liked. If ended after 1pm then EBT at 6 if not CN 4.5 hrs later 30 mins and BT 2 hrs after that.

I would try to APOP back to sleep if nap was shorter than 1.5 to encourage one long nap x

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I would think you could drop to 3 bottles at this point, replacing the dropped one with a snack and sippy of water.
Honestly the timings of milk feeds are not critical at this point. You will fall into a routine but there is no panic over it being a little earlier or later to fit around the nap/s and EBT.

[ills84]

So yesturday she went down at 10.30am and woke after 1 hr then back to sleep for another hour and woke at 12.40pm. Then a caped 35min CN from 4.30-5.04pm BT at 7.30pm she woke this morning at 6.15am.

We did first nap at 10.40am, she woke again after 1 hr standing, I laid her back down and patted a bit to extend the nap and she slept until 12.10pm so about 1.25hrs. So will continue with the CN in the afternoon.

Just a quick q: if I was to drop down to 3 bottles should I offer her lunch after the first nap and then a bottle about 1hr later so 12-12.30: lunch then bottle about 1-1.30pm so that's about 6 hrs between feeds

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I would keep everything at the time it is now but just literally switch one bottle (either mid morning or mid afternoon) for a snack and sippy of water. Nothing else needs to be moved or altered in any way, the milk feeds do not need to be spread equally across the day.  Only move something if it is not working for you/LO not because you dropped a bottle.
I think we had something like 7, 11, 3, 7 milk feeds and I just dropped the 3pm and gave a snack and water at 3pm instead of milk.

[ills84]

Iam just trying to figure out where to put everything.

At the moment with the second bottle, I've been doing this, if she goes to bed at 10.30am I don't give her the bottle until she wakes at about 12-12.30pm. If she goes to bed at 11-11.30am I give her the bottle, she takes about 150-180mls and then luch when she wakes up. Then it's a bottle about 4-4.5 hrs after the last one which is the third bottle an always seems to fall right before the 2nd nap at about 3.30-4.30pm then BT bottle is always about 7.15pm.

I have been giving her a snack at 10am each day.

How would I structure this around her naps? She has 2 naps a day 1st nap is 10.30/11-12/12.30pm and then a CN at 4/4.30-5pm with BT at 7.30pm

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I would just switch the 3.30 bottle for a snack.

[ills84]

So it would be 7-7.30am, 11am and 7-7.15pm bottles? Is that a long time between the second and BT bottles?

[ZacsMumme]

We switched to 3 bottles when on 1 nap, initially I just did a small top up.
I 'think' we had this when I switched and we also switched to solids bfo milk at this time 9/10 mths
WU 6.30
Solids 7 with water
Bf/bottle 8
Snack early 1/2 lunch
Nap 11 for 2-3 hrs
B/bottle on WU ~1.30 then 1/2 lunch 30/40 mindless later (long nap at this time meant I did lunch in two parts
Dinner 4.30/5
Bottle/bf at BT 6/6.30

HTH

[ills84]

So I just tried to give her a bottle before her nap but she only drank 100mls. I think her teeth are hurting her.

I like your routine that you have there zacsMumme, I don't think she would be able to last from the one nap to even an ebt. Yesterday she had a nap from 11-1 and then was crabby at 4.15pm, so gave a CN and she slept till 5pm, but woke up so cranky, then only drank 90mls for the BT bottle at 7.20pm.

I think I def need to go down to 3 bottles, but just need to figure out where to put everything.

I want to keep her BT at about 7-7.30pm as she sleeps till 6.15-6.30am on this BT, before when we did 7pm BT she would wake at 5-5.30am so she is on a 13hr day.

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So it would be 7-7.30am, 11am and 7-7.15pm bottles? Is that a long time between the second and BT bottles?

No I don't think it is too long.  Like I said in previous post, the timings of milk feeds do not need to be equally spread across the day but if you prefer it to be equally spaced then do that.  The right thing to do is whatever works for you and your LO.  By just switching the afternoon milk you'd have something (give or take) like this:

7 milk
8 solids
11 milk
nap
1 lunch
3 snack
CN
5 dinner
7 milk

If you look at the time between feeds it's pretty short.  If she gets hungry she'll let you know.  She is old enough now to increase her solids intake or to 'ask' for the remaining 3 bottles to be bigger, there is no reason for her to wake hungry at night from a bottle drop now. (by 'ask' I mean let you know she wants more, there ought to be about an oz left in the bottle when she stops drinking, if she begins to drain any of her 3 bottles then increase the size of that bottle so she always gets her fill)