15mo never sttn! Expectant mom's exhausted!

[speechie]

Hugs for the major teething pain-
That is so rough. One idea- if he's waking that much despite pain meds, you may want to have the MD look into his ears- in my experience, my son had ear infections if he woke that much and no other real symptoms.

Fingers crossed and when you are ready, we will be here for  you. You can do it! I KNOW you need your sleep. I had no uninterrupted sleep for basically 14 mos and I feel for you.

Huge hugs, hang in there and keep in touch!

[EJsMommy]

Hi All!

I just wanted to pop in for a quick update. My son now has 3 of his 4 molars, and the last one seems to be in no hurry to come in. He doesn't seem to be bothered by teething anymore. However, the past week and a 1/2 he's had a pretty bad cold/fever. He's just gotten over that within the last 2 days....

I woke up this morning and decided enough is enough. I was done waiting for DH to move his crib into the other room, so I did it myself before going off to work! He is in there right now, and has already stirred and woke 2x since being put to bed at 7:30. It's almost 11pm now. I am going to get up and give him the bottles this last night ( I jsut figured moving out of our room where he's been since birth and stopping the bottles would be a bit much for one night). Tomorrow I plan to begin the watering down process, as I know I can't do it cold turkey.

I usually give him a bottle before going to bed as we are reading stories, then I put him down with the bottle. When he wakes the first time, he finds the bottle and continues sucking away... Should I water that one down as well? Or just the ones when he wakes up later on at night? I'm a little confued about the process. Also, I usually give him an 8oz bottle, should I just put 2 scoops of formula in that, so it's watered down by 1/2?

Thank you all for your help and patience!

[speechie]

wow- I've got no experience with the watering down methods- but if your LO is falling asleep sucking on a bottle, I would call that my first priority...hate to say it, because it will be a hard thing to change. But it's really not good for LOs to fall asleep sucking on a bottle of milk- bad for their teeth especially...
What would happen if you gave the milk during the story, then put your LO in the crib without the bottle to suck on? Does your LO ever fall asleep without the bottle?
I think your idea to cut the nighttime formula down by 1/2 to start is a good idea-
courage and strength to you- I'm here for you!

[EJsMommy]

Thanks Cathie,

He rarely falls asleep w/out sucking on his bottle. In the car, or sometimes he'll fall asleep in his exersaucer, and on occasion at the baby sitters. THere have been like 2 nights in his whole life that he's gone to sleep w/out it.

I feared that would be where I'd need to start...

[EJsMommy]

Uuugggh. Last night was dreadful. He woke about every hour and a half. And around 2:20 am he woke and cried and cried and was inconsolable. Finally I opened up a white noise machine that I had just bought earlier in the day and turned it on. He fell asleep around 3:45 and slept until 7:30. I am beat!

[eclaire]

Hugs!!!

My LO had 3 molars come in at the same time a couple of weeks ago and was up every hour or two as well.  He's 14.5 months and nurses to sleep, so I'm logging in to follow along and see how things go.  I tried PU/PD for 3 weeks when he was 7.5 months old and it helped to cut back on the night wakings but there were still times at night where he cried so much that I ended up with "phantom crying".  Other times he would go down and go to sleep on his own.  I became to tired and stopped so now I'm looking at what my options are.

[speechie]

Hugs ladies- you may want to check out the Props board and read some posts/start a new post there, if you are feeding to sleep/bottle to sleep...sounds like a prop issue and you'll get loads of good advice there- HUGS-

[EJsMommy]

Cathie, I was just thinking that today! I am figuring out what I should tackle first, since they all go hand in hand... He need his bottle to go to sleep, wakes because he's looking for the bottle, drinks so much at night that it's affecting his daytime eating, and is so attached to his bottle that it seems impossible that i'll wean him to a cup. Ay!

Well I started watering down the bottles, so we'll see how that goes. I'll try to be consistent with it for a couple weeks to see if that helps at all. Perhaps then I can focus on the other stuff..

Thanks for the suggestion about the props board. If it wasn't 12am, I'd head over there now... I'll check it out tomorrow. Thanks again