Hi Ashley,
I hope your night was better. We had a miracle last night. We were out of home to my sister's house for dinner. My son cried at 8PM for his dinner time. We rushed home at 9 gave him bath, milk and sleep by 10PM. So according the BW book I thought gosh we are in for bad night. But guess what, he slept until 6:15AM this morning. I gave him bottle and he only took 3 oz. he wasn't even hungry. So I'm thinking, you can try what I did yesterday.
Cook some quick oatmeal (grinding, my son doesn't eat any bits), in clarified or u nsalted butter, for a minute and ahdd some homo milk. It will look like pudding. Make sure you stir it frequently, while boiling/cooking it. Feed her this as dinner 3 hrs before bedtime, than 5 oz milk 1.5 hr later and another 4 oz before bed time. I plan to do the exact same thing tonight. Will report tomorrow the outcome.
I am east indian, so my mom use to feed us clarified butter (unsalted, full fat not the junk stuff) before bed. We are 6 brothers and sisters.
About milk intake, try to increase her feed by 0.5 oz every other day, do that one feed let say work on bedtime feed.
Ashley are you aware of black cardamom, we use it in chai, to prevent any throw ups, or diahrea. Boil one cardamom in 1 litre of water, boil until only half the water left in pot, use that water for formula. I don't give medication to my son, his reflux was horrible, I was washing the sheets almost everyday.
I hope something helps.
susan
