Author Topic: 15 mo, never sttn update-she did it!! (Read 30054 times)

babybarr · « **Reply #60 on:** October 06, 2012, 20:09:44 pm »

A dummy??

C&B&E · « **Reply #61 on:** October 06, 2012, 20:15:26 pm »

not interested - looks at us like we're mad! I jolly well wish she would

.

babybarr · « **Reply #62 on:** October 06, 2012, 20:29:42 pm »

Have you tried one which is a cherry teat? They're harder and sometimes helps... or dip it in gripe water

louis-mummy · « **Reply #63 on:** October 06, 2012, 20:31:11 pm »

((Hugs)) Claire, she sounds spirited for sure!

I think theres something about bf babies preferring a latex cherry dummy (tommee tippee) if you want to try that option again.

babybarr · « **Reply #64 on:** October 06, 2012, 20:33:35 pm »

Great name...great minds

C&B&E · « **Reply #65 on:** October 06, 2012, 20:37:58 pm »

I just wonder if she's too old now $:-\$ . Worth a shot though!

kayra · « **Reply #66 on:** October 06, 2012, 21:00:48 pm »

well that bedtime's positive, maybe she just wants to be in control

*Becky* · « **Reply #67 on:** October 07, 2012, 06:20:09 am »

aww, love your pic Kayra....

C&B&E · « **Reply #68 on:** October 07, 2012, 18:32:15 pm »

My word, this girl is feisty

! She protested (full on screaming again) for an hour at bedtime as she wanted me to feed her to sleep $:-\$ . This is after having dinner, a full feed and asking for a book after I'd asked whether she wanted milk or story. So how do I tackle this do we think??! It appears I am a prop

Oh, she had a suck of a dummy this afternoon - but no interest whatsoever at bedtime. I'm not sure if I want to go down the route of starting with a dummy at this point anyway $:-\$

katie80 · « **Reply #69 on:** October 07, 2012, 19:39:33 pm »

Sorry I asked and then disappeared for a day!

Quote from: kayra on October 06, 2012, 21:00:48 pm

well that bedtime's positive, maybe she just wants to be in control

This is what I thought until I read your last post. She seemed to do so well when you gave her the option, but then not tonight. $:-\$

She does sound incredibly feisty! But, she also seems to be a good communicator. Is your DH often home to help do bedtime? Maybe, you could just start explaining to her that she's had her milk, now daddy is going to read stories and do bedtime.

C was fed to sleep every single night from ~6mo to 13mo, as she was not the best of nappers and was always tired and I just didn't fight it because she STTN. When I weaned her, DH did BT for a week or two (she asked him to nurse the first night, LOL) and after that she was fine and I was easily able to do BT again. But, you'll still be feeding, so that might not work as well for you. Does she do a non-dairy milk at all? What if you offered that in a sippy or straw cup when she asked for milk instead of nursing?

C&B&E · « **Reply #70 on:** October 07, 2012, 20:09:05 pm »

Thanks Katie

Yes, DH does usually take over - but she continues to ask for milk. I'm glad at least that she is now signing what she wants! He took over bedtime (after I'd fed her and read her books) and she ended up crying so hard that he had to hold her in the rocking chair as she was in such a state. She won't take formula and we offer her water but she refuses (hands back the cup very politely and then starts screaming again

!). We are now very clearly starting to explain to her that milk is finished and it is story then bed - so I'm hoping that might start to help. The thing is I'm not *that* against feeding her to sleep if it actually worked! But it doesn't - even the times when I have resorted to it she often will wake when I've put her in the cot - so I'm not being 'hard' for the sake of it iykwim $:-\$

louis-mummy · « **Reply #71 on:** October 07, 2012, 20:26:00 pm »

Would it help if you were out of the house for bedtime for a few nights? Yk, give her a reason why you have to go somewhere (i'd be at the pub

) and DH to put her to bed.

Would she take expressed milk in a sippy cup, as an interim solution to change habits?

C&B&E · « **Reply #72 on:** October 07, 2012, 20:53:51 pm »

Quote from: louis-mummy on October 07, 2012, 20:26:00 pm

Would it help if you were out of the house for bedtime for a few nights? Yk, give her a reason why you have to go somewhere (i'd be at the pub ) and DH to put her to bed.

Would she take expressed milk in a sippy cup, as an interim solution to change habits?

I have given her a bedtime feed and then gone out (or am usually downstairs so she can't hear/see/smell

me!) - but it seems to make no difference $:-\$ . DH is great and most nights takes over once I have fed her anyway so she really should *know* that she isn't going to get any more sucking time

.

I haven't expressed since the first couple of months as I can never get anything - so unfortunately not as that would be ideal.

*Becky* · « **Reply #73 on:** October 08, 2012, 08:53:21 am »

it does sound like you are the prop like you said. I guess like any prop you need to be ready to deal with it so if you are ready now then I would start something consistent with DH doing the PD if that helps and no matter what do not feed...she does sound very spirited and so consistency is key...but you know that

katie80 · « **Reply #74 on:** October 08, 2012, 15:36:04 pm »

Quote from: Claire (& B & E) on October 07, 2012, 20:09:05 pm

so I'm not being 'hard' for the sake of it iykwim $:-\$

Oh yes, I know! I agree with Becky, and like Laura suggested, I actually left the house that first week of not feeding C. It was just easier on all of us that way. But, our house is not very big, so there wasn't really an option to just disappear downstairs.

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