My little boy is 8 months old and his routine is as follows:
7am - Wake up & breakfast (normally porridge and toast/yoghurt and water/juice)
9am - Nap for 1.5hrs
11am – 90ml of formula and a rice cake/fruit/dairylea
12.30 - Lunch (a mash of meat/fish/veg, fromage frais and water/juice)
1.00/1.30 - Nap for 1.5hrs
3pm – 90ml of formula and a rice cake/veg sticks
(4pm – Sometimes needs a short nap, but not always)
5pm – Dinner (meat/fish with veg, fruit puree/rice pudding/custard and water/juice)
6pm – Bath time
6.45pm – 180ml of formula
7pm – Bedtime
He has been in his own room from 3 months and from then up to 6.5 months he was sleeping from 7pm until 7am (when often I would actually have to wake him up). For the last month and a half I have struggled to get him to nap, he refuses his formula (but wants lots of water – around 8-9oz a day) and he has been waking constantly during the night (at random times). One of the times he wakes is normally due to a saturated nappy, sometimes they are so full that they leak and I have to change bedcovers, pjs etc.
He has 2 teeth at the moment, and I initially thought these problems were due to teething and tried using calpol and ibuprofen alternately and anbesol, however no new teeth have appeared yet. We have dropped his dream feed (which only helped for the first night). I have also tried slightly longer activity periods but he was getting very tired and grouchy so I have gone back to his normal routine.
If he wakes during the night we wait until he is actually crying before we go to him (as sometimes he mumbles to himself and crawls around his cot), and try to settle him in his cot and not pick him up, and we give him some water not milk.
I could really do with advice on how to get him to sleep during the night and what to do about him not drinking his milk.
