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nannyde 04:57 PM 09-08-2011
Originally Posted by jenny31052:
I have this 8 months old girl, who is an angel until it's time to go to sleep - she is used to fall asleep drinking the bottle, however here I can't get her to go to sleep with one bottle, it has to be 2 or sometimes 3!! even if the other kids are playing quietly, she gets aroused with little things, like a car passing by, or my husband walking upstairs; last week it took more than an hour of rocking her, and feeding her the bottle, before she went asleep - in the meantime the rest of the kids had to entertain themselves, or better destroy the playroom
Today I decided that if she's not asleep by the time she finishes her bottle, she jsut gonna have to lay down and learn to go to sleep without it - well, it was 50 minutes of pure screaming, trashing, banging her head on the side of the pack and play, more screaming and more trashing... she then fell asleep... I even gave the bottle (with water in it) to suck while laying down, but as soon as she realized that it was not formula, she threw it out.

What do you do with babies like this? I've never had this problems with my son, or other infants, who knows how to sooth themselves... I felt bad, and I wished no one was outside hearing the show going on inside, but I can't spend one and a half hour each day trying to get her to nap... while the other kids (2 and 18 months old) are trying to keep busy their way...

I feed babies that age about an hour before I lay them down. They finish about 45 minutes before they go to bed.

Right after they eat they go into an upright bouncy seat for about twenty minutes and then right before nap they do about 25 minutes of belly time to play toys.

I would STOP feeding her right before she sleeps. Newborns to age about four months for that... then as they go from four to six months start moving the feeding away from nap time so that you can get a GOOD amount of upright time post bottle... then belly time before they go to sleep. They will usually poop after about twenty minutes from eating... then they do the belly time to work out the wilys.

Don't associate the bottle with nodding off to sleep. Put her to bed WIDE awake into a pitch black dark room.

She can have a full two to two and a half hour nap before she needs to feed again. That would be 3 to 3.5 hours in between feedings.... That is great for a baby this age.

She's having WAY too much bottle before she goes to sleep. One six to eight ounce bottle started an hour before you put her down. If she nods off during the bottle STOP feeding her... have her sit upright... till she is WIDE awake and then start feeding again. NO lulling to sleep.
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