Five Opinions All Mothers At One Time Hold

[azriona]

Five Opinions All Mothers At One Time Hold
(Although Not Necessarily At the Same Time, As Will Become Evident)

*The amount of time spent believing #1 is in direct proportion to the ease with which the child in question went to bed that night.

1. I am the worst mother ever. Nothing I do is right. My children will be in therapy for the rest of

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Answers. Not to the Meeaning of Life, but still.

[azriona]

The last feeding of the day would be dinner - usually between five and six. I think you're right about the two-hour difference between bedtime and dinnertime. I can't say for certain that there's definitely a correlation with Andrew, but what you're saying makes sense, and I can certainly try a small bottle shortly before bedtime, so that it's not in the bedtime routine (and I can brush his teeth before he sleeps!), and see if that helps.

He doesn't usually feed in the middle of the night. Sometimes he'll get a bottle around 4 or 5am, if he wakes and won't go back to sleep with either rocking or just fussing. This is becoming more rare, though - he didn't get a 5am bottle this morning, for instance, even though he woke up. Even when he does get a bottle, he'll generally sleep for at least another hour, and more often an hour-and-a-half afterwards.

He's mostly on a three-meal-a-day schedule now - I say mostly, because he's never been a really big eater. Other babies put three to four ounces of food away, plus six or seven ounces of bottle. Andrew? If I get him to eat 2 ounces of solids and six ounces of bottle in one sitting, I count it as a success. I added lunch when I took away the bedtime bottle, with the theory of offering him more calories, and that seemed to help do the trick. The head cold definitely zapped his appetite - for a few days, all he was willing to eat in the solid department was toast - but it seems to be coming back. (He finished lunch yesterday, lunch being his favorite chicken/sweet potato/apple mix.)