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Hi everyone,
It has been a LONG time since I’ve logged in here, and your beautiful children are getting so big! For anyone who remembers me, I just thought I’d give a brief update on Caden. He is now 19 months old, but he still stuggles with sleep at night. He is not a big eater. He still nurses, but I’m going to be working on weaning soon. I’m not sure if he is waking at night due to habit or still discomfort from reflux (I’m suspicious), and I won’t know until he is fully weaned. Our other boys outgrew reflux at a year…not sure if Caden has fully outgrown his. I’m so glad to see so many of your babies are doing well now! Isn’t it a blessing to get past this??? I have SO many painful memories of those first months with Caden, and you ladies were a godsend to me. I want you to know that. You really got me through that time. If anyone has any updates, I would love to hear from you. I especially remember talking with Claire quite a bit as Caden and Ben are close in age. How is Ben now, Claire?Have a great night everyone!
Hey, Emily… I’m going to assume you were talking to me.. my signature is confusing, but my daughter’s name is Claire.
We are doing WELL! Ben is finally off Zegerid, drinking whole milk.. not much though.. I just totally weaned him last week. Can’t believe I nursed him for over 20 months! Thinking (like you) to the early days makes me shudder, but it was hard to let the nursing go at the end of it all. Ben is thriving, loves his big sister, and seems to be doing well. He still has “reflux like” symptoms.. some hiccuping, etc., but I haven’t been able to figure out why and have been able to get by with some Pepcid Complete or just by giving him some Tums.I’m so glad to hear that Caden is doing well and hope the wean goes well. I think it’s harder on us than them, eh?Good to “hear” from you!We went CRAZY slow. Ben was always a fairly scheduled feeder though, so that helped a ton. I just started by dropping the feeding he was least interested in.. happened to be lunchtime. He was usually so interested in what was going on, that stopping to nurse was no fun. I did that for a week, and then dropped another one.. after his nap. This one was harder, but I just started giving him some watered down juice and a snack and tried to distract him.
He was still nursing in the AM and before bed though for a couple of months after dropping those two.. but I know I wasn’t making much milk anymore with him only nursing twice, so felt better because I knew he was really only doing it out of habit. It was at this point that I started giving him real milk. He still doesn’t like it much (what nursing baby does, right?)But two weeks ago, I dropped the before bed feeding. He wasn’t happy, but I just had DH put him to bed for a week instead of me. I still bathed him, read to him and sang, but then DH came in with a cup of milk and rocked him and sang to him and actually put him in the bed. He was fine with it after the first night.This last week I finally dropped the AM feeding.. he was the most attatched to that one. I just gave him some juice right away and distracted him with getting dressed, watching some cartoons and eating breakfast right away.After each time I dropped a feeding, he would still ask for it sometimes, but I just told him that it was “all gone.” He looked at me like I was nuts, like “hello mom, I can still see your boobs there”, but I would then ask him if he wanted some “big boy milk” or some juice and he would usually be fine with that. It helped to give him “big boy milk” in the same sippy cups that his big sister drinks out of.
Good luck with it. I just realized while typing this that he hasn’t asked to nurse in over a week, and it makes me sad a bit, but it was nice to be able to go out of town with some girlfriends this weekend too. That’s the first time I’ve been away from him since birth! IT was a GOOD trip.
HI there! I remember you! Awww, your Caden is just so cute!
With the sleeping, Landen is now 15 mos (today actually) and he was waking out of habit. I always got up with him no matter what until 3 wks ago. I knew he was not in pain and was getting plenty of cals from food and his neocate during the day, so I decided to do some VERY gentle sleep training. Thankfully, he picked up on it in 3 days and now he sleeps a solid 10-12 hrs at night with no waking. He also has been waking SO happy and not having meltdowns (no morning nap needed anymore, just one long afternoon nap like his big bro). I realized that he was really hurting for some sleep and just needed to learn how to soothe himself at night. I’m not typically big on sleep training, but I realized that Landen had been held so much and drank so much at night (we slept-fed a lot when reflux was bad) and had never been shown how to sleep without ‘help’ if that makes sense!Anyway, just wanted to share our experience on our recent sleep success. It was a long 14ish months of getting up with him. lol. I’d def try to rule out reflux wakings first and then if you know he isn’t in pain, you can go from there however you wish.It’s GREAT to see you!!!
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