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Aww, I'm sure your Mom will make up for it when you return :) Are you all still co-sleeping? I thought that was helping some? I'd mention it to her dr. again. Hope things get better w/the sleeping~I know that *has* to be tough! Good luck! Hope you have a blast on your trip :) Can't wait to hear about it :)

Ava is doing the same thing. She keeps waking half the night, barely sleeping. I swear I'm up more now than when she was a newborn.

I still nurse her, I find she only nurses about 3 times a day and twice during the night. I give her one bottle throughout the day too. She definately nurses less now though.

My daughter (who is now 2) slept BETTER when we travelled...>I don't know why she did but she always slept better when we were away from home. It was also when we were away on vacation that she started rolling over in her sleep and about gave me a heart attack when I woke up the next morning. We went on vacation when she was 6 months old, and she started sleeping through the night on our trip and continued when we got back!! Hopefully you will have the same luck!

I'm also trying to figure out the how much to nurse now that solids have entered the mix. I'm sorta using the Super Baby Food book as a guide; and that doesn't have you cut back too much on the nursing. So I nurse all morning as needed. Then lunchtime, she gets fruit and cereal. Then nurse again, on demand, in the afternoon. Then veggies for dinner. Then I usually have to only nurse her once more before bed. And we get up once, early morning to nurse and then back to bed for about two hours. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

I think it ends up with maybe 7 sessions of nursing over 24 hours? She nurses fast, too. Like 5-7 minutes on one side, tops. But she's done that since birth. And her weight is just fine (not at all overweight) and she's growing like a weed so I'm *trying* not to worry too much. It's so hard.

She also refuses naps and fights sleep. I feel your pain. Just do what you have to do to get yourself the most sleep while on your trip so you can enjoy it!

Oh man, same here on the period/trip thing.

H is starting to space out his feedings a little more--about every 4 hours as opposed to 3. It's hard to get him to nurse if we're out in public b/c he just wants to look around at everything, and he still doesn't drink much from a bottle, so sometimes he'll go 5 hours if we're out or if he's with the babysitter. He's also reverted a bit with sleeping habits. He's never slept through the night, but he was doing nice 5-6 hour stretches for a couple of weeks. Now he too is back to waking (and wanting to nurse) every 2.5-3 hours. Zzzzzzz......

I nursed Amelia before giving her solids but her nursing sessions did stretch out a little. LLL and others say that they'll get what they need and usually they'll make it up at night if they didn't get everything during the day. And the whole distracted during the day thing only gets worse now that they're more aware of their surroundings and mobile. I found that it did hold true that Amelia seemed to nurse more in the evening, at night and in the morning than during the day, but that's okay. So as long as you're offering Olivia the opportunity to nurse, she'll be fine.

Lila has been waking at least every three hours at night wanting to nurse lately. She's getting two upper teeth, so I'm pretty sure that's the problem. Also, I laugh when I read other people's blogs and they talk about putting the baby to bed at 8. HA! I'm lucky if I can get her to go to sleep by 11.

As far as nursing during the day goes...Lila is very distracted while nursing and sometimes just can't focus on it b/c it takes too long. I've resorted to pumping some on the weekends and bottle feeding. She still nurses like normal during the week and at night. My doctor told me that she shouldn't go more than 4-5 hours without eating during the day. I haven't noticed a big difference since I started feeding solids back in Sept., but I'm still only feeding her one meal of solids per day.

Hope this helps! I'd be less worried about the feeding and focus more on the sleeping if she does have dark circles. I'm sure it's probably nothing though. My husband didn't sleep through the night until he was five years old, and he's healthy as a horse.

Well, I gave up on pumping so I could have a bit of a life (12 times a day was just too much)... but Lorelei gets cereal with fruit for breakfast, for lunch it is protein and veggies- like chicken and carrots, and then for dinner she gets protein, veggies, and fruit... she drinks about 20 ozs a day still of soy formula... portion wise it depends... some days it 1/4 cup of prepared ceral and 3 spoons full of fruit to just 1/8 cup and no fruit... dinner is when there is the biggest difference... she can easily polish off 2 full plastic containers of gerber stuff to sometimes just one plastic container/jar... I let her guide me on how much she wants... I also make her take her time eating... so sometimes it really can take 2 hours but she doesn't get gassy and stuff... but I would go to the Ped doc and talk to them... at Lore's 6m I was told to give her more protein since she is so active... and to stay away from wheat in baby food till she is 8ms... I also talked to the doc about Lore not falling asleep till 10pm or later... she isn't worried since she sleeps to either 5am and then back down till 9 or just sleeps till 8am... but if you are worried just go to the doc... she might be missing something or it could be nothing... good luck hun!!