Friday, August 21, 2009

So I'm back to feeling discouraged. I'm kind of pathetic. So I'm like totally at my wits end with this sleeping thing. I feel like I've tried everything. I'm even sad to say I let her cry himself to sleep, but he woke up a half hour later and started crying again. I really think he won't eat enough during the day, although he doesn't eat much when he get's up. Anyway so I switched him to formula which has been a horrible experience. As most of you know I've been trying to get him to take formula for awhile, I've tried mixing breast milk and formula I've had other people feed him, nothing. I was feeling hopeless, and I feel bad to let him cry at night especially if he just wasn't getting enough from me. So needless to say Parker didn't eat anything for 10 1/2 hours until he finally took the formula at 10:30 at night..his first night waking. So he's been on it for a day or two and nothing. And now I'm just feeling really bad about stopping the nursing. I never thought it would make me feel so bad, especially cause I really didn't plan to nurse him for too much longer, it just makes me feel bad that it was so uprupt. That and doing bottles at night is horrible. It's such a process before I go to bed to get them ready and everytime I go in there with him as he wakes up he get's ticked and he won't fall back asleep after, and now I'm feeling like just putting him in his crib and walking away, I just feel bad like I'm cutting him off from everything, I'm such a sap. I just wanted to do it all a little more gradually not all at once. Anyway so there's probably going to be a lot of crying at my house at night here soon so we'll see. He still hardly eats any formula the most he does is 4 ozs and that's only rarely. What do I do?

1 comment:

  1. First...send him to one of his grandmas house for a sleepover so you can get a good nights rest!!!
    2nd...does he act like he has a tummy ache or anything like that? Try gas drops and try giving him cereal. He's old enough and that will help with filling him up.
    I just want to come over there and relieve you for a while! =) I can't believe he's 5 months and still doing this.
    Seriously though, if you need I can come watch him so you can go to the mall and spend your gift certificate! =) You have my #!!!

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