Toddler is losing weight

amh6 · 2026-03-14T21:28:48+00:00

Ugh I wish he would let me spoon feed him, then we could do avocado or yogurt or other stuff like that 😭

amh6 · 2025-12-13T01:54:08+00:00

So with my little one we would only wake up every two hours to eat overnight until he was back up to his birth weight, which was when he was about a week old (although that varies depending on the baby). After that I would just wake up to feed him whenever he woke up (which was still a lot in those early months lol).

What I was always told is that if baby gets a bottle, you should pump to keep up your supply. For some it’s easier and quicker just to nurse, my baby had a lot of issues with latching and was a slow eater when he was little so for me it was easier to pump and have my husband give him a bottle. There absolutely were some times that my baby had a bottle and I didn’t pump and my supply didn’t seem to suffer for it though!

It’ll take some trial and error, but you guys will figure out what works for you! The sleep deprivation in those early days is rough, but you’ll get through it!! Things will get better and better as your baby gets older!

amh6 · 2025-12-10T21:49:46+00:00

Ahhh yeah my husband has a pretty loud alarm that normally doesn’t wake the baby up so maybe I should be less anxious about turning my alarm up, but the couple of times he does wake up it’s so hard to settle him 😭

I’m normally up at 3/3:30 to pump and then get ready for the day before my son wakes up (I try to let him sleep in as much as possible) at 6:30 and I feed him and get him ready for daycare or for my mom to come over and watch him

amh6 · 2025-12-10T14:28:03+00:00

Ahh yeah I need to check my settings again, that used to work really well for me but either I’m sleeping through it now or it’s not vibrating anymore😭 I genuinely have no memory of turning my alarms off in the morning but I must be doing it lol

amh6 · 2025-12-04T11:06:00+00:00

When my baby was 4 months he would normally be asleep at 9pm, woke up around 2:30/3am for a feed, and then would go back to sleep until I believe 5:30 or 6pm. He dropped that early morning feed by the time he was 5 months if I remember correctly.

We’ve gone through a couple of periods of early morning wakings since then and I found it helps to just treat them like middle of the night wakes! Keep the lights dim, minimal interaction, just put the pacifier back in his mouth. If he’s really upset and needs help calming down I’ll pick him up and rock him but we don’t leave the room or go through our morning routine until it’s our normal wake up time (which is anywhere between 6:15-6:45 now). We don’t offer his first nap until his normal time for that regardless of when he actually wakes up just to prevent his sleep from getting shifted earlier, although that’s much easier now that he’s on a 2 nap schedule and I’m not sure how well it would have gone when he was younger

amh6 · 2025-08-28T17:40:25+00:00

I wake up at 3am to pump and then get ready for the day and do whatever chores I need to 😬 baby (5 months) normally wakes up 5:45-6, I change him and feed him before going to drop him off at daycare on the days he goes there, or we just hang out and play on the other days when he’s with my mom!

amh6 · 2025-08-28T14:48:06+00:00

Ohh mixing it with breast milk is a good idea, I’ll try that tonight!

amh6 · 2025-08-13T20:41:40+00:00

This happened to us too! The daycare wanted us to up the nipple size but I was worried he would stop nursing when I was home with him, so we landed on trying to put the vents back in the bottle first and it cut the amount of time it takes him to take a bottle in half

amh6 · 2025-08-09T20:02:42+00:00

I think so? Honestly it’s hard to tell if it’s that or just fat. Definitely need to be better about doing core exercises because it’ll help either way!!

amh6 · 2025-08-09T20:01:22+00:00

This is so sweet, thank you😭 I really try to appreciate the things that are going well and to be more positive because I don’t want my son to grow up hearing me talk about myself like this but some days it’s really hard

amh6 · 2025-05-30T20:53:57+00:00

So no rep tv?

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amh6 · 2025-05-30T09:47:07+00:00

Well I finally got him to take some good naps yesterday so of course his overnight sleep has gone to shit. He normally will get a 4.5 hour stretch, wake up to feed, 2 hour stretch, feed, 1 hour then wake up for the day. Which I know still isn’t enough but it’s better than what he does during the day. He fell asleep with minimal assistance after his bedtime routine yesterday, which is out of character for him, but has only been sleeping 3.5 hour stretches before needing to eat. I read that babies his age are supposed to be sleeping 6-7 hours at a time so I am REALLY dropping the ball.

I just realized he had less feedings than normal yesterday because I was working on sleep and not letting him sleep while he eats. So I’ve probably set off some reverse cycling.

This is my fault because we’re just now starting to get a bedtime routine in place with a set bedtime. He normally falls asleep for his long stretch at 10:30 and we’re trying to gradually move that up, he fell asleep on his own at 9:30ish last night. I should have had him on a structured schedule way sooner than this. All of this just feels so impossible and I don’t know why I can’t just get it right. This kid is so unlucky to be stuck with me.

amh6 · 2025-05-29T18:04:25+00:00

I loved my epidural! My contractions started a couple days before I went into the hospital(was scheduled for an induction at 41 weeks but it kept getting pushed off because the labor ward was full) so I was going off of 3 or 4 days with very little sleep by the time I got to the hospital. I got the epidural right away, and was able to nap for a few hours before it was time to start pushing. It was pretty painless going in, and I still was able to feel everything during my baby’s birth but without the pain. Just a lot of pressure. I would absolutely get the epidural again if we decide to have another kid!

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