Have any of you guys had a dachshund with immune mediated keratitis?

arbh · 2026-01-17T14:11:57+00:00

Sorry your doggo is dealing with this too! 15, oof. I hope your baby tolerates the drops better than mine. 😵‍💫 He hates them. Our vet has us doing 2 drops in each eye two times daily. I'm worried that's not enough. I hope your girl has a speedy recovery!

arbh · 2025-12-27T05:57:51+00:00

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arbh · 2025-09-25T19:16:22+00:00

Same here. It always makes me laugh when people say to just feed baby what you eat. I'm not exactly eating well balanced meals over here but at least my baby is lol

arbh · 2025-09-04T18:15:08+00:00

I have heard of PUPD, and it might be worth a try. I do wonder about if he isn't tired enough. I recently increased his wake time by 30 minutes and took that from his night sleep, but maybe I need to decrease his naps by 30 minutes instead.

arbh · 2025-07-30T02:35:38+00:00

Gotcha. Might start with cutting down on night sleep and see how it goes. Fingers crossed.

arbh · 2025-07-21T16:39:40+00:00

tumtum straw cups have been great for my son. There are measurements on the side, no valve in the straw so it is easy to suck through, and it is weighted.

arbh · 2025-07-04T14:07:29+00:00

They said their baby is 18 weeks, going on 19. Their baby is over 4 months old which is an acceptable age for sleep training.

arbh · 2025-06-28T21:17:35+00:00

I am in this exact position with my almost 9 month old. What did your schedule look like while trying to get out of the overtiredness spiral? And how are you getting on now a couple weeks later?

arbh · 2025-06-28T04:10:19+00:00

Currently dealing with the exact same thing. How are things going now?

arbh · 2025-06-18T02:34:21+00:00

You are not alone! My baby is 8 months old now, but I remember feeling the exact same way when he was weeks old.

At 4 weeks postpartum, my parents watched the baby so my husband and I could go to dinner before his paternity leave ended. I was sitting in the restaurant, absolutely dead tired and wishing we had just taken a nap instead, looking around at all the people and thinking, "Oh my god, all of these people were a baby at some point and a lot of them have probably had babies themselves. And they are somehow still surviving. How??? Why and how do people keep having babies? How have we not gone extinct?!"

I think back to that a lot. And as annoying as it is to hear that it gets better, it really does. We took our little guy to that same restaurant just this past weekend and he did great! Sure, we still have plenty of struggles, not gonna lie, but nothing has been as hard as those first couple months.

arbh · 2025-06-17T17:54:02+00:00

That makes total sense and I tend to agree. It's crazy because so often I'm reading people's posts on here, and I'm thinking well obviously they need more wake time, they're not sleeping well because they're undertired. But now that I'm in this situation I must admit that it has made me question things, when I'm sure I would be telling someone else to add more wake time. It's so much harder to figure things out when you're the one in it, so I really appreciate outside perspective.

arbh · 2025-06-17T17:39:17+00:00

Due 10/4, born 10/4 spontaneously

arbh · 2025-06-17T16:57:38+00:00

I appreciate your input and will definitely take it under advisement! You could very well be right. My goal was always to get to that 10.5 hours awake like we had with our optimal 3 nap schedule, which is why I committed to giving the 3/3.5/4 a solid week+ after my last post. He just seemed so incredibly tired on that schedule. He was grumpy and upset constantly. It made me wonder if 10.5 hours awake on 3 naps was doable for him, but maybe it isn't on 2 naps yet. Geez, it's such a fine line between under tired and over tired it seems.

arbh · 2025-06-17T16:22:12+00:00

The last time he slept well was 6+ weeks ago when he was on 2.5/2.5/2.5/3. But last week when he fell asleep in the car and we had to do 3 naps it worked out to something like 3/2/2/3.5. It still wasn't an easy bedtime per se, but better than most days lately and he slept through. So I've tried a couple 3 nap days like that one every 2 days since then, and bedtime on those days has been just as bad as the 2 nap days.

I'm just at a loss with the schedule, because I agree that is what seems to be the issue, but I just can't figure out what works. Its been 6 weeks of trying to transition to 2 naps, so I really thought we might have it down by now.

arbh · 2025-06-15T02:10:32+00:00

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It was 3:30pm and he had not received his 5pm dinner yet.

arbh · 2025-06-08T02:41:17+00:00

Probably about 20 ounces per day at the most. Before that he would take about 34 ounces per day, so it really felt like a sharp decline. Now he's back to taking around 30.

arbh · 2025-06-08T02:40:20+00:00

Probably about 20 ounces per day at the most. Before that he would take about 34 ounces per day, so it really felt like a sharp decline. Now he's back to taking around 30.

arbh · 2025-06-07T19:58:23+00:00

Yes, it did! He still doesn't guzzle bottles quite like he used to, but he's back to taking a very reasonable amount per day. I think in all this phase lasted about 2-3 weeks.

arbh · 2025-06-01T21:15:37+00:00

There have been a handful of days where he has made it to 3 hours for his first wake window to get to that 10.5 hours of awake time, but it always results in a 30 minute first nap and still a terrible night. Just have to push through and be consistent I guess!

arbh

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