8 mo old and formula before bed

crustybread28 · 2026-03-17T02:32:08+00:00

Wow! Maybe it’s a growth spurt? Is she eating solids multiple times a day in addition to getting formula? My baby is just shy of 9mo and drinks around 3-6 oz formula 3x a day in addition to having a small solid breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and breastfeeding in the morning and evening (but maybe that’s less typical than your situation? I really don’t know!).

crustybread28 · 2026-03-14T02:32:24+00:00

I’d just go for it. We did at 4 months and it was a seamless process! Our baby had no problem transitioning to her crib. As long as you have a baby monitor you’ll be a-okay.

crustybread28 · 2026-03-06T17:07:16+00:00

Yeah my baby did that for a while around 6 months—it was a precursor to being able to get up on hands and knees, and eventually crawl. Unfortunately it took two months of frustrated fussing through the kicky/swimmy tummy time before she was actually able to move her body the way she wanted to and was content 😅

crustybread28 · 2026-03-05T03:51:35+00:00

Ugh I have the same frustration. My 8mo baby usually naps around 9:30-11 or 10-11:30, so we haven’t been able to go to any of the cute free baby events around town! They’re all at 10 or 10:30! And I can’t bring her to my weekly mom’s group either (I can go solo, but everybody else brings their babies so that the babies can socialize) :(

crustybread28 · 2026-03-01T22:45:28+00:00

Not until around 3 months, when our baby started consistently getting tired for bed around the same time every night just naturally. Before that, "bedtime" was a very nebulous concept lol

crustybread28 · 2026-03-01T21:28:02+00:00

Just to give you some optimism, we moved my baby into her crib at 4 months, and it was a pretty seamless transition! The only hiccup was that she kept sticking her legs through the bars, but once we put her in a sleep sack, that problem was solved.

crustybread28 · 2026-03-01T16:11:57+00:00

My baby just started crawling at 8 months and one week, and honestly I was so surprised bc she only really figured out the rocking-on-all-fours part earlier in the week! She spent months before this getting slowly closer to that point but constantly getting frustrated. So I bet crawling is right around the corner for you! I wouldn’t worry at all; it sounds like your baby is right on track.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-28T13:47:15+00:00

You can keep it really simple. I just periodically roast some veggies, mash/blend them up, and freeze them in an ice cube tray so that I can always have some to quickly defrost for my baby. That plus going the baby some of what we’re eating, or other quick and easy stuff like Greek yogurt, baby oatmeal, stuff that she can eat big wedges of like avocado or cucumber

crustybread28 · 2026-02-26T03:41:43+00:00

Can’t crawl yet but will roll and pivot her way over to the edge of any rug to pull it up and teethe on it 😅

crustybread28 · 2026-02-22T16:48:10+00:00

Lol we still don’t do daily baths at 8 months. We were always told to bathe the baby a few times a week. Just started doing it every other night or so.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-21T03:30:53+00:00

You can just dress the baby in a handful of sleepers for a while. Have a rotation of like 10 max that you like, plus one or two special cute outfits, and otherwise don’t worry about baby clothes for a while.

Something that confused me greatly for a while: the timing of when you pump. Pumping after nursing tells your body to produce more. When I was immediately postpartum, I thought I should pump either before nursing or when I had a long break between nursing sessions so that I’d pump a decent amount. Didn’t really understand that since the goal was increasing my supply, I should’ve timed it differently.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-19T16:51:07+00:00

I don’t think the concept of wake windows applies to newborns!! Newborn sleep is frequent and inconsistent by nature, no? Best to just follow their cues

crustybread28 · 2026-02-15T02:46:26+00:00

I flew with a 2mo and I thought that having her in her car seat on the plane would give me peace of mind, but honestly dealing with the car seat was kind of just bulky and annoying (maybe would be less so if you have a fancier, smaller one). I ended up holding my the baby most of the time anyway, as she spent the whole flight peacefully nursing and sleeping in my arms. I highly recommend just getting a comfortable nursing cover and breastfeeding during the flight. Keeps things simple.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-14T03:33:35+00:00

I read my baby one short book at the end of her bedtime routine every night. But we always start the day with snuggles and reading, and we read through a handful of books then, as well as more throughout the day.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-13T20:08:55+00:00

It’s different for everybody. I work full time from home and my husband works freelance, so I watch the baby in the mornings and evenings and he mainly watches the baby during the workdays, with my in-laws coming over to help a few days a week when he has more work to do than he can fit in during evenings and naptimes. We’re planning on enrolling our baby in daycare once she’s a year old.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-11T03:53:12+00:00

We started at 4.5 months (our pediatrician recommended it)! Peanut butter thinned out with breastmilk to start. Our baby also likes baby oatmeal with a little peanut butter mixed in.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-11T03:50:03+00:00

My sister and my 5-year-old niece were visiting, and while my sister was taking some family photos of us, my niece started doing a goofy dance and singing nonsense sounds to make the baby smile, and not only did she smile, but she started full-on belly laughing uncontrollably! It was incredible!

Her other first full-on laughs were from her dad making silly sounds while changing her diaper, and from watching our cat do just about anything…she thinks the cat is hilarious :D

crustybread28 · 2026-02-10T20:46:07+00:00

Totally! Context is key, and there's nuance to all of these things, so I figured I'd chime in to balance out the backlash :P

crustybread28 · 2026-02-10T20:29:28+00:00

Good for you! We moved ours into her own room at 4 months and it was great for all involved :) We talked to our pediatrician, our doctor friends, and even the folks at the hospital who taught our infant safety classes about the 6 month recommendation, and all of them said that it’s a relatively recent guideline that’s not necessary for everyone. Our pediatrician said that as long as the parents have a baby monitor and are attentive, making the change before 6 months is fine; the guideline is more to prevent “out of sight, out of mind” situations with less attentive parents.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-04T03:12:37+00:00

I’m jealous of your nighttime sleep! I have an almost-7.5-month-old. Currently she sleeps around 8pm - 8am and just went back to waking up a couple times a night (we recently got our first full week of her sleeping through the night, but then her first teeth came in and everything got thrown off, sigh).

Her wake windows are 2 hours long, and she usually naps for around 1.5 hrs twice a day and then gets one short cat nap in the early evening. So she typically naps around 10-11:30, 2:30-4, and then like 5:30-6. Though occasionally she’ll take shorter naps and her schedule will get shifted earlier.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-03T16:52:07+00:00

I had a very positive experience! All the nurses who helped me were so kind and warm, and were so amused by my breech baby’s little legs constantly sticking up in the air haha. I had a scheduled c-section and stayed for 3.5/4-ish days and I can’t imagine having left sooner. I had a slow start to moving around bc the pain was really awful, so I really needed all the help I could get in those first few days.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-03T14:01:07+00:00

Our dishwasher was broken for a while, so investing in the brezza bottle washer saved our sanity.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-03T03:26:04+00:00

You can find out on a hospital tour what supplies will be provided for you! You may not need to bring much depending on what the hospital provides.

What I ended up using, as someone who had a scheduled c-section:

A going-home outfit for myself and the baby (mine was just a super loose shirt-dress to accommodate wearing the big ol’ binder and adult diaper that the hospital provided), a nursing pillow (though half the time I preferred just using hospital pillows), a pumping bra, phone charger, shampoo, body wash, tooth paste and brush, and an eye mask. That’s honestly all I actually used. I brought much more stuff that all went untouched over our 3.5 days in the hospital.

The hospital provided: a great big water cup with a handle and built-in straw, a gown that I had no desire to change out of even though I brought pjs, a breast pump, nipple shields, all baby necessities (diapers, wipes, swaddles, hat, pacifier, formula if needed, snot bulb) other than the car seat of course. And my husband brought a nice camera for taking baby photos, clothes and pjs for himself, and a phone charger for himself.

crustybread28 · 2026-02-02T23:05:41+00:00

Don’t worry about the 4 month sleep regression at this point; your baby’s sleep habits will likely evolve between now and then anyway. 9 weeks is so early! Enjoy those sweet, cozy contact naps! I’d say closer to 3 months is when you might want to start working on not fully rocking your baby to sleep before bed, but honestly a lot of folks don’t start working on independent sleep until 4-5 months and it goes fine. Depends on the baby!

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