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[Az-iz]

1. Try to burp him more than once (helps with gas)
2. rub his tummy, do leg exercises gently to push out gas
3. Put cereal in the bottle with breast milk (dr. is going to say no your Mom will say YES!) he could be hungry babies sleep longer when they are full
4. He can't have peaches or anything yet huh?
5. make sure he's not teething that can be a major sleep issue
6. Usually when baby sleeps with mom on his back next to her he will sleep longer
7. He should take two naps a day at this age, wake him up very early 6am and keep him up intil 10-11am. that should be his long nap. Let him take a short one at 4Pm only like 30 minutes. then to bed at 8PM. Make him stay up until these times and go for a long drive to put him to sleep
8. Plenty of activity time during awake periods.
Good luck when he gets on solid foods you will get more sleep but as soon as he is mobile you will have a whole different set of problems

 

[drunkaholic707]

 

[Sydal]

The only thing that doesn't. Sound right is the bedtime.....he might be going to be too early, or you too late depending on how you wanna look at it

I agree. I work at night though, so I'm not home for bedtime...and his mom puts him to bed at 9. When I'm home, I try to keep him awake until about 11...then he sleeps 'til 5 or so.

My girl and her parents never listen to me, even when hella people tell them the same shit. That's why I can't wait for escrow to close on my crib so we can get the fuck out of here, and nobody runs the show but her and I...but right now it's 3 against 1 and she tends to listen to her mom (regardless of how full of shit she is).

 

[Irishmutt]

First thing i got to ask is your baby on formula or breast milk. because after going thru a rough start and finding out my kids were allergic to milk switched to soy and all was good.

after that heres is what i got. three kids two boys and a girl. the advice i can give you is to keep them stimulated. at these early stages that tires them out. even though my daughter cant talk yet i still go home and strike up a conversation by asking her how her day was and what not. I play around on the floor when i get home from work with my kids and try and give each one a piece of my time.

i give my daughter who is 10 months old a bottle at 930 at night and she sleeps until around 830 900 the next morning. and this worked with the boys the same way before. unless they are really cranky and hard to get along with i try to keep my kids awake all day. i think this is why when i put her down at night she sleeps so long.

these same things that i do with my daughter i did with my two sons and each of them worked out about the same except for my early riser son who still gets up at 530 in the morning to give hugs as i am walking out the door to work.

 

[Irishmutt]

Doc didn't say he's colicky, just gassy. Dude's farts sound like a grown man...lol.

He sleeps in his crib between 9 and 12:30, but after that he's not havin' it, so he sleeps on his mom's chest usually from about 2 AM on...

you might want to look into using formula because my kids were all really gassy until we found the right formula and the first like 6 or 7 months our babies slept between my wife and I and i think that really helped out as well because i am a damn heater and they would be right up against me all snugged in warm as fuck happier than a pig in slop

 

[mExIcaNox4]

my lil girl she's 7.5 months....what i do when she doesnt wanna sleep or is frustrated is i take her on a 1 hour walk...that usually puts her to sleep....use pacifiers at night too

 

[Irishmutt]

as far as the rice cereal thing do you mix the breast milk in with it give him a flavor he already knows and later down the road you can add the fruits like bannanas and apples that are safe

 

[Sydal]

First thing i got to ask is your baby on formula or breast milk. because after going thru a rough start and finding out my kids were allergic to milk switched to soy and all was good.

after that heres is what i got. three kids two boys and a girl. the advice i can give you is to keep them stimulated. at these early stages that tires them out. even though my daughter cant talk yet i still go home and strike up a conversation by asking her how her day was and what not. I play around on the floor when i get home from work with my kids and try and give each one a piece of my time.

i give my daughter who is 10 months old a bottle at 930 at night and she sleeps until around 830 900 the next morning. and this worked with the boys the same way before. unless they are really cranky and hard to get along with i try to keep my kids awake all day. i think this is why when i put her down at night she sleeps so long.

these same things that i do with my daughter i did with my two sons and each of them worked out about the same except for my early riser son who still gets up at 530 in the morning to give hugs as i am walking out the door to work.

He's breast fed, which is most likely why he's so gassy.

I talk to him and play with him as long as I'm at the house. Even when I'm doing homework or whatever, I'll sit on the floor next to him, write a paper, and talk to him. Everybody else will talk to him, but they pass him on to each other, and he eventually ends up in his swing or on the floor pissed off by himself when I'm not home.

My girl only feeds him on one side at night...she says "I'm tiiiiired"....I say, "Welcome to parenthood, now give him the other side". My chick is very selfish when it comes to sleep. She'll wake up and take him to somebody else, then go back to sleep. I sleep like 3 or 4 hours (if that) a night, but when he's up for the day I'm UP!

I know when I'm at work, she'll let him lay on the floor while she plays games on her laptop and texts people (which is why I'm about to break her laptop and her phone). So, if she gets her head in the game, I'm sure he'll sleep. But for now, I'm the only one that keeps him excited, which is probably why I'm the only one who can get him to calm down. And since I'm not home 5 nights out of the week, I know he wakes up because he's not getting that necessary stimulation from anybody.

 

[Simpaticone1]

Doc didn't say he's colicky, just gassy. Dude's farts sound like a grown man...lol.

He sleeps in his crib between 9 and 12:30, but after that he's not havin' it, so he sleeps on his mom's chest usually from about 2 AM on...

TAKE IT ALL IN , HE'LL BE IN HIGH SCHOOL BEFORE YOU KNOW IT - IT WILL PASS & BE A GREAT STORY TO TELL HIS FIRST GIRLFRIEND ........ LOLOL

 

[radiostationrep]

A teaspoon of nyquil will do wonders, so I have heard!

 

[DFresh77]

Welcome to parenthood brother! Good thing I didn't go through the same thing, my daughter as a newborn was a good baby. Was up for a good 6-7 hours a day and at night she'd sleep and I remember she'd only wake up around 2-3am and then back to sleep and wake up at 5-6am...

you have to train your son to sleep tho, try waking him up early in the AM...have him go back to sleep around 11am ..wake him up at 12pm ...try to keep him up till 5-6pm..let him sleep for another 2 hours...wake him up again...he should go back to sleep around 10-11pm and wake up around 3-4am hungry....that's all you need to do..train him with a schedule!

 

[Irishmutt]

He's breast fed, which is most likely why he's so gassy.

I talk to him and play with him as long as I'm at the house. Even when I'm doing homework or whatever, I'll sit on the floor next to him, write a paper, and talk to him. Everybody else will talk to him, but they pass him on to each other, and he eventually ends up in his swing or on the floor pissed off by himself when I'm not home.

My girl only feeds him on one side at night...she says "I'm tiiiiired"....I say, "Welcome to parenthood, now give him the other side". My chick is very selfish when it comes to sleep. She'll wake up and take him to somebody else, then go back to sleep. I sleep like 3 or 4 hours (if that) a night, but when he's up for the day I'm UP!

I know when I'm at work, she'll let him lay on the floor while she plays games on her laptop and texts people (which is why I'm about to break her laptop and her phone). So, if she gets her head in the game, I'm sure he'll sleep. But for now, I'm the only one that keeps him excited, which is probably why I'm the only one who can get him to calm down. And since I'm not home 5 nights out of the week, I know he wakes up because he's not getting that necessary stimulation from anybody.

that constant stimulation through out the day is key. even if you have to go get him one of those balls that has flashing lights and rolls around on its own. keeping him stimulated will keep him from having that anxious feeling all the time. if you had one of those toys or something like it put him in a play pen to keep him safe and stimulated that could help out.

the most important thing is you have to stand up and tell your baby mama that she needs to get on the team and become a part of the solution instead of the problem. i gave my wife the recovery time after the babies were born even taking time off of work so she could relax but then the time comes where she needs to handle her motherly duties. maybe like i said before find a formula he likes to give her that break so she can pick up the slack elsewhere and not make feeding feel like it is a chore instead of a blessing. and brother i fully agree with that breaking the computer and phone comment that sht just brings more drama into a relationship

 

[Irishmutt]

Welcome to parenthood brother! Good thing I didn't go through the same thing, my daughter as a newborn was a good baby. Was up for a good 6-7 hours a day and at night she'd sleep and I remember she'd only wake up around 2-3am and then back to sleep and wake up at 5-6am...

you have to train your son to sleep tho, try waking him up early in the AM...have him go back to sleep around 11am ..wake him up at 12pm ...try to keep him up till 5-6pm..let him sleep for another 2 hours...wake him up again...he should go back to sleep around 10-11pm and wake up around 3-4am hungry....that's all you need to do..train him with a schedule!

i agree with this comment about training them for a sleep schedule thats exactly what i was getting at in my first post

 

[Sydal]

that constant stimulation through out the day is key. even if you have to go get him one of those balls that has flashing lights and rolls around on its own. keeping him stimulated will keep him from having that anxious feeling all the time. if you had one of those toys or something like it put him in a play pen to keep him safe and stimulated that could help out.

the most important thing is you have to stand up and tell your baby mama that she needs to get on the team and become a part of the solution instead of the problem. i gave my wife the recovery time after the babies were born even taking time off of work so she could relax but then the time comes where she needs to handle her motherly duties. maybe like i said before find a formula he likes to give her that break so she can pick up the slack elsewhere and not make feeding feel like it is a chore instead of a blessing. and brother i fully agree with that breaking the computer and phone comment that sht just brings more drama into a relationship

Yea man, we got formula for him so now we just have to get it goin'. He has plenty of pumped milk in the freezer too, but we try to save that for when she's at work during the day.

And believe me, I've had words with her about her being "tired". When the baby was born, I only had 4 days off work...and at that point I was going to work at 4:45 in the morning, plus school @ 6. So, I was putting in a good 18 hours/day (and waking up every 2 hours when he did). So I was telling her "You're not even really doing the whole parent thing yet...you have no idea what tired is."

And that comp and phone...especially the phone. I'm about to use that damn blackberry as a ball at the driving range. We don't have a whole lot of time together as a family because we have completely different schedules, so when we do, and she's texting and sending BBM's, I bite her head off. I told her to tell her friends to fuck off unless they are involved in the activities of the day, because family time is family time...and I can't stand when the baby wants attention and she's sitting there going back and forth on her cell phone.

When my dad sees her doing that shit when we visit, he gets the same way. He'll be like, "You have a different life now...set your priorities." But she doesn't listen to anybody.

 

[WT SAVAGE]

i got lucky, both my kids slept 12 hours and took naps.

 

[Gueroloco]

he is a newborn, Sydal & thats what babies do... My son was the exact same way, but it all turned around after a year or so.

Exactly..... Thats how my son was his 1st couple of months..... NOW at 6 and half months lil dude sleeps allllll night! IF NOT HERES YOUR REMEDY LOL:

jk:knockout:

 

[MRTHECOSE]

STIMULATION, ROUTINE,CRYING-SUM TIMES YOU GOTTA LET THEN CRY, FORMULA OR BREAST MILK COULD BE ALLERGIC. TRY USING THOSE MUSIC PLAYERS/PROJECTORS. OCEAN MUSIC (LOUDLY) REPLICATES SOUND IN WOMB.TRY PUTTING HIM TO BED AFTER A BATH EVERRYNIGHT...

 

[Irishmutt]

STIMULATION, ROUTINE,CRYING-SUM TIMES YOU GOTTA LET THEN CRY, FORMULA OR BREAST MILK COULD BE ALLERGIC. TRY USING THOSE MUSIC PLAYERS/PROJECTORS. OCEAN MUSIC (LOUDLY) REPLICATES SOUND IN WOMB.TRY PUTTING HIM TO BED AFTER A BATH EVERRYNIGHT...

forgot to add the bath thing in there too theres that baby wash that supposively helps soothe the baby making it easier for them to sleep

 

[BAMMER]

The bath works best in my opinion.Then give him a bottle that's a lil more warmer.Its just one of those trial by error situations,but for me its always been that the baby has either shit,pissed,is hungry,or gassy.its always been something simple.I been blessed though,my kid sleeps from 9pm to 6am for a quick feed,then he goes until 9am.

 

[Sydal]

Damn, some of you cats are lucky as fuck...lol.

Thank you all for the ideas. Couple things we haven't tried yet, so we'll see how it pans out. My kid is so damn alert though, so I have a feeling curiosity is playing a big role here.