We had a great routine going for a while. We all wake up between 530-6am. Finn and I play, eat breakfast, make a sack lunch, clean up the house and take a shower. I then give him a bottle and put him in bed at 8:30 and he is alseep by 8:45 which gives me 15 minutes to get any last minute things done and out the door to work.
By the time Finn wakes up (10:00 ish), Nick has had a full 4 hours of alone time to work. Once Finn is awake, they play, take Inca for a run, do some housework, eat lunch and then run errands. Nick waits to make all his important phone calls until after the errands when Finn is alseep in the car (what a smart Dad!).
At 4pm, Finn is awake and spends the next hour playing in Nick's office while Nick alternates between work and keeping the little artist from escaping (deck stairs are a challenge that he simply cannot resist). I come home at 5pm, grab Finn, feed him while I make an adult dinner, Nick and I eat and then we wash the dishes in one side of the sink while Finn has his bath in the other. Then bottle-blanket-bed at 6:30 or 7pm, depending on how tired Finn is.
Unfortunately, we haven't managed a good nighttime routine yet. He still wakes up 2-3 times a night for food, of which maybe he puts himself back to sleep once. The other two times he will down a huge bottle in seconds and go straight back to sleep. We have been considering the cry-it-out method but parental intuition tells us he is a high-metabolism kid who is highly active and just gets starving at night. He isn't looking for attention or cuddles, just the bottle. We try to carbo-load him during the day so he needs less at night, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Any suggestions?
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Have you tried adding cereal to his last bottle? Andre had a huge appetite as well and adding more to his last bottle and the middle of the night bottles might help. Although I see this is posting was Sept 15, perhaps it is no longer a problem! : )
ReplyDeleteLove, Auntie Jan