Baby, go to sleep, damn it! And learn to sit, too, while you're at it.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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As an aside, can I just say that I love all babies now? Before we had our own, I liked babies. Mmm, cute. But now I feel like I understand them. I’m on their page. I see a baby and I think, “Hey there little guy, I’m down with you. Keep on keepin’ on.” They ALL make me happy and ALL make me smile.

As another aside, all Doper parents should post some pictures of their babies. Because, let me tell you, it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy to have a bunch of people tell you how cute your baby is. And since ALL babies are cute in their own little baby ways, it’s a love fest!

Has there been a baby picture thread before? A quick search reveals none.

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Heh, my family is strange, see…

I’m in Switzerland.

They’re in Spain.

They have a digital camera.

And a printer.

Which both Lilbro and myself have used to print pics: I taught Lilbro how to prepare the settings and now he can do it in any photo-capable printer, but Middlebro, aka the Proud Daddy, didn’t want to hear it.

So they go to “reveal the pictures” at a photo store, which makes them wait 24h for the printouts and CD and doesn’t even get the red eye out.

And instead of emailing/skyping me some of the files (which Mom, who hadn’t used a computer until four months ago except for a course, does), they only send me printouts which I then… scan :smack:

Mom says there’s a package in the mail including some toddler pics :smiley: which I intend to torture y’all with, although my baby is definitely not as cute as your baby, Stairs

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I wouldn’t worry about the night time waking at all. Our little one is 13 months and was sleeping through the night from four months until around 10 months. Now she wakes up at least once a night, and lately twice a night. I have been informed this morning that I will have to start waking up and taking care of her at least once a night now. Sabina is still being nursed so I can’t do much about that, but I think I will try and see if she will just fall back asleep.

As for the sitting, I think Sabina would sit, if you put her there, around 6 months. Then the day she turned 8 months she sat up by herself, while I was trying to change a diaper. That night she sat up in bed and started screaming because she didn’t know what to do after she sat up. Be glad he’s not sitting up, then they always want to do it.

She also hasn’t shown any signs of wanting to walk. She loves to stand, but she seems to be happy crawling around on the floor. She’ll cruise around the couch but that’s about it. I’m not too worried as she’s fast enough on all fours, what will she be like on just two?

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I was just telling my sister yesterday that having a baby is the most wonderful thing ever, coupled with the scariest most worrisome thing ever.

Funny thing on sleeping thru the night… my little girl didn’t sleep through the night until about 5 months old. That was when her Dr. told me to stop feeding her after 10pm. I would always try and feed her late hoping it would hold through the night. But instead I was putting food in her belly that would just make her gasy after she feel asleep again! That late you can’t usually get a good burp outta of em, so I would feed her, and about 4-6 hours later, she was up again.

the very day I stopped feeding her late, she slept through the night and has done so since (shes over a year now). now of course she does wakeup from time to time, for teething, really wet diapers… what have you. but 99% shes a good sleeper.

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I’ve been a mama a long time and before that I was an older sister to twins. I’ve seen it all when it comes to eating, sleeping, pooping, crawling, etc. Very little phases me. Unless alarm bells go off that there seems to be a serious cognitive problem (seen that too), I let the little ones progress at their own pace. My daughter, now 12, didn’t sleep through the night until she was 3. I got up, patted her little back, sat there a minute, went back to sleep. I got less sleep, but hey, I caught up later. It didn’t cause me undue stress. I drank a lot of coffee.

My youngest is now 2. You want Cute Baby Pictures?? Many of you have seen this shot before; hold your YOUR SON IS JUST A DISEMBODIED HEAD comments to the end, please. :smiley: Mama and her Cherry boys

Here is little Cherry baby today. Talk about blinded by cuteness! :wink: Please keees me

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Okay, my all-purpose parenting advice out of the way first - STOP READING BOOKS ABOUT BABIES! I personally believe they’re put out by the anti-anxiety meds people.

Anyway, the marvelous 2nd Grade Caricci rolled once at 4 mos. and never again till 10 mos. He’s quite above average now - some might even call him spectacular - so don’t worry about Charlie’s development.

As for the sleeping thing - feed him, put him in your bed and get some rest already. If you want, I’ll send my stepmother, the famous Grammy Joan, and she’ll sneak him a slightly broken into pieces happy meal behind your back and he’ll sleep for 12 hours.

Before you know it, Charlie will be this big and you won’t even remember all this worry.

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My daughter (Future Ruler of the Free World and Benevolent Dictator) has stoutly refused to sleep through the night. She was on every 2 hour feedings her first 6 months. She was 4 months old before her first 4 hour stretch (I thought she was dead). She has never been able to eat a bottle more than 4 ounces. I was told to start her on solids because at 3 months she was eating well over 40 ounces a day.

I am currently trying to wean my husband off the bottle now that our daughter is 18 months old, heck, I’ve been trying to wean him for longer, but boy is he stubborn.

We do a pre-emptive feeding at 1am. If we make sure she gets a bottle then, she usually will sleep through the night. The funny thing is, we know it is just habit on her part and NOT hunger because after that 1am feeding, she won’t be hungry again until about 10:30 am. Then of course, she eats like a little piggy all day.

I heard about making the night meals water, I tried it for a while, but since my daughter was such a small meal eater, I figured I’d work around her as best I could.

It makes sense that if he doesn’t eat much at a time, he eats more often. Think of him as little starving college student, he isn’t gonna turn away a free meal.

I’m currently in a panic because my daughter really isn’t trying to talk yet. Well, not in our language any way. She is outgoing, vivacious, smart, funny, happy, active, willful and mischievious. Talkin’? Nah. Since I say all I am is arm, legs and mouth, it bothers me, but I have had 18 months of people saying “babies do what they want, when they want, you can’t force 'em” to quell my nervousness.

If there is anything I have learned in this last 18 months and 3 days, is that the babies definitely do NOT read the books we read. If this is the worst way he ever defies your will, you will be very thankful in about 15 years. :slight_smile:

Mushy Mom Note: My daughter has really started cuddling and hugging. She has started doing the Mommy-legs grab, which damn near makes me cry every time. She has been walking up to me with a big grin and sitting on my lap like it is the best place in the whole wide world to sit. Mommy can fix stuff and Mommy rocks. She has been a Daddy’s girl since birth and very independent, so it is nice to get a cuddly lap baby.

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My son just turned 13, so my memories of his being a 7 month old are fading. I apologize for not having any advice. I do recall, however, when he started crawling/climbing.

A couple of incidents come to mind:

The “Who took the stick of butter from the kitchen table?” mystery, and the ever-popular “How the hell did he end up behind the recliner with the pancake syrup?”.

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Ok, I blew my editing time on looking at baby pics.

I have your answer Spiral. It will definitely cure the problem. No fuss, no muss and you can sleep through the night with ease!

GIVE ME THAT BABY! He’s adorable! I’m already sleep deprived and worried to death, what’s a little more? Send him over, I’ll let ya have him back when he can back-talk. :slight_smile:

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I forgot to mention it also. Baby Charlie is one cute little guy. And I am not one for babies. Ellen Cherry knows how I feel about the littlest Cherry already.

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Inject him with HGH.