I am just going to put these out there - some of them are related, others are not. DD2 is a perfectly healthy, happy, almost crawling, grinning, smiling, waving, clapping, chirping baby. BUT.
- she is breastfed and she is a biter. We have tried her on formula but (1) she won't drink much of it leading to reverse cycling and (2) it makes her constipated and uncomfortable which doesn't help with
- she will not sleep in her cot - or at least she will for naps, but not for the night, so she ends up in with us thrashing about and helping herself to milk (and biting)
- she tends to feed to sleep and cannot self-settle
- we did try just leaving her to it, letting her cry and picking her up from time to time, but she cried for three hours and didn't go to sleep. This was worse than having her in bed with us.
these things are getting worse rather than better (at about 6 months she was in cot all night, waking briefly for one feed at about 3).
My poor DP (who is doing all the feeding etc) is in the slough of despond and I feel powerless to help her. What we would like to get to is
- baby sleeping in cot
- it's ok for her to wake to feed once or twice, as long as she settles back
I don't know exactly what she weighs, but she isn't tiny (bigger at this age than dd1) she eats fairly ok (when not drinking formula) and really doesn't need more than one feed in the night, surely?
Despite being a much trickier baby dd1 was sleeping through pretty much at this point (I know this because I remember that DP went away for a weekend in November, when dd1 would have been 9-10 months old - no way could that happen with this baby!!)