in the end we switched to this, about $10 cheaper and just as good.

Switched to a PC brand organic formula that my wife researched, no corn syrup as sweetener. Seems to be working pretty well.

It will be nice to spend a fraction of what we spent on formula going forward.

oh damn...I should just forward her this thread.

That's the one

oh damn...I should just forward her this thread.

That's the one

Cute kid. Name?

Apparently the sleeping habits developed around the 4-6 month mark are what sticks. If you fuck this up, your kid will have sleeping issues indefinitely (so "they" say).

Putting her to bed early is great though, then we have the whole night to chill and do all the chores that were left for weeks on end

^ good post

I think there is confusion as to what a "strict" or "rigid" schedule is.

We are not doing any sort of strict sleeping schedule, the only thing we aim to do on a weekly basis is putting the kid to sleep around the same time, which is between 7-8, the routine starts around 7.

We don't schedule when she feeds or naps, she decides that as we go along. We don't do full feedings at night however or she won't eat much during the day. We also try not to feed her close to bedtime so she doesn't associate feeding with sleep.

So having said that, from a common sense/practicality point of view, putting them to bed at the same time is beneficial for the kid and parent, whether that's 7pm or 1am that's irrelevant, depends on your kid, ours prefers earlier, so she goes to bed earlier.

Also, we don't cancel on life because of her sleeping schedule lolwtf, this weekend we had a bbq to attend to and we didn't get home until 9, put her to bed, next day is a fucking mess. If they don't have some sort of routine with sleep they are way more cranky the next morning (our case anyway, I assume this is common).

As she gets older, I am sure her bed time will move to 8pm, 9pm, whatever. So comparing a 5 year old's bed time to a 4 months old, I don't understand that, but again I've said this before I don't understand 99% of the general population and the shit they do so that's on me.

As a side note, there is a ton of research out there linking sleep issues with kids into adulthood if they aren't following a sleeping routine (bed at the same time, etc - this does NOT mean a strict schedule, it means a basic routine). So from my perspective why set them up for a failure when a basic routine mostly driven by the kid is a good thing.

While on this flooding spree, apparently if you don't get the sleeping down at 4 months kid will be fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkked.

We are trying really hard not to deviate from the sleeping pattern, everyday we put her to bed at 7pm without exceptions. Everyone is telling us if you don't nail it down early, GNSP.

CSI parents' thots on that?

Eating solids now after 4 months, likes it so far

Have to say, the experience has been really good so far. Tough, big adjustment, i thought i was working hard before, wow, to continue my prior hustle and to be there for the kid i've really had to extract more time out of thin air.

I can't believe your kids sleep 13.5 hours every night. Mine have never even slept for 12 at night, but they used to take naps.