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Vera - posted on 09/09/2009 ( 1 mom has responded )

hi all My name is Vera and Hadassah is my first baby. she brings so much joy. love her to bits. although she wakes up about four time every night any tip on how to help her sleep throughout the night or at least reduce the number of night time feeds?

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Tricia - posted on 09/29/2009

Hi Vera! Welcome! Im surprised no one has responded to your post. Well, here's what I do at night. My baby was born April 7th and shes been sleeping through the night since 3 months old. Since her first bath, which was at about 3.5 weeks old, Ive been massaging her. I simply use baby lotion. Once shes out of the bath, I diaper her up and just begin to massage the lotion into her skin. She absolutely loves when I do her feet! Now, keeping in mind that I turn everything off, like the radio, tv, phone etc. I just talk to her. Now, I had been giving her SIMILACs Sensitive R.S. formula which is enriched with rice starch so essentially she was getting rice in her formula. Thats a thick formula and it seemed to fill her up nicely. So after her bath, I would give her the last bottle for the night at about 800pm. I made sure teh room was dark and everything off and she just fell right to sleep afterwards. Now, there were some nights where she would think its play time but I found that the trick is to not make eye contact or speak and even close your eyes yourself so she gets the point. Now she falls asleep between 830pm and 900pm like clock work. Also, I gradually increased the ounces for her formula and she now gest 7.5 ounces. I ended up having to switch her formula to SIMILAC's Isomil Advance and I actually add 2.5 scoops of GERBER rice cereal to it just to make the bottle a little thicker. Hopefully this helps a little! Good Luck!

Oh and by the way, she'll sleep through the night for at LEAST 9hours! Its great! I also dont bathe her every night but I do massage her every night. '

Good Luck again!