Meal timings

I can't seem to get the timing of meals right for my baby to be hungry enough/not tired etc.
She doesn't have her first bottle until an hour after she's woken up, and she often doesn't drink the whole bottle anyway. If I then wait half hour or so for solids she is starting to get tired and irritated. I've done solids first, and then she doesn't want her bottle so I worry she isn't getting enough milk. Same story with lunch.

What's other people's rough timings? For reference she doesn't wake up until half 8 most days so first bottle is 9.30am and then breakfast has to be about 10am because her nap is around 10.30am. I'm not really strict with nap timings but it's just when she tends to get tired so she's not interested in eating.

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It’s really tough and I’ve got a super tight schedule because it’s not manageable otherwise. So my little boy will wake up anywhere between 6-7 I will generally offer him a bottle when he wakes up which sometimes he only has 40-50 ml but sometimes 100 ml. Then we offer breakfast around 1hr ish later or sooner if he’s only had a small amount and as he is going off for his first nap he will have a big bottle of 7oz. It’s so hard I must admit I base everything around his naps because he feeds better going off to sleep. He does often have feeding during the night (sometimes 2 or 3) as well so I feel better even if he’s had a little bit of milk in the morning even if it’s not much. Obviously milk is the most important thing but if it was me I’d offer a small amount of milk at the bottle in the morning and then breakfast and at her second bottle offer more milk or do breakfast when she wakes up and then the bottle and see if that makes any difference. Idk if that helps or makes any sense. X

If you’re doing breakfast first thing wait a longer period of time before offering the bottle . We have to do at least1.5/ 2 hours or my little boy isn’t interested at all

Could you offer breakfast first and put milk in a cup or beaker for them to drink alongside breakfast?

We do 8oz bottle at 7.30ish, breakfast at 8.30ish and nap at 10am till 11.30am, 8oz bottle when she wakes, nap at 2.30pm till 3.45pm, 8oz bottle when she wakes, dinner at 5pm and then bottle at 7pm and asleep at 7.30pm - that’s how it goes roughly for us! X

I have literally no schedule, if he’s in a good mood and we have time I just hand him some food to try. He’s breastfed so I can’t really predict ahead of time when he’ll fancy some milk. Don’t stress about it at this age

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

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