Ok, so I know we've only been home a little over two weeks, but the sleeping thing is still really messed up. Adam went from sleeping 12 hours a night religiously in Vietnam to sleeping in 3-4 hour spurts here. I'm just not clear on how to get him onto a good schedule in the right time zone! Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
His eating habits have also changed. While in Vietnam, he would happily try any baby food offered and liked 99% of it. Since we came home, he's been more dependent on the bottle (I'm guessing its a comfort thing?) and less open to baby foods. He's basically eating only yo baby yogurt with cereal and fruit, and some of the fruity baby foods. He's been refusing anything with meat or vegetables in it. I did notice that the baby food in Vietnam had a much milder smell than the U.S. baby food and wondered if that could be part of it. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
How Old is Adam?
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Is there any reason why he is not or you could not begin to feed him regular food. How are his teeth Does he have them? At his age he could be eating all typical regular food. How if you cook regular vegetables and chicken and see how he likes that.
We had similar issues once we got home. At first we thought the time zone issue would resolve itself but it didn't. On the day that we couldn't take it anymore we let the babe take a morning nap but forced him to stay awake as long as possible in the afternoon. He lasted from 11:30 to around 6pm. We put him to bed and he woke up a few hours later. That night we played with him in his room with as little light as possible for about 2 hours. Then we gave him a big bottle and he fell asleep. I think he slept from 10 until around 4am. We did the same thing the next day, allowing a morning nap and then keeping him awake all afternoon. After about 4 days we managed to get him onto something close to our timezone and we declared it good enough. He continued to wake every few hours until we started putting rice cereal into his nightly bottle. Once we did that he slept for about 10 hours at a stretch. Good luck! Email if you want! jjohnstonmyers@gmail.com
He is 18 months old, Why is he eating baby food at all? He won't starve, give him the same food that you are cooking for dinner. He will adapt to the food......
The rice cereal in the bottle thing really helped us a lot! Our son only slept in 4-hour spurts until we tried it. Within a week he was up to 7 or 8. Just make sure you are using the largest size nipple on the bottle or he won't get enough out and will quit.
Once you get him used to the cereal taste that way, it should be easier to switch to spoon-fed cereals (rice, oatmeal). The flavor's the same, so the kids can focus on getting the spoon-thing down. Then you can move on to the other foods. Don't feel like you have to rush though. I don't agree with the idea of just going cold turkey to regular food - that made our son shut down completely. It was just too much change too fast. But, it points out that parenting is all just one grand science experiment - you try one thing, fail, and keep trying others 'til you hit the mark! :)
Kathy,
Sam is a lot older, so our situation wasn't the same. However, when in VN, he ate just about anything and everything (Amer. foods included). When we got home, within a few days, he was expressing preferences--and dislikes--much more. For him, though he is still a good eater, I think he is a little enamored by the fact that he has more choices. His favorites, though, are things like plain (as opposed to casserole type dishes) chicken, beef, or pork, as well as plain veggies like green beans and (surprise!) spinach. He can REALLY put those away.
JoanP
I'm reluctant to start him on all table food as he was not eating table food at the orphanage, just formula and soup. I'm going to try the rice cereal in the bottle thing. Wish me luck!
Maybe you could try mushy soft cooked vegetables and string cheese. The baby foods are gross, try cooking your own, steaming the vegies, try some salmon ect. Those are soft foods but they are tasty and you can vary the texture. He may reject the food because he wants to eat what you are eating. My son was eating mostly regular table food (soft cooked) by the time he was 6-9 months old. Table food certainly will not hurt him, if he doesn't want it he will reject it.....
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