Baby Growing up & Getting More Difficult

O

Obiwan

Registered User
My little girl has been an angel baby ... but now that she has turned 6-month old, she is a lot more aware, and is able to grab/hold things and is curious about everything.

It's fun to watch her grow and it's amazing to see how quickly she is learning. But the problem now is that as she becomes smarter, she is also learning to refuse her 3-hourly milk, and now she knows how to say 'NO' by turning her head, arching her back, and crying out very loudly. This stops as soon as we take the bottle away, but starts as soon as we bring it close to her. If we were to successfully put the nipple in her mouth, she will either bite down on it, play with it, or just let the milk gather in her mouth and promptly spit it out later. All this time looking at us straight in the eye. My angel baby has turned defiant :(

Do you have similar experiences? Does it get better? Any advice?
 
yes, she doesn't need to be fed every 3 hours. she's telling you she's full.

the thing about babies is this:

once you think you've figured out a pattern, they up and change it on you.

follow your baby's cues. she's telling you it isn't necessary, especially if she is also having some solids.

babies grow a terrific amount in their firs 6-12 months, then it starts to peeter off, otherwise, if we all kept growing at the same rate, we'd be 70 feet tall! LOL!

anyway, obiwan, relax and just try to follow her cues. try every 4-5 hours and see if she is still refusing.

ps> defiance DOES NOT get any better! it gets worse! believe me, my 3 & 5 year olds know how to say "no"...but then again, so does their mummy (who wins 99% of the time!)
 
Hahahaa ... you ladies are so 'encouraging' that you make me laugh. Love it!

Agree, gonna dish out some tough love. You don't want to eat, ok, so be it!! Gonna cut down to 4 hourly feed and see how it goes.

I was reading other thread ... seems like quite a common situation with many moms ...
 
My little girl has also just turned 6 months and is doing the same but she has also discovered her vocal chords! She has started this really high pitched scream, which I am sure is really annoying the neighbours! I tell her no when she does it but she just laughs and does it louder!

My son also used to do it and it used to really annoy me and I tried everything to get him to stop and when we were out in public I used to get really embarrassed when he did it. Then at 7 months old he got really quite sick with pneumonia and was in the high dependency unit of the hospital for three weeks. He was only semi concious for about a week and I used to sit by his cot crying, wishing I could hear him doing the high pitched scream!
 
Haha, AmyH, may I also add that the little bub cries loudly with NO tears. I don't remember 'managing' my parents this way. They say eat, i eat ... they say jump, i say how high ... or so i remember :)
 
when I was a baby I had no patience at all and my mum tells me that when I was about a year old I used to ask her for a drink of water (it had to be in a glass - not plastic cup!) If she said "in a minute" I used to take the glass and throw it outside so that it broke!
Luckily I got out of that phase very quickly and became a very good teen! My son didn't inherit that one from me and I am hoping my daughter doesn't either!

I also was wering glasses from 9 months old and I used to lift up my mums dress to clean them!!!
 
Your post made me smile :) Your daughter isn't the least bit defiant compared to a two year old. Its when they start bargaining, first milk then TV, first bath then chocolate.... it goes on.
 
As babies grow older - I also think they go through phases. My son (11 months now) went from being a fantastic sleeper who would fall asleep in his crib by himself to all of a sudden throwing tantrums whenever we put him in his crib and waking up at night and refusing to go back to sleep unless he gets into our bed. So we've had to adjust and now let him fall asleep in our bed (usually within 5-10 minutes) and then move him back to his bed after he is sound asleep. Occasionally he still comes over to our bed in the middle of the night - but it's starting to get better and better and usually he can last until early morning before coming over.

With eating, he was a fantastic eater with his 3 solid meals a day until two weeks ago when all of a sudden it takes song and dance to get him to eat (i.e. I feed and my helper sings and dances or vice versa). Without the song and dance, or another toy to keep him occupied, he refuses to eat. Sigh.....

So I think as babies grow, they just change their habits and a lot of times you have to adapt to keep up! Good luck!!
 
FutureHKmom said:
With eating, he was a fantastic eater with his 3 solid meals a day until two weeks ago when all of a sudden it takes song and dance to get him to eat (i.e. I feed and my helper sings and dances or vice versa). Without the song and dance, or another toy to keep him occupied, he refuses to eat. Sigh.....
Click to expand...

Oh, I totally know what you mean! My son started doing the same thing at around 12 months. Now it`s commonplace, and I wonder how each meal will go...Easier when there are 2 people for sure. I just look for different objects to give him to examine. Lately he likes his straw cup. Then I have to open it and disassemble it for him...anything for a few spoons of rice eh~
 
Every 3 hours ia bit too frequent - try 4-5 hours
If she is starting to get bored of milk, at 6 months, she is ready to try 1 solid + 4 bottles per day
 
I also love it when they are not allowed to touch something... and point slowly their finger on it looking at you with an innocent smile... :D

Like you all I'm going through this phases... eating/not eating, sleeping good/wanting to sleep with us, happy mood/terrible mood... the good thing is that it just stops one day ! (eventually when they will be old enough to leave the house....)
 
oh I couldn't agree more with this topic....the new born stage was so much easier in many ways!!
 
I cannot begin to tell you how much easier a 6 month old is..than a 1.5 yr old...wait till she walks..I have to run -- literally..to keep up with her (now I have a baby harness) meal times are like battlegrounds with spaghetti on the walls and peas on the sofa..and oh puhleeze..let me not tell you about sleeptime.. they all grow a mind of their own..and a very stubborn one at that..
wishing you luck!!
 
Last edited:
Ladies ... during these 'challenging' moments, do you feel you can handle another kid? Or does having more make it easier (or harder)?
 
Obiwan said:
Ladies ... during these 'challenging' moments, do you feel you can handle another kid? Or does having more make it easier (or harder)?
Click to expand...

I wonder that myself...but if I wondered too long I don`t think I would be able to do it.
My son is nearly 14 months, and we`re going to start trying for a 2nd soon. I am still exhausted, my back kills, being a mother is getting more and more trying at times (but at the same time more and more rewarding), so I figure, you just gotta do it and it will work out...SOMEHOW:)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top