For the past one over month, I’ve used this blog as a ranting ground to write about my struggle with baby Clarisse’s weaning. She used to wake up at around 3 to 4am in the morning hungry demanding to be fed. But the frustration is not that I have to drag my tired self out of bed. It’s feeding her milk and cereals that drives me and my husband bonkers. She would refuse, struggle and put up a fight whenever being fed milk and cereals despite her hunger. The situation is slowly improving and she seems to give in to her milk and cereals lately though not without some toys or distraction.

I noticed she’s sleeping longer during the past two weeks. Most of the time, she would sleep right through the night, from 8-9pm to 6-7am without feeding. Whenever she does cry during the night, I just give her some water and she would doze off again. She is bound to wake up before 8am in the morning due to hunger.

Baby Clarisse is definitely sleeping better after weaning her from breast milk.  When she was still being breastfed, she would cry 4- 5 times a night wanting to nurse back to sleep.  It’s quite troublesome and tiring for me too because it took me at least 20-30 mins to nurse baby Clarisse to sleep back.

Last week my mom found a way to feed baby Clarisse milk. My mom will turn on “In The Night Garden” toddler TV show and narrates to baby Clarisse. Surprisingly she would sit still and keep drinking her milk while listening the story. I used to feed her milk by spoon because she drinks very slow from a sipping cup. Now whenever baby Clarisse need to drink milk,  we’ll let her watch  ”In The Night Garden”. I know it’s not an advisable practise to rely on TV to tempt her but when you’re all out of ideas, you’d give in to anything that works.