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Hi all
My 9.5 month son, seems to be waking up at the 4-5am mark every morning. Unless i give a bottle he wont go back to sleep most the time.. Every day is different as far as times goes but its generally

730-830 Breakfast- cereal,fruit
930 bottle and sleep
sleep varies from 1 to 2 1/2 hours..
if a nap he will have snack of fruit or biscuits and water
lunch when he wakes up if around 12-1
bottle hour after then sleep
afternoon tea
sometimes another nap if he has had short sleeps
tea at 5 530
bath 630
bottle 7pm
bed

He has an allergy to cows milk protein so on a dairy free diet..

Any suggestions or is this early morning normal..

Things i have tried

water instead of bottle, and watering formula down at 4-5am feed
introducing morning and afternoon tea

He also doesnt drink all his bottle?? maybe 70-100 of the 150ml…

he is a very happy boy.

Does anyone else have this???

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In the 4 or so months since I have been on it 2 of my liver enzyme levels have jumped from normal to near the 400s (anything over 50 is bad/undesirable). My thyroid has also started to ‘go bad’ (sorry, I don’t know all the medical terms). It was fine before (about 2) but now it’s around 9.5.

I have to get another blood test in a week and a half which will decide what happens from there.

But my main question is: Does hypothyroidism cause appetite loss? My doctor only told me that it can make you tired and make it hard to lose weight or can cause weight gain.

I have no problem with weight gain or losing weight, at least not yet, since my weight has stayed the same (even though I haven’t been very healthy in the last week because there were lots of celebrations happening – and no, I do not drink alcohol). I have been not hungry though, although I have been eating. I find that I am full on half the amount of food I use to eat, and I don’t really have any motivation to eat too. Some days I notice that I only had a yogurt for breakfast and then it’s 4pm and I haven’t eaten anything (and still not hungry at 4pm). I lose track of time with my study, so I’m not intentionally forgetting to eat, I just lose track of time.

I am, however sleepy in the afternoon, but when I go to bed I am finding it hard to switch off and go to sleep. Once I’m asleep though, I could easily sleep 9 – 12 hours if I don’t set an alarm!

So, could the thyroid thing be causing this?

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When she gets home she is soo exhausted that she often naps and our 12yo cooks or helps cook/looks after the little one so my wife can cook undistracted. She wants to loose weight so has decided to start a diet program and has asked me to read all about it, find recipe and meal plans and cook/prepare them for her every day, she hasn’t tried the last diet plan she bought, and hasn’t watched the starter dvd for this one yet.
I mentioned this to a friend and the misses saw and had a go for implying that she was lazy and making me feel selfish and lazy myself. The only thing i have asked of her recently was to turn the ceiling fan off in the mornings and i’m still doing it 2 weeks on.
Life is abit on edge at home at the moment, mainly because of me, i have alot of emotional and psychological issues that i’m seeing a shrink for but still failing to cope well with this last 2 months, and i barely sleep/sleep very poorly. I feel really bad already for letting these things negatively affect our relationship. I feel selfish if i buy myself lunch instead of having something at home as we are tight for money at the moment, but have done really well for ourselves and come really far this last year so it’s just playing catch up right now, financially. The doc gave me sleeping tablets but i can’t take them as i need a good 8 hours for them or i feel way too spaced and incoherent, and as i don’t have 8 hours each night they are pretty pointless and on the few occasions i do get a lay-in when i wake up i feel as if i have wasted so much time already.

So i suppose my question is, with all this in mind, am i being unreasonable to ask her to know all about this new diet, what it entails and what it needs and ask her to just provide me with a grocery list for the things she needs, or to sit down together and figure it out on one of her days off?
I’m not as good a husband as i make out to be, i can’t give either kids the time or attention they deserve and i’m not always very happy, i stress alot. I love my wife, i think she is beautiful and amazing, and she has put up with soo much more than i can put simply, and always been there for me, but she takes it personally if i say anything about it. I feel horrible even bringing it all up really.

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I do the laundry, clean the bathroom, wash the dishes, clean/vacuum the floors, mow the lawn, take out the garbage.

She folds/irons the clothes, dusting, makes the bed, polishes the furniture.

Today I had beans on toast for breakfast, I was running a bit late and I absent-mindedly forgot to toss the can in the bin. She didn’t say anything about it when I got home but just before we went to bed she really ripped into me about it. I honestly didn’t think it was a huge deal and neither of us are neat freaks – like she leaves her coffee cup and cereal bowl beside the bed, at her desk, in the lounge room, on the back deck wherever she eats breakfast, I go around and collect it all when I wash the dishes. But this one little thing and she went quite nuts about it.

Is what I did really that bad that I deserve to be so severely castigated for it?

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I didn’t have to be up so early this morning but I did wake up around the same time as I woke up yesterday feeling nauseous again, but I stayed in bed and eventually fell back to sleep without throwing up again. I slept through it I think and woke up later feeling fine.

As I mentioned, I am on the pill which has very occasionally made me feel nauseous in the morning, but I have never thrown up from it and it has never been 2 days in a row. I also just finished my period which seemed fairly normal (mine are always quite light) but I’ve heard that some women experience bleeding which is similar to their period when they first become pregnant.

Is there any chance that I’m pregnant or am I just overreacting to the nausea I’m experiencing?
Also, the nausea was accompanied by sharp, painful cramps in my lower abdomen which subsided when the nausea subsided.

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