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My daughter hits the 7 month mark next week!  It's a time of crazy change, right?  I guess the whole first year is but I'm kind of loving this part.
MILESTONES - mostly gross motor skills, i guess?  she's trying like crazy to crawl and pull-up.  she does that crazy 1-legged crawl thing for very short distances.  she's mobile!  sort of!  we have done no babyproofing on the theory we had another month or two before she could really get anywhere.  oops.
NIGHTWEANING/SLEEP TRAINING - I decided I had enough of getting up 3-4 times a night about 5 weeks ago.  Doc said she was big enough and we could give it a try.  having read  a bunch of sleep books, we adopted an amalgamation of theories.  I decided to night wean first and got down from 3-4 20 minute feeds to 2 5-minute feeds without any crying.  When I tried to further reduce/eliminate the 1am feed , things got screamy.  But we're down to one serious fussing session (<10 minutes last night) and one feed (somewhere between 3 and 5 am).  so . . . progress?  we'll do ferber sleep-training soon.
SUPPLEMENTING - she's FINALLY eating well at daycare.  a bit more than I can realistically pump at work.  
SOLIDS - I offer her some twice a day.  She is still really not interested.  She'll suck down a teaspoon or two of purees and then just try to play with it.  Doc didn't seem worried at the 6-month appointment but she still hasn't shown much interest and I'm not sure if I should start doing something different.

my thoughts on 20:04:  I'm sure the answer is "it depends".  (infuriating, isn't it?)   Most people I have talked to seem to say their baby kept one feeding for a long time (like a 4 or 5 am feeding).  But as I said above, my DD was nursing A LOT. I had pretty good success slowly reducing the length of a nursing session (from 20 minutes to 15 minutes 10 to 9 to 8 to 7 and so on, each for a few days each).   DD just started eating more during the day and on her own dropped some of the feedings!  Ferber suggests a similar method more useful for people bottlefeeding (or at least babies that will tolerate a damned bottle at night, unlike mine).  His suggestions for night-weaning nursing babies (just push the feedings further apart) didn't work so well for us.  But my thought was you could try some variation on slowly reducing the amount consumed and see how baby reacts?  [/quote]

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