Real Day with a 6 Month Old Baby UK: Sleep, Weaning and Bottle Routine

This is a very REAL day in the life with a 6 month old baby in the UK, the sleep schedule, weaning recipes and how many bottles my 6 month old had a day.

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[Applause] Oh I’m looking up from my window’s coming up like the day like a stone on my pill I don’t make it and I shut the door Good morning guys I hope you’re doing okay welcome back to the channels welcome back to a little Vlog today is going to be a little bit different in terms of the Vlog it’s not going to be like a day in the life or whatever but

It is going to be all about week weaning so I guess it kind of is a day in the life but it’s a specific day in the life about weaning because wow I just forgot like you know when you go through the whole parenting stages and then once

You’ve done the stage you just like Drop it out of your brain like that’s certainly what happened with me because with my first I did the whole winning thing at the time it was the Forefront of my mind the only focus I was so focused on like preparing the most you

Know amazing little meals and making sure that he ate as much as he could but not forcing him to letting him do it at his own time get really messy with the food I was so into it I read all the books all the recipes I had all the Time

In the World to do it though and now I don’t have that time with my second bless her hie is um not getting the Gourmet treatment as well as George was so I thought today you know what I’m going to do it because I feel like what

I’ve been doing with hi is basically just like spoon feeding her like doing purees like I did I did a batch cooking like a session um you know pureed up loads of veg um and like put in some of her formula and stuff so the food’s good

Like the puree is good I put the effort in there um and the PO in um but what I have been doing and I know it’s wrong I knew it was wrong when I was doing it but you know we’re all in survival world a little bit over here but what I was

Doing was putting her obviously in her little I don’t know if you see her little chair here with the little tray in front I was basically just like spoon feeding her the food not let her touch it cuz it’d be messy not let her smell

It l really even letting her look at it so all she was doing was like I was basically like putting it in her mouth she was opening her mouth putting it in her mouth and she’s like oh God I don’t know what this is like I’m so confused

She was gagging and wretching and she was just so like I am not about this like please don’t give me this again and she just like literally puts the food in her mouth and goes and then just like Chucks out of her mouth um with her tongue so she’s

Just not eat she’s just not eating anything um there was a couple of days where she was we had an incident with the broccoli I don’t know if you’ve uh seen that Vlog but yeah um there was an incident with broccoli where she was just like projectile volting the whole day after

And I was like oh my gosh I’ve literally poisoned my child with uh broccoli but yeah she wasn’t a fan of that so I’m going to give broccoli a little break and then we’ll go back to it a little bit later I think um but yeah basically

Weaning has not been going very well so far but I feel like it’s probably a little bit down to me in my methods because my methods aren’t the methods I used with George really and you know every baby is different like George would have just been happy to open his

Mouth and like me to shovel food in and he would have been fine with it hie I think needs to explore the food a little bit more feel the food maybe feed herself a bit with like baby lead we and that kind of stuff so I haven’t got like anything special

In today but I think I’m this is going to be like the Turning Point hopefully in the weing journey where you know I’m going to start giving her a little bit more control over it she can get all messy she can just taste it smell it

Smear it all over her face Chuck it over the floor I’m going to have less of a control freaky attitude to it um those kind of things are a lot easier to do when it’s just me and her cuz I can just tidy up afterwards when George is around

As well so like at dinner time it’s going to be a bit more difficult because if she’s getting messy everywhere that’s fine but then he’s there as well and he’ll just like flail about and touch all the food and smear it up the walls and he’s a little bit you know harder to

To manage but anyway this morning I’ve just got back from the nursery room I’ve just dropped Georgia off so it is halfast 9 and we are going to have some breakfast I’m going to do us some porridge um and I’m going to sort of go from there I think eventually we will

Kind of move more onto the baby lead weening stuff because I feel like she she will prefer like feeding herself she did actually have some peir the other day and I cut them up into like Little Fingers um and she was much better with it whereas if I you know was spoon

Feeding her she was she wasn’t really a fan so yeah we’re both going to have some porridge I’m going to try and Spoon F her a little bit if she’s not interested I’m just going to leave the bowl and the spoon there and let her

Just go for it um and then she can have a little wash before her nap uh this morning um but yeah that’s what we’re going to do wish me luck with This standing in a corner I see you from across the moon it’s kind of here but I know you see Meo everybody singing Everybody singing I don’t know what it must be in the way you move just say you want me to we Got H is all ready and cool down enough for her now that’s obviously got her like formula in it and just that mashed up banana I’ve then got the same but not with formula just with normal milk and then I’m going to pop into to mine I

Know this isn’t about me but I’m going to pop in some flax seeds and some cheer seeds into mine um just because M flax seeds and chia seeds are really good um like sources of fiber and um like really good for your gut health and stuff like

That so yeah I am trying to do my best than to Holland and Barett and all that jazz just trying to up my fiber intake basically in the summer that’s something that I’d mixed in with like yogurt and berries and like granola or something like that but obviously it’s winter I’m

Here for the winter warmers I’m here for porridge plus obviously H’s having the same so I thought I’d thought I’d double up right here we go girl what do we reckon hey you’re not looking too sure are you smiling for me do you want to

Have a go do you want to have a Go would you reckon would you reckon Oh no you’re not sure do you want to hold it that’s what she does every time she just spits it out we’ve been trying to do this for like 3 weeks now you can hold it D I’ll leave it like that and I’ll eat

And then see what you think you want to do if you want to eat it you can she’s literally looking at me like um are you okay look at you you can have a little explore of that do what you want with that I’m going to have mine the other

Thing I totally haven’t been doing is I haven’t been like modeling the behavior I haven’t been eating with her like I sort her out first and then um and then I would eat so I’m going to try and you know at least with breakfast especially when George isn’t here because to be

Honest a lot of the time I skip breakfast because it’s just like chaos but when George is at Nursery it’s going to be our time to have breakfast together and I’m hopefully going to be able to like you know model that behavor a little bit and she’ll see me eat and I

Don’t know I don’t know how much is in that but I’ve been watching all the weaning videos and that’s what they all say so let’s try that I also can’t remember how you get babies to learn how to drink from a sippy cup again it just seemed to happen

Like fairly naturally with George but I think I’m probably misremembering quite a lot of it to be honest because I just I need to maybe go back and watch my old videos that’s what I need to do what you think yum yummy so okay well done good That definitely almost got por realiz my camera then but look at that look at you go that’s so much better it’s already so much better just letting her just do it herself and get really messy like she’s got porridge on her eyelid for God’s sake

But she seems to be enjoying it a lot more and I feel like I don’t know why I didn’t just start it off like this it was just I was in the mod of like you know just constantly being like tidying up and sorting everything out and not

Letting things get messy because then I’ve got more work to do later and blah blah blah but actually when it comes to wiing that’s the worst thing you can possibly do I think um so yeah you get messy girl you go for it you go for it

The other thing you always read and I still just haven’t really like taken it in this time hold it was food is fun for the first year right so like don’t worry like they’re still getting all their nutrients and everything they need from their formula or their breast milk

Whatever it is so yeah we don’t need to worry you get there in the end won’t we porridge nice huh okay I think we’ll call porridge a little success even though I don’t know if you ate any but she definitely seemed a lot happier doing it than when I’m

Trying to feed her so yay was that nice was it yeah oh okay don’t Arch you back too much now we’re going to get you all cleaned up and go up for na okay okay this is the part I least like about weing the clearing up but it’s got

To be done it’s got to be Done I know know oh Dear searching Soting while Something misings and words unspoken we fall apart and I won’t dare to say do you feel the same Way okay I’ve just popped T down she’s not she’s not best pleased I kept her up a little bit too late past her um awake like window thing I think so my app said that she she needed to go down at 10:00 and it’s C past I normally stick to this

Like so rigidly um but yeah I feel a little bit guilty but she might need a little bit longer than usual to go to sleep but she’s sort of all up rubbing her eyes and blesser blesser the time on this and the date on this is completely

Off by the way that is not what the time and date um I actually had a few questions about this baby Monti from bonck um and it’s really good uh you get it on Amazon if you wanted it but yeah the app that I I’m just about to put hi’s food on I

Basically put her sleep her milk and then now her um like food on oh bless her can you mirar her um so these are the foods that she’s tried so far um and then now I’m just going to pop um porridge in see if it comes up and it

Had so yeah it’s porridge and then it also had banana in it didn’t it banana there we go um then next um she yeah she seems she wasn’t like yeah she liked it so I’m going to put she loved it um and then I’m going to put the time

It was about 10ish that we started I think well maybe a little bit before actually I’ll put like 5 to 10 um yeah perfect so then that all goes on to her schedule I have spoken about this app quite a lot um it’s the Huckleberry app that I downloaded when H was honestly

Like maybe two 3 weeks old and we’ve used it since um and it just helps us go like you can literally see this is like her schedule from the last like however many months um literally six months practically and so at the moment I’m just like tracking all of her sleep food

Like whether that’s milk or actual solids um and you can see here like like the pattern I guess and it’s pretty more consistent than it was and her night sleep has got so much better this one’s a mistake like she hasn’t actually slept for the night yet so there’s supposed to

Be a bottle in there but all of the light blue ones are daytime sleeps and then all of the dark blue ones are night time sleeps um and then the little um pink ones are bottles and then the darker ones are like solids so we have

Only been doing I’d say like every other day we’ve been doing food because like I said she’s just really not liking it to be honest um but that went a lot better so I think today we’re going to try maybe two meals um and then we’ll go

From there but yeah this is her little sleep schedule thing the Huckleberry app is really really good I think you do have to pay a little amount to download it um I can’t remember exactly how much but if I’m honest I would not be without

It what I really like about it is The Sweet Spot feature oh Al’s just actually fallen asleep see that only takes like 5 minutes but it feels like the longest 5 minutes of your life um since we’ve been trying to do the whole put her down see

If she goes to sleep on her own thing yeah um we started that probably when she was about four months and um yeah it like wrenches on my heart but it works and then she has a full sleep and she’s so much happier at the end of it um so

Yeah I’m going to set her sleep sleep now actually so if I literally just tap on sleep here I can just press start and that’s how like start of her nap obviously when she finishes I’ll press stop and then it will know exactly like how long she slept for how long she’s

Been awake for and then it will know like when her next nap is due so at the moment her a wake windows are between 2 hours and 2 and a half hours um but it depends on which nap it is so the first nap of the day um like she wakes up so

She woke up at 700 her first SNP would be about 9:00 um so that’s like a 2-hour wake window and then I think the next couple of wake windows are like 2 and a half hours and then it’s maybe 2 hours 15 like it’s it kind of splits a little

Bit with George by the time he was 6 months I wasn’t using any kind of app I just knew like roughly when he would need an app and kind of just go from there because George was the only kid I had and the only thing I had to focus on

The only thing I had to remember the only thing I had to like think about was his food his weaning his sleep schedule his like bottles etc etc whereas now obviously that’s not the case we’ve got two kids two lots of things going on taking George to and from Nursery his

Schedule like what he’s got his clubs you know his likes dislikes and you know all the washing like wow I thought babies had a lot of washing but toddlers have a lot of washing speaking of washing I’ve got loads to do and um I haven’t haven’t cleaned up from from

That little breakfast session so that’s what I’m going to do I’m going to put all the plates and stuff away from last night sort all of this out but in terms of H’s schedule if I were to Hazard a guess um as to like what would happen it

Kind of goes off based on what when she woke up today randomly cuz she was up twice last night she woke up at 8 cuz I think she was up quite a lot in the night so um she woke up at 8 uh which means that her first bottle was at 8

Which means her next bottle is not until 12 she goes about 4 hours 3 and 1 half to 4 hours between bottles um so she’ll probably not eat until 12 it’s I mean it’s 20 past 10 now so when she wakes up basically from her nap she’ll need a

Bottle um and then we’ll have like an awake window we’ll probably do some playing we might go out for a walk with Molly I tend to go out for a walk with um hi and Molly mol’s my dog if you don’t know um between her first nap and

Her second nap of the day just cuz it works out quite nicely um it’s quite quiet and stuff like there’s not a lot of dog walkers and stuff like that this time of the day in the week so that’s when we tend to go out for a little walk

Um and then by the time we get back it will probably be time for her um to have a second up of the day and then I can crack on with whatever it is that I’m doing that day whether that’s like editing a YouTube video responding to

Emails filming um or I don’t know sorting the house out doing all of the washing which I need to do right I’m going to stop talking cuz I’m just procrastinating I’m going to sort this out sort that out and I’ll catch up with you After you need to get away it’s time we make a change oh you know you’ll always have me baby I will always stay with you so put your trust in me we’ll work it out you’ll see if we get in a car and drive some place far yeah we could go for a

Ride the two of us we don’t have to stop baby let’s go for a Ride you alive hi is just woken up just before her bottle is due which is perfect so I’ve just popped that on the app what a good nap an hour and 37 minutes Perfect time for some milk so hi was on 7 oz but I’m going to try her on 8 oz now cuzz she keeps like drinking the whole bottle so I think she’s ready to move up I’m going to have to concentrate though cuz doing formula Scoops and trying to

Talk is not not advisable I’ve done three Oh my goodness so it’s just gone 12 and this is H’s second bottle of the day um that’s only because though she woke up at 8:00 this morning rather than S usually she’s pretty consistent with having her first bottle at 7even and then having her second bottle at 11

Third Bott at 3: fourth bottle at 7 and then she’ll have one during the night as well and that could be literally anytime between s midnight and 4: like at any point during those times she’ll probably usually get up for a bottle and then sometimes you’ll get up a second

Time but that’s just sort of tossing and turning and just needing a little bit of comfort to get back to sleep but not actually for a bottle so in like a 24-hour period she’s usually having five bottles so that’s why I’ve tried up it

To 8 oz this time um she tends to go for like the 4 S Oz each bottle sometimes she doesn’t but it’s quite hit a mess to be honest you don’t look very comfy right now bless her though she’s a big girl so I think once you’re eating once

You’re eating and you like food a little bit more it will probably do her some good in the uh in the Sleep Department hopefully hopefully fingers crossed fingers crossed once we’re on like three meals a day and stuff I’ll do do a whole um like day in the life of just things

That she eats probably just do like a voice over or something um rather than like a chatty Vlog um but yeah I don’t really know I feel like there’s not enough content to do a video like that at the moment because we’re very much in the beginning stages but um yeah it’s

Just weird because I was like so much more confident with the whole ween and stuff first time around um and schedules and everything just worked and it clicked whereas now it’s just not like that oh well done good Helloy do you know I’m looking and I can’t help but smile do you know how much I love you you put my favorite song on I put my my feet up and we just sing along and I can’t help but feeling just Ling this moment can we stay here forever I’m Ling this

Moment H and I’ve just been playing for about an hour or so um and I’ve just realized that she actually do her next nap at 2:30 that’s the Huckleberry app that tells me obviously exactly when she’s due an nap so 2:30 it’s now4 1 um but I’ve just been hearing a little bit

Of rumbling going on in um in the nappy area honey so I think it’s time for a nappy change and then I was going to go out for a walk but it’s so cold hi’s um cheeks are also a little bit like chapped I think that’s just from like

The wind we’ve been out on walks and it’s just really cold outside they’re not too bad or anything they’re just a little bit red and a little bit dry so I think we’re going to skip today’s walk and then I’ll probably just take Molly out for a little walk later once Ash is

Home so that he can be with the kids and then I can take her for a walk and then we can stay nice and cozy today right let’s get you changed um and then I’m going to grab some lunch hi’s not having lunch yet I’m not going to push my luck

But I’m going to do um breakfast and dinner with her tonight so you’ve had your lunchtime bottle I’ll have my lunch and then it’s your nap time woo Go On Girl there we go outfit number three of the day love it I like your style honey another afternoon I don’t know what I’m to do I just miss you more than anything way too quiet in the house I’m just wasted on the couch cuz I don’t want to feel anything wish you

Stay stay here beside me this isn’t how it’s supposed to be wish you stay stay here I with me I can’t shake that feeling that we say goodbye To I know the hours getting late I shouldn’t sit here contemplate I just can’t stop thinking about us I won’t forget a single thing from drunken nights to Sunday mornings and how you smile at me wish you Stay stay here beside me this isn’t to it’s supposed to be wish you stay stay here right with me I can’t shake that feeling that we sit goodbye to you Soon yes you completely forgot to eat lunch whoops mommy did I will it’s okay it’s coming up to half 2 and I haven’t ate but um I’m going to eat something as soon as H goes down um towards the end of me trying to put all the wash it away

She was not impressed whatsoever by being left like just to lay there and chill so so we’ve been chilling under the bed for a little while haven’t we but as soon as I like get up or walk off or or literally try and do anything she’s like

So oh dear so we’re going to see if um you can go down for your nap it’s almost nap time I think she I think she needs it though cuz she seemings um yeah you seem tired my love you do no offense but you seem tired I actually popped George’s

Projector in H’s room whilst um I was putting away washing and stuff cuz she loved it when we were in his room CU like you know what that might buy me some more time might leave it in her for a up time see if um see if she likes it

Um we won’t tell we won’t tell Big Brother we won’t Tell right all the Washings on I’ve taken a few bits out of H’s room that are in the size too small for her her six to 9 month stuff yeah that’s the stuff she’s grown out already she’s already a 9 to 12 month stuff um and I need to take

Some photos and pop them onto vintage no more 6 to9 month stuff in the wash so I’m going to pop everything onto vintage in the next couple of days do it all at once and hopefully yeah some bundles be going out over the next week or so although saying that she’s actually

Asleep yet she’s still awake um but she’ll get there I’m sure she’ll get There time for another bottle thing is I full I put her down she will scream so onehanded it is ready one two okay so it’s 3:00 as we speak and that’s what her day is looking like so far um it’s actually really good thing that she woke up at 3:00 because

We have to go and pick Georgia at 20 to 4 so that gives us enough time to have a bottle and a little play I might actually try and prep her dinner we’ve got like a creamy garlic mushroomy chicken dinner for us um hello fresh number but

None of that really is like I can’t really give H that um I can give you the mash maybe but I have got some risoto and some low salt um stock cubes so I thought I could do her like some butternut squash rotto so I’ve got some butternut squash chunks in the freezer

Um so I might make that while she’s having her bottle I’ll start that while she’s having a bottle and then um we going get big brother and then we can all have dinner together yes you can all right okay she wants a bottle go look at that thought these were butut squash but

They’re sweet potato I’m sure it will be a similar Vibe so I’m going to do the sweet potato chunks um in with the risotto rice this is just left over from an old hello fresh um and then I’ve got like I said these low salt um vegetable stock whichs perfect for obviously baby

Like in cuz they can’t have loads of salt and then I’ve just got a couple of herbs um sorry I’ve got Italian herb and then I’ve got garlic granules some peono cheese and some butter I’m going to just boil that and then Mash that up with a

Fork with a little bit of butter and then I’m going to just cook off the rice with some of the herbs and obviously I’ll make up the stock and I’ll put that all together and hopefully that’ll be a nice little meal and then I’ve actually also found these um which is something I

Used with George and it’s obviously batch cooking and stuff I can put obviously that’s going to be like a load that’s going to make loads so I can batch cook it and then pop them into these little portions and then put this into the freezer and those can be little

Portions for har once she’s eaten properly so perfect let’s go little ladies Happy Without we over ready to go get Big R are you ready are you ready when George gets back we’re going to see if hi wants to eat and George is going to try and help me I think and then we’re going to eat a little bit

Later cuz that’s when she’s going to be do her bottle um I think that’s just going to what’s going to work for tonight but um in the future we try and all eat together right so we just got back from picking George up from a nursery so I’m just sorting him a little

After Nursery snack some saing and some orange standard um and whilst he’s having that H’s going to have her dinner but I’ve realized that the risoto is probably a little bit too much texture for her at this stage she’s still quite early days with weaning so what I’m

Going to do is half it half of it is going to go into the um little cubes like as it is so like a bit thicker like the bigger bits of B not squash and a bigger bits of risoto and then what I’m also going to do is just pure it up

About half of it so that you can have that like while she’s still getting used to the whole texture thing I want I can you sit the table with that please and then you’re going to help me feed H in a minute ready everyone ready there we go well done everyone

George his hands over his is and H was absolutely fine Well Done Right okay this has still got some texture but it’s not like too much like it was before so that’s perfect George don’t touch that please George George okay that’s not I just asked you

Not to touch that Geor you going to help do you want to try and help yes yes good boy there you go D you want to give it a go we checking look at that ah look at that is she nice do you like it do you like it yummy

Yeah you good look at you you’re enjoying that you fy Fry how do you get this oh she could from you oh wow do you think she likes it yeah I think she does as well want on my table it’s all right we can always clean it up after she drops on the table what do you think H it’s good to

Have lots of different spoons cuz then if she drops one then it doesn’t matter if I’m totally this I don’t know any of that’s going down oh she’s got more spoons come here then I hope you this one I’ll have that one and you have that one we got loads of different

Spoons spoon method is working literally just like popping a bit of it onto each of the spoons and she’s actually sing some she’s actually taking some down I mean going everywhere else as well by the way this um like apron thing used to be georgeous it’s got all dinosaurs on

It and and I think it’s from lwood um I think they got it on like scandy born or something at the time is that all right you want more you okay drop some water right I’m just going to pop the rest of this into these little cubes and

Then that’s going to go into the freezer for another time and then hi’s dinner’s all finished and we’re done there we go we got these ones that are like slightly more pureed and then these ones at the bottom are like the chunkier ones um so I’ll pop

Those in the freezer for another time that will be a nice easy like easy dinner now that I’ve put the effort in one day I’ve got nine meals that I don’t have to put the effort in for we’ got some of our other bits that left over

And this is like a mash that I did with some formula and this was like sweet potato and carrot so I’ve got those I can thaw them or defrost them when I need to perfect got a good look stash going this we have H’s looking like she’s a little

Bit bored now so I’m going to get her out of here get her all washed up and then that’s you Done look at that look at That another rainy afternoon I don’t know what I’m to do I just miss you more than anything It’s way too Quiet so it’s 7:00 hi’s just having her last B the day another 8 O and then we’re going to go to bed I know George is helping me he’s been helping a lot we’ve had AR dinner me and the kids are going to go up to bed mommy yeah I

PE okay and that’s bath time done um so H is just going to go to bed now I’m going to get in our PJs and she’s going to go to bed it’s Quast 7 thank you so much for watching today’s day in the life

Guys oh wow yeah so I’ve got a couple of bed times to get on with so I’m going to love you leave you and I’ll see you the next one thanks guys bye yeah you you take all my wrongs and make them better yeah you you’re making me want to

Try forever and I feel so free oh my sweet baby