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we got a kitten for my 4 yr old daughter but I also have a 4 month old baby. I am afraid that the kitten will scratch or nipple on the baby . should I be worried. the kitten loves to play with the babies toys. it has had all of its shots and seems to be friendly. any advice would be appreciated
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Kelly, It's funny. I've had babies (now grown) and various animals, including cats. Back when the kids were small I heard the "old wives tales" and worried that my first-born daughter might be allergic to the four cats we had. She survived fine & now owns her own furry friends.
Now that I'm older, though, and raise Ragdolls, I look VERY hard at prospective owners that have children, especially babies, because I worry about the *Kitten's* welfare.
A toddler is apt to stumble over a kitten & hurt (maybe even kill) it. Beyond toddlerhood, a young child needs to be taught to be kind and gentle with a kitten or cat. As one person mentioned, her child abused the cat and it ended up scratching the child. The cat can hardly be blamed for this.
Anyway, these are things that should have been considered prior to adopting a kitten. Since you already have one, may I strongly advise you to teach your daughter how to handle a kitten. (My daughter was *always* good, my son was *horrid*!). Since the kitten is sociable, things should go well. I like that you're paying attention to their interaction - that's a great sign!
Cats and kittens will not harm your baby. Although some seem to have had the problem with the bottle nipple, I never ran into this when my children were small.
Good luck with your "babies" all 3 of them! :-)
Kelly, It's funny. I've had babies (now grown) and various animals, including cats. Back when the kids were small I heard the "old wives tales" and worried that my first-born daughter might be allergic to the four cats we had. She survived fine & now owns her own furry friends.
Now that I'm older, though, and raise Ragdolls, I look VERY hard at prospective owners that have children, especially babies, because I worry about the *Kitten's* welfare.
A toddler is apt to stumble over a kitten & hurt (maybe even kill) it. Beyond toddlerhood, a young child needs to be taught to be kind and gentle with a kitten or cat. As one person mentioned, her child abused the cat and it ended up scratching the child. The cat can hardly be blamed for this.
Anyway, these are things that should have been considered prior to adopting a kitten. Since you already have one, may I strongly advise you to teach your daughter how to handle a kitten. (My daughter was *always* good, my son was *horrid*!). Since the kitten is sociable, things should go well. I like that you're paying attention to their interaction - that's a great sign!
Cats and kittens will not harm your baby. Although some seem to have had the problem with the bottle nipple, I never ran into this when my children were small.
Good luck with your "babies" all 3 of them! :-)
Baby and toddler sharing a room, baby keeping toddler awake...?
ashleyfoof
I have a 7 month old and a 2 1/2 year old. They share the nursery. The 2 1/2 year old only just recently started sleeping in his own bed after having slept with us for his whole life. He now goes to bed in his own bed and sleeps all night. The 7 month old started sleeping through the night when he was 3 weeks old, but in the past month has started waking up in the middle of the night again. And this week has started staying up for hours and we can't get him to go back to sleep. I DON'T want to end up with sleeping issues with him like we had with his older brother. I was so excited because I finally had a baby that would willingly go to sleep in his crib and stay there. I felt like we did everything right and now he hates to sleep in his crib too. I'm so exhausted and frustrated being up for hours everynight. I know that the baby needs to learn how to put himself back to sleep, but we can't just let him cry at all because it keeps the toddler awake. I definitely don't want to move the toddler back to our room and ruin the progress we finally made with him. And I don't want the baby to ever get used to sleeping in our room.
Anybody have any suggestions?! We all need to start getting some sleep.
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i was thinking about this recently since my kids will be sharing a room and they will be almost 2 years apart too. i never had issues of sleep with our son but time will tell with our next baby who will be here nov 24th. i suggest maybe staggering their bedtimes. maybe put the baby to bed first or your son to bed first and maybe when the baby wakes up, your son may not be in bed yet or he will be knocked out by the time the baby starts rying. also maybe get the infant a small stuffed toy to help him fall asleep too. this helped a lot when we weaned our son off his binkie at night. also maybe a warm bottle for the baby will him fall asleep better at night. but i know when the baby wakes up, you shouldnt pick him up and rock him. you have to let him figure it out on his own. because what you do wil shape is sleeping habits for a longtime to come. trust me, when he starts crying he'll figure out a way to get himself to sleep. i sued to always run to my sons crib when he would wake up and cry and rock him and pick him up and turn on the tv-anything. then i stopped. he took about 2 weeks of crying like a maniac in the middle of the night, but he eventuall soothed himself to sleep. we only dealt with this around the time we weaned him off his binkie though. he went straight into his big boy bed. as for the toddler, maybe you can make a little palet on the floor in your room. and if he gets up anytime in the night, go to your bed. or maybe he'll jsut need extra naps during the day.
i was thinking about this recently since my kids will be sharing a room and they will be almost 2 years apart too. i never had issues of sleep with our son but time will tell with our next baby who will be here nov 24th. i suggest maybe staggering their bedtimes. maybe put the baby to bed first or your son to bed first and maybe when the baby wakes up, your son may not be in bed yet or he will be knocked out by the time the baby starts rying. also maybe get the infant a small stuffed toy to help him fall asleep too. this helped a lot when we weaned our son off his binkie at night. also maybe a warm bottle for the baby will him fall asleep better at night. but i know when the baby wakes up, you shouldnt pick him up and rock him. you have to let him figure it out on his own. because what you do wil shape is sleeping habits for a longtime to come. trust me, when he starts crying he'll figure out a way to get himself to sleep. i sued to always run to my sons crib when he would wake up and cry and rock him and pick him up and turn on the tv-anything. then i stopped. he took about 2 weeks of crying like a maniac in the middle of the night, but he eventuall soothed himself to sleep. we only dealt with this around the time we weaned him off his binkie though. he went straight into his big boy bed. as for the toddler, maybe you can make a little palet on the floor in your room. and if he gets up anytime in the night, go to your bed. or maybe he'll jsut need extra naps during the day.
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