Trying to get Dad to enjoy playtime with baby (one year old- but thinking down the road as well) a bit more. Any toys we’ve noticed dads enjoy more than others?

Obviously this is partly personality based but I’m open to all ideas!

There’s no update flair but this is somewhat of an update from my posts a few months ago where I shared how much 3yo was struggling with daycare (we started at 32 months).

We’ve now had five full months at daycare and this month has been the best yet. The transition back after the December break was slightly rough for a few mornings but teachers told me the sadness only lasted a minute or two. Kiddo was happy as can be when I went to pickup.

3yo stopped napping around 27 months old so I wasn’t worried about it going into daycare but this month toddler napped twice!! And woke up happy. And was annoyed when I went to pick them up because they wanted to keep playing there and I came ‘too early, go back to work mama!!’.

I cannot tell you how much agonizing I’ve done about switching to daycare and there were absolutely some rough weeks especially the first 3 months. But wow I can’t believe we made it to the other side. Kiddo loves their teachers and they are so doting.

Happy Friday!

Looking to switch up routine. So 15M can fall asleep without milky.

Our baby boy (9 months) has found his penis. He thinks it is the funnest new toy whenever he is diaper-less. I know this is a completely normal thing, and my husband has said that he doesn't want to create shame surrounding it which I agree with, but I'm not entirely sure how to handle it moving forward. Obviously there's not much you can do to stop an infant from exploring their bodies, not that you should anyways. I just want to hear from parents of older boys how they went about teaching them boundaries, and at what age did you start? I absolutely don't want to shame it, but I also don't want him to think it's okay to have his hands down his pants in the store or during play dates, etc lol. How and WHEN do I start teaching him his privates are just that - private?

What are people's experiences with weaning toddlers and sleep? My son has nursed to sleep since he was born and we co sleep. He started sleeping his nap at creche a month ago and he sleeps independently in the little bed there.

I'm starting to feel I maybe want to stop breastfeeding, but will we just lose loads of sleep once we don't have our usual method? Or could he potentially sleep better? He still wakes a few times a night, but it's easy to settle him with the boob.

I feel unsure whether I should stick it out a bit longer or try and wean him. He is pretty boob obsessed, so I'm expecting it to be rough.

He also has a language delay, which means he understands very little and it will be hard to communicate to him what is happening.

posting on behalf of my cousin, who doesn’t have reddit but needs some help. she’s going through it with her son having what i’d say is split nights and/or early morning wakes depending on the day, and could use some advice. if you read this and take the time to comment, we greatly appreciate you! ❤️

Almost 21 months. Normally/on a good day he wakes up for the day typically between 6:30/7am. Naps daily for 2 hours max usually 12pm-2pm (or earliest 11:30-1:30). Pajamas on by 7:30 and some playtime. Bedtime is between 8/8:30pm. He usually goes down initially very easy! If not, we do a quick 10/15min reset of puzzle or book. To go to sleep we have the sound machine on, lights off, rocking in chair with a couple ounces of milk. He likes to suck his thumb and play with my hair to fall asleep. Transfers to crib once asleep.

Taking a bath as part of the nighttime routine has made no difference. Quiet play or rough play before bedtime has also made no difference. He has a pillow and blanket. He hasn’t taken to a lovey or sleep sacks.

If we wakes up I don’t get him until he’s fully standing and yelling for Mama. If I don’t pick him up, he escalates and tries to climb out. I'll sit in the chair with him, sometimes he asks for baba and I give him a small amount of water or tell him it’s empty. I try to transfer him back to his crib and once I let go, he stands up. Rubbing his back, telling him to lay down, he refuses. If he doesn’t fall asleep in his chair with me he climbs off me, turns off his sound machine and says “done,” tries to open his bedroom door.

When he’d fall asleep after a first wake up I’d bring him in my room and bed share. He would either sleep through or easily fall back asleep if he was restless, but now if he wakes and sees he’s in my room he points to the door and wants to go back in his chair. It’s this on repeat for 2 hours 😮‍💨

For the past year I’ve watched my infant, now toddler seriously struggle with sleep. Anytime I ever mentioned it I was always brushed off as a sleep deprived mom, not understanding night wakings are normal. I was constantly asked “are you still co sleeping? Are you still breastfeeding” like it was so wrong.

I strongly believe in nurturing and attachment parenting. I believe mental health starts at infancy and I also believe that we have maternal instincts for a reason. I am such the minority where I’m from and I feel like people try to bear it out of me.

So after a year of anywhere from 8-16 night wakings, we have discovered my child likely has enlarged adenoids (she’s a heavy mouth breather, sleep disturbances, sweats, sounds congested when she’s not sick, etc). We saw an ENT who won’t do anything for us right now given my toddler is 19 months. At 2 they will check her ears and meet with us again. We saw a paediatrician yesterday who told us when she is closer to 2, maybe a steroid spray but just use reactine everyday and saline nasal spray. The same paediatrician told me to sleep train my baby, to stop breastfeeding as it serves to purpose other than create a comfort dependency and to sleep train so my daughter learns to get back to sleep on her own (she already does this). I’ve watched my child multiple times a night stop breathing, wake up scared and screaming. I’ve watched her have night terrors and scream “no, no, no”. I cannot imagine a world where I just let her figure it out on her own. Since cutting gluten and wheat from her diet I have seen longer stretches a night and only a few night wakings. She has blood work next week to see if there is a Celiac allergy.

I am just so disheartened that I live in a place where sleep training is the norm and I look like a parent whose child has them wrapped around their finger. Has anyone else experienced this? I waited so long for a paediatrician to see my daughter I just said “no thanks, I won’t be doing any of that” fearful of him firing us as patients. I really didn’t see how me breastfeeding or being responsive had anything to do with my daughter’s sleep apnea episodes.

I don't know where else to post this, posting on a throwaway account because my husband knows my main, I'm just trying to deal with how I'm feeling right now..

My husband has NEVER been violent even in the slightest and I have always felt the safest with him. But last night he had a nightmare that a raccoon (raccoons just killed 2 of our chickens 2 nights ago and came back last night too) jumped in our bed and he twitched awake, and in the darkness thought our baby's head (we all cosleep together with baby between me and him since 7mos old and she is 11mos now) and her dark hair was the raccoon and he freaked out and started whacking at her. I had just barely started falling asleep so I woke up immediately on his first twitch and realized he was freaking out from a dream and figured it was about a raccoon, and I tried my best to block him from hitting her and push him away while yelling STOP STOP STOP over and over.. He didn't whack super hard, none of the hits I blocked hurt me at all but our baby woke up crying and I had to get out of bed and walk her around to calm us down, and the whole incident had me shaking and feeling slightly traumatized, my heart was pounding.. We all went back to sleep after talking about it and calming down but I couldn't sleep well at all for the rest of the night since every little movement or sigh had me jumping up to push him away from the baby..

Now it's morning and my husband is working (he works from home so he's just down the hall) and I'm laying in bed with the baby (she's still sleeping) thinking about everything still and still feeling scared and traumatized by what happened. I feel bad for not being better able to protect my baby from his attacks, even though I tried to block him and push him back, some of whacks got through and hit her. I hope she isn't traumatized by this and doesn't become scared of him or hate him because of this. I felt unsafe next to him in bed all night after it happened and I hate that I feel like this but I'm so scared that this could happen again now and I don't know what to do.. we cosleep because it's way easier on me to just nurse baby back to sleep when she wakes all night long than having to get up out of bed and pick her up from the crib.. trying to get her to sleep independantly would mean a lot of sleepless nights for me again which was driving me crazy and the reason we started cosleeping in the first place. I also don't want to sleep separately from my husband, I know he feels awful about this and sleeping separate would probably make him feel even worse, as well as telling him how I'm feeling right now. He went through a medical scare recently too that changed a lot of things and I'm sure he's been feeling very stressed and not great lately which might have even contributed to this nightmare attack when nothing like this has ever happened with him before.

Anyways I'm sorry if I've broken any posting rules or if this is irrelevant to the sub but I just needed to vent this all out, and I know everyone here is more understanding about cosleeping so this was the only place I could think of to post without just getting responses against cosleeping..

We are moving to another country very soon: it is my dream country and a dream job, so I am very excited.

However, my baby will have to start daycare (he will be 12 months old then).

I am soooo anxious! I'm concerned he will be very stressed: he is a high contact baby, always looks for reassurance even when he is playing, and is not good with any alone time. But daycares just don't have enough staff to have somebody dedicated to him the entire time!

Plus, he only contact naps, and only falls asleep being held (while walking). Nobody is going to do that at a daycare.

Lastly, he is not a good eater and doesn't want to take a bottle (but I will try to get him used to it).

The good thing is that he has experience adjusting to strangers: he adjusted to 2 baby sitters (we had to hire a new one a few weeks ago and he got used to her within a week).

He is still so little and I know that, at this age, there are no benefits for babies to be at daycare. I feel very anxious and guilty.

(Unfortunately baby sitter is not an option in the new country, as prices are insane).

I guess I am just looking for some reassurance here. Some success stories maybe?

My little one is 13 months old. Of all the things about parenting, this is the one that has been the most confusing and conflicting for me: when should I wean her?

Here's what's confusing for me:

• she's nursing with more passion than before, for the past two months, ever since we had an incident where she bit me. I yelled no so she got scared, so she got into a 24 hour breastfeeding strike. It was horrible for both of us, I cried and and she cried, but we managed to get back. But ever since that day, it's like she realised that boobie can be gone, and she's been clinging to me so much.
• consequently, it's been hard for me to bf so many times, day and night, and I wish it would be a bit more relaxed, where she doesn't come to me every 30 minutes to ask to nurse. I do tell her every other time that boobie is asleep so it's not like I'm not setting some boundaries.
• My mom and my sister told me that it's best if I wean as early as possible cause it's going to ger worse for me to wean her later on. Is this true?
• I want to have another baby soon but I definitely want a break between bf and being pregnant and even more between bf her and the next baby that comes (I don't think I'm one for tandem breastfeeding)
• I'm so scared about her crying and having a hard time weaning, but I also don't think I can make it till she weans naturally cause I feel drained
• and lastly I think that a large part of me feeling drained is because I constantly feel I'm doing something wrong still breastfeeding and being afraid I'm digging myself a hole cause I'm not doing something to make her stop...

In a perfect world I would love to continue breastfeeding but only occasionally, for naps and such.

I look forward to your opinions ❤️

I literally trim my 9 month old's every other day, and he is STILL constantly scratching his face. Seems like as soon as one scratch heals, it is immediately replaced by another...

Just wanted to make a post for those of you in the thick of it with bad sleep. It can and does get better! (Probably jinxing it now though).

We’ve been through it all with my kid. Hourly wakes at the 4 mo sleep regression. 2 hour parties at 2am. Late bedtimes. Long, hard bedtimes with a kid screaming to go back downstairs. Went from nursing to sleep, to carrier walks to sleep even in winter, to hours of wriggling around in bed driving me mad until he eventually passed out.

We had to cosleep pretty much from day one. Wouldn’t sleep unless he was close to me. Nursed to sleep and for all wake ups. It was all on me - dad was not acceptable to him, especially not at night. As hard as it was, I stayed responsive. I knew my kid would not accept CIO. If, even with dad he screams for me, then I shudder to think how he would’ve reacted to any form of sleep training.

We went from nursing to sleep to carrier walks to sleep. Still periods of frustration where he took forever to go down, or would be going to bed at 11pm-midnight. At some point we switched to falling asleep in bed except it would be 1-2 hours or wriggling, non stop chatting etc. Often scream crying and demanding to go back downstairs.

He’s now 2.75. We have our little bedtime routine - pjs, book, teeth then up to bed. He wriggles for maybe 15 minutes, then chills for 5 minutes and falls asleep. He pretty much sleeps through the night (although may still have periods of light sleep where he wriggles a lot and that can disrupt my sleep a lot too). He pretty much sleeps 8pm-8am - we’ve never had any sort of predictability, ever. I will add he’s dropped his nap which definitely helped but he was sleeping through before that anyway, just only for 9-10 hours instead of 12.

Granted, this has only been the last few weeks that we’ve achieved easier bedtimes (and he’s been sleeping through for a few months now) and it’s probably all jinxed by making this post, but hoping it helps others know there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Sorry in advance for the long post! My almost 8 month old hasn't taken to solids how I had hoped. I'm keen to hear from other parents who had a rough start to solids and any tips you have!

We started at 5m as she was ready and interested. She had purees once per day for about a month and then the family health nurse told me at our 6 month apt I should be giving 3x per day as she was still feeding overnight.

I think this is where it went downhill...after a couple of weeks of doing 3x per day she started to cry and put her hands up to come out after less than a minute of being in the high chair. And went from eating maybe 1-2 tablespoons worth of food to 1 or 2 small mouthfuls and that's it. Shes just about to turn 8 months and will still have only a few mouthfuls and then is done.

I have tried to troubleshoot...changed high chair (bought a Tripp Trapp from marketplace), added variety to her meals (doing a mix of mashed food and BLW - she swallows even less of it if it's a finger food), reduced frequency to 2x per day etc. Some of this has somewhat helped but realistically she is not actually eating much at all.

She has bottles (mix of formula and expressed BM) and is drinking the same amount as before. I try to do meals about an hour after she has had milk.

Would love some tips or advice - I don't want to force anything but I also know she needs regular exposure and practice to learn the skill of eating, as well as dietary iron now that she is over 6 months old. Thank you!

Hi! My 16.5 month old had a 2 hr crying fit last night (on and off for 2hrs), even though I was holding him, rocking him, laying next to him, offered him water which he took a sip of. From 3:40am until 5:30 he didn’t give up asking for it and screaming when I said no, until I was too tired to continue and gave in. He nursed on the bed next to me, and slept for another 2.5hrs. He fell asleep within a minute of finishing nursing. And of course, it does feel horrible not giving him what he wants but I am ready to set some boundaries when it comes to this during the night. I feel like the habit of waking up for that in the middle of the night needs to be broken, so we can get some better quality sleep and I am ready to minimize breastfeeding to 2/day(right now on 3 per day with this one bf session at 5am). On some nights wakes up around 3 wanting to nurse, but he gives up after 15 minutes. Last night was the first time he wouldn’t give up for 2hrs. Not sure what else to do. He seems to want to bf around 3am always and I have somehow extended that until 5am, but not sure how to bridge that 3-5am struggle, and eventually not bf at all until he is up for the day, around 6:30 or 7am. When he wakes up asking to nurse at 3am he won’t let me put him back in his crib which is next to our bed, it seems like his sleep is so light around that time that he will immediately scream when I put him down, and if he does continue sleeping, it only lasts 15 minutes before he is up crying again. How did you do this?

Hi all,

My 18mo has been EBF since birth and I recently started getting aversion towards night feeds, probably because of the fact my body is starting to hurt sleeping in super awkward positions. Last night, I finally had the last straw and decided to cut her off of the middle of the night feeds. It was hell. I think I maybe only got a total of 3 hours of sleep. She woke up at least 4 times whining and crying, calling out for the boob but I did my best to stand my ground. I so feel terrible knowing that her sleep was also just as broken as mine. Adding that I am a FTM so all of this is new and let’s face it, idk what I’m doing. Lately I’ve been going back and forth with whether or not I’m gonna make it to her 2nd birthday with BF. I still enjoy the time we have during the day and even feeding to sleep but the middle of the night ones are killing me. Im so torn. 😭 If anyone has any advice or tips, please let me know. TIA.

Signed by a very sleepy and cranky mama this morning.

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Hi ! FTM and new to this sub.

My son is 8 months old and has never slept through the night. He’s still up for 1 bottle and 2-3 times for comfort(paci). His crib is in our room. I’m exhausted and it’s getting old. We will not be sleep training.

I’ve been thinking we should try co sleeping. Might be a stupid question, but in your experience has that helped with frequent wake ups ? Since he knows I’m right there ?

Question 2: We have a queen bed so co sleeping would be tight- but I’ve seen on this sub a lot of parents putting their convertible cribs against their bed and leveling the mattress to match the bed height. My hub is concerned about safety, crawling into our bed and falling off, crib height too heigh and being able to get himself out, ect) could you share your experience? I’m a light sleeper when it comes to my son and I’m 99.9% that would never happen on my “watch”, but there’s still that .1% that makes me nervous lol

Thanks for getting this far lol

-a sleepy mom

For context: one side of my family has bad teeth genetics and the other side has great. My teeth rarely get cavities and I expected my son to get the good genetics. He's 13 months now and I noticed last month that he was starting to get some white around his teeth. The dentist told me that is the beginning of cavities and to brush more frequently throughout the day. They never did X-rays to come firm.

Skip ahead to now and I am bringing him to the dentist again to get checked as his teeth now seem to be chipping, possible visible cavities.

(I know the mixed research and know cavities are highly genetic too but not only)

My question is to parents with kids who had early cavities and night nursed, what did you do?
Did you night wean and did the teeth stop getting worse? Did you continue and were just extra precautious and wiped the mouth at night as best you could? (He's a very emotional guy and I don't feel he's ready for weaning.) Did you end up going with SDF?

I'm expecting the worst tomorrow and trying to figure out what other people did to discuss my options with the dentist etc.

Up until around 4.5 months, my baby slept alone in his bassinet and seemed fine with it. He would sometimes wake up and we were always responsive. The 4 month sleep regression hit and we had weeks of waking up 4-8 times in the night and he would only go back to sleep if I nursed. It wasn’t sustainable and now I cosleep and it’s much better. We used to always be able to put him down for naps although they were short. I do not want to sleep train and I’m happy for contact naps and cosleeping, but I worry that I am creating a little contact monster. It would also be nice if my husband and I had a little bit of non baby time in the evenings. Would love any advice or stories or children who grew out of this phase without sleep training

hi, my son is starting in 8 months daycare. I know there's some time ahead but sometimes I start panicking about how is going to be the process, how he's going to cope, separation anxiety... also how many times is he going to be sick... it drives me crazy...

I guess I'm just asking for other experiences, and especially if someone's kid started at that age, how did it go? Thanks!

What would you doooooo?? My baby is actually 3.5 😂 I’ve always laid with her while she falls asleep, but when she’s at her dad’s house he tucks her in and leaves. He says he checks back on her and she’ll be asleep pretty soon after he leaves.

With me, we cuddle and chit chat a little, sometimes I tell her it’s time to stop talking if she’s really getting excited or staying up late, but mostly I lay there quietly with my eyes closed. She will lay awake for 20 minutes, easy, but sometimes up to an hour!!!

What would you do? She really needs to go to sleep earlier, she’ll be up til 11:30 pm sometimes.

But I know yall understand the bonding that happens and I know she’s going to put up a fight if I start putting her to bed like her dad does.

What would you do??

My baby is 5.5 months old. We cosleep using safe 7 - which I don't mind and am not looking to change. But since around 4.5 months I've been dealing with repeated split nights and I'm losing my mind from lack of sleep.

My baby has never slept independently and always wanted to be held to sleep since day 1 - so cosleeping helped us cope (he felt similarly comforted when sleeping beside me). For a while he did so well nursing right back to sleep throughout the night but then suddenly the split nights began and sometimes he'd poop in the middle of the night so I'd have to change him which meant he was wide awake.

He will wake up anywhere between 2-4am and be wide awake for 2-2.5 hours. I stay up with him and wait for sleepy cues. He doesn't nurse to sleep anymore and demands on being rocked to sleep again, and even then sometimes he springs awake as soon as I set him down.

He is bottle averse and exclusively breastfed (I've tried everything under the sun and even consulted an LC, so no suggestions needed here - just the cards we've been dealt 🥲). On top of this he has developed a very deep attachment to me over my partner for bedtime sleep and screams his head off any time my husband tries to rock him to sleep which means it's near impossible for me to sleep if I hand him off.

I've (regretfully) tried sleep training methods in the past and aside from my own deep distress and heartbreak putting him through that - I've just come to realise he is NOT responsive to it. I've tried the whole layering sleep associations like patting and shushing, but he also just cries his head off harder and harder until I rock him.

I'm growing increasingly exhausted and frustrated and I am not dealing well with the split nights and lack of sleep.

I'm so desperate to figure out if I'm doing something wrong or if this is a phase I just have to move through. I try to follow the possum sleep method and go by his sleep cues, but sometimes he's napping a lot in the day and I'm not sure if i should be capping his naps or if that's just something the sleep training industry says.

If anyone has experience with split nights, or even just some kind words for me right now I would deeply appreciate it. I don't have a village right now and we are largely coping on our own. I love my baby so much but the lack of sleep is making me feel like a monster.

Going through some serious sleep deprivation right now and I'm starting to let it out on my son (and husband) by being moody, short tempered and overall not as pleasant to play (or be) with. What do you guys do to keep going when you are tired?

I planned to start weaning my daughter when she turned 2 but i’m now pregnant and my body is telling me it’s time to stop. she slept with me in my room until 18 mo and now she is in her room on a floor bed. my husband started going in just for her first wake-up and there was some protest but he was able to get her back to sleep most nights. she cries the second she sees him come in (doesn’t cry when i come in). about 4 nights ago we started having my husband go in for all wakeups before 2 am (she’s usually up every 2 hours or more when she’s sick which she currently is).

the last 2 nights she becomes so inconsolable she won’t let either of us touch her and i’m worried we are damaging our attachment or that we are making this whole weaning experience negative for her. i’m feeling like this is a sign we should pause all weaning efforts? i’m a ftm, haven’t bought any weaning guides or anything. i considered buying heysleepybaby guide. i’m just trying to take it slow because my hormones are wild with this pregnancy. please help!!!

Babe 15.5M usually nurses to fall asleep nap / nighttime. But he’s been waking almost every night around 3-4 and needs soothing.

I am guessing it could be bc he nurses to sleep ?

He keeps waking around 3/4 am dad tries to settle and then mom and half the time he needs to nurse and cuddle to fall asleep again.

He’s had a few good nights but now it’s back to waking which is frustrating.

So any tips to help with nighttime sleep especially bc he ends up being awake for 60-90min

What is a gentle approach to help with this. Do I leave him for few min and keep checking in ? I

I am winging it sharing with my toddler. He is 2 years old and I don't feel like he would know how to get out of if a blanket is over him. In winter I'd rug up and put him in a sleep sack while my hubby next to us had a full single blanket on.

I'd love to start using sheets and blankets again, but when do you start introducing them? If I use any blankets usually I put toddler on top of them. All blankets I use are super breathable too like wool.

Any thoughts and help with what to use when bed sharing I'd appreciate it. Thanks

I'm really struggling with working and understanding that I can still have a secure attachment with my son. I have to work unless we make major changes, which is something we have discussed, but as of right now it is what it is. So, I work 4 or 5 days a week, 9-5 currently. So I spend 2-3 whole days with baby, plus 7am-9am & 5pm-8:30pm everyday. I am his primary caregiver to a fault at home. We breastfeed, have coslept during difficult times (sickness, overall extreme trouble sleeping - primarily now at 7 months he sleeps in the crib). My aunt and MIL either spend 2 days a week (9-5) with him or 2/aunt 3/MIL if I work 5. I also come home during lunch hour to see him. I really am just looking for encouragement and reassurance. I am so excited and blessed for this life, but all I have ever wanted is to take care of my baby (hopefully future babies) but as of right now this is just the option. Thank you for any response!

Isn’t this a little early? For the last week or so baby has gotten hysterical when my MIL holds her. (MIL has visited at least once a week since baby was born and this was never an issue before.) It’s happened both when I’m in the room and when I’m not.

This is the 3rd time this week my baby has lost her mind with MIL. I’m exhausted physically and emotionally from having to re-soothe her so many times.

All the advice I’ve been given from others is to let her cry with MIL (“a loving caretaker”) and to not intervene because “that will make it worse”. Basically implying if I don’t allow baby to get used to MIL again and/or “allow MIL to figure out how to soothe” I will never be able to go to the dentist again or leave baby for short periods.

I haven’t felt comfortable with that and after a few minutes of her crying I can’t take it anymore and take her back. She would immediately stop crying but after the repeated attempts she got harder and harder to soothe.

What do I do? On one hand, yes I want to utilize the reliable loving caretaker we have. On the other, how can I spend an hour at the dentist when I’ll be thinking about how long baby will have been crying by the time I get home??

ETA Dad works from home and can give me some breaks, but for longer outings (dentist, pelvic floor PT, doctors appointments) we were relying on his mom