I have a feeling that colicaid just makes a crying baby sleep. Everytime I give my 4 month old colicaid when I don't know why she's crying, it seems like she settles down within 5 minutes. I don't really know if it was stomach ache or just the end of a very long sleep battle.

Has anyone faced this? I hope colicaid doesn't have any sleep inducing substance

Her body kinda forms a triangle and I’m worried for her spine but it seems like she just wants to sit this way, but obviously can’t yet. She is almost 5 months!

I have no idea but I gave birth two nights ago and my nurse told my dr that baby was at the birth canal and that baby would be here in minutes and the dr said to start pushing and left the room, like 2 contractions later babies head came out and my nurse told me to stop pushing and called the doctor

The doctor came and just pulled the baby out and didn’t wait for a contraction or anything and I got a 2nd degree tear, I’m curious to know if that could’ve been caused by her just pulling the baby out or if that’s just something that would’ve been unavoidable.

What is your feeding schedule for your 8 month old? How many meals are you doing? When are you fitting in the bottles & how many bottles/oz are they getting a day?

Right now my 8 month old is eating breakfast and lunch and I’m trying to figure out how to fit dinner into our schedule with him still taking a full bottle before bed.

My baby is 12 weeks. I want to preface this by saying I know I’m lucky cuz my baby generally does one longer stretch of sleep. He goes down around 9:30pm and sleeps until 4am. So almost 7 hours.

But his screeching cries spring me awake at 4am every morning. My heart is racing. I feed him. But he will not accept his bassinet after 4am. If I put him down, he wakes up instantly.

So we've resorted to co sleep and he’s STILL unsettled all morning. He sleeps but every 5 minutes he’s writhing and grunting around. So I TRY to catch a few more zzz myself, but it’s extreme fragmented with a squirming baby right next to me. Honestly I probably feels worse than not sleeping at all.

By 6-7am, he’s so full of beans we just get up for the day.

I read so many posts about babies of similar age who go to bed at 7pm and sleep until like 8am. I don’t get it. How do you get your baby to sleep so much and so late ?? Especially in the bassinet.

I’m so tired of getting up at 4am 7 days a week. Even 5:30am is way more doable. The days are so long. I take care of my baby for 16h a day. I’m so tired.

My questions:

Will this fix itself naturally. Similar to how he dropped his earlier (1-2am) MOTN feed, he will eventually drop the 4am one too and keep sleeping? If not, will sleep training help him accept his bassinet after 4am? Any success stories or perspective from those a few months ahead. I need hope!

Did your LO eat less and sleep more the day after? Mine normally eats 4oz and has been hard to get to eat 2

I heard the rule that if a baby does one of their firsts (first steps, first word, etc.) in the care of a babysitter, no they didn't. Meaning if you're babysitting a baby/toddler and they have a 'first', just don't tell the parents because that's painful to miss out on. I've lived by that and asked my in-laws to as well.

They babysat my son one time. Just once. He was 13 months old and on the verge of walking. My husband asked his mom very clearly, if he has his first steps with you, please do not tell us. It was really hard for me to be comfortable leaving him overnight but I felt like for my sanity and well being of our marriage we needed a night away. I finally got through a course of antidepressants, baby was sleeping through the night and I needed to feel like a person for a weekend. We were gone for only 24 hours.

Well we come back and guess what MIL says.. yea, he took some steps this weekend. I pretended not to hear because if it's true I would be really upset with myself. My husband said oh no he didn't and changed the topic really fast.

Would this bother you? Things with my MIL have basically gone down the toilet since my babies were born so I'm not sure if this really isn't a big deal.

I have a very good sleeper. (Usually). This has just started the past few nights, waking up every 2-4 hours whining/upset? I’m convinced it must be teething. Is there anything I can do? I have just been placing baby on the breast and baby goes right back to sleep.

I am a FTM with a 4.5 month old boy. I am to the point where i need to seek medication for my depression and anxiety. My hand tremble everyday from the anxiety i feel and my depression is full force now that my son has basically weaned himself off the breast in the past week and a half. Im besides myself. I need help at this point. I want to die. I want to just go to the grippy sock hotel but i don’t want anything against me and my rights to my child. Please help me. What do i do.

Hello! I’m currently due in July but I’m a planner so I have these thoughts going through my head all day.

We live in a 2 bedroom condo. Our second bedroom is an office me and my fiancé both have desktop computers, a PS5, and a VR. So the space is well used. We can’t justify giving a whole bedroom to a baby who will only sleep in it, when we use it regularly. Our master bedroom is rather large with 1 large closet and a small closet.

So our options are

1. Putting the crib in our master bedroom. It would be right next to my bed. Essentially dedicating 1/3 of the room to baby. With track curtains to have a bit of separation.

2. Converting my closet to a nursery. It has enough room for a crib on the right and a full size dresser on the left. I would also consider replacing the door with an accordion door or curtain for airflow. Moving all my clothes to a wardrobe (where baby’s crib would be in the first option)

I’m worried about option 1. I’ve become a very light sleeper. I know babies will fuss in their sleep but not necessarily need to be soothed. I’m worried I will wake up at every little noise when they’re right next to me. However if they’re in the closet maybe it wouldn’t be as bad..?

I’d love to hear your positive and negative experience with room sharing. Also if you’ve converted a closet to a nursery, what were some things you’ve had to adjust.

So, I went to the hospital 1cm dilated. Female doctor sees me and says “I don’t think you are in labor. Do you want to go home or wait to get checked again in 2 hrs?” I said wait to get checked again. Mind you I wasn’t handling the pain. 2 hrs later I am 3cm and the doctor(new dr after shift changed) says I am indeed in labor they should admit me and start me on pitocin.

I refuse pitocin because I was a TLAC and my regular obgyn said it can cause uterine rapture. I said if I don’t progress naturally I will take pitocin but it’s too early. Mind you I was crying and shaking from the pain. Doctor says “do you have a mental health condition or is this pregnancy hormones?” I don’t have a mental health condition, I don’t take anxiety or depression medication and I am fine in general while going to therapy for wellness. Anyway some hrs go by I am now 5cm without pitocin. And I NEED pain relief. The anesthesiologist comes in all great. They tell me they don’t offer walking epidurals this is a regular one and I won’t be able to walk. Ok fine at this point I was so much in pain I would take anything. It’s now 3:30am I am telling them I am in pain again after epidural. I tell them I feel like pushing please bring the doctor to check me… Anesthesiologist comes to give me a top off and tells me doctor is coming. No doctor came until like 6 am and I was there lying feeling like pushing for almost 2 hrs. 6:30 and they told me to push, midwife said “ I can touch the baby’s head…. Would you like to touch it?” I was like “no ma’am” Baby came 20 minutes later with minimal pushing Today the pediatrician who saw my son said his head is coney and remarked “was he stuck in the birth canal for a while?” Idk I am only a few days out of delivery but I am very concerned I can’t control my pee and it feel incredibly “heavy” down there. Midwife said I had a second degree tear and it all went ok with fixing it.

i have to go back to work around dec 30th when my baby will just be over a month old. I feel like shit. my partner has been trying to find a job that can support us both and i just feel angry about this. it’s not his fault and i know it’s a privilege to be able to be home and it’s just getting less and less feasible for families all over but i’m dying here. i just want to be home with my baby more than anything. she doesn’t have to go to daycare but my partner works less days a week than i do so i will have to work 4/5 days while he works 3, because that’s how his schedule is. i do not want to be away from my baby that often.

My 11 month old male baby it crawling everywhere and at times he just guns towards a wall and starts just banging his head.

I know looking it up its kind of common but 1. He doesn't do it when hes sleepy like he just wakes up and just goes towards our wall at the top of the bed.

How did you all handle this?

If we don't stop him after like 10 secs he just starts crying because it hurts.

He doesn't show signs of autism as far as I can tell. Wife is Filipino and has never heard of anyone in Philippines doing this, she is just concerned and seeing you you all know anything because googling it doesn't really get me anywhere

He is teething so any help with tips and tricks as it might be related to frustrations of that I assume.

Boy, where do I start? Let’s start off with unreliable he is for the most basic of situations. He doesn’t wake up until 1pm right before he has to go to work and does not help with our son in any capacity during the days when he’s scheduled for work. I told him to hold off on insurance through his employer so we could shop insurance marketplace and he told me the deadline was coming up so he renewed insurance for my son and himself but didn’t add me because he thought I meant I was looking for my own. (No you f*cking dunce, I was looking for all of ours) and I told him to check if I can still get on because I lost coverage a month ago which qualifies me as a special event. I’ve asked him to check over and over while he’s at work but he never has time because he has people to manage. I tried to wake him up just now to go in early so he can do this and he argues with me that he can’t do it right that second. Like are you for real? He acts like a teenage man baby. I can’t rely on him for shit. I quit my lovely job to be a sahm because I didn’t want to leave my son and my husband said child care would be easier. Now I realize it’s because he wanted me to do all the child rearing and him not lift a god damn finger for our kid. He says he busts ass at work so I can stay home (which in itself is true) but I can’t rely on him to get anything else done. I actually want to slap him awake as hard as I can and scream at him to tell him to be a fucking adult and get a grip and help me.

I want to love him but I really do not like him right now. He doesn’t even offer me physical affection outside of a peck or a hug and it makes me feel lonely and unwanted. I want help and love.

I’ll probably delete this later but that’s how I feel right now.

My little daughter is starting to eat solids and I have just read on Google that you are not supposed to make purées with breastmilk and store them in the fridge. That instead add the breastmilk to the purée when you you are ready to serve. I just made a bit of avocado and breastmilk earlier. Do I have to discard it?!

And since I am making this post I am going to ask another question. How much quantity of solids and how often do your 5-6 month old babies eat?

Anybody know of a pacifier with the same nipple shape as the lansinoh bottles? My baby really loves that shape it seems and while she will take other pacifiers, she just calms down so much faster with the lansinoh nipple. As soon as it touches her mouth.

I’m 25 weeks today. Even though I still have a while to go I’m a planner and want to make sure I have all my ducks in a row. I’ve been postponing creating my birth plan because of the overwhelming opinions of others and how many factors to consider (I have been doing research on my own but haven’t committed to anything). Can someone please break down what specifically I should include in my birth plan. I know I want an epidural, I also know I want skin to skin for as long as possible and delayed clamping. What are good resources/what are the other major decisions to look into? TIA

Hi all, looking for advice or guidance. I am going back to work next week and I am still conflicted if I am going to keep my job or transition to something per diem. I am feeling extremely down this week and I am having a really hard time mentally and physically. I feel weak and physically exhausted. I am slowly and gradually weaning from breast-feeding because I feel like it’s just too much Demand on my body and I’m sick of feeling like my body is not my own. I also just don’t see it being feasible when I go back to work. I guess what I’m looking for is validation or reassurance. Am I sad because I’m weaning, albeit slow (about an hour more between sessions each week)? Am I sad because of work? I just don’t know who to talk to about work or what to do about everything. It all feels so daunting and like such huge decisions.

I’m signing up my family for the state WIC program. My 8-month old has been on Similac 360 Total Care since birth and we’ve had no problems with it at all. The WIC program doesn’t cover this formula and we are having to switch to one that they offer. Out of the list at the bottom, is there one that is closest to our formula now? If anyone else has had luck switching from Similac 360 I would love to hear about it, as well as what I could be expecting for the first few days/weeks and what to watch out for.

Similac Advance / Similac Soy Isomil / Similac Sensitive / Similac Total Comfort /

I'm not sure where to post this, but I need to talk about it; it's just so urgent in my mind and everyone around me isn't interested in more than an acknowledgement. I'm looking for some corroboration.

So, I know the hormones when you give birth are WACK, but I felt both the most intense feelings of love and fear after birth. I found myself in tears so easily whenever I thought of my love for my baby, my family, my partner. Everything felt so meaningful and fragile. I would also have intense floods of fear when I thought of SIDS risks, of outside forces harming my baby (intentional and benign). I worried about every little thing that wasn't perfect (still kinda do). I've been told this is typical new mom stuff.

Now 10mos PP, my hormones are calmer but I still get moments of intense fear, moreso now for the future. I look at my baby and the immense weight of her innocence bears down on me. The injustices of the world hit me so personally now. Any of that bad stuff could happen to her one day. It doesn't help to see the news with stories of children dying here or elsewhere. It doesn't help seeing news about violence against women, or hear jokes about how "the kids are cooked". It doesn't help hearing how the future is fucked. The fact that there is only one of my baby in the whole world is so huge. She means so much. Every baby means so much.

Do these feelings dull? Is there any way to feel safe? Is this just motherhood?

Has anyone else had this issue? What do I do? Nothing will change and right before she falls asleep or randomly while sleeping she startles awake scream crying

The doctor said most babies don’t have pain from teething, and it should be minor and not really require pain meds; our baby seems to be in pain when pushing out a tooth and we've been giving tylenol as needed... need some validation here...

What are everyone’s plans? My husband has a huge extended family and there are many holiday events. I just held baby for Thanksgiving which worked bc it was smaller and not as long, but am looking for tips for longer baby wearing at events. Also, what are you wearing while wearing your little one? Some of the events are more formal (husband will be wearing a suit?) so any ideas would be appreciated too!

I didn’t think it would be this hard to go about my day job after having a baby. I feel like my entire focus has shifted from my career to my baby and I legit cannot focus at work. Has this happened to anyone? Have you thought about leaving your job? Does it get better?:( I am lucky enough to be able to work from home and travel for work but it makes it a little bit more difficult working when I can hear my baby. My focus has just shifted and I have no more interest in working like I used to. :(

I’m 12m postpartum and my husband and I are TTC again.

And WOW all I can say is that ovulation is intense. Much more intense than before baby one was conceived.

It kind of feels like I’m dying and my poor husband can’t catch a break. It’s incredibly clear when I’m ovulating now and I feel like an insatiable monster.

Has anyone else experienced unintentional weight loss after becoming a mother? My pre-baby weight was always around 134 lbs, and it never seemed to budge. I had a healthy first pregnancy with a good 40lbs or so of weight gain. I am now 2.5 years postpartum and I just keep losing weight. I’m now at 124 lbs… which is 10 lbs below my normal weight. I know some people might think this is a “good” problem, but honestly I am looking gaunt, none of my clothes fit and no amount of makeup is making me look fresh any more. I also recently turned 35. I still eat well and haven’t had any health issues, outside of being constantly sick with a virus because of my daughter being in daycare. Has anyone else experienced this…? Is this normal? I miss my pre-baby healthy body and glow. Sigh.

My 4.5 month daughter found her thumb about a month ago and I’m not mad about it! It helps her self soothe like a charm, and I’ll worry about her teeth when she has teeth lol- right now, this works and she has never take a paci, we’ve tried A LOT of them.

However, I guess now that it’s winter and the air is drier, it’s making her thumb chapped? Like red and rough patches. I’m not trying to get her to kick the habit yet, so how can I treat her thumb without taking away the one soothing habit that allows us all to sleep? 😅 Would coconut oil work? Or could that backfire and make her eat her thumb 24/7 lol? Right now she only sucks it when she’s falling asleep.

Please help. I am 39 and a FTM. My baby girl will be 2 months tomorrow. Being an older mom, I’m fairly well established in my career and I contribute a lot to our household income. When I got pregnant, I knew I’d have to go back to work and it honestly was not a concern at all. I love my job. The daycare we are using is in the building right next to my office and I can pop in at any time throughout the day.

I’m taking 16 weeks of leave from my job and my husband will take 4 weeks after I start back so baby will be a week shy of 5 months when she starts daycare. Logically, I know she will be fine but…I just can’t. I still have a month and a half at home with her but all I can think about is how much it will suck having to leave her. Will they follow our schedule? How will she be able to nap with all those other babies in the room? How can I let someone else change her diaper?! I’m tearing up as I write this post. The guilt and anxiety I feel about having to leave her is crippling. We could afford for me to quit my job if we moved to the suburbs but I can’t ask my husband to completely upend our lives. We talked this through when I got pregnant and I was completely agreeable to going back to work. I feel so stupid for getting pregnant when I’m not able to stay home and care for my baby.

Edit: quitting my job, going part time and working from home are not an option for me. If they were, I wouldn’t be posting. I think I would appreciate hearing from other moms who have put their children in daycare and maybe been through what I’m going through.

Baby is 8 months, she has used the Fisher Price Kick and Play everyday for hours since about 4 weeks old.

Now that she’s all over the place, the two posts on the floor on either side are just getting in her way. She also keeps trying to use the over arch thing to pull up or to balance on and wipes out.

She loves the piano so I was thinking of just keeping that and getting rid of everything else as she seems to have outgrown the rest of it now.

Tell me, is there any reason I can think of that I should keep it or save it or does make sense to toss it?

ETA- thanks everyone! Consensus seems to be a lot of babes outgrew it around now & no reason to keep or save it to bring out again.

I’ll keep the piano & some of the toys out now & just toss the rest of it to give away later on when she’s done with the piano & toys.

My 8-month-old has reflux and is on Nutramigen, since it seemed like he has/had dairy-soy intolerance but it doesn’t help much. He spits up a lot, especially with certain veggies or meats. I started solids at 4 months with rice cereal and now mix it with fruits, veggies, or egg yolk, but the spit-ups are exhausting. Family advice to ‘just feed him everything’ isn’t helpful given his issues. Any advice or similar experiences?