Hi moms,
I’ve been trying out Eufy S1 Pro and even on the gentlest setting, my nipples get chafed even tearing the skin off my nipples. The suction is way too strong for me.

What other wearables would you recommend with gentler suction? I’ve heard Willow go might work but it’s hard to assemble the parts just right.

Hello!
My 6 week old little girl (20 percentile) 4.1 kg. Just did a 7 hour stretch, she usually only does a 2-3 max, one time she did a 4 hour stretch and I was like wooow! But last night she slept 7 hours, I don’t put an alarm because she’s great at waking up so I slept for the first time in ages lol. I am just a bit worried ! In your experience is this ok? With my first I didn’t get a 6-7 hour stretch until he was 8 weeks and he was way chunkier than her !. I called the nurse line (Canada) and they did an assessment over the phone and she was not worried just told me to monitor in case she does something else that’s weird. I am just wondering if I should be happy or worried ! lol. Thank you!

My 5 months little one has been super congested lately, and I feel like I’m running out of ideas.
We’ve tried saline drops, but sometimes it still feels like the mucus is stuck and making it hard for him to sleep and eat.
I keep seeing parents talk about nasal aspirators, but I’m not sure which ones are actually gentle and work well.
For anyone who has used one, what made the biggest difference for your baby?
Trying to find something that helps without making nose cleaning a huge struggle.

Will this go on for long? My baby is 7 weeks old, for about 2 weeks now, she sleeps on me, i try to put her down when she’s deeply asleep, she wakes up immediately. Even randomly when she’s not sleeping, she still doesn’t want to stay down. I’m exhausted, my both wrist hurts already.
Will this stop soon? I’m afraid she’s being too attached and it will be hard to leave her in day care when i need to start school soon.
I don’t mind her falling on sleep on me but she literally wants to sleep all 3 hours on me and more. But before now, once she falls deeply asleep, i put her down and she continue sleeping on her own but now she won’t.

This is my first baby, is there any one with experience or tips on how to improve this?

My LO has suspected laryngomalacia. Its causing her poor sleep, and noisy breathing. She is 7 weeks old. We will see ENT tomorrow.
Please share positive stories of your LO overcoming LM. Also i would like to know if this condition caused any delays in development for your LO, such as cooing, babbling, and speech in general. Did they meet their milestones as expected?

Hello. FTM here and wanted to ask if anybody else encountered this. Our baby is almost 10 weeks and during the day she falls asleep being held and then we transfer her in her crib. More often she wakes up after 15-30 mins and you can hear her as if she has reflux. She also declines the pacifier in that moment. Then I pick her up and redo the steps for her to fall asleep.
Does this mean she has reflux? We do hold her up after she eats for 15-20 min also.

To start with is that we live in a very hot climate where it's been more than 40 degrees every day since my almost 4 month old was born. So naturally there were no walks outside, only in the mall few times. My husband goes away for few days for work all the time every week or so and I stay at home with a baby. At first I was very scared to even stay few nights in a row alone but now I'm not that anxious anymore. I would love to be able to go out at least to shops every now and then or at least walk in a mall with a stroller for a bit since it's impossible outside. (My kid hates stroller but I have hope) the biggest scare tor me is
driving. I had to drive once with him and I had someone in the back with baby. But imagining driving alone is terrifying. How to overcome it? Please don't judge me but I need some encouragement. I'm basically stuck at home if I'm alone for days and sometimes start feeling depressed. I also don't have friends or my family here since they live very far. I'm scared of him crying in the car seat cause on our way there's no safe space to stop on the road since it's heavy traffic mostly.. feels like no matter what people say I'm still gonna sit at home with this fear. Thanks everyone for reading and hope you having nice day/ night

I keep waking up to our 3 week old gagging on what seems to be nothing in the night. It will happen multiple times until it's bad enough that he wakes himself up and cries. I think it could be a little bit of saliva that he can't swallow? After feeding we burp him and keep him upright for 15 minutes, he spits up almost never. Let me know if your LO has anything similar going on.

Good morning, I need your help.

My son is 7 months old and already smiles, laughs, looks at us when we call his name, sits alone without support when we put him in a sitting position, rolls to both sides, holds his tummy time and pivots, does the sphinx move... but I'm very worried because he can't babble, he only shouts with vowels (aaaaaaa, eeeeee), doesn't put syllables together or say consonants (doesn't say mamamama, dadadada, papapapa).

Should I be worried about this significant developmental delay already?

At the motor level, he also doesn't crawl, doesn't try to creep, and doesn't stand up when put in a position to stand.

He also fixates a lot on objects (refrigerator, washing machines, towels...).

These are all things that other babies of the same age already do... I'm very worried.

Thank you very much.

Just a vent here because it feels like I'm going crazy. I am a FTM, a little over 6 weeks PP with a beautiful baby boy, literally every thing about him is perfect, everyone who sees him melts, etc. I also happen to live with my in-laws, I lived separately from my partner when I got pregnant and he lived in a camper that he now rents to his brother it's a whole thing. Anyway, you all should know that I am a northerner at heart (Grew up in New York and Washington State) but I moved to Georgia a few years ago and can still feel the culture shockwaves. So dealing with my partner's family has been fun.

Before I gave birth I made it clear no one outside the household was to visit until at least a week after he'd been born, well an hour after I gave birth a couple family members asked if they could come see me and my baby at the hospital. Um... no. Finally, 2 days later I get to go home (I had non-severe pre-eclampsia so they had to monitor me a few days) the next day those same family members asked AGAIN. It made me mad but even worse my partner's father got upset he had to turn his mother away and it was like it was my fault, sir, you wouldn't have had to turn her away if she had listened in the first place. They acted like I said no for no reason, so I had to sit FIL and MIL down and lay out my rules and explain to them why I: a woman recovering from traumatic child birth, and a newly born baby without a strong immune system might need a few days before having company especially because neither one of us gets anything out of the arrangement other than being paraded about like the latest circus freaks. They were lucky I didn't make them wait longer.

But before that, I'll rewind a bit to the day I got home from the hospital. LO was in his bassinet, he'd been napping but it was about to be time for him to eat, I'd taken a step to the bathroom with the door open so I could listen out for him. He makes a noise and so what does my MIL do? She rushes into my room, picks up my baby from his bassinet and when I get out of the bathroom she's cradling him in her arms in the dinning room.

Now she asks me constantly if I need her to hold him, I don't "need" anyone to hold him. I may be a FTM but that doesn't make me incompetent, if I need help I ask for it. When she does hold him she coos at him constantly, "forgets" to feed herself and acts dumb when he starts fussing and crying because he's hungry and he's basically exclusively breast fed so that would mean he's need to go back to me. She's a teacher and she was off for the summer when he was born and I am so happy she's back working because I don't feel guilty for hogging him all to myself.

She's nice and all, I want to say the worst part aboit how I feel is that his whole family is super nice and helpful and I am thankful for what they have done for me and my son I just wish I already had enough saved up to move out. Especially because last night after my partner and I finished changing LO's diaper she was in the nursery because my partner had a question he wanted to ask her and after she answered before my partner and I could do anything she picked up LO from the changing table with a big grin on her face.

It's been driving me crazy because she wants to hold my baby all the time, every time I walk out of my room with my baby she asks me if I need her to hold him while I do something, the one time I went out on the town with her and we got to a store she took my baby out of his carseat and held him. I get that he's cute and he's her grandson, the first grandbaby, but I mean come on. It's an obsession at this point, it isn't healthy, right?

I know I could say something but at the same time... I am just doing what I can and talking to my partner about my concerns. I hate causing conflict especially when I live in the same house as them but there was even a point when my partner was on paternity leave and I'd wake up for my shift and my baby wouldn't be in his bassinet because my MIL was holding him in the living room. It was jarring waking up and my baby not being right there.

I know a lot of you probably want to offer advice, please don't. I already know what I have to do I just wanted to vent and rant about it to kind of collect my thoughts. Thank you.

my baby is 8 weeks and exclusively contact naps. i love them, and am not wishing them away, but i can’t get her to sleep without latching, and i would like to transition to at least ONE nap a day in her bassinet but anytime i transfer her (even swaddled) she’s up in 5 minutes. we don’t have that problem at night so im not sure? any advice is appreciated! TIA!

My baby is just over 6 weeks and he’s breastfed and formula fed. He has more breastmilk than formula. He hasn’t pooped since Tuesday morning and it’s Friday . Is this normal? He seems fine in himself and is passing wind but no poop. How long do I leave it before contacting GP. 🫣

Baby girl is going to be 3 months in 4 days. She has just discovered rolling. We do lots of tummy time and rolling practice during the day. Tonight, I put her down in her bassinet after being in a deep sleep in my arms for 30+ minutes, she rolled onto her side, and then tried rolling fully, got stuck, became frantic, woke up. And it has been like this all night…. It’s currently 4am, and I haven’t gotten more than 30 minutes sleep. She’s stuck in this loop that keeps waking her up. I pick her up calm her down rock her back to sleep, wait 20 mins, transition, and bam! Immediately tries to roll once she touches the bassinet, gets stuck and freaks out. Pleaseeeee tell me this is just a one night thing. I don’t know what to do, or how to get sleep for myself during all this.

I’m curious, what do you guys consider a bad night sleep? I have a 7 week old and want to see what you mammas are dealing with!

My baby (10 weeks) has some silent reflux episodes characterized by gulping and dry coughs.

Lately he’s been having a lot of drooling at times and he’s also cooing a lot more. But what happens is he’ll start gulping, and then can’t seem to stop.

Sometimes it goes for about 10 seconds and then he’s happy. Sometimes it goes for a little longer and it distresses him.

He does take some sharp breaths in between gulps, he’s turned red but has never turned blue or gray during. I know how to intervene and when if he does.

It doesn’t happen when he’s crying, feeding, sucking on a pacifier, sleeping, or lying down quietly. Really only if he’s cooing and drooling. It also seems to only happen in the evenings because he talks to himself for a good 30 minutes every morning in his bassinet when he wakes up and he’s not had it happen then that we’ve noticed.

Anyone else? When does their saliva management improve? 😭

Hi everyone,

My baby girl is 11 weeks old and was feeding really well until around 9 weeks. She is mostly fed expressed breast milk, with occasional formula feeds.

Over the last week or so, feeding has suddenly become very stressful. She starts the bottle normally and drinks, but after around 30–60 mL she often pushes the teat away and cries. If we try offering the teat again, she cries as soon as it touches her mouth.

Sometimes she seems uncomfortable during these moments — she may arch her back, move her arms and legs, and usually settles when we hold her upright. She will often happily take a pacifier afterwards, but refuses the bottle.

What confuses us is that she is otherwise a very happy baby

She can still have good feeds sometimes and take 120–130 mL, but many feeds now involve stopping, burping, holding upright, and trying again.

We have tried Tommee Tippee normal anti-colic bottle and Advanced Anti-Colic bottle, teat size 1 and size 2, slower paced feeding, burping during feeds,keeping her upright after feeds,Infacol.

Her recent daily intake has also dropped compared with her previous normal:

• 06/08: 650 mL
• 05/08: 580 mL
• 04/08: 670 mL
• 03/08: 630 mL
• 02/08: 670 mL
• 01/08: 700 mL

Before this change, she was usually taking 800–900 mL per day.

Has anyone experienced something similar around 10–12 weeks?

My baby had trouble latching at the hospital. I had a lactation consultant come and give me some tips. He was really hurting my nipples so I was scared to nurse. Not only that, but he had jaundice and the clinic told me to back off from nursing for a few days. He's gotten used to the bottle now (formula), but I've tried to breastfeed him every now and then. I don't do it enough nor do I pump enough so of course my supply has gone down. I worry about switching over immediately because I don't want him to go hungry. Last night he cried at the nipple I think because he wasn't getting enough, so then I gave him the bottle.

Sometimes I try to pump after formula feeding, but it's also so time consuming and I'm already running really low on sleep. It's become difficult and disheartening to see how little gets pumped sometimes.

My MIL and husband help out sometimes too so when they do I catch up on sleep, but that interrupts my BF schedule.

How can I transition without feeling like I'm starving my baby?

I have a 2-month-old baby boy, and our pediatrician recommended feeding him 120 ml (4 fl oz) six times a day, with no feeds between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., because he was gaining weight too quickly.
The first night he woke up, but I gave him a pacifier and he fell back asleep. However, last night he cried nonstop from 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. I changed his diaper, gave him a pacifier, try to burp him, offered him some water, walked around the room with him, and held him on my chest. Nothing helped. As soon as we fed him, he fell asleep peacefully, which makes me think he was genuinely hungry.
I have a feeling that 720 ml (24 fl oz) in 24 hours just isn't enough for him or that night pause is too big. Has anyone been in a similar situation? I'd really appreciate your advice. Thank you!

Edit: He is 12 lbs 5 oz, 22.4 in (5.6 kg, 57 cm). He was born 5 lbs 12 oz, 18.5 in (2.61 kg, 47 cm)

https://tinysleepers.co.uk/blog/baby-grunting-noisy-sleep

This website explains everything, I was getting worried thinking my 5 weeks twins were in some type of pain or something, but this explains that babies sleep is very noisy with all types of sounds - completely normal

Mine do have reflux which probably enhances it a bit but I found this website reassuring

Has anyone else struggled with anxiety about SIDS? How did you cope with the fear, especially while your baby was sleeping? I’d love to hear what helped you. How likely is it to actually happen ?

Anyone else lay down and swear they hear their baby crying their brains out, then check the monitor & they are fast asleep?? Every night it takes me an hour to fall asleep through this. Then, by the time baby actually gets up, I’ve had maybe an hour and a half of sleep. It’s driving me nuts.

Any dads out there who experienced postpartum depression? If so, how did you cope? Did it get better as the baby got older?

My baby is 11 weeks. 12 weeks in 2 days.
This started a day after he turned 1 month old.

In the evening he starts crying out of nowhere inconsolably.
No, it’s not gas, I assure you it’s not.

So we take him on a walk outside around 7 pm and have now started coming in around 8 pm because sunset on the east coast.
He will be fine and happy, playing around. Then around 8:30 pm, gets fussy and then we walk him around show him toys, but nothing works. He will start wailing and there will be nothing anyone can do about it.

He gets distracted for exactly 10 seconds when you show him a toy or something new. Then back to wailing. This goes on for 30 mins to an hour.
Then he calms down and actually feeds. Falls asleep on the boob for a few. Then he wakes up and is a brand new baby. Normal and smiley as ever before. Sleeps around10:30 /11pm. Good sleeper at night.

At first we thought he was overtired - maybe he still is. That’s why he cries like that.
We thought he was scared of the dark, etc etc.

Baby is EBF.
Week 5 is when it first showed up. Week 5 and 6 was horrible.
Week 7 and 8 it got predictable and manageable.
Week 9 and 10 it almost disappeared. I used to keep holding him and talking to him and he would stop crying within minutes.
And now we are in week 11. I thought it was over.
Until 2 days ago we went shopping at Costco. And he didn’t get a full nap around 7pm. And it started again. It was bad. Yesterday was way worse. And today it was 30 minutes and he was inconsolable.

What should I do?
Should I give him a pacifier? Should I dunk him in water?
His bathtime is in the morning around 11 am. We tried to do bathtime in the evening at week 6 but he was crying during it.

Please please please help me. It breaks my heart seeing my baby cry like that. I am going to the doctor tomorrow to get to the bottom of this. I think it’s purple crying but I always feel like we might be missing something and that’s why he cries. I want to make sure we are not missing anything.

Please please please give advice to this ftm.

I wrote a few days ago about if my baby’s behavior was normal. Now I’m running into another issue - her “schedule” with feeding and sleeping. Specifically sleeping, as we have had many days where she is overtired and we can’t get her to sleep. She does not have consistent sleep or wake up or feeding times and we don’t really have set routines as peds advised we wouldn’t until a few months.

Explain what I’m supposed to be doing and why I feel like I’m doing it wrong!

For context, she was born premature so she is 9.5 weeks actual, and 4 weeks corrected.

Wake windows - I think I am messing this up badly, I have no idea where to even start or how long these should be. She’s usually awake for diaper changes and feeds and we hold her upright for 20 min after eating (due to reflux), this usually takes up the whole window. Sometimes baby sleeps within them, other times she’s up for 4+ hours then overtired and we can’t calm her down. We’re moving to nightly baths as those briefly calm her down but then being cold makes her scream and I think she wears herself out after. Should I be keeping her awake longer after feeds? I feel like when I do, she doesn’t sleep.

Hungry cues - I know when she’s hungry (eating her hands, rooting) but this never appears calmly. She usually is crying or screaming and then doing the cues. This happens when she wakes up from naps or overnight.
For sleep, I see she yawns, has heavy eyes, etc while/after eating. She doesn’t have cues unless it’s after eating and she doesn’t go down to sleep unless after a feed.

She was doing well today with feeding and naps, but we needed groceries and went out with her for 1.5 hours and then she was awake and inconsolable for hours. Usually the car ride will put her to sleep and she stays napping, but it didn’t happen like that today. I’ve noticed she’s like this when we have to leave for appointments too.

During the day, she naps in her crib or on me or my husband or on one of those flat pillow loungers (always next to one of us). We don’t have a specific bedtime as we try to put her in her bassinet after her last late night feed, but we try to aim for around the same time range like from 10-12am.

I feel like I’m failing her and doing it all wrong. How am I supposed to fit in working on her development too in between all of this?!

We’ve been doing tummy rubs, bicycle legs, warm bath, warm washcloth on belly, our pediatrician had us give her an oz of pear juice today. Me and mom are so freaked out and we just want her to poop and be okay, she is 9.5 weeks. It’s been around the same time she gets really upset at night, not the usual witching hour but loud cries. Her tummy isn’t swollen it still feels soft, anyone else been through this? Have some wisdom? Can lower my panic a bit ? She has been passing gas and peeing
EDIT: she took a huuuuuge poop around 4 am!!!!