💙🩷From Bumps 2 Babies & Beyond!🤰👶🍼🤱🤱

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following on from the Due February 2024 thread 7.. now this shall be thread 8! For us all to continue our pregnancy&postpartum journey together 😊

@Cheetocat so glad everything went well! I hope you see some improvements now 💙

@Cheetocat so glad the surgery went well, hope all is resolved for your little one now xx

The 3-4 month sleep regression is in full swing tonight 🙃

Same!! What a rough night my eyes are killing 😵‍💫

@Sunshineclouds11 every hour he woke from 2am 🙈 before that though he only slept 2 and a half hours.

His naps had started to alter a few days ago, no more than 45 mins but night time was still going well. I pray it doesn't last 2-6 weeks like google says, 1 night will be enough 🤣

With it being a little hot at the min here in the uk how are you all dressing little ones for bed?

I don't live in the UK but it's warm where I am. I dress my little boy very light at night and then I check him whenever he wakes up to see if he needs more layers. Tonight I'm going to put him in just a short sleeved vest in his 2 tog sleep sack because it's quite warm. In the past I've put him in the sack in just his nappy too. I definitely recommend risking them being colder because the heat can be so rough on them.

@CheeseAndCrackersx it really depends on how well your house holds the heat overnight. I live in a reasonably well insulated place so I've just gone for a 1 tog bag and long sleeves vest.

Same, a 1 tog bag and a long sleeved vest at the moment. I'm using the Tommee Tippee room temperature guide.

Really glad the surgery went well @Cheetocat

Anyone else's LO really fight their naps around 10 weeks? Seems I spend more time rocking him to sleep than he spends actually asleep at the moment 😂 any tips for a mum losing the will to live 🙈

Anyone EBFing get a period yet? I have definite period like cramps the last 2 days, feels like it’s about to come on. Baby nearly 13 weeks so didn’t think it would be here that soon.

Yep, I’m managing to get him down at regular intervals but sometimes they only last 5 or 10 minutes. I just try to go with the flow, I can’t force naps so will just do my best but let him set the schedule to some degree.
i used to take him out in the pram as he’d instantly fall asleep, doesn’t work any more. Which is great for making sure he doesn’t nap too much when we’re out, but I need new tricks too. The best seems to be feeding up, then rock and sing.

@redxlondon sounds very similar to my LO, he's so grumpy since fighting the naps too! He sleeps well on a night just not very well through the day. Hopefully it's a passing phase or someone has a miracle trick to good napping again!

The 45 minute naps are normal at this age (my boy is the same 🫠) because they can’t link their sleep cycles. 1 sleep cycle is 45 minutes so when they wake up from a nap they can’t self-soothe to go back to sleep. If you know your baby wakes up bang on 45 minutes, you can try catching them when they stir and you might be able to get them to drift back off and start a new sleep cycle, hence lengthening the nap. I’ve only had this work if he’s in the pram that’s been stationary and I quickly rock him back off to sleep 🤣 Apparently it gets better after 5 months… THANK GOD! I miss those 4 hour newborn naps, why didn’t I appreciate those more…

Oh and to encourage napping, my best tip is to basically love bomb them into submission and make them as relaxed as possible, without making them think that you actually want them to nap… 😁 so stroke baby’s head, kiss them, whisper how much you love them etc so they associate napping as this lovely event and hopefully will drift off themselves, or are at least more relaxed and are more receptive to the shhhing and rocking.

God 45 minutes would be a dream!!

@RachLeeds I wish it was 45 mins 🤣 sometimes it can be a 5 min nap after 20 mins of rocking him 🙃 then refuses to go back to sleep which means I have a delightful grumpy baby on my hands. I keep telling myself it's just a phase 🤣🤣

My little boy has been fighting sleep all day, my arms are killing me from all the rocking and bouncing. 🤣

@Cheetocat I feel your pain 🤣 normally I can use the sling to get him to sleep but it's far too warm to use it these past few days

What can I put on dribble rash on little man's neck?

Mine has this as well, I'd love to know too!

I know you can't start weaning until 6 months, but what age are you all planning on letting them start to taste things? My baby was fascinated by my watermelon this morning so I let her have a lick and she loved it. I felt bad after because I googled it and all the advice says nothing at all before 6mo, but the doctor told me to expect to start around 5mo as babies with CMPA usually wean earlier. Confusing!

@Meeting its 'around six months' as the nhs guidance. We're planning to use the signs of readiness for this one, probably around five months (like with my son). Because we have an allergy in the family medical advice was to wean early and introduce the allergens. The drs didn't think there was an issue if they had the signs of readiness.

In a lot of countries it's 4 months, including my partners country, and the country where my sister is living atm. It's variable really

@Meeting we done tastes at 5 months with my DS, he ready will do the same with DD if she shows the same signs

Ladies I’ve been feeling really down for the past few weeks and I just don’t feel happy in my marriage at the moment. I don’t know if it’s hormones or just getting over the exhaustion of the last few weeks but I’m just feeling overwhelmed. It’s our first baby so I get that things are new for us both but I feel like because baby wants the breast most of the time and will only take top up after breast milk I’m always holding her and on top of that I still feel like I do more in the house and when I ask him to run errands or help he does it but then points out what he’s done as if I’ve been nagging him when I only ask now when I am exhausted because I just find it hard to ask anyway. I think the final straw for me was last night when he asked when I would be going back to work because we could use the income. Our baby is only 3 months old.

Am I overreacting? I really don’t know what to do. Since I had my little girl I’m just feel unappreciated and unsupported and didn’t expect things to change like this. I’ve tried to talk to him about it all but he just tells me to relax and that I’m making something out of nothing.