How old was baby the first time you left them and for how long?
At 3 months I’m getting my very long usually very styled hair done and I’ll be gone 6 hours including travel! In contrast a friend went back to work at 4 months leaving for 8 hours on weekdays.
Just interested!
Edit: we are combi feeding and friend was formula
Does anyone else have this product?
My son is obsessed with the crinkly owl and I’m desperate to find another as ours is on its last legs. Any ideas?
Alternatively, if anyone else’s child has a favourite toy on it they’d like to trade for crinkly owl, by all means please message me!
My baby is pretty chonky and at 3 months he’s too big for his bassinet - he can rock it about solidly and is starting to sit so I’m not keen on leaving him in it. What are people using for nap time? I’m slightly reluctant to take him upstairs to his crib every nap and would ideally like a bit of a living room solution so I can put him down and do some housework down here!
Completely boggled by these.
When sleep bags say - for example - you should use a 2.5 tog bag in a room 16-20 degrees, does that mean a 2.5 tog bag and nothing else? Or what togs should you be adding underneath?
The lullaby trust recommends 16 to 20 degrees, which we can do - we have climate control that means we can settle the room at about 19 degrees. They also say “18 to 20 degrees: Long-sleeved vest or babygrow plus a 1.0 to 2.5 TOG sleeping bag”. So I think this means a romper (love to dream if it matters) and a 1 tog sleeping bag is ok, as we’ve got legs covered too so going for the lighter sleeping bag makes sense?
Baby gets cool hands which I know is normal, but also feels cool on their cheeks, but also feels perfect on chest and back of the neck and seems very content and happy…
I’ve admittedly possibly massively overthought this but this is my first, I’ve nobody but reddit to ask tonight, and I think I have thought myself round in a circle with it so just need some fresh eyes to tell me if I’m being an idiot!
I’ve been invited to an evening out next week. Little one will be 6 weeks. I’m most likely going to decline regardless but I do have PPA - is this my PPA or is this pretty normal? When did you first spend any time without baby? So far I was apart from baby for about five minutes to try driving again post birth but I literally went to the end of our street and back again. Other than that I’ve never been without baby but a couple of friends from NCT have gone for a coffee together without babies and some have had their hair done and so on. Am I being weird?
I do have a very involved husband who would obviously be caring for baby if I went anywhere on my own!
The shields stick fine, but my squirmy baby seems to dislodge them and yank them away, breaking the seal!
Any tips??
Hi everyone!
I’m breastfeeding for the first time - baby is a fortnight old and struggles to latch so I’m mostly expressing but really keen to keep supply up while we keep practicing latching, so this is a necessary pain!
Are there any supplements or similar that help supply? I can see vitamin d is recommended but nothing else seems clear!
Comment from my nightmare neighbour a couple of weeks ago.
I was 9 months pregnant at the time. Yeah, I’d gained weight.
To top it off, I ended up having a c section, and consequently had medical transport home so that my husband could help support me and watch baby with me during the drive instead of me being “alone” to do that while husband was driving. The transport paused outside our doors, impeding their parking space, for under 5 minutes to watch me walk through the door. They reported that the neighbour rushed out and complained to them that they’d done this and when they explained it was a drop off following a serious medical procedure my neighbour said “well they have their own spaces” - which is true, but it was less than 5 minutes, they didn’t want to leave and weren’t impeded in any way, and the transport had simply stopped in the best place to give us a straight shot through the door. You’d think just this once, after living here for five years and never once blocking their parking, they could just let it go, but no.
Following years of never seeing a positive test, the heartbreak of failed FET, and a tough 9 months… our baby is sleeping peacefully on my chest.
This can all be so, SO worth it. Can’t wait for everyone else here to end up in this moment too ♥️
I’m in the U.K. and honestly feel the maternity care has been absolutely awful… I’m now 36 weeks and grateful for any thoughts!
Since day one I’ve been saying I want a C Section. I do feel this has been largely fobbed off with the line ‘we talk about birth later’ but I’ve also never seen the same midwife twice and only met my consultant once, so it’s been easy to do!
Today I saw a doctor (not my consultant) who said “what can I do to persuade you not to do this” because of the risks, but then couldn’t weigh the risks up with me and go over the differences between vaginal and C section risks *for me* as opposed to on a very generic basis. He’s apparently booking me in for a week’s time with the advice “no more sitting on the fence”. I wasn’t sitting on any fences until you told me you were desperate to convince me not to have a C!
He’s asked that specialist midwives contact me but that apparently isn’t likely to happen within the next week. I don’t have a midwife who knows me I can speak to. There is no mechanism to ask him or any other doctor any questions, and even if I could, they just don’t know the answers and aren’t interested in answering anyway.
I just feel completely at a loss - has anyone thought about a C vs vaginal birth? Originally I wanted a C as I understood it to be safer for baby.
So potentially I’m just really terrible at maths but the centiles confuse me so much!
Are all your measurements meant to be quite similar - head, abdomen, femur? For instance if one is on the 50th centile, should they all be and what sort of variation is normal or worrying? Do they give us any nice information about our babies?
My husband has the shortest little legs and I think our baby will be similar as they consistently come up under the other measurements, but I’ve realised today I don’t actually know if that’s indicative of short legs or just completely normal variation!