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Taking baby to beach. Need UV protection but want to do zero plastic. Can’t find any options.

Is there such thing as a zero plastic swim diaper? Any tips will help!

No luck finding a plastic-free baby swim suit for the beach. I don’t want to do just a diaper because he needs sun protection.

Any tips?

My baby was born with a tongue tie and couldn’t transfer milk. I started my pumping journey at 2 weeks pp and only could ever pump about 7 oz a day. There was always still milk left over when I hand expressed . Pumping doesn’t seem to work well for me. All to say, I did mostly formula and 1/3 BM for a while.

My baby had his tongue tie released at two months. After a month (3 months old) he started to latch. The problem is he still doesn’t seem like he’s transferring milk.

I say this because once he started latching I decided to just latch him full time instead of pumping (then give formula after). It’s been a month and I just pumped to see how my supply is doing and it’s almost gone now lol

So some babies just never learn to transfer milk?

I have a 4 month old baby and honestly everything is sooo toxic in our current marketplace and environment. I feel so anxious about it. Every day I find something else to worry about.

Today, I realized that his grandparents (whom we see often) get their house sprayed with pesticides. I don’t want to harm my baby. How do I stop worrying so much :(

So annoyed because I just found out the “natural cellulose” sponges I’ve been using have synthetic fibers in it. Of course, this isn’t advertised and is only shared in fine print.

Why is avoiding plastic so incredibly difficult?

I have a 5 month old. I’m trying to buy a high chair for him. Everyone recommends the Stokke Tripp trapp but the infant seat is all plastic.

I have found mom and pop all wood alternatives but the varnishes and lacquers are typically undisclosed. I’m at my wits end with this search.

Does anyone have any recommendations? People did say to bring the tripp trapp directly to the dining table without the infant seat, but it seems like my baby would fall?

Help.

I have a 5 month old. I’m trying to buy a high chair for him. Everyone recommends the Stokke Tripp trapp but the infant seat is all plastic.

I have found mom and pop all wood alternatives but the varnishes and lacquers are typically undisclosed. I’m at my wits end with this search.

Does anyone have any recommendations? People did say to bring the tripp trapp directly to the dining table without the infant seat, but it seems like my baby would fall?

Help.

I have the naturepedic oval organic cotton crib mattress for my stokke oval crib. It came with a cover.

I’m now realizing the cover has polyester in it?

Here are the materials: Organic cotton breathable fabric with organic cotton face and 3-dimensional polyester lattice + polyurethane waterproof barrier

I want to limit any plastics. What can I use to replace this cover? I’ve read about latex mattress toppers but can’t seem to find an oval one.

My baby, of course, uses silicone nipples on his bottles and has some silicone teethers. However, I do prefer to avoid silicone, if possible. Typically, I try to replace with rubber.

Baby is about to start solids. Has anyone found any alternatives to those silicone bibs most people use? Preferably without polyester or any plastics.

I’m a new mom who is looking for a pediatrician for my little guy.

I’m looking, specifically, for someone thoughtful, kind, attentive, and personable. We’ve seen a pediatrician thus far who has been pretty lack luster in terms of responding to our questions and engaging with our concerns.

Any recs?

Thank you!

I’m 4 months pp with a beautiful baby boy. But, whenever I think about my birth story, my time in the hospital, or those first few weeks at home, I feel so much regret for how I handled everything.

I had a C-section so I didn’t get golden hour. After he was delivered, I was so overwhelmed and exhausted that I let my baby lay in the bassinet a lot during the first few days in the hospital. I did skin to skin sometimes but if I could go back I would have him on me 24/7. It didn’t even occur to me at the time because I couldn’t even think straight tbh. I feel so sad that he was just sitting in a container most of the time.

Similarly, when we came home, I allowed him to sleep constantly in his bassinet. I did do contact naps a couple times a day but I wish I had just let him be on me all the time. He was so new to this world and he needed his mom.

Not to mention that I didn’t have breastfeeding support nor the info I needed, so I was not bringing him to my breast at the rate I should have in the early stages to build a strong supply.

I was just trying to survive during that time but I just have so many regrets. I did not have the information I needed because I was the first in my family to have a child and had little to no input from friends. I should have done more research. I was just going with the flow. I feel like I wasn’t a good mother for my baby who was probably longing for his mothers warmth at the time.

I’m sure this is PPA or PPD, or both. But, in the moments I have time to reflect it really does break my heart. I see all these moms who some how knew how to do everything right and I’m jealous.

My husband has been super helpful since we had our baby. He does half the night shift. He does laundry and makes bottles while I take care of baby full time. If he has a full days work (morning until midnight) he’ll do the night shift (one feed at night) so I’m not falling asleep on baby during the day. He does a lot.

But I still feel resentful when he acts like things are equally as hard for us. I had a hard pregnancy, I had a c-section, I have PPA and PPD, I gave up my career, my body is constantly hurting now, I suffered 3 months of trying to breastfeed and pump full time for a tongue tie baby who couldn’t transfer.

I feel ungrateful but I hate when he tries to compare what we’re going through. If I say “ my memory is so bad now, I’m insatiably hungry, I’m so rageful , I don’t feel like myself” he’ll say “same!”. Ugh idk I’m being a b*** I guess but I just feel like things aren’t the same!

Any recommendations for a high chair that is plastic-free for 6 month old?

My baby is just getting old enough to need a high chair. Everything has plastic in the tray. Any recs that use rubber or silicone?

Hello!

I have a 3.5 month old baby who is due for his 4 month vaccines soon. He received all of his 2 month vaccines and had a pretty bad reaction because he is underweight. Poor guy had horrible pain for 24 hours and wouldn’t eat.

All that to say, id like to do a delayed vaccine schedule. I don’t know what that schedule would look like though. Has anyone done this? If so, what schedule did you follow?

Thanks!

I was previously just using aquaphor on my little one but he ended up with a pretty bad diaper rash. Had to get out the big guns and use desitin for a month. Now that his rash is cleared up I’d like to find a Zinc Oxide diaper paste without any of the harmful stuff.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

I have a newborn baby and there are hornets or wasps (not sure) that keep making their way through our AC events. Worried they will sting my baby. However, I can’t allow pesticides to be sprayed as I don’t want anything toxic around my child.

Is there anything I can do to address this? We need to run the AC as we live in a very hot area.

My baby was on goats milk formula from birth until two months. Everything was great except he barely finished half his bottle. He was slow to keep up with other babies on weight gain, though he was gaining weight slowly but surely.

To get him to eat more we decided to try regular milk formula. He started eating way more! Must taste better! After 4 weeks on it, baby now has intense diarrhea. I’m assuming it’s an intolerance. But we can’t go back to goats milk because he eats so little. I don’t know what to do!!!!

Edit: baby is in the first percentile and can’t afford to lose weight because he’s drinking a milk he doesn’t like. He already does “just enough” with the cows milk formula and sometimes still not enough.

My baby has been pretty happy to play with mama and between weeks 8-10 loved to have cooing conversations with mom. However, since turning 12 weeks, my baby no longer coos to chat but just coos to complain. He doesn’t want to sit and play with mommy but would rather sit in his baby bjorn and watch the world. Way less interacting.

Is this a regression or is baby just getting finicky about his time?