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My 20 day old baby will not sleep at night without me literally touching her somehow. We’ve been co-sleeping since we came home from the hospital, which worked out great at first since I had a c-section this time around. It was way easier than having to deal with putting her in her bassinet. Now that the recovery has gotten a little better, I would love to be able to get her used to her bassinet.

We’ve tried a couple times and she does not stay asleep for long and starts crying. I’ve tried consoling her, tried a pacifier also and nothing has worked. Tonight I figured I would try using a heating pad to warm her bed up a bit before putting her in there. She is also EBF. And loooooves to eat. And also loves to comfort suck but absolutely hates a pacifier.

This is my third baby, you’d think I’d have this all down by now lol. But here I am in search of the advice and support from other moms.

So please, give me all the tips and tricks!! My anxiety just can’t handle the co-sleeping anymore as much as I love her snuggles all night.

Also thought I’d would add that I do have two bassinets, I got a new one after my C-section that would work better for the side of my bed. Would placing her in the other one during the day for naps help her get used to being in her own bed?

My 10 day old baby has been so good at nursing from the moment she came out. But the last couple of days I have noticed she is starting to fuss a lot while nursing. She will also pull back a lot with my nipple still in her mouth.

Her spit up has amped up a lot as well. She’s spitting up lots of yellow and white together. Yesterday she did spit up just straight yellow. And was super fussy a couple hours after when trying to get her to bed especially when trying to nurse her. I swear my husband and I kept having to burp her, then she’d spit up and then start crying and searching for the boob, and then repeat the whole process over again like three times. I finally was able to settle her while nursing by also patting her a little.

This is my third baby and breastfeeding never really worked out the first two times. But I’m at a loss right now on what could be going on. I plan on talking to her pediatrician about it at her appointment this week. But figured if come here to see what you all think in the mean time. Thank you!

I had this question on my mind while in the hospital and I swear every single time a nurse or doctor came in, I completely forgot to ask lol.

I’m a week post op tomorrow and I’ve been sleeping on my bed and elevated with pillows. I’m lowkey tired of it. Which is so ironic because I missed sleeping on my back so much while pregnant. Now I’m craving sleeping on my side.

Is side sleeping okay? Or is back sleeping best?

Also…… what are some of you doing or have done for the constipation? I was going normal the first couple of days. And now I am so constipated and gassy. I was prescribed stool softeners and have been taking them, but it’s not helping much. 😭 also have been taking gasx and I don’t feel like it’s doing much either.

I’m 4 days post c-section. I’m laying here and have been feeling some weird sensations around my incision. Almost like a weird tingling feeling? I’ve had my husband look at it like five million times and he says it looks fine.

But of course I’m internally freaking out that something’s is wrong and it’s opening. 😅

I have had some slight bleeding, it’s nothing major or anything that lasts. It’s just been a couple spots I noticed when I pull my discreet diaper down. And the diaper obviously is big enough that it does rest on the incision. My OB’s office said they aren’t worried unless anything changes and it starts to actively bleed a lot. But this is just a whole new learning experience other than my prior vaginal births! 😅

I had my third baby on Thursday. What was a planned induction turned into an emergency c-section. Which was such a bummer of course because when I got to the hospital I was dilated to a 5, so we didn’t even have to go through with the full induction since I was contracting and everything. But then we found out the baby was breech. The nurses tried so many things to get her to move but nothing was working so we decided to try and inversion. Unfortunately we think between the combination of the epidural and the spinal block, my body couldn’t take it and my heart rate declined pretty drastically. They were able to get it back up, but once they took me back for the inversion, it dropped again, even lower along with baby girls. So they had to do an emergency c-section right away. They had the baby out in 60 seconds, and it was just all so fast and crazy. And so much to process.

I just am seriously struggling so much. I am so emotional because of it. I was so out of it when everything happened. I also remember feeling like I couldn’t even formulate a sentence when my heart rate was dropping, I can remember the look on my husbands face during it all. All the nurses rushing in keeps replaying in my head too. And I am also mourning the birth I truly thought was going to happen. It just was scary.

I am obviously so thankful my baby and I are okay, and what happened had to happen. But gosh it’s just so hard. And I’m now sitting here recovering from this c-section, in pain, not feeling like I can do literally anything compared to what I feel like I could’ve done if I had a vaginal birth. And even looking in the mirror at my body now after a C-section compared to my two period vaginal births is just weird. My belly looks like it’s so low hanging and ugh. It’s just been so hard these last couple of days. And today I have been crying so much, and truly just reliving everything that happened over and over in my head.

I was so anxious the last couple of weeks leading up to birth. I don’t know if it was my bodies way of telling me. Then there’s always that anxiousness of something happening to you and you leaving your other babies behind, ugh. I’m just such a wreck and I’m struggling so hard to process everything. 😭

My husband has been a huge help, he’s literally the best. And I’m so thankful for him. I’m just of course having major guilt because of how much he’s truly stepped up to do these last few days, even in the hospital. And now at home, I just feel helpless. I can’t do a dang thing hardly, no one will let me of course. Which I know if a good thing, but again guilt.

I don’t know. This is just hard. 😞