u/GeeseAndLove_

I want to preface this by saying I do understand how lucky I am, and I am not in any way trying to gloat.

My baby is 6 weeks old (7 weeks in two days). Around 4 weeks she started sleeping 4 hours at night, then 5 hours. Now she is going 6 hours (and honestly maybe she'd go longer idk I kinda just pick her up at the slightest noise once she hits 6 hours). I am beyond stressed about this. I wake up multiple times a night regardless of her sleeping that long. And I try to wake her 4-5 hours after a feed to have her nurse, but it is the biggest struggle to get her to actually nurse. Some nights she'll latch and eat for a bit, other nights she will not even slightly open her mouth. I know if she's having all the wet diapers during the day and getting at least 8-10 feeds a day she's technically fine, which she is (8 diapers and 10-12 nursing sessions). But I can't shake this anxiety that if she sleeps too long at such a young age she is going to starve, get dehydrated, or cause her blood sugar to drop too low and not wake up even when she should. I am literally not even benefitting from her long sleep because I'm anxious all night, googling if this is okay.

My first baby was an awful sleeper. Woke every 2 hours as a newborn, and as he got older it only got worse. He'd be up every 45 minutes unless he was being held or sleeping with me. So this is unchartered territory for me and I am already predisposed to postpartum anxiety. This whole "sleeping through the night" at such a young age is ramping up my anxiety to a whole new level.

I did the 5-in-1 newborn bundle April 23rd. It's been over a month and I have not gotten anything. No birth certificate, no SIN, nothing in CRA to even show I applied for CTB. Is this normal??

The email I got after completing the registration said SIN would be sent after 10 business days, birth certificate after 15 business days. I know the CTB can take up to 8 weeks, but there isn't even anything on my car account to indicate it's been applied for (maybe nothing shows up until it's approved and you get a payment?)

How long did all of this take for others? This is my second child but my first was 3 years ago and I don't remember any of it taking this long.

My first child had MSPI as an infant. He spit up constantly after every feed, vomited frequently, and he had mucous and blood in his poop. I had to cut out dairy, soy, and eggs.

Just had my second baby 5 weeks ago. She's been eating great, pooping great, rarely spits up. But recently she's become so fussy. She cries so much when she's awake. She is inconsolable. She has also stopped pooping as frequently. She used to poop 3-5 times a day. The last week she has had one big poop, and maybe 2-3 small poops, but she has lots of gas. Farts quite frequently. She has also started to spit up a bit more. Still not as much as my first but more than she had before. Is it possible these are signs she has MSPI?

I have a midwife appointment tomorrow and I will be asking about it at the appointment. But I am a super anxious person in general, postpartum makes it worse because of all the things that can go wrong.

My bleeding got very light by about 3 days postpartum. Some days I would have a clean pad. However, on day 12 I had a sudden gush of dark red blood. I don't think it was a clot, but it was stringy. After that the bleeding was very minimal again and I'd have very tiny clots, but usually only like a drop of blood in the pad or so. Now on day 15 I had a gush of bright red blood. And then a few hours later another gush of dark red blood. It's not soaking a pad, it's not even filling a pad. This most recent gush though was more than the bright red gush. Anyway, I'm freaking out about it. I'm not cramping, there's no smell, not large clots. But it's the random gushes. This just doesn't feel normal. Second baby and this is not how it happened with my first.