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My baby is 4 1/2 months old and is so bright, happy and alert! Naptime during the day seems to be a bit easier but bedtime is always such a challenge! She only falls asleep if my partner takes her out in the carrier. We’ve tried setting up a peaceful bedtime routine, but it just gets to the point where she’s frustrated. She’ll be almost asleep and then it’s like she’s trying not to so wakes herself up and gets frustrated. I feel like I’ve tried everything. I don’t know if this just part of the four month sleep regression and there’s nothing that I can actually do. I feel like I’m failing her as a Mum. She used to fall asleep so easily on me or I could just feed her to sleep but nothing is working. Please don’t suggest cry it out or tell me I shouldn’t have her on me. But any other advice would be greatly appreciated! We follow recommended wake windows and have about four naps a day but sometimes I think she’s got low sleep needs too.

My baby is 4 1/2 months old and I believe we are knee deep in the sleep regression. I just need some advice or just to know that what we are going through is normal. Most daytime naps she goes down fine but does fight it a little, some days better, some days are worse. But bedtime sleep she just fights and fights and fights. The only way we get her to go down peacefully is if my partner puts her in the carrier and walks with her. If he just holds her and walks she screams and with me she just stays awake and then gets so overtired she gets upset. I’m going out of my mind feeling like I’m doing everything wrong and impacting her sleep, health and future sleep abilities! She is a fomo baby for sure! EBF! Before this my partner would take her in the evening after she fell asleep and she’d stay like that and I’d get a solid 4-5 hours. Now I’m up every couple go hours from the get go. Any advice? Or someone gone through similar and can promise me this is ok and gets better? 😭😭😭😭 uk based

I’m trying to build up a milk stash to introduce a bottle to my baby. We are a bit late to the bottle game, she is 4 1/2 months old! I got a bit overwhelmed and confused about how to collect milk and it impacting supply so just didn’t do it . Anyway! Some days I leak loads when feeding so am able to store a good amount. However most days I can barely collect one fl. oz. I use a haaka and also have an elvie curve. I am very cautious of pumping and would rather just use milk that I would otherwise be wasting. Any advice? I’m uk based. Thanks!!

Hello my baby will be 7/8 months in September/October and we really want to go on holiday! We want somewhere warm, with a beach and an old town/some culture. Any recommendations? Thanks!

My baby is almost 16 weeks and has pretty set day time naps. We cosleep at night and daytime naps are either carrier, car or me sat next to her whilst she is in her side car crib. I’m worried I’m doing all the wrong things to help her sleep independently and connect her sleep cycles. I keep seeing things like “drowsy but awake” but if I do that she just wakes back or cries and I am NOT letting her cry it out! Any advice from people with fomo/velcro babies! Haha

My baby is almost 16 weeks and has pretty set day time naps. We cosleep at night and daytime naps are either carrier, car or me sat next to her whilst she is in her side car crib. I’m worried I’m doing all the wrong things to help her sleep independently and connect her sleep cycles. I keep seeing things like “drowsy but awake” but if I do that she just wakes back or cries and I am NOT letting her cry it out! Any advice from people with fomo/velcro babies! Haha

She’s 15 weeks old and I love her more than anything. It’s so bloody hard though. I know I can’t go back to my old life and I don’t want to exactly but, I feel so lost, I have no identity and there is no break. I knew it would be hard but this is so hard. I miss how simple my life was and the freedoms to do what I wanted when I wanted. To go and do fun things at the drop of a hat. I feel constantly sick with anxiety that something bad is going to happen to her. I’m so tired. Does this feeling ease as they get older? She is exclusively breastfed too which I love that I can do but I feel like I can’t get anytime to myself. I’m currently sat in my car sobbing whilst my partner has the baby.

Hiya I am 14 weeks PP and my milk supply is really established. I don’t seem to get much leaking when I feed so a catcher isn’t working to build up enough supply for a bottle. I don’t know how to get about starting pumping and teaching my baby to take from a bottle! I just want to be able to do one bottle a day for my partner to give her. Please help!

I’d never heard of R OCD until writing this post and it came up as a suggested community. I’ll post below.

I’ve never actually voiced this aloud to anyone because I feel really ashamed and embarrassed but I’m really curious if more people than I realise do this. Since getting social media (so almost 20 years ago now!) I’ve gone through cycles of being obsessed with different people. Like I will look at their page multiple times a day and get a real dopamine hit if they post or share a story or something. It has always been people I have compared myself to or been jealous of in some way, it’s always been people I don’t actually know directly but I have some link to. Or it’s been my ex boyfriend and for a while it was his at the time girlfriend. It’s like I create this whole picture of them that they have a dream life. I literally don’t know why I do it. I think I do it to make myself feel bad which sounds nuts!! I’m 32 and have a wonderful active, social and adventurous life and a little girl who I adore. I don’t know if it’s part of OCD that shows up on other areas of my life. I then also spiral that they all know exactly who I am and that I go on their page everyday and think I’m this total weirdo!!

My little girl is 9 weeks. I love and care for her so much but I keep getting this overwhelming feeling of regret. I miss my old life and relationship with my partner. I miss being selfish and getting my partner’s full attention. I feel awful for writing this out but it’s how I am feeling. And I have felt this from the day she came home, I thought it would have faded by now. But I’m finding the adjustment so hard it makes me feel sick. Is this a normal feeling?