Anyone ever rent a car seat from a rental car place? Considering doing this through National, but don’t want to if it’s going to be gross or one that my 7 month old finds uncomfortable
We invested in a pretty nice car seat and stroller. We also would like to travel a good amount going forward. Are padded travel bags enough to protect a stroller and car seat when they’re checked? Or is the better solution to buy a cheap stroller that we travel with and don’t mind if it gets scuffed up. Experiences pls?
7 month old with FPIAP has low ferritin. EBF. Iron supplement triggers her FPIAP and causes blood in diapers. So docs say just do iron fortified food. Idk if it’s normal or not but my baby just doesn’t get a lot of solids in. We started at 6 months, combo of purées and BLW. She plays with everything but not much goes down. Offering solids twice daily. Occasionally she will really like something and surprise me, maybe 2-3 days per week she actually nibbles or gets several+ spoonfuls. She’s 95th percentile bc she LOVES breastmilk. Won’t take a bottle either. I’m at a loss and so anxious about it every day. I also feel like a failure bc I’m a dietitian 😭 this journey has been way harder than I thought it would be. Tips for getting more iron in her?
Anyone know of one? Patients have asked for this so they can track just one nutrient or macro and not see calories, but I don’t know of one.
Cosleeping with my 7 month old. Baby likes to latch a lot. I hear a lot of moms say they can sleep while baby is latched, but for some reason I feel like a stiff plank while she’s latched. And the c-curl… it hurts my arm bad and baby kicks the sh\*\* out of my legs (she kicks so much when anything is touching her feet lol, apparently I did the same as a baby). So I usually am awake until she unlatches, then I move away slightly and feel my body relax. Then I drift off and bam she wants to latch again. Sigh.
Pls give me any and all tips for being more comfy while she’s latched. TIA!!
Cosleeping with my 7 month old. Baby likes to latch a lot. I hear a lot of moms say they can sleep while baby is latched, but for some reason I feel like a stiff plank while she’s latched. And the c-curl… it hurts my arm bad and baby kicks the sh** out of my legs (she kicks so much when anything is touching her feet lol, apparently I did the same as a baby). So I usually am awake until she unlatches, then I move away slightly and feel my body relax. Then I drift off and bam she wants to latch again. Sigh.
Pls give me any and all tips for being more comfy while she’s latched. TIA!!
I’ve never had KP. Until postpartum… 32 years old, had my baby, and BAM. Angry, red, extremely noticeable lesional KP all over my arms, legs, buttocks and hips. The area of one of my arms where it’s worst also stopped growing hair during pregnancy… before the KP started?! I’ve tried what feels like all the washes and lotions that are breastfeeding safe (will be breastfeeding for another year or so. I’m 6 months PP).
Is there something in my diet that could be worsening things? I realize some of this is hormonal but it’s shocking how bad it is, especially when I haven’t had it at all my whole life. Lately I’ve been struggling not to pick at it which is a new problem too. I’m also curious because my baby had a ton of milia on her face when born - I know this is considered normal but she had A LOT. Also keratin.. it’s gone now and no biggie but I’m just curious. idk if they’re connected.
I just want to know if I’m eating or doing anything to worsen it, if anyone has experienced the same… will it ever get better?
How long did your baby have blood? My 5 month old is going on 9 weeks of daily blood flecks and mucus. I have cut out dairy, soy, egg, and gluten, and trialed oats and corn to no avail. Her GI doc doesn’t seem too concerned and wants me to keep breastfeeding since she is growing very well and generally happy, but the blood is seriously messing with my mental health. It feels like it will never stop. Does anyone have a similar experience? Did you ever get to the bottom of what the triggers were?
Also would love to know if anyone experienced the “produced in the same facility or equipment as dairy” foods to be a trigger, I’m not sure how strict I should be. (GI doc said no but I still wonder).
I have been going back and forth about sleep training our 5 month old for a bit now, because our current situation is unsustainable. But my baby is very sensitive. I tried a very gentle (kind of like a pick up put down method for a nap), for a few minutes last week and it failed, she was quite upset afterward and was extra clingy for the next couple of days.
A part of me also wonders if it will be pointless to try again, because I see so many people that want to sleep train because their baby still wakes up several times a night. Well… my baby wakes up multiple times an hour unless she is held. My husband holds her from 7-9pm, I essentially hold her while cosleeping until 3, then husband holds her for the rest of the night. If she is put down for a nap (if we can manage it when she’s sleeping quite deeply) she won’t sleep longer than 20 minutes on her own, usually less.
Did anyone have a similar baby that they sleep trained successfully using some kind of very gentle method? I really don’t want to start the process if it will ultimately fail, and I’m also just hoping we aren’t alone in how sensitive our babe is. Any gentle methods that worked for you, please let me know…
Sleep has been rough since ~3 months. We've gone back and forth between the Snoo and safe 7 cosleeping- usually starting the night in the Snoo (swaddled) and cosleeping (unswaddled) the second half. She's gone through phases of loving the swaddle/movement and phases of seeming claustrophobic and needing to sleep free. We never used the Snoo to soothe her back down (it didn’t really do the trick for her in that way anyway); if she fussed more than a couple of minutes, we picked her up.
Since 3 months she's mostly woken every 1-2 hours, very occasionally a 3-4 hour stretch, and sometimes every 40 minutes. The last 3 days she's been waking up furious in the Snoo, sometimes every 10 minutes, like she wants out. So last night we moved her to the crib for the first time. It wasn't much worse than the past week- some 10-minute wakes, a few full 40-min cycles, then cosleeping the second half because at that point nothing settles her but nursing and we're exhausted.
Routine: ~3-3.5 hours of daytime sleep across 3-4 naps, 2-hour wake windows (last one 2.5). Plan to increase the windows in the coming weeks as she hits 5 months. She is bounced/shushed to sleep for naps, not nursed. Consistent night time routine. Almost entirely contact naps- when I do get her down to sleep on her own she sleeps exactly 40 minutes (one cycle) and no longer. Temperament: chill, happy baby as long as she is entertained. Loves stimulation and interaction with people and FUN!
So I guess the TLDR: she struggles intensely to link sleep cycles and I think that's the core thing I need help with. We're trying the 3-3-3 method tonight, but I'm scared that even if she falls asleep in her crib she'll wake at the 40-min mark needing shushing/rocking/nursing.
Sometimes I wonder if the perfect lightly weighted sleep sack might help? We have tried the Merlin and arms up transition suits to no avail.
Would love recs on sleepwear, anything that's helped with cycle-linking, or just solidarity if you've been through this. Signed, two very sleep-deprived first-time parents.
I was engorged this morning so I hand expressed a bit just to take the edge off. Well I think I went a bit too hard… I now have a hard good sized lump in my breast a few hours later. Not really painful unless pressed on. Fed on that side then iced, took ibuprofen… still there. Can this be expected from hand expressing too hard or could something else be going on? Anything else I can do?
Baby was a great sleeper until around 3.5 months. She is now 4.5 months and we have been in the regression for a full month. What started as just 1 or 2 more wake-ups has turned into 10 to sometimes 15 - yes 15 wake-ups a night. Sometimes every 15 minutes. We were once able to shush and rock her back to sleep fairly quickly but now sometimes she will escalate cries until she gets the boob. This is incredibly unsustainable for my husband and I and I’m starting to get intense anxiety in the evenings knowing what is to come.
We have tried what feels like everything except sleep training, which we may need to start if this doesn’t end soon. Have tried the Merlin, sleep sacks. I watch her wake windows very carefully. Have tried 3.5 to 5.5 hours daytime sleep, nothing seems to correlate with a good or bad night (and a “good” night is relative, last night we only had 10 wake-ups and that was somehow an improvement). She still only contact naps. Forget setting down drowsy but awake 😂 she says absolutely not to that immediately.
My question - for those of you that went through anything similar - how did it get better? Did it improve on its own or did it require sleep training? How long did it take?
Pls send your good vibes, stories, and solidarity bc I’m hanging by a thread 😭
Schedule:
Up around 8am. Bedtime between 8-9. Wake windows 1.5/2/2/2.5. Total daytime sleep usually between 3-4 hours. But we do also follow her cues to an extent so none of that is exactly on the dot. Bedtime routine - dim lights, moisturize, Jammies, 1-2 books, then dad slowly dances to sleep to the same bedtime playlist, then transfers to bassinet. Usually falls asleep fairly quickly and transfer goes fine. Since 1 month old she has always done the “false start,” waking in her bassinet after one sleep cycle, almost exactly 40 mins. Then she is either nursed or rocked back to sleep and retransferred where she would then sleep for another 5-7 hours. Until the regression hit.
Anxious new mom here, just mentally spiraling daily with my 4 month old.
She’s EBF, 90th percentile for weight and height. I’m below average height and her dad is just a bit above. I wasn’t a big baby but from what I hear dad was chunky. I’m obsessed with her rolls but I do worry sometimes about how big she is. I try to ignore people’s comments. I honestly just want to make sure she’s ok and going to be ok.
The bigger issue here is that we have been seeing blood in her diapers for almost a month now. Every day. I have cut out dairy, soy, egg. More recently gluten, corn. I’ve also read oversupply can cause this so I am going to start icing my breasts and block feeding (this was advised by her pediatrician). I have always produced a good amount and baby has always fed very efficiently. We are going to see GI if this doesn’t clear up within a couple of weeks.
I guess I’m wondering if any of you have similar stories. Did you figure it out, is your baby ok, I need some hope here 😭
We are working with her pediatrician and dietitians. I am also a dietitian. We are all as a team trying to figure out what the issue is.