u/No-Match-7512

Our baby is 2 weeks old and thus far has been pretty standard sleep wise. Ie eats every 3 hours and sleeps for 2 hours stretches. However, last night idk what happened, we did her bedtime feed, and her usual routine and homegirl took 2 hours to get to sleep after finishing her bottle and routine. Then she woke up 45 minutes later and that same cycle repeated until 6am when she finally started her usual 2 hour sleep pattern again.

I have no clue why that happened and would love if there was any insight! Or things to try to avoid that again tonight because that was really tough

My baby is 12 days old. She was in hospital a few days to begin life and that messed up her desire to latch as she was bottle fed during that time. We worked hard to try and latch but couldn’t and started using a nipple shield. She will latch with the shield and feed now which is great. However, when breastfeeding she will feed for ~30 minutes and fall asleep, and wake up 30-45 minutes later hungry again. However if bottle fed pumped milk she will take like 70ml and sleep for 3 hours.

This pattern with breastfeeding feels unsustainable so we have resorted to mostly pumping and bottle feeding but I really want to work on this.

Obvious answer is to keep her awake at the breast to feed more however she is already there for 30 minutes and hungry still after so what is it gonna take a full hour?? That also doesn’t feel super sustainable. My goal is to be able to do full feeds via breast, I want to be able to leave the house and not be thinking so much about how to bring the pump and a feed etc…. But it feels impossible rn

I live in cananda and need a pump for exclusive pumping. What would be recommended? I know spectra is a big fave but I don’t have easy access to it in Canada.

Thanks

I’m in Canada so that changes what is available to me but currently I have a medela hand pump and the mom cozy m5 wearable pumps. I was planning on breastfeeding but it hasn’t worked out. My milk supply is good so I will be pumping to feed baby. I thought my milk supply was decreasing as my output had dropped with my mom cozy M5 pump but then when I used my hand pump I got way more milk. So I’m thinking I may need a new pump?? What should I get?

I was considering the medela freestyle??

Hi all

I’m wanting to store my babies outgrown items for if we have another kiddo. I know most people say vacuum seal bags but I feel like long term that might not be the best?

What are the best ways to do this in a space efficient manner? Our home isn’t huge

My baby is 11 days old and is always awake? We feed burp change her and she just sits here wide awake??? Not upset just sits there awake. I thought they were meant to only have short wake windows rn but she literally stays awake for 2hrs at a time? Am I doing something wrong?

My baby is 2 weeks old and I haven’t left the house beyond going to a park bench across the road from us.

I want to leave the house but how the heck are we doing this??? She eats every 2.5 hours. Breastfeeding isn’t really working so every time she eats I pump for the next bottle. But how can I even take the pump to go cuz it always needs to be sterilized. It just all feels like too much.

My baby is 10 days old and she’s my first. Her first 4 days of life were spent in the NICU and during that time I felt so bonded and in love with her. Since we got home I just feel so neutral. I take care of her and work hard to do what’s best for her but I just don’t have that in love feeling. And objectively she’s a perfect baby. I just find myself missing the days before her when it was just me and my husband. And when I could live my life normally. This baby was very much wanted and I loooved being pregnant. But this feeling sucks and I feel so guilty. She’s a perfect beautiful little baby and deserves a mom who is just obsessed and in love but I just find myself wanting to hand her off to my husband and go hide in my room alone and scroll on my phone or watch tv and just escape my reality.

Curious about good dupes for staplestein stepping stones. They simply aren’t in budget and we also live in Canada which makes it 350$ plus insane shipping costs.

Any good options out there?

I’m 37 weeks and I’ve been doing perineal massages and I literally bleed a little everytime from gently doing that. I’ve always used oil safe for this purpose and I’m just so scared if it effects me that much to just do a little stretching what the real deal will do to me 🙃