u/SaraJuno

This sweaty lump of spam truly is the ugliest pos on earth. What a pathetic loser, never has someone so rich been so worthless.

Ever since starting solids baby girl is holding on to poop like an appreciating asset. I’m adding a little olive oil to her veggi mush and offering water after feeds, but not helping much.

Any specific foods I can try that might help things along?

My 6 month old actually sleeps through the night relatively well at the moment. But getting her down for bed and naps is a nightmare. She seems to have an aversion for the cot. Whenever we go near it she fights and cries; the only reason she sleeps in it overnight is because she exhausts herself to sleep. For naps it’s impossible and I often have to give up and contact nap.

Schedule is 2/2.5/2.5/3

I always make sure she’s actually tired – yawning, rubs eyes etc. She will fall asleep on me no problem, but cry as soon as she’s transferred.

We always do a calm wind down before bed, but as soon as she recognises what’s coming, she panics and starts whining.

I don’t want to ruin her relatively good night sleep, but I also can’t continue with this constant fighting. I also don’t like her experience with bed and naps to be so negative.

Would something like ferber or CIO help? I have never sleep trained.

6mo.

I’ve been having a lot of sleep issues – first it was constant waking, then early waking, then nights got better and naps fell apart.

But something that’s remained consistent for the past 2-3 weeks is: my baby fights the process of going down HARD. She HATES it. As soon as she figures out what’s coming she starts to panic and protest. Bedtime is the hardest – some nights it has taken me an hour. Not an hour including bedtime routine, an hour after bedtime routine.

It’s not that she’s undertired. I have tried going off her cues, a bit early, waiting a bit longer. It makes zero difference. Regardless, she will fight for as long as she can until she is fully overtired and full of cortisol. I can’t remember the last time she fell asleep content and sleepy, instead of exhausted from fighting so long.

Her bedtime routine is consistent and calm. A book, a gentle lullaby, and cuddling in a dim room, then slowly shift to soothing for sleep. I have tried rocking, shushing, putting her down awake. She has blackout blinds and white noise (but I’ve tried nightlight and silence too). Makes no difference. She is flight or fight from the start, and nothing changes that.

Is this a phase? Has anyone else experienced this? It’s so exhausting, and I feel so sad for her being so constantly stressed.

I know there is orell füssli and ex libris, but if a book is even remotely obscure (ie not one of the most famous books ever written), they quote insane delivery times of up to 6 weeks plus. Also this is like the 4th time I’ve bought a book with ETA 6-9 work days, that then updates to “currently unavailable, maybe in like 6 weeks” after I’ve paid for it. And they never email to tell me this, it just doesn’t arrive and I have to find out why. I feel like I’m gambling every time I buy a book – “Will this actually arrive, or is it quicker to get it snailmailed from Australia?”

Do any of you buy from EU-based book shops? Any recs?

I’ve never seen a problem using the pacifier as our LO (nearly 6mo) was always a good sleeper. But 4 weeks ago she got a cold and has slept terribly ever since, waking constantly throughout the night, every night. One issue is that whenever she stirs, she starts to really wake up, and needs the pacifier to soothe back to sleep.

Do I wean her off it? It’s often the only thing that helps her sleep, but likely causing a circular problem.

Our LO is 40th percentile but has been getting 1000ml (34 oz) per day for a while now and shows signs of wanting more. I didn’t expect to go up again before she tapered off (due to solids), so I’m wondering what’s typical for this age?

I know it varies, I’m just curious. I have a fast metabolism so I’m wondering if maybe she inherited this.

5.5 mo still wakes fully up after 30mins. I have to extend naps with contact napping to make the 3 nap schedule work.

I see online that 6-7mo is the sweet spot for seeing longer naps.

Curious what others experience was?

I used to work at a print seller who used their large volumes to qualify for preferential rates with DHL, so they used DHL for all shipments. It made dropoff, tracking and transit issues suuuper easy to manage, and helped us set extremely reliable ETAs. Sometimes it wasn’t the cheapest option depending on country destination, but still worth it for overall ease and predictability.

Why don’t PODs do this? Especially ones like Prodigi who run their own labs and ship everything from a single distribution centre (per region), or so they say.

Currently for Europe they use multiple different couriers and commerce middlemen to send from one hub. This means that costs and transit times fluctuate wildly, and makes it really frustrating to follow up on delivery/transit issues or delays. It also prevents me from being transparent on my frontend about accurate ETAs and courier info. Sometimes the courier cited when I order isn’t even the one used when shipped.

How many naps? How long are their naps? Can they link cycles? Do you need to do contact naps? Many night wakes?

Maybe my expectations are misaligned so I’d love to hear your own sleep situations. I thought things would start to get easier about now…

My baby used to sleep through the night but now wakes constantly, partly due to illness but also due regression and swaddle transition. Regardless we try to maintain a 7pm-6am routine.

Days naps are much harder territory for me. She no longer sleeps more than 20-30mins in the stroller, which I usually have to use for Nap 1. She also struggles to connect sleep cycles unless I contact nap (and even then, still often wakes after 30mins). Nap 3 is a wild card, anywhere between 30-60mins. Yet despite struggling with longer naps all day, she fights any attempt at a 4th nap hard.

Altogether this leaves her averaging 12-13hrs sleep a day, not including the sleep disruption throughout the night.

I just want to make sure I’m not missing something. In shopify bulk updates are easy – you download the csv, populate the prices then reupload. It’s like a 10 minute job.

I know there are apps like Vela, but they don’t work if you have different prices for domicile vs US.

I’ve put off updating my prices for so long because the process is so time consuming and laborious. I have multiple variations for hundreds of products.

Anyone got any tips or tricks? It would be a huge help!

Update: Managed to cut time by allowing claude access to my browser and getting it to populate the fields. Still time consuming but much faster than manually doing it myself

I just want to make sure I’m not missing something. In shopify bulk updates are easy – you download the csv, populate the prices then reupload. It’s like a 10 minute job.

I know there are apps like Vela, but they don’t work if you have different prices for domicile vs US.

I’ve put off updating my prices for so long because the process is so time consuming and laborious. I have multiple variations for hundreds of products.

Anyone got any tips or tricks? It would be a huge help!

We’ve been so lucky. Our 5MO baby started sleeping through the night around 3.5 months. At 4 months she went through some regression and would wake 2-4 times a night for 10 days or so. But she pulled through and has been sleeping through the night again ever since. Until last night.

This hasn’t been a gradual thing. Monday night was completely normal: no wake ups until 4-5am. Last night… she woke up every single hour of the night. Every. Single. Hour. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. With 5-15min variance.

We checked temperature – no fever. She was a bit gassy so we did some gas exercises. We changed her diaper – nothing. The couple of times she woke up fully she was completely fine – happy, babbling, cooing. Clearly not in pain or distress. But every time, after every single sleep cycle: boom. Loud crying. After mere seconds of shushing and chest pressure: back to sleep.

Anyone experience this? I’m exhausted and devastated. Could it be teething? Early sign of sickness? Regression?