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I have an angle care newborn bath (0-6mo) setup that was given to me as a hand me down. It’s been working great, but since my 4mo baby started rolling and he gets squirmy when in the bath bed thing.

Do you recommend buying those bath chairs? Its recommended 6-12 mo. Or is there something else that people are using?

Also any bath toys you like bc he’s starting to like kicking his feet/legs in the water and I’d like to have toys to help explore more.

My baby is 4 months old and I am looking to go back to work in a few weeks. I wanted to start establishing a more finite feeding schedule since I currently EBF.

How much are you feeding baby? Is it a set total oz per day? And then how is that broken up during the day? How many oz per feeding? Do you only feed once during a wake window?

I have overcome the bottle aversion. Turns out my milk has high lipase so frozen milk isn’t as readily usable at the moment. But working to figure out how dated my milk can be before baby refuses it. My supply has regulated so I’m trying to balance the transition for baby and me without being wasteful if I offer baby too much in the bottle

My baby is 3.5 months old. About 3 weeks ago he started refusing the swaddle and making falling asleep tough. A few days later we went arms out and has been sleeping fine since.

The problem is that he seems to be waking at 5am everyday no matter what.

When he wakes up, he’ll start babbling to himself, and while cute I want to keep sleeping. I turn the snoo from baseline to level 1 and he stops, but after 8 minutes it goes back to baseline and the babbling starts again. I’ve even tried going up to level 2 thinking the extended time will help him fall back asleep but same deal - once he’s back to baseline the babbling starts. After about 2 minutes of babbling it turns to be fussy cries, which is when I get him up and feed him.

Now when I get him up, he is rooting/sucking on my shoulder so I’m obviously feeding him. However, I was hoping for advice to help prevent the 5am wake up turning into a habit.

Do I lock the snoo at a higher level? My baby is tall for his age and will need to transition out within the next month. MIL is coming to visit in about 3 weeks and we were planning to move him to the crib after that.

Extra info: I think he may be teething too so I don’t know if he’s waking up uncomfortable and by me feeding him in inadvertently creating a habit.

I have zero problem feeding my baby if he’s hungry but no matter what time we go to bed, how many naps he’s had during the day, he’s still awake at 5am. Usually bedtime is 8/8:30 however last night we were out for a walk with friends and he slept for 20 minutes at 7. So he didn’t go down until 10pm. I thought maybe he’s sleep later, but nope, 5am on the dot.

THANK YOU everyone! Baby is able to go back to sleep until about 7:30. And I treat the 5am wake up as middle of the night feed. I’ll use the advice and see what happens. I may need to just readdress after he’s in the crib/matures a little more 🥰

Hi all, looking for advice to help my LO (12 wk) nap better during the day. Usually he is going down to sleep around 9pm, will wake around 8am with a wake up between 5-6am. He is EBF and will fall asleep nursing.

The problem comes with day time naps. I have him sleep in the crib for the first 2 naps. The remaining 2-3 afternoon naps are contact naps.

Two weeks ago he started becoming more difficult and would only accept 1 nap in the crib. Last week he started refusing that too. It’s iffy to say if he’s starting to show signs of rolling. definitely still has the Moro reflex though it is fading. After him refusing the first crib nap, I thought to swap him from swaddle to sleep sack. This seems to work for 2 days for the first nap only. I was hopeful but now we are back to refusing naps altogether again. He does not like a pacifier. He will suck on his right first but not long enough for him to get to sleep.

Any advice to help him sleep on his own would be great!

My baby boy is about 2.5 months old. The Snoo has worked wonders for us. And while we aren’t ready to move LO to a crib yet, I wanted to start planning how that process may look.

We still have him fully swaddled too and he has had accidental roll overs from belly to back 3 times (honestly his head is doing most of the work). Would you start taking his arms out of the swaddle now? He still has the startle reflex.

When should I look to turning on the weaning mode. Should I wait until after the 4 month sleep regression? He does 1-2 daytime naps in his crib/room currently. TIA

My baby is 11 weeks old. Since having him, when it’s nap time he will easily fall asleep by being swaddled and then nursed for 5 minutes. Without nursing, and just walking a swaddled baby around will take me 30 minutes to get him to sleep.

Will there ever come a time where he can fall asleep without nursing? Is this something that he needs to be transitioned out of? Will he outgrow it? Will it fade to stop once solids are started?

My husband and I are planning to take a week trip without LO when he is about 10 months old. My parents will be watching him and I’d like to know that they won’t have trouble putting him to sleep for night time or naps. Essentially want to make sure this is something he can outgrow before then. He doesn’t like pacifiers. TIA

So my baby boy is 11.5 weeks old.

Background—We are using the Snoo at night for sleeping and it has been a godsend. I’m slowing moving his bedtime up sooner. Currently it’s about 9/9:15pm. Last time we tried putting him down at 8:30pm when his bedtime was closer to 9:45 he woke up at 9:30pm crying…so we are trying to go slowly and moving it up by 15 minutes every few nights. He usually sleep about 8 hours and will wake around 5/5:30am. I will nurse him in one side. Burp, let him finish pooping, change him and then nurse him on the other side before putting him back in the snoo (about 35 minutes for the routine).

My end goal is to have him go down at 7pm wake up and wake at 7am. and I admit, I am being selfish and letting him nighttime sleep until 7:30/8am. Because when he is awake it wants to be held but HATES the carrier and wants my arms. I take advantage of that 1-2 hours alone to eat breakfast, drink coffee, take care of my dog, and get things done/cleaned around the house.

Anyways, more to the point, for the last 5-6 weeks I have managed to get the first and second nap in the crib that would last 40min to 1.5hr). I’m following daytime wake windows and that seemed to help a lot with the evening crying/witching hour. However, last week with the second nap he started waking up about 15-20 minutes after being transferred in the crib. Now this week he’s waking 10-15 minutes after being in the crib for the first nap.

I have accepted the afternoons are for contact naps. But the morning naps were supposed to be in the crib where I would have my time to do chores, hydrate and eat while he sleeps in the crib. BUT is this a growth spurt? Is this my new reality? We change the diaper, swaddle and nurse to sleep. I then continue to rock him for 8-10 minutes before transferring. He will only fall asleep on my while nursing and I just don’t want a habit to be created cause it’s a lot when he’s asking for the boob every hour (when he wakes and when to sleep). And then I can’t rely on my husband or parents to help put him down for sleep if he’s expected to be nursed to sleep every time.

So basically I’m looking for advice and other people’s experiences. Did your baby also stop liking the crib for naps? Do you also have to swaddle and nurse your baby to sleep? When does that end/should I be looking to start a new sleep routine? Like no swaddle, no nursing and just rocking your baby to sleep?
I was hoping to start trialing having my baby sleep with an arm out of the swaddle as he looking like maybe trying to roll stomach to back but idk how to do that when I can’t even get him to sleep normally.

TIA