u/allaspiaggia

My 13 month old mostly co sleeps, and has never once slept through the night without waking 4-10 times. He will only nurse to sleep, and recently my husband has finally stepped up and put him to bed in a crib a couple times, which means kiddo ugly cries (in dads arms) for an hour until he passes out. He is also extremely difficult to transfer into the crib, my husband successfully transfers maybe 50% of the time, and I have not successfully transferred since 5 months. He wakes up fully when I attempt to transfer him, and we start the nursing to sleep process all over again. Because of this he mostly sleeps in my bed and keeps me up all night nursing every 30-60 minutes. Because at least if he’s co sleeping I can fall asleep right after he does. He won’t unlatch until he is fully asleep, and if I try to unlatch him, he freaks out and wakes up. He is also an incredibly light sleeper, the slightest not wakes him up. I am so exhausted and out of my mind that I don’t know what to do.

He is developing normally, eats a ton during the day, LOVES nursing and does it as often as possible but he drinks plenty of water too. He’s a happy sweet kid during the day but at night he turns into a nursing monster who won’t sleep unless my boob is actively IN his mouth. He won’t take a pacifier. Nothing soothes him besides my boobs and I don’t want to fully wean yet and obviously will never let him cry alone.

His iron level was 11 at his 12 month appointment, which is borderline low, so I’m going back tomorrow to get levels checked.

What else should I ask the doctor to check? Any other blood/lab tests that we should ask for (might as well make use of one blood draw). My pediatrician is known for under diagnosing, and dismissing parents concerns, so I want to go in to the appointment as prepared as possible.

Maybe it’s 100% my fault he doesn’t sleep, and I’m too sleep deprived to figure out why. Just getting testing done to be sure it’s not medical. I’m just wondering if I should be asking for anything other than the iron levels (which needed to be done anyways).

My kiddo had his 12 month appointment today and his iron is borderline low. I try to feed him as much meat and beans as possible, but it’s still low. His iron is 11, low end of the spectrum is 12, but our pediatrician wasn’t worried - however she’s known to dismiss issues so I don’t trust her very much.

Does anyone have tips on increasing iron in his diet?

My 12 month old accidentally bit my nipple, right near the tip. It bled a surprising amount! He has 6 teeth and so far has been pretty good about not biting, I think this was just an accident.

How long should I wait to feed him with that boob? It doesn’t really hurt but I also don’t want him literally drinking my blood. I’d also rather avoid pumping/dumping if possible, but will if that’s the safer move.

Any suggestions for healing a fairly deep cut right on the tip of my nipple?

Hi friends,
You are amazing and wonderful, inspiring me daily to work on my never ending mending pile. Thank you for being part of this sweet community, I am grateful for you and your efforts to keep your mending as invisible as possible!

Unfortunately I’ve been seeing an uptick in karma farming bot posts lately. I hate bots almost as much as I hate ticks! So I have to enforce a new rule. Any account that posts someone else’s work (*without linking to the original post) will be removed and the account banned. I don’t want to waste any more energy on low effort karma farming. Thank you to people who flag these posts, it helps me remove them quickly while I chase my toddler around.

You are still welcome to share a mend that you didn’t do, so long as the original post (or link outside Reddit) is very prominent in your post. I love seeing inspiration and tutorials, please keep sharing those, but the original creator MUST be given credit.

So again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for being so creative and sharing your hard work. Together we can fix all the things!

Help settle a debate, please. My son is 11 months old, walking, and my husband has not done much baby proofing. He has put locks on a couple drawers. There are several tall dressers, armoires, and standalone cabinets in the house, all of which would definitely crush a child if they fell over.

I’m wondering how dangerous is it to NOT have furniture anchored while my baby is still so small? My husband says that the cabinets/etc are too heavy to tip over. From what I’ve read, it’s the heavy furniture that’s the most dangerous and deadly.

I would anchor them myself but I’m not good with power tools, and he works in construction. My Mom (who lives with us) is a boomer parent who never anchored anything for her kids, also evidently I just listened when she said no. So she thinks he doesn’t need to anchor anything either.

So is it important to anchor furniture, or is this just a marketing hype by the companies who sell furniture anchor equipment?

I’ve been using the CGM for a while now and my hair is so happy! I use whatever conditioner is on sale to co-wash, and have been using the CurlScan website to check if a conditioner or leave in product is “safe”. But just saw the website hasn’t been updated in over 2 years!

So I’m wondering if anyone knows a more up to date version of the CurlScan site. It was so easy to just search a product, I get so confused by trying to read ingredient lists. Thanks for your help!

Long story short, I’d like to become certified as a babywearing educator. What’s the best way to go about this?

I signed up for 8 weeks of *daily* swim classes at 11:30. Kiddo is almost 1 year old and will be wearing long sleeve shirt, and swim hat. I realistically will just wear a swimsuit as I hate the feeling of swim shirts. We will only probably be in the direct sun for 30-45 minutes (we live in a tree dense area so I never wear sunscreen) but the only Tiny Tots classes are right when the sun is strongest!

I’m looking for a decent sunscreen that’s relatively inexpensive, available in the US, and is not strongly scented. I read past posts and I just can’t justify spending $20 (plus $30 shipping!) for a small tube of Laroche posay. I am super confused by mineral, etc, please just tell me what to order so I can worry about something else.

What sunscreen did you buy for yourself and your kids that is reasonably priced and reasonably safe?

A friend asked me to make some swim shorts for her soon to be 1 year old boy. I’d also love to use the pattern to make some all purpose shorts for my baby, who’s wearing 12-18 month size. I primarily use a serger, so something designed for stretch knits would be ideal.

Everything I’ve found so far is just a tutorial, not a pattern I can print. Or designed for woven fabric. I’m pretty solid on construction, I just need a pattern to trace (without cutting up his existing shorts!)