u/beingagiirl

Is it normal for a 6 month old to nurse at night? My baby still wakes up to feed every 3 hours at night. When do they stop?

I love my dog but I recently became a mom and I feel like I’m not giving her as much attention as she needs. We used to go for walks and play outside all day she every energetic and now we only go outside once a day for 30 minutes. That’s been weighing on me, and I’m trying to find a better balance while keeping everyone safe and happy. My baby is just starting to crawl. I’m trying to figure out how well these two actually work together in daily life and what setups have worked for others? How did your dog adjust once your baby started crawling and grabbing things?Did you ever feel you had to separate them most of the time, or did they coexist naturally?

At my baby’s pediatrician appointment, I’m a first time mom so I had a lot of questions I was eager to ask his pediatrician (he sees rotating pediatricians depending on who’s available). This was the first time seeing this pediatrician the others were lovely, but this one made me cry. Instead of getting a chance to ask my questions, I was asked a lot of questions, and depending on how I answered, I felt judged and spoken to in a mean way.
First, I was asked how often baby eats, what his schedule is like, and how much he eats. The pediatrician didn’t like my answer when I said baby doesn’t really have a schedule we just go with the flow. He eats whenever he’s hungry, and I don’t know exactly how much he’s getting since he’s breastfed. Sometimes he nurses for only 2–3 minutes, and sometimes he snacks sometimes it’s way longer… With an attitude, she said, “You need a schedule. Your baby has gained a lot of weight (he’s 75 percentile) you are overfeeding him.” She rolled her eyes and said, “Just because he’s crying doesn’t mean you feed him.”

I told her I don’t feed him every time he cries and that I know his hunger cues, but she got very angry and continued giving me attitude saying you need to do other things with him besides feeding him. I honestly couldn’t believe a doctor was speaking to me like a mean girl.
Then she asked about where he sleeps and how often he wakes up. I said he wakes up hungry about every 3 hours, and she said, “There’s no reason he should be waking up every 3 hours at 6 months old. This is very bad you’ve gotten him addicted to feeding.”
I felt very judged and didn’t even mention that we co sleep.She opened his diaper and saw he had pooped and made a disgusted face and said , “You need to take care of that he pooped.”
he was completely naked when they checked his weight, and I had clearly just changed his diaper. It’s not like I had left him in a dirty diaper all morning. She also looked disgusted to see his poop, and I don’t understand why someone would choose pediatrics if they don’t want to deal with babies diapers and normal baby stuff .