u/dillpicklespiccolo

Can teething pain last for weeks at a time? 6M old is showing all the usual teething signs (chomping on hands/teething toys, rooting around in his mouth, extra drooly, fussy - especially at night, sleeping less) but I’m concerned at how long it’s lasting with no teeth erupting. It’s been almost 3 weeks now. It was worse in the first week with fussing occurring all day whereas now it’s mostly isolated to the evenings, but still. Is this normal!? We have a GP appointment but it’s not until 28th :(

I’m 5 months pp and my bestie spoiled me rotten with a pregnancy bag full of things to get me through my pregnancy and then a postpartum care package with all the essentials. She’s now pregnant with her second and I’d love to do something similar for her.

What things can I get her for pregnancy/postpartum that she might have forgotten about and/or may not have thought about that would be super helpful?

I’m also considering putting together a tiny package for her eldest so he doesn’t feel too pushed out by the new arrival - thoughts? Books, snacks, a toy maybe.

Some things I have in mind so far:

Pregnancy
• Lush bump massage bar

Labour/Postpartum
• perineal ice packs
• disposable nickers
• disposable breast pads
• peri bottle
• shower gel
• pyjamas
• deodorant
• Uber eats / M&S gift voucher

I’m also in the process of hand knitting a blanket for the new arrival

3 month old won’t sleep in his next to me or Moses basket for more than 1hr. I don’t understand why.

Ever since the early days he’s not liked his Moses basket, but until 8 weeks old was content to sleep in his next to me for 2-4 hour stretches overnight. Now we’re lucky if we get 1hr out of him. I truly don’t understand it, because he gets his best sleep when in his baby bjorn bouncer, and while I don’t mind him snoozing in there *too much* while supervised during the day, I need to put him somewhere safe at night.

We resorted to co-sleeping (using sleep 7), which gave us longer stretches again but now he’s starting to roll I’m not comfortable continuing this due to safety. When this worked I did initially wonder if it might be a scent/closeness thing, but the fact he’s so content in his bouncer suggests otherwise.

Why won’t he sleep in his crib?!?! Help!