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Baby used to be very good at being transferred to pram etc for naps. Then we hit 4, 5 months and it went out the window. Contact naps only. I try transferring her sometimes but shes always awake within 5 to 15 minutes.

I dont mind contact naps when im at home. Theyre snuggly and i love them.

The challenge comes when im out and about.

For example, today we went into town and took the pram. After a couple hours i fed her and she fell asleep. Managed to transfer to pram but she woke after 15 mins. So when i go out and about im time limited because maybe she can have a cpuple nap times shortened but eventually shes going to be too tired and i need to be home to give her a proper nap.

Is this contact napping/i will wake up on transfer thing something that resolves itself? Or do i need to do something about it to 'teach' her how to sleep in pram again?

Our health visitor says we should just keep transferring her even if she wakes up, but that means a daytime filled with too short naps and a tired baby and exhausted me for having to be vigilent and constantly rocking to sleep etc.

Has anyone been in this situation where baby suddenly needed contact naps but then got out of it again?

So once you start solids you introduce allergens slowly one by one, and once youve introduced them you keep them in babies diet couple times a week so they get continual exposure. Got that bit.

But when can i stop exposing her to them? For baby to still retain the allergen okay-ness?

If by a year she is eating what we eat...we dont eat much fish, we dont eat nuts as my husband is allergic, we dont eat shrimp or lentils... do i cook separate meals forever, or is there a time point when a childs body is like, okay we got this.

I hope this is okay to post here, im a bit stuck. I will try and explain the situation as eloquantly as possible, sorry if i ramble.

- baby has just turned 6 months

- i breastfeed and pump once a day so my husband can give a bottle

- i used to pump at night when baby was in bed but her schedule changed a bit so now i pump in the morning before she wakes up, around 5am ish - i try and hit that prolactin window

- last week in a morning pump i could get a good 200ml maybe, enough for one full feed. So it was pump in morning, bottle given in afternoon/evening.

- the last couple days my morning pump has been maybe half that, max. Under the same curcumstances, she didnt nurse extra those nights or anything.

- i dont know if its just my body suddenly regulated and making 'just' enough, i dont get the sense she is hungry after nursing. I hear her swallow during feeding, wet nappies, weight gain all normal. So its not that im worried about supply overall i guess, but if i cant pump that one meal time bottle then i dont get a break through the day. If i have an appointment to go to at hospital, or if i want to leave the house for a couple hours alone, i need that milk so my husband can feed baby. We will need to switch to formula when i go back to work but that is a few months down the line.

- i have not changed diet or lost weight.

- is this just my body regulating milk even more? How can it change so drastically?

- do i introduce that night pump back in?

Thank you

Is there an actual benefit in taking my baby of around 6 months plus, to one of those groups where there are many parents with babies and everyone sings to them?

Compared to singing alone, in your own house with your baby. Are there advantages at this young stage for them to be with others all singing together?

People keep on telling me to go to one of those groups so she can meet other babies etc. I understand singing is important for their language skills and we do sing, just in the house on our own.

What age where they suddenly understood, 'i feel the urge to wee so i will ask/go to potty'? Maybe its not a sudden thing but gradually builds up? Where they knew that now they should hold it until they get potty.

So you werent with them for a few days but they were with the other parent the entire time?

And, how was it? Was it okay to get the break or was it a struggle?

Baby is 6 months old this week. For the last couple weeks weve been giving her spoons to play with when we eat our meal, dipping them into our meal if relevant so she gets tastes of foods etc. A couple days ago I gave her a big chunky cucumber stick to nibble on. Everything Ive seen says its one of the good things to give so they can hold it themselves and get used to working their tongue about. She bit off such an enormous chunk. I thought they couldnt bite through the thick skin with just gums but apparently my baby can. She gagged alot and it was fine, she spit it out, I managed to stay very calm so it went well in that respect. Its just now im doubting myself over what I can give her. We started today for her first proper meal with just some broccoli puree. But Id like to also give her big sticks of stuff she can hold in her hands. Im thinking like a big avocado slice is fine cos it can mush. But people give the big steak pieces and they cant mush. Just a bit unsure and overwhelmed, sorry if this is a bit all over the place. I guess my question is, is it okay she bit off such a huge chunk? Can I keep giving her big sticks of food she can apparently bite big chunks off? Thanks :)

They grow so so fast! I swear im cutting them every few days. And now baby is in habit of reaching and grabbing my face when she nurses so ive got tiny little scratches all over my nose :p

I cut my own nails once a week. This baby fingernail growth slows down right?!?!

Where I live it has reached over 30 °C today. I was struggling massively with having to breastfeed and having my sweaty skin next to babies sweaty skin and everything just sticking together.

I got a couple of her flannels and soaked them in cold water then wrung them out. Draped one over my belly where she lies when I nurse. Then when she was in position another one over her belly to keep her cool.

Its worked so well to not get over stimulated when I feed her, and I think its helped her feel cooler too because shes alot calmer.

Okay I know its going to end eventually, grown people dont go round screaming.

But my 5.5 month old has just started. We are finished with the -screeching like a pterodacyl- phase, we seem to be moving out of the -gurgling spit at the back of the mouth to sound like im drowning- phase. Those phases were really cute btw. But now she is screaming. Screaming when she is happy. Screaming when she is frustrated and cant reach things. I know she is exploring her voice and thats a good thing, but wow i am overstimulated. Im having a rough time mentally atm anyway, and this is alot to deal with.

I remember my niece visiting when she was like 1 years old and she was screaming alot. Is this going to last all that time??

We just had our first dry night with our 5.5 month old!

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Usually as soon as she wakes up I give her potty within 5 mins, but today she was a bit grumbly so we talked a little, and i breastfed a bit. So maybe 15 mins after wake she got the potty. Nappy completely dry from the night and then a big wee and poo on potty. Amazing! So proud of her, with such a long time to wait after waking up i am assuming this means she is learning to hold herself and is making clear associations with what a potty is for.

Baby is 5 months so this is on the horizon...

Will start by saying even though i have issues/worries, i will portray a calm happy face to baby. We plan to do baby led weaning. I want her to have the ability to explore a wide range of foods and i do look forward to seeing her enjoy food, which i have a feeling she will.

Anyway, maybe its my autism, but ive always had problems with food textures, certain smells and having certain things touch my skin. Having to deal with it all 3 times a day, i know im going to have to suck it up but when you see things online people never seem to have problems and just embrace it and it doesnt seem to affect them. When i think about food smeared on baby, smeared on floor and things...eurgh. Literally give me a poo anyday over a load of food. Am i weird?

The advice we have been given (I live in Denmark, so advice is from sundhedsstyrelsen), is to wait until 6 months to start solids. But when baby hits 6 months they MUST be eating lots of variety all of a sudden because youve missed that building up time if you start at 5 months say. And they say its good to build up, at the same time as saying wait until 6 months.

So okay, we wait until 6 months. Baby isnt super good at sitting yet and I dont like the idea of having her sit passively in the high chair. But, im confused about the allergen topic...

My partner has allergies so its something Im a bit aware of. Im not super worried, his mum said she used a nut based creme on his scalp as a baby which probably triggered it, so it doesnt seem to be a genetic thing, but its still in my mind.

When I read about allergen introductions everyone is like, you HAVE to start early. 4 to 6 months. How do I do this when baby isnt eating anything solid? Just serve up some allergen tastes for her but wait for other proper food??

When we give the potty i always say 'do you want the potty?' and give her the sign. Put her on and make a ppssshhh noise. I do this noise for both wee and poo. So its 'the potty' noise.

But so many people ive been reading about have a different wee and poo noise. But why two different noises when we have only one word, potty? Does it make a difference to distinguish wees and poos whilst they are happening?

If shes done a wee, after when i take her off ill say 'you did a wee' and same for poo etc.

If it makes any difference our baby just turned 5 months and weve been doing ec for around a month.

Our baby used to be great at daytime naps and then she turned 4 months. I am assuming this is a developmental stage, so im not worried but curious of others experiences.

During daytime naps now, she is very sound sensitive, especially if its not a contact nap. Small sounds and her eyes are wide open again.

Other people who have been through this, does their sound sensitivity change over time?

I realised that in my head when I was pregnant I knew I wanted to try breastfeeding, but never really set any expectations as to when I would stop. Maybe I will say ill get to 6 months but when the time comes ill want to do it for longer? (Full understanding that sometimes things happen which can hinder/stop breastfeeding without our desire to)

So, did you plan on having a stop point? Did you exceed it? What made you make the decision to stop breastfeeding?

From the few Ive had the opportunity to ask, they have all said "well of course they need a sibling!"

So thats basically having a child for your child. Im wondering about the other things that make people make that very large decision of doing it all over again. Is it because they miss the newborn phase and its lovely having a little baby? Because they just always wanted a big family? ....?

We are using disposable nappies. We have only been doing EC for about a month but have had a couple of instances where there was nothing in nappy so I can just reuse it. I find that i can take it off and put it back on once, but any more after that and the tabs lose their stick because of the fibres from the nappy.

I want to start increasing the number of opportunities she gets so she hopefully starts to get more of a grasp of holding the wee until potty, but figure this will lead to more situations of dry nappy and therefore reuse. But the point comes where youre throwing away a dry nappy not because its used but because it doesnt stick enough.

Ive got some cloth nappies i want to try down the line but right now we have a bit of a hoard of disposables and im also just very energy low and dont want lots more on my plate.

Any solutions to helping nappy tabs stick more??

I tried this hold to breastfeed when baby was little but couldnt get the hang of it and proceeded to forget about it. Tried again today, baby is now nearly 5 months old, and it went relatively okay and I can definitely see myself feeding her more in this position but Id like to streamline it/get it feeling more natural.

One thing I struggled with was because she is larger now, her back is quite long, so i had to hold my breast upwsrds quite a bit and she had to still look slightly down in order for the nipple to be in her mouth. I leant back a bit which helped slightly, its not ideal i assume for her to drink with head leant forward, but it didnt completely eradicate problem. She was straddling my leg and overall looked comfy how she was, but i felt like i was getting it slightly wrong with the mouth nipple placement thing.

Any tips? Thanks :)

What, if anything, did your partner get you for your first Mothers Day?

Im not sure what i expected tbh, from a partner I have to remind to take even a photo of me and baby every once in a while. I see on instagram all these really sweet mothers day traditions people do. I dunno, maybe he figures its something to do when shes old enough to do it for herself, but thats like 5 years down the line, and getting into a little tradition early would be lovely...and just thoughtful you know? Like "i have cared enough to actually spend some time thinking of something nice to do". He cares, alot, dont get me wrong. Maybe its a man thing, not to think deeply about any of this stuff.

Like i already have a really sweet idea of what to do for his first Fathers Day card.