How to co sleep?

How do you co sleep if you and your partner are in the bed like in terms of your own quilt? My LO is about to be 12m and we have a newborn coming in 5 days. My 12m is so active we are scared she crawl down and jump off the bed first of all and secondly what if she suffocates because of the quilt? Like what are people doing haha

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u/lalala-1995 — 1 day ago

Baby head banging ?

My almost 12m old has been banging her head for a while. So there’s two things, she’ll purposely bang it against her cot and if I put my hand there, it hurts so idk why she’s doing that constantly. Secondly around 11 months she started having tantrums when she wouldn’t get her way, simple stuff like I take something from her or I don’t let her eat a power cord. However, these tantrums seem dangerous lol if it’s on the couch it’s okay, she throws herself backwards and it’s soft. If I pick her up from the floor and she isn’t happy, she’ll hang her head back and she hits either my chin or shoulder. I get scared this will happen on the floor boards. Did anyone’s baby/about to be toddler do this and when did it stop? I assume when they understood better..?

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u/lalala-1995 — 3 days ago

Sleeping in the same room with toddler and newborn??

My daughter will be 12 months two days before her baby brother is due. She’s still in her cot next to us and I decided to not move her into another room - initial plan was her and my husband will sleep in another room. However, our house layout isn’t a hallway with all bedrooms, the other room is actually on the other day of the house and it makes me sad how far she’d be. So I wanted to attempt all sleeping in the new room (with newborn). Am I crazy??? She does wake once for a feed and sometimes takes a few goes to put her back into the cot

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u/lalala-1995 — 7 days ago

How much food was your 12m old actually eating?

I hate seeing these Instagram reels and stuff because my almost 12m old is not eating her plate of food lol. She’ll have like half a weetbix with yoghurt for breakfast, have a 200ml bottle of milk, lunch is quite awful usually a few bites of something, another 200ml and then dinner can depend - sometimes better than lunch but still it’s bites I can count, then before sleep she can smash like 300ml of milk. The reason why she’s having milk is because she’s hungry, I’m never offering milk before solids but there’s all this PRESSURE to reduce milk at 12m and it’s bloody stressing because she’s not going to be full on a few bites of solids

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u/lalala-1995 — 8 days ago

First c section and scared!

I have an almost 12m old and I’m 37 weeks pregnant. I’ll be having an elective c section after a lot of back and forth as my last labour would’ve been exactly a year ago and the tear was a 3B (almost a 4th). It wasn’t pushed on me however the pelvic floor physio said the scar hasn’t healed. So hence I don’t want to gamble what my outcome could be even tho midwives have said second time mums don’t tear as much.

Anyway, I’m scared! Not so much for the surgery but for the after? How do I get out of bed? How do I move? Also breaks my heart that I won’t be able to pick my 12m old as she’s currently clingy to me and my husband will need to do her night feed and resettling (she’s in our room and will still be lol don’t judge).

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u/lalala-1995 — 10 days ago

Choosing to not breastfeed

Does choosing not to BF make me bad? I did a bit of combo feeding when my 12m old was a newborn for about 6 weeks because BF really hurt. I went through the guilt already especially how it’s so good for them to avoid sicknesses or when they are sick. Anyways I’m 37 weeks pregnant and I do not want to attempt BF. Nothing triggers me, my 12m old pulling my hair, kicking, biting me etc nothing overstimulates me. But having a hand graze over my nipple I cannot stand, it makes me feel gross I don’t know why like I want to chop off my boobs! Even just from pumping a bit 11 months ago, to me they are now not sexual things and are just gross!

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u/lalala-1995 — 10 days ago

How do I progress to meat (12m old)?

For context, I had my almost 12m old on purées till like 8 months because I was sooo scared of choking. I then went to a speech path every fortnight and I would bring soft food and she would watch her eat. She’s made progress however, she stated she’s a little behind with chewing (which ofc I regret now). She said she isn’t ready to eat like pieces of meat. So i jsut give her soft moist foods like pancakes, eggs, zucchini slices, overcooked pasta etc whereas I will puree meat and pour that over pasta or couscous. I’m 37 weeks pregnant so my appointments have paused but I have no idea how to even progress to meat. Apperantly she doesn’t fully chew, she does a bit of chewing and more sucking. I’m wondering if a good start is a meatball as they can be made super soft ?

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u/lalala-1995 — 10 days ago