u/punch4punch

Struggling to get my guy down at anytime OTHER than 845/9 every night. And it takes 45 min+ sometimes! He's 12wks old, I basically just try to time his wake window to end before the bedtime I want him to have (730/800) and about 10 minutes before I know he'll be tired, I go put him in a fresh diaper and jammies, keep him in the dark room, get some white noise booted up and lie down next to him so he can see me in the bassinet. I give him a pacifier and proceed to spend the next hour or so watching him fall asleep and wake up over and over, just giving him the pacifier when he wants it. He gets much more worked up when i walk away. He does not like being soothed in ANY other way - he doesnt want to get drowsy on me, doesnt want to feed to sleep, doesnt want to be pat, rocked, or anything. He wants to lie there and make me watch him. Would really love to put him to bed and have an evening with my husband. Side note: from around 900/930 he will sleep until 4am, and immediately go back to sleep after he eats and sleep until 8, with some fussing from 6/7am till 8.

I've been doing some spring cleaning and I found three large 100% wool sweaters I never wear. I was thinking of just donating them but then got to thinking about how I've been wanting to get some wool inserts for overnight diapering. I threw those sweaters in the washer on hot with my normal laundry loads until they were completely felted, air dried them and then cut them open at the seams and was able to get about 20 inserts from the body and sleeves of three sweaters! I probably could have gotten more from the sweaters but one of them was a cropped style with embroidery on the front, so a good portion of it wasn't usable for this. Bonus: I don't have to handwash these! I can wash them in the washer everytime and they shouldnt shrink much more if at all. I think I will air dry them though since felt tends to get stubbornly warped in the dryer.

So here's a reccomendation to grab some 100% wool sweaters next time you're at the thrift store! It was such a quick project and I got a bunch of different thicknesses out of the sweaters that im looking forward to trying out!

I'm sure most ebf moms have had this struggle - my screentime went WAY up when I started bf. But now that my baby is sleeping through the night (basically) I dont feel like i need to scroll at night to stay awake, ive already slept enough to just stay awake until he's done. Then after seeing kids of a friend of mine go through YouTube, and watching my 2month old get his attention caught, i decided to cut my own screen time out as completely as possible. In one day of this, i've noticed a massive change to not only our breastfeeding experience but my overall experience of motherhood. I need to know if this was just a me thing or if anyone else has experienced this??

I really didn't have crazy screen time before either, don't watch tv except with my husband in the evenings and had maybe 4-5 hours a day on my phone, between texting/calling, music, and scrolling. But now i've completely cut out scrolling, and I'm getting the NOTICIBLE oxytocin from breastfeeding again, the ppd/ppa that has been bubbling in the background completely disappeared and i cant stop telling my husband how much i love him. Its like a switch completely flipped. Has anyone else had this experience from this one change or am i delusional?