I just went from 4 to 3 ppd 2 days ago. I’m getting close to my middle of the day pump and I don’t feel engorged or anything. Should I just skip it if I feel okay? I just dropped a pump so that’s why I’m worried.
Almost Everytime my baby cries, she lets out a huge fart with every scream 😂 it’s hilarious but is this normal? Lol
She’s been on this formula for a week.
My baby is 4 months old and I had her in the baby bjorn harmony for the first time. She felt pretty close to my body. I was wondering if it was too tight, but if I loosened it, it felt like it put more strain on my back. Her upper chest definitely had room, but I’m not sure about her abdomen. We were shopping and she was looking around majority of the time. Then towards the end, she fell asleep. When I took her out, her face looked really pale for a second. It now looks back to normal after her being in the car seat for a bit. Did I make her too tight???? I hope I didn’t cause like decreased blood flow to her brain!
Fit check in the comments. I had it about that tight, maybe even looser
I need to rant. My husband always gets mad when I correct him on something. He’s the type that’s like “just do it yourself then!” To be fair, I’m very anxious and so maybe I nitpicked him too much. But a big one is feeding. My baby has very discoordinated feeding. I feel like he often wants her to finish the bottle faster so he doesn’t pace her like he should. So he took a MOTN feed this morning and it was so unhelpful because I couldn’t sleep because I just kept hearing my baby gulping like crazy. I tried to gently say “what’s going on? Maybe she needs a burp? She’s eating really fast” but really, I just wanna say “can you not hear her fucking gulping!? Tilt the bottle away! She’s eating too fucking fast!!!!” My baby ended up vomiting not too long after the feed. And it makes me super anxious because she already is a low volume eater. And we have an appointment to go to this morning that I have to wake up for. I’m probably going to just cancel the appointment because I really want her to eat and cause I’m tired af since she got hungry again an hour later and I ended up feeding her. Now I can’t sleep cause I gotta wake up soon to pump anyways. Like ugh. My husband just needs to fucking listen! And he’s over here snoring like a fucking baby while I’m worried that our baby just projectile vomited.
Im 4mpp and im switching to formula. I went down to 4ppd recently and I’ve also recently been feeling very sad for no reason. I do have PPD and PPA, but this is different. Is it because I’m starting the weaning process? Or will the hormone crash only happen after I’m done weaning? Meaning I’m about to get another wave of depression 😩
My baby was admitted to the NICU for dehydration when she was first born, so mixing formula is really triggering for me. She’s 4 months old now and I’m finally switching to formula.
When I would make individual bottles, I just went by scoop counts. But I’m trying pitcher method now, and I weighed my stuff out and counted and I noticed that when I added my 25 scoops for my 25oz of formula (I use kendamil), the weight came out to almost what it should be for 27 scoops. So then I was in a dilemma of, do I go by weight or scoop number? Do I trust the scale? Do I trust the scoop?
What do you guys think? Technically the 2 extra scoops only make it an extra .08 scoop of formula per ounce, so that shouldn’t really hurt my baby right?
I’ve been feeling overwhelmed with my 4 month old. My husband offered to be primary parent today while I played video games and did some of my hobbies. Even on the few times I took over care again, I was mentally checked out and was on my phone with her. She definitely didn’t get as much fun time as she normally does when I spend the day with her. Cause, let’s face it… a lot of dads don’t know how to interact with a baby. So I just feel guilty.
I really love the Witcher. I also love baldurs gate, but I do wish there was more of a town to be in. I also love Skyrim. I like when there’s romance side quests. I like when there’s choices. I love medieval settings! Forgot to mention that I prefer character customization and/or being able to play as a female, but not a requirement
My 4 month old is so much more alert but can’t do much. Seems like most of our activities are limited to tummy time and playing with hanging toys. I don’t know what to do to entertain her all day. I feel like my day always consists of pumping, baby care, playing with baby, and I’m so tired that when she naps I will just nap, and I’ll do stuff around the house. I haven’t gotten any me time lately. And it doesn’t help that my baby is super fussy lately. It seems like she’s never happy and I feel guilty. She used to smile when I came into her view. Now she’s crying unless we’re walking around with her. Idk what to do with her. I feel like a bad mom. Is this normal stuff that I’m dealing with? Like are all babies kinda unhappy at this time? Will it get easier to entertain my baby?
We just had a baby who is 4 months old. My husband is a guy who never really had many hobbies. He suddenly decided he wants to ride motorcycles, which was a complete 180 from his normal self. I’m not really okay with that tbh. It’s dangerous and we have a baby that depends on us now. My husband just really liked the appeal of a bit of adrenaline, but also something accessible. He doesn’t have to do much planning. Can just hop on a bike and ride for 15 mins to clear his mind. He said that horseback riding is something that would probably satisfy that itch too. Unfortunately, we’re way too broke for a horse lol. But is there anything out there he can do that’s much safer? It needs to be really easy for him to do. Like he likes to pickleball, but he doesn’t do that hobby because it requires coordination with other players and weather and all that. So he really needs something that’s just a grab and go type of hobby.
I’m slowly introducing formula to my babies diet and she just had a poop that was completely soaked into the diaper with just some mucous on top. She only had about 9 oz of formula today and she had 4 oz yesterday. She’s not going frequently at this time. Her last few poops looked normal and pasty.
Anyone else’s baby like this? Mine startles to loud noises and passed her hearing test as a newborn. She doesn’t turn to sound. There’s been times where maybe she turned to a loud rattle or music on my phone, but it’s not consistent so I’m not sure if it was coincidence. She definitely doesn’t turn to our voices.
I’m finally joining you guys and hanging up my pumps at 4 months!!!! I have a good supply of breastmilk, and I wanted to keep pumping until I know my daughter is good on her formula so that way we can always use BM just in case. I’m just wondering how long should she be on her formula before you think I can call it good and start weaning?
This is eating away at me every single day. When my daughter was 4 days old, we found out she lost 17% of her weight and she basically wasn’t transferring any milk from my breasts. I brought her to the ER because her cry sounded high pitched and she seemed lethargic to me. When we got to the ER, her bili was 16.5 and albumin 3.8, and sodium 158. She was yellow all the way down to her feet. She was difficult to feed because she was so sleepy. She got some fluids and when we got up to the NICU, she perked up more and was crying while they assessed her. My daughter never had to be under the bili lights at all, and she went on to have breast milk jaundice that didn’t resolve until she was 2-3 months old. Some background, she was born at 37 weeks exactly.
I’m always worried that maybe she should’ve gone under the lights and I have an intense fear that the jaundice got to her brain. I know that if she was categorized as high risk, she should’ve been treated at a level of 15. I know her albumin is was 3.8, but wouldn’t that have technically been a false high because she was dehydrated? Like what if it was really less than 3 and she was supposed to be high risk and be treated??? I’m so so worried. I know babies with kernicterus have the arching backs and what not and I know for a while, my baby would arch her back a lot during feeds (which I assumed was reflux, but now worried it’s not). She also is 16 weeks and not consistently turning to sound and I’m worried about hearing loss. She had an MRI at 7 weeks old because she had some weird movements and we worried about seizures. It was completely negative, but now I heard there’s a blind window for kernicterus at that time…
I’m sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask this, but I’m just feeling sick to my stomach right now thinking about this.
My baby’s bottle washer hasn’t been working for who knows how long. It’s the mom cozy Klean pal pro. I ran the washer without dishes and was able to see that the faucets weren’t spinning and water was basically just leaking out of them except for on one nozzle. We were running all my pumping parts and her bottles through there and we would run the full cycle which would include steaming the dishes to sterilize them. We also dropped one (but sometimes two if we weren’t sure if we dropped one in) mom cozy dishwasher tablet in there. I think this has been happening for a while now because I’ve had to hand wash some stuff when I took them out because I saw milk residue.
Is it possible that the dishwasher tablet left residue on my baby’s stuff and she’s been drinking it? I noticed fogginess on some of the plastic stuff, but I thought it was hard water stains.
My baby is 4 months old. I realized my bottle washer hasn’t been working. The water spouts haven’t been shooting water. We would run the full steam and sterilize function. All my pump parts go through that. Do I throw out my milk? I’m worried because for a few weeks, my baby’s poops have had a water ring around it. She hasn’t had fevers. But she’s also been incredibly fussy! I’m an overproducer but I don’t think I’ll be as ahead as I have been.
It’s just exhausting. And I want to enjoy my daughter but I’m constantly watching to make sure she’s not have seizures, make sure she’s meeting milestones, make sure her poops are always good. Does anyone have this anxiety and when did it get better for you?
My baby sleeps through the night at 15 weeks old. I have no idea how long she could actually sleep because I wake her up after 8 hours to eat. She doesn’t eat a lot, so I do this to make sure she gets enough. Usually after she eats, she will take another nap for about 3 hours. Anyways, I heard her stirring around today at the time she needs to eat her second meal. My husband is taking over so I was waiting for him to get her, but she just fell back asleep! I know she’s hungry. She usually is at this time. Have I been starving her all this time overnight? She’s been sleeping through the night for as long as I can remember. I honestly don’t remember not using an alarm to wake her up to eat.
Has anyone used a male therapist? I do couples counseling with a male therapist and I honestly love him and how direct he is. I feel like I kinda want something like that for my individual therapy. Has anyone used a male? I’ve tried several females and I just feel like it’s not giving me what I need
Anyone else get lots of nightmares? I’m always anxious about my baby’s health, brain damage, milestones, ect. I’m always having nightmares about her not eating enough or other people handling her too rough and making her cry or snakes biting her or what have you.