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3 month old

My baby just turned 3 month old today. Since the newborn trenches, we haven't done much with regards to his sleep. We have basically just followed his cues, letting him sleep and wake as he needed and watching his wake windows. I somtimes do cap naps at 2.5 hours (if he does have nap that long).

We do have some sort of night time routine, but it's not consistent everyday (we're going to work on this). He used to sleep in the Snoo very well, but since 2 months, he just didn't take to it anymore. He was only sleeping for 30-40 minutes in it instead of a 1-2 hours. We still try to sometimes do one nap in it a day. In order to protect his sleep, we're now doing contact naps and safe 7 co-sleeping. We're also able to lay him down on our bed after 45 minutes of contact nap and he'd continue sleeping there supervised. Not interested in sleep training.

As you can see, naps are pretty much all over the place, but are we doing ok with sleep at this age? Since he's 3 months now, I want to get ahead and start gently introducing good sleep habits and lightly start him on a schedule. We haven't really been to outings since I'm worried about his unpredictable naps. I'm not sure how to stretch wake windows, or how to help him transition to more consolidated naps. Is this even needed at this age? Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated!

u/tinaaaminh — 4 days ago

Milk blebs... why?!

When I say pumping is a concept straight from hell, I truly mean it.

I'm a FTM and 10 weeks pp. I have been exclusively pumping since day one due to my baby having difficulty latching. He was combo feeding while I was waiting for my supply to come in. We have been decreasing formula intake slowly over the last month.

I slowly became a just-enougher and was pumping 100-140ml per session at 5 ppd. I was so happy to be able to transition to only providing pumped breastmilk for my baby. However, I suddenly got a clogged duct about 4 days ago. I've gotten them before and was able to effectively remove them within 1-2 days, so I didn't think anything about it. I was still pumping and only getting 50-80ml per session.

Now I find that there are yellow/white crusts over my nipples which could be milk blebs impacting the clogged ducts 😭 I didn't even know this was even a thing! Any advice on how to remove them? Google told me to just reduce inflammation, but I've been doing ibuprofen and ice since the start of the issue... nothing has changed.

Atp, pumping is giving me anxiety. I'm scared of mastitis, tired from being up MOTN, tired of clogs... This is making me ready to just throw in the towel on pumping any longer.

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u/tinaaaminh — 24 days ago