I’ve literally never noticed until my son was born 5 weeks ago. When he finally goes down for a nap, opening ANYTHING sounds like an atomic bomb going off when we’re trying to be as quiet as possible. Doesn’t help that the little guy is a light sleeper during naps. Such a random stressor that we didn’t expect lol

Not eating dairy, soy, eggs, fish and shellfish is harrrrd guys.

It's been 7 months and it seems like it's finally starting to get better. I still can only eat those foods a little bit at a time and wait 3-4 business days to see if symptoms come back.

I ate a piece of cake at a wedding and compared to 2 months ago, it's been soooo much better. Some reflux but barely, can still stay asleep at night, basically no eczema now, one day of not pooping l but he made up for it by pooping twice the next day.

I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!! I'm excited to eat some cheese again... sometime soon.

Hi, my 2 week old hasn't been pooping more than once a day. I do a combo feeding since I can't EBF. He's taking enfamil gentlease and last night he was fussy and gassy and hadn't pooped in 24 hours. So after giving him some mylicon and administering a frida windi today he finally pooped but to me his poop looks off kinda greenish and pasteish. Has anyone experienced poop like this?

The last almost 2 weeks my son has been fighting naps and sleep and it’s gotten worse it takes anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to get him down. I don’t really have him on any schedule besides keeping his wake windows between 2.5-4 hours. He use to have that schedule down and it was easy to put him to sleep. I’m fighting for my life now. Not sure if I should expand his wake windows or maybe try 1 nap a day? Or put him on some sort of schedule. He’s always been a terrible sleeper and I’ve tried everything so normally as long as he’s still sleeping I sleep. His naps usually last between 1.5/2 hours majority of the time. Anybody with experience similar to mine? When did you guys switch to one nap? My son is 9 months almost 10 months.

My 4mo has been refusing to nap for the last couple weeks. I’ve been trying to rock her to sleep, and that works… until 20-30 minutes later when she pops up and starts grabbing the crib bars and playing with her feet. I usually give her some time to play around in case she settles herself and goes back to sleep, but I usually end up getting her out after 20 minutes or so because she seems so awake.

I feel bad because after such short naps, she’s so grouchy and clearly tired during wake windows that we only do tummy time and a few minutes of playing before I feed her, close the blackout curtains, and try to get her back down.

It kind of feels like she’s just spending all of her time in a dark room with white noise, either playing by herself in the crib or being rocked to sleep/contact napping. (It’s not helped by the fact I’m in Phoenix so we’re stuck inside all day.)

Should I be trying to get in full-length contact naps so she has more “awake” play time in between? Let her hang out and play in the crib longer to see if she’ll go back to sleep? Keep doing what we’re doing and have one long “rescue” contact nap in the afternoon so she’s not overtired? Help!

My 4mo is generally very happy and smiley, he loooooves people and socialization he will pretty much smile on command since ab 2mo.

But for some reason when he’s playing with toys independently he rarely seems delighted, he’s more serious and then derives into frustration and anger eventually.

He has really great motor control and mastered maneuvering hanging toys at 2m. But as he got older and stronger he started pulling on them so aggressively and would frustrate himself so we stopped playing with that lol. I give him crunchy books and teether toys, etc but he often seems to end up mad at them hahah I just think this is funny. Anybody else notice this?

My LO has a bump on her thigh, under the skin, no visible injury, she acts like it hurts when if we rub it. Her pediatrician has been booked up all month so we went to urgent care and got an order for an ultrasound.

It was horrible. I didn’t think to practice to prepare her & she was petrified. The ultrasound tech just kept telling me she needed to stay still. Which 🙄yeah obviously.
In hindsight, we should’ve prepared better but I just didn’t forsee such a big reaction.

I asked the pediatrician for advice on practicing and/or a place that specializes in pediatric ultrasound and the nurse told me to go back to urgent care lol.

I am gonna call a children’s hospital tomorrow but has anyone else been through something like this/have any advice on how to prepare her for it?

My LO is 7m and 2w old. Previously had eczema, which were able to treat with two short courses of Desonide, and prevent the occurrence of with a good moisturizer routine, and by adding a probiotic called Evivo. This all worked for a good 4 months, and in to one month of introducing solids.

We got serious about solids and got through some basic individual purees with no reactions. Whenever we fed her eggs, she developed light red patches that went away after 2-3 hours. We got through peanut butter with no reaction at all. When she was fed salmon for the first time, she developed red patches everywhere, with tiny bumps within the patch. The bumps were only a little bigger than heat rash bumps. Most of the patches went away shortly after. Next day we fed her some beef and a similar thing happened, but it was milder this time. Next we fed her a wheat cereal, and again, similar patches, less bumpy but all red and resolved within a few hours. Somewhere between these reactions, dad fed her strawberry in a very messy way, and she developed eczema wherever it touched. small, 1cm patches. Getting treated with Desonide, resolving within 2 applications. Diaper rash has been popping up often, since the salmon reaction.

We went an allergist who did skin testing and said she has no allergies, but may have eczema. I'm terribly concerned, and confused about the red patches that come and go with food. Does anyone have similar experience, advice on how to feed food, introduce allergens, data to log, etc?

Hello first of all I'm NOT asking for medical advice. We have already been to the doctor and we are going again tomorrow for a follow-up. I just want to know if anyone else else's baby are on the same age as mine seven months had croup. How long did they have it for symptoms? Did they give it to anyone else? And what helped them recover?

Our timeline is like this
-on Friday my son developed congestion and a runny nose on -Saturday. He started coughing
-Sunday both symptoms got worse and he was crying and fussy a lot
-Monday morning. He woke up at 5:30 gasping and what sounded like wheezing I waited an hour and he still sounded like he was breathing terribly so I took him to the ER. They did some tests and determined it was croup. He does not have RSV pneumonia Covid or the flu. They gave him a steroid orally and sent us home. Told us to go back to the doctor in two days which will be tomorrow he's taking a nap every hour to an hour and a half during the day napping for more than an hour at a time thankfully still sleeping through the night but poor guy is coughing we have been doing steam showers, lots of cuddles and lots of formula and water.

My 6 month old is still feeding every 3 hours. She takes about 5oz each time. Sometimes 4oz and sometimes even 6.
I thought their feedings space out a bit more around this age and we could go longer in between feeds? I can’t get her to take more volume to space them out. Is this normal ?
I also started giving her purées. She doesn’t eat much of that, I guess she is still exploring. I know every bs y is different. Just curious what other 6 month olds are doing

Our little one is 10 months now, and we have read online and heard from other family members and cousins that a baby or toddler shouldn't transition to 1 nap until after 1 year old (between 12 to 18 months).

Recently, two or three times in the past 2 weeks, our LO only did 1 nap. And didn't do a second. We tried to put him down his normal second nap time around 4pm but he resisted. We were honestly kind of shocked. On those days he usually did one long nap from around 11:30am to 1:30pm and then surprisingly lasted all the way until bedtime at 8pm after that. He totally skipped his 4pm nap. Now, he was getting quite cranky by then, but I was shocked he made it so long without having to sleep.

We aren't sure what to make of this...... is this is him transitioning to 1 nap now? Or if those 2 or 3 times are just an anomaly and we should still be trying to make sure he gets two solid naps.

At what age did you LO go down to 1 nap consistently? Before 1 year old is not really normal, right?

I recently had early intervention evaluate my 23mo for her speech. She is speech delayed but not quite enough for services, specifically the way she is pronouncing things. Ex: saying “bun bun” instead of bunny or “ca” instead of car. They recommend using a mirror to practice her pronunciation. Does anyone have any recommendations of any other techniques that are successful or any other things I can try? I’m a sahm and we don’t do screens besides a family movie every Friday so we have all the time to work on this! TIA!

Delta Children is terrible!

We have had so much trouble with the Delta Children brand. It is surprising because they had decent reviews... but first it takes them WAY longer to deliver than we were told, then it comes missing key bolts, takes over a week to get anyone to answer us through email, because they have no phone number or anything to contact them at, and now they are saying it will take 3 to 4 weeks to get a few bolts that they never sent! We ordered this crib 2 months before our kid was due and he is now 2 weeks. If they stick inside the 3 week time frame, which i doubt, it will have taken them 3 months to properly deliver a subpar, super expensive crib.

It is a terrible quality crib on top of all of this. Every little touch scuffs it, its flimsy, colors dont match... i could not say a SINGLE good thing about them.

Anyone else used them lately?

Our baby has CONSTANT blowouts - out the legs and out the back. We have tried Huggies, Pampers, rascals and Kirkland diapers and blowouts with all. He is around 15 lbs and using size 3 diapers. He blew out with size 2, so we moved to 3 on all of the above brands. No success. We flair out the frills/elastic around his legs. We make sure the band is secure. We leave the little pouch space near his bum. They are almost always fresh diapers.

I will mention that he almost exclusively poops after we feed him and have him sit in the bouncer to keep him upright to prevent spit ups so I’m thinking it’s because his bum is compressed and there’s nowhere for the poop to go but out? Please help lol.

My baby is seven months old and we decided it’s time for her to go in her own room. We tried for her first nap in there today, and after about an hour of settling she finally fell asleep for maybe a half hour. I just tried for her second and she went ballistic screaming. I’m so defeated.

Edit: I sound so dramatic as it’s only been the one day, but my daughter was SUCH a good sleeper for months 4-6 then for some reason about two weeks ago she stopped sleeping through the night and would cry so it’s been really frustrating not knowing why the change has happened.

I’m 38 and we recently decided we want to have a child.

Is raising a child without outside family support doable?

My parents are deceased and my husband’s parents are moving to another country soon.

My husband works 2 days remote, 3 days in office (he’s an accountant). I’m currently finishing up nursing school. I don’t know what my work situation will be as a nurse, I’m hoping to get it an outpatient M-F position without nights/call.

My boy is 11.5 months and I swear every hour he is hungry. Doesn’t matter if he had a big meal or anything just constantly hungry. I hear that after 13 months their appetite drops so maybe he’s just having a growth spurt before he slows down but dang it’s hard to keep up with 😅

So whenever I put my baby down to sleep, she keeps reaching her hands out to the side and looks like she’s grabbing onto something. I tried giving her those caterpillar stuffed toy but she didn’t seem so interested. I’m just so curious why she does it. She keeps on moving and aggressively grabs on to the air. Any experience like this with other mothers?

Hey everyone! I’ve had a unicorn baby so far but the last 2 nights he has hit a sleep regression. He’s 11 weeks old and has slept 4+ hours at night since 4.5 weeks. He was up to 6 hour stretch then another 4 hour stretch consistently. 3 nights ago was a horrible sleep night. He would wake very 90-120 minutes and cry. I would pick him up or put in the pacifier and he would sleep another hour before crying again at which point I would change him and breastfeed him back to sleep. That happened again 2 nights ago (2 nights in a row.) last night was better, he slept about 5 hours then 4 hours but was very hard to put down initially to sleep. He is also fussing a little more throughout the day, mostly in the evenings. I am having a hard time determining if this is a mild regression that will cure on its own or if he just got superrr clingy and needs my husband or I at all waking hours. His daily naps are becoming more contact naps, otherwise he will only sleep 20-30 minutes on his own. At night he is also soothed by one of us picking him up and holding him. Except for last night, which again he had a good night overall once he finally fell asleep in bed with me and I transferred him to his crib. It’s sending mixed signals 😅 we did nothing different during the day yesterday, our house is roughly the same temperature and he typically sleeps in his own room. Just curious if this will remedy on its own or if he’s clingy now and will continue to struggle for sleep. Thanks for the help in advance!

My son is 4 months old now. He’s awesome. One of the things I was told a lot was to be careful because boys will be pee on you when you change their diaper!

Well, it was 3:30 in the morning. Unusual time for him to wake up, we’ve been blessed with him sleeping through the night lately. I check on him and he’s face down. Apparently he only wants to learn how to roll from his back to his stomach when it’s dark and no one’s looking. Shy kid, I get it.

So I start changing his diaper. I take a step away to toss the dirty diaper. Rookie mistake not putting the new one on first. I see a spray of pee hit the top corner of his changing table. Cool, didn’t hit me. But the stream starts going right. I watched in horror as my baby yawned and the stream cut right across his face, in his mouth.

I’m processing a lot of guilt and he’s deciding whether I tried to poison him or gave him some really foul milk. That is all. Thank you for listening.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for anyone who has used a service to create breastmilk jewellery before and if they would recommend/avoid certain websites?

I'm in the UK (:

Just looking to vent here and see if anyone else has been through this! My girl will be 5 months old in a couple of weeks, she's been in daycare fulltime for a little less than a month and was going part time before then just to start adjusting. She used to do pretty good at at least napping for 1 sleep cycle, about a 38-40 minute nap. Not ideal but I was okay with it!... She's not the best home napper either in her crib but we try, she sleeps pretty much through the night (minus occasional paci assistance).

The last few days she is getting 5-6 like 15-18 minute naps (some back to back so they are clearly trying to get her back to sleep). I feel horrible. She is clearly tired if they keep trying to get her to take a nap but she's having a hard time staying asleep once transferred/the noise im sure. Shes the youngest kid in the class and I bet the rest of the kids are on a better 2 nap schedule so shes getting naps in the light/no noise machine. I know I have 0 control over this because she's in daycare but I find it so stressful to look at! and then i feel bad for her teachers if they're spending all day trying to get her to nap, and her wake windows are shorter than normal because the sleep is so fragmented. at home she can handle 2 hours between naps! here its more like 75 minutes. 

Is there anything I can to help make this better? Can it naturally improve with time? I'm going to try this long 3 day weekend to focus on doing all her naps in the crib in her room to keep trying to get her used to "okay naps take place in the crib" ...thanks for listening! first time mom here just spiraling looking at the daycare app in between my work meetings haha

When we started weaning our girls, I found the actual NHS guidance pretty sparse on the practical day-to-day stuff - and a few friends going through it both around the same time and more recently, said the same. The main alternatives we found were either not really UK-focused (a lot of the well-known apps/sites are American) or just took a lot of effort to actually use day to day.

So far, from digging around in a bunch of these same conversations elsewhere, I've seen people recommend the following a lot - hopefully summarising it here with some of the actual reasons people gave saves someone else a bit of digging:

How to Wean Your Baby (Charlotte Stirling-Reed) and The Weaning GP - these two books keep coming up more than anything else. The Stirling-Reed one gets recommended for its 30-day structure, and more than one person said they'd recommended it to literally all their friends, which is about as strong an endorsement as it gets. The Weaning GP is newer, has a big Instagram following, and people like that it's half practical how-to and half recipes the whole family can actually eat together, not separate "baby food." Worth knowing though - a couple of people who bought it also ended up saying they wished they'd ditched a similarly-structured book earlier and just cooked whatever the family was already eating, adapted down. This was in fact the approach we ended up taking eventually (3 girls!) - essentially whatever we ate but with no salt, mushed up with a bit of water. Took a while to figure out though.

Solid Starts - the single most-mentioned resource by far, mostly for the age-by-age serving size and food safety lookup (how to cut a grape, when a food becomes a choking risk, that kind of thing). The catch that comes up constantly: it's American, and the pricing has clearly annoyed people - one person mentioned it used to be under a fiver a year and now the subscription price feels "ludicrous" to them. A few who paid for the guided content specifically also said they found it disorganised compared to the free lookup tool, which people still rate highly.

Nara Baby - the app that gets recommended most often as a free alternative for actually tracking what's been tried, when, and any reactions. People like that both parents/carers can have their own login on the same child's log, and that it's held up across more than one kid rather than being a one-and-done novelty. A close second mentioned in the same vein is Nanny Louena, which people rate for letting you filter by diet type and for giving you a printable allergen chart, which a couple of parents said they still have stuck to the fridge.

Free, official routes - a genuinely large chunk of people didn't pay for anything and instead pieced it together from the NHS Start4Life pages, the free "Eating Well in the First Year" PDF from First Steps Nutrition (several said their health visitor pointed them to this one specifically), and Ella's Kitchen's free weaning chart and digital guide, which stacks with a free recipe book if you're signed up to the Boots Parenting Club. A number of people also mentioned their local health visitor team running a free in-person "intro to solids" session, and more than one said it was more useful than anything they'd read online.

The low-tech stuff that keeps coming up alongside all of this - steaming a single vegetable and remixing it across several different meals with whatever's in the cupboard (a spice, a carb, a cheese), rather than following a recipe book meal-by-meal, was mentioned as a way to make the whole thing feel less like a second job. Freezing portions in ice cube trays got mentioned constantly as the actual thing that saved people's evenings, regardless of which app or book they were nominally following. And practically everyone, regardless of which resource camp they were in, agreed on one non-negotiable: the right bib (Bibado's smock-style ones came up again and again) matters more than almost anything else on this list.

If people are happy to add to this and it's allowed (I haven't used Reddit much until I decided to look into all of this) I can update the post to include any suggestions people consider worth adding.

LO is 10 months old and refuses to eat anything other than oatmeal & berries, Yogurt is a staple, but very reluctant to eat solids like ground beef, fish, chicken.. LO will eat pieces of flaked tuna in a can before getting bored and want milk again. Eggs are a no-go.. not with cheese, not baked, not mixed with yogurt. Peanut butter is a hit. He's more interested in playing with bits of food than eating them.

My wife is slowly weening off of pumping and so we're on a relatively tight timeline before she returns to work and our LO will need to shift calories to solid foods.

Any resources you might suggest? Anything that worked for you? Anything I should be looking at going forward?

Most of the time I absolutely love everything about being a mom to be achingly adorable son.
Also most of the time I have no idea what day it is or if I ate breakfast.
I’m a stay at home mom, who also works from home since he was 4mon old.
He is exclusively breastfed still, and has been since day 1. He has only ever had ONE bottle in his entire life. All boob, all the time.
He nurses to sleep for every nap, to get to bed, and at every wakeup (typically 2-5 times a night he wakes and needs to pop on the boob to go back to sleep. We cosleep.)
I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve slept for just a single stretch of 4-5hrs straight. I’m awake all day, and get about 5hrs in 1-2hr increments every night for the last year+ of my life (I also could not sleep while pregnant.)
He eats solids now too which is great. Doesn’t help sleep tho.
He’s been walking since 10 months old, at which time we moved his giant playpen (Amazon) into his room to be a his new nap area. I lay down and side lying feed him to sleep for his naps and slither away until he wakes up 35mins later and I repeat until he’s gotten at least 1.5hrs of sleep (do this twice a day for each nap; occasionally he will sleep for 1.5hr straight HALLELUJAH but that is a rare occurrence)
He simply will not let anyone put him DOWN for sleep. Transfer=impossible. Up until 10months I was holding him for every single nap. Every single day.

Idk what other people do or what their actuality is with their kiddos. I have no regrets for anything I’ve done to take care of he and I all this time, I’ve always made decisions based on what feels best for both him AND me. The sleep deprivation is crazy but I’m used to it at this point.
It won’t last forever, but it is fucking nuts sometimes lol. Godbless people with babies who sleep independently!

Wouldn’t have it any other way. Not looking for any advice, just sorta venting and hoping someone can find some solidarity/peace if you’re living the same kind of life these baby days lol.

Have a wonderful day! 💛