29 weeker breastfeeding help needed

September 29, 2023 No comments Article

Has anyone had success breastfeeding an older preemie? My daughter was born at 29 weeks, on cpap for 9 & NG/OG tube for 9.5 weeks. She came home 10 weeks ago and I’ve been trying to no avail to get her to breastfeed. I’ve seen countless specialists (IBCLCs, ent, speech pathologist, chiropractor, craniosacral therapist) and

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What do you do while breastfeeding?

September 28, 2023 No comments Article

My question is essentially as stated in the title. I EBF my 8 week old son and therefore find myself quite often sitting on the sofa feeding him. I try to give him attention if he is looking at me while feeding but if he isn’t, I often just scroll my phone and read or

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daycare texted me mid day about baby being difficult

September 22, 2023 No comments Article

My daycare likes to text me whenever my baby (almost 10mo) is difficult. Most of the time she’s an easy baby so I hear nothing from daycare, but when it happens my daycare texts me. Yesterday it happened again. My baby is a bit sick (no fever, just coughing, snotty and diarrhea) so she’s been

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2.5 months PP laziness. Is it okay?

September 12, 2023 No comments Article

Here I lay, blanketed on my couch, my newborn asleep, another movie on. At what point am I just being outright lazy?I’m a fairly productive person. Loved working out, cooking, decorating, cleaning, etc. I have 0 motivation to do anything- I don’t care to be social, I don’t care to do much of anything but

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Ending my journey with my head held high

September 9, 2023 No comments Article

LO is 9 weeks old. Today we’re ending our BF journey on a high note. We struggled the whole time. Never had any issues with latching, infections, soreness, nothing except for my supply. I worked with a LC, did power pumping, regular pumping, had a clean diet, ate oats, slept with my baby on my

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Can anyone explain the 2 hour car seat rule to me?

September 9, 2023 No comments Article

I know that young babies should not be in a car seat for longer than 2 hours but I don’t fully understand why. Of course there is the risk of positional asphyxiation in a car seat but could that not happen in less than two hours? Is this the reason for taking them out every

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Little guy said it was bedtime

September 7, 2023 No comments Article

LO is almost 20 months, walking, chattering with a few real words thrown in, VERY opinionated, generally quite a happy little dude. Tonight I was home from work and the Mrs picked him up from daycare on her way home while I made dinner. Mom and kiddo played with his trains and coloured while we

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Pregnant women with toddler – you deserve a medal!!!

August 29, 2023 No comments Article

I served in the army, I worked most of my life. I had long 16-17 hours shifts, night shifts where I stand and lift heavy boxes. I had sleeples nights where I studied and worked at the same time but NONE OF IT prepared me for the exhaustion I will feel being pregnant and taking

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From “Letters to a Young Poet”, Rainer Maria Rilke 1903

August 10, 2023 No comments Article

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live

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Praise for the Hatchet series

August 2, 2023 No comments Article

Hatchet was first published in 1986 and was so well received that Gary Paulsen wrote 4 more follow up novels through 2003. I inhaled all 5. They are fantastic stories of surviving the northern wilderness! And, for the casual reader, they are all under 200 pages. Mature level YA fiction that most adults will enjoy.

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What is this weird “beigeby” trend

July 30, 2023 No comments Article

So I saw Instagram account of a mother of 2 babies and literally nothing, and I mean NOTHING in their nursery or house had any colour. It’s all so beige and sad. Even the toys were plain.Surely this is terrible for development with absolutely zero stimuli from colour?! via /r/BabyBumps https://ift.tt/mB1j3s5

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How to stop contact sleeping at night?

July 27, 2023 No comments Article

My baby is 4.5m and needs to be held for exactly 2.5 hours before I can lay her down and get out of the room without waking her up. I can’t do anything from 7 till 9:30pm and for awhile I enjoyed it because I can watch Netflix. Until tonight I had to ask my

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When chest sleeping isn’t working anymore

July 27, 2023 No comments Article

Baby boy is 4.5 months and we’ve chest slept since day 1. He has really bad reflux and body tension/muscle tightness so it’s been the only way he can sleep. He slept great the first few months buuttt he’s sleeping terribly now. He seems really uncomfortable on me and wakes often. He’s also a pretty

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When did your preemie catch up?

July 22, 2023 No comments Article

My 33 weeker is now 7 months old and I notice that she’s still somewhat behind with certain milestones (sitting, rolling both ways, etc.). Now my question is: at what age do preemies usually catch up to the point where there isn’t a big difference between them and other kids developmental wise ? via /r/NICUParents

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30 Groundhog Days

July 20, 2023 No comments Article

30 days of nonstop beeping, wires tangling, temperature checks, asking permission to hold our baby, asking how he’s progressing, asking what we can do, asking what more can be done and being told to give him time. 30 days of coming up with plans, trying new things and hoping something will work. 30 days of

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2 month old refusing bottles and losing weight

July 20, 2023 No comments Article

My sweet girl was born at 31.3 and has been home for two months. The first month I was giving her pumped breastmilk and fortifying to 24kcal and she was crushing her bottles (on medium flow) and in the 95%. She was doing so well our dr said we could stop fortifying. Over the last

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Nice to meet you!

July 19, 2023 No comments Article

Hello, everyone!I’m a first time mum who’s baby boy was born at 35+4. I nearly died of HELLP super unexpectedly so he was born via emergency section.I had already been prepared for a preterm birth weeks before, I had a week long stay in hospital with medication to stop my preterm contractions and was given

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American Airlines hates breastfeeding parents

July 13, 2023 No comments Article

I purchased 2 first class tickets to austin from Chicago. My flight Back to Chicago from Austin was delayed four hours. I went to the admirals club to nurse my daughter since by this time she’s hungry. I go to check in and the desk staff denies me access saying my tix do not give

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Weird tiptoe walking? Concerning or normal?

July 12, 2023 No comments Article

After 4 months NICU stay, our daughter finally came home and she’s been doing great. She’s currently 10 months corrected and tried to walk on her own. I recently noticed that she had some weird issues with her left foot/leg. When she’s trying to walk (with my help holding her), her right foot is fully

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Bottlefeeding

July 6, 2023 No comments Article

Fellow nicu parents,I need some advice. Our baby girl was born at 29 weeks 5 days and has been in the nicu for over 2 months now… they started bottle feeding a month ago and everything was going well… however my milk supply hasn’t been the greatest… it was enough for her and she was

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