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FTM here – I have a 4.5 month old and I feel like getting out of the house can be almost impossible. He doesn’t like his car seat much, can only be awake for like 1.5 hours max or else he’s losing it, has FOMO so getting him to go to sleep in the car or out of his environment is an extreme fucking spot, still eats every 2 hours, etc etc. However, my in-laws complain often that they don’t see him enough and that we need to come over more so they can see our son. When we do go over there it ends up just being so stressful because he’s happy for maybe 30-45 mins by the time we get him up, get dressed, get him fed, and arrive there, then it’s nap time again, and it’s just really hard to get him to nap in different environments. He’s also a chronic short napper (like will not sleep past 30-45mins). They live 5 mins away from us, but will not come over to our house despite us telling them how much easier it would be if they came to us. Every time we go to their house and our LO gets fussy we get the dreaded comment of “oh he’s just not around us enough, he’s not used to us, he needs to come over more.” Which makes me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BALLISTIC. Like I’m not trying to be a little demanding bitch, but I feel like if we have an infant, you should be coming to us, ya? Am I just being dramatic, lol? Should I just be able to tote my 4 month old everywhere no prob? via /r/NewParents https://ift.tt/3PXDq6z

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 cuddle with my NB on this couch.I tell myself, you’re not getting uninterrupted sleep at night is okay! But I feel like I should be working out, going out…seizing the day during my maternity leave. Am I being a lazy slug and just need to rip the bandage off, or is this behavior common? via /r/NewParents https://ift.tt/OBeZEmW

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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 chest, drank over a gallon of water a day. Absolutely anything that I could to get my supply up, and still never came close to making enough. I did combo feeding a month in, and my supply never dropped nor raised. Just stayed the same. Never produced more than 1 oz from both breasts every 4 hours.I cried so much, and I was scared I would lose my bond with my baby. But he’s gaining weight, he’s happy, sleeps well, and healthy as a horse. I did everything I possibly could, so I can’t really be sad. Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be. And that’s okay. I don’t know why I made this post, but just want to send my heart out to those struggling with their supply. And those that are doing everything and beyond to keep their LO fed. Everyone one of us should be proud of ourselves <3 via /r/breastfeeding https://www.reddit.com/r/breastfeeding/comments/16ec6w6/ending_my_journey_with_my_head_held_high/?utm_source=ifttt

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 2 hours or is it more so to let them stretch so they aren’t in an uncomfortable/damaging position for too long?Also, when a baby is taken out of the car seat for breaks on a long drive, is there a rule on how long they should be out for?I’ve heard the rule as no more than two hours a day but also no more than two hours at a time, so which is it?When can an infant safely be in a car seat for longer than two hours? I’ve heard three months but also 6 months.For context, I live about three hours from the nearest major city and would love to take the occasional trip there to bring LO to events/attractions that aren’t offered locally for us. My husband and I also enjoy road tripping and would of course love to bring our LO along someday. I just want to make sure it is safe to do so if/when we attempt it. via /r/NewParents https://ift.tt/U2i8x5G

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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 were getting ready to sit down and eat. We ate one of his favourite dinners and it was all quite normal. After dinner we went back in the living room and played together. About an hour after we ate, 30 minutes before his normal bedtime, he grabbed my hand and indicated for me to go with him. He lead me to the kitchen where he pulled open the latched dishwasher and reached in saying “Bob-o”, so I grabbed the requisite parts of a bottle, and before I was done that, he had the fridge open and was lugging a 3/4 full gallon jug of milk to me. I filled the bottle and he snapped it out of my hands before I could give it the usual 30 seconds in the microwave. I said “this is still cold milk” which 99% of the time is a deal breaker for him. He just started drinking and toddled down the hall towards his room. He turned the door handle and pulled, to which I said he had to push, so he did. Once in his room he marched straight to his white noise machine and turned it on (WHAT?!?! Where did you learn this?) then yanked open his jammie drawer and pointed at his two piece dino jammies. So I grabbed them, sat him on his change table and he was 100% compliant with me dressing him for bed (RARE!!!). I put him in his sleep sack, to which he giggled and was also very compliant. We sat in the glider in his room, and then he requested BY NAME a book for me to read, Moo Baa, La La La. We read the book, he finished his cold bottle and he promptly pointed to his bed. I asked “you’re ready for bed?” And he replied with a “mm” and a nod. I asked him for a hug, which he gave, then I gave him a kiss on the cheek and the forehead, put him in the crib, said goodnight one more time and he blew me a kiss. He rolled over and fell immediately asleep. This all blew my mind. It’s not usually a fight, but he’s never done almost any of these things for himself, let alone unprompted. It barely seems like yesterday that all he could do was scream, shit, and put milk away like it was going out of style. via /r/NewParents https://ift.tt/ZriyA5v

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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 care of my little, adorable toddler. OMG! Third trimester and need to entertain its just impossible for me. I also work from home so all of it together is too much. I thought I’m strong, always said to my friends “sleep is for the weak”, “I’ll sleep when I’ll die”… HA! I did not know hardship until being huge and trying to shower my little one and sing at the same time. Peeing 76 times at night and in between going to help my toddler fall asleep again. Just sitting is difficult. Changing diapers, making food feels like running a marathon. I’m dreading each day I wake up. It’s no like me being like this.Really, to all the pregnant mothers out there – you are superheros! You deserve a medal for each day you wake up and taking care of your little ones! THIS IS HARD and you should know, if you struggle like me, ITS OK! YOU ARE SO STRONG! That’s it. Thanks for reading. via /r/pregnant https://ift.tt/by9CmNK

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Why is the information not out there? Why are hospital IBCLCs not trained to evaluate all oral ties, not just severe ones? Why did my daughter have to suffer for so long? I had to seek out the information myself. My daughter latched beautifully in the hospital, however, I knew she had a shallow latch because I could feel the difference from my son, who was a professional breastfeeder! It didn’t hurt, but it wasn’t strong suction. I have a history of oversupply and with the second pregnancy, it’s a lot. This actually had nothing to do with our latching, and if I was not an experienced breastfeeder, I would’ve been told to decrease my supply and I would have listened. Something happened at our two month mark where she would vomit after every feed. I identified this as reflux, confirmed by the pediatrician. We decided to see how she did for the next two months with positional changes in nursing and pumped milk. It had nothing to do with my OS because it was after bottle or breast. I also knew it had nothing to do with my diet because all of her poops and pees were completely normal. Except after 2 months she started to poop only every 4-5 days. Then shortly after that, she would begin to fuss when eating, and would not be comforted by the breast or the bottle. This was disheartening. Feeding soon became a terrible time of thrashing and crying for her. My relationship with her began to suffer, and I felt that our bond was not a strong. She seemed miserable all the time, especially when on her back.Her weight, which I noticed, dropped from the 78th%(birth) to the 48th% (2 month) to the 20th% (3.9 month.) My pediatrician had identified the tounge tie early on, but said it was mild and said that sometimes treatment can make a latch worse. PSA this is not true! This is only true if you are using blades/scissors to remove a tongue tie! Not lasers! Sadly, he was the only one who had noticed, as two hospital IBCLCs said she’s fine. Even though I had specifically requested them to check for oral ties! Luckily, at our 4 month, my pediatrician listened to me and prescribed us famotidine to combat the reflux. Following week, (exactly 4 months old) after more research, I also took her to the number one place in my state for tongue ties. It was a painless procedure for her! She nursed immediately after. Didn’t even cry! But it was expensive af (ENT with scissors is covered by insurance, but elective with a specialized pediatric dentist to use a CO2 laser. )It’s been one week and it has been night and day! She stopped thrashing when she eats, she’s pooping every day to every other day now and most importantly, she has stopped vomiting, and gaining weight faster! She seems so much happier and I am too. I will also be following up with a pediatric gastroenterologist and the dentist to confirm that we are on the right track.This animation is helpful to understand ties. https://ift.tt/IpZ0OGo via /r/breastfeeding https://ift.tt/wLFn70v

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“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 them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” via /r/quotes https://ift.tt/VuazHJl

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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. I recommend reading in this order:1. Hatchet 2. The River 3. Brian’s Winter 4. Brian’s Return 5. Brian’s Hunt via /r/books https://ift.tt/NpDzchA

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In 2021 my daughter was born at 34 weeks & 3 days. I’m pregnant again coming up on 30 weeks and I’m starting to get major anxiety that this baby will come early as well. I am on progesterone suppositories but idk if those actually help. I’m so worried my son might come earlier than my daughter did. Any advice dealing with this anxiety? Also was anyone else on progesterone and did it help you carry your babies longer? via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/MNODH2r

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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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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 husband to finish cooking for me and he burnt it. I’m so so mad at him but also realize I am frustrated and want to be out of the room to take care of dinner and have dinner before 9. I know I can cook and eat early but my husband doesn’t get home until 6 and I want us to at least have sometime to eat together. I don’t want to be stuck in bed for 3 hours every night anymore.. Any advice? If I change her bedtime to 10 I can have dinner early and also just go to bed with her but then I lose that 2 hours of me time before bed when she is sleeping in bed alone. How to fix this situation? via /r/AttachmentParenting https://ift.tt/ey0QMaP

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 big guy and I’m pretty small so I wonder if he’s just outgrowing me. Anyways, any tips on how to get him to sleep now? I try putting him on his side next to me (he absolutely won’t sleep on his back) but he’ll wake after 30 minutes. I don’t feel comfortable having him sleep on his stomach in my bed but he’s never slept away from me and the few times I did try the bassinet it was a fail. via /r/cosleeping https://ift.tt/RjxIG2c

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First time mom here! My baby was born completely unexpected at 30 and 3 and has been in the NICU for two weeks now. Everyday at the hospital I have to walk past the moms going in to have their full term baby who are so excited with their hospital bags packed and ready to go. If I don’t see those moms going in, I see the moms coming out with their full term baby in their car seat ready to go home forever. I am STRUGGLING. I am sad. I am jealous. I am angry. I can barely hold in my tears when I walk past those moms. I long to have these experiences for myself and I am just so sad and feel robbed. Not only did I miss out on basically my whole third trimester but I was rushed to the emergency room with nothing in hand to have my sweet little baby 10 minutes later whisked away from me and a NICU stay that feels like there’s no end in sight. I guess I am just venting, but I know I cannot be alone in this feeling?!?! via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/OcZWjSH

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 https://ift.tt/7KwUVdA

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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 meeting new nurses and doctors along with everyone in between every single day, keeping a note on my phone of names trying to remember them all. 30 days of watching other babies graduate, going home and wishing that was us. Having to leave the NICU because watching other parents be able to walk out with their baby was too hard to witness. 30 days of feeling guilty for leaving one of our boys to be with the other and always feeling divided. 30 days of putting him back in his crib at the NICU and having to leave him behind.30 days and our oldest has yet to meet his brother due to hospital policy. 30 days and the doctors no longer mention the word discharge. 30 days of endless waiting. via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/Al59FgH

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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 month she has started to refuse feeds and cry when getting into the side lying position to eat. I started calculating how much she was eating and it is between 17-20 oz a day. She has lost weight and is at the 60% now. She lost an ounce from last week. I have tried four different bottles and faster flow on each bottle. She does not like the faster flow and cries when we try them. Feeds just take a really long time and I am not sure if something is wrong or not. Takes about ten min an oz. Does anyone have experience with their kids losing weight or not eating as much when you stopped fortifying? It makes sense her weight would slow but I don’t know if she should be losing weight like this. I keep bringing up to the drs that maybe it’s a bottle aversion but they don’t have much to say about that. Does anyone have experience with this?? via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/mpl4dyW

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 shots to mature baby’s lungs just in case.The shots helped baby when he got here, he only needed a tiny bit of oxygen and was off of it rather quickly. He needed a feeding tube for a while though, which he ended up pulled out of his own nose one night while the nurses were busy with another baby.But what was the most surprising was his size. My son weighed 3,570 kg and was 49 cm tall. The average size of a full term baby. He looked full term too, compared to the tiny babies who were around his gestational age. (I also suprised people by having such a big baby because I’m only 1,43 meters tall.)Baby and I graduated a while ago, we’ve been home for 15 weeks now. But I feel our short NICU stay (2 weeks) still has an effect on me sometimes. Worrying about him breathing, a very bad case of reflux which leads to worries about his food, right now the trouble gaining like in NICU…Not to mention some questions I still have. Did anyone else have big babies despite them being preterm? Or is this just another one of the weird things my body decided to do during my pregnancy? And was it hard for you too to get people to understand why baby couldn’t come home despite their weight/hight? And did people ignore baby having been premature as soon as they came home for you too?I really wish I had thought about joining when he was just born, but I’m glad I found my way here now! via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/b1pa4gd

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So, one thing that always bothered me since getting pregnant is how much people LOVE to let you know how hard being a parent is. A lot of people are well-meaning, perhaps wanting to prepare you or share their struggles and create bonds, whatever. Maybe this is helpful for some, but for me the “just you wait”ers really fill me with anxiety about the future. Going through a hard time with your newborn? Well, you shouldn’t, because this is the “easy bit”. Wait until they start crawling and getting into everything, that’s so much harder! (Etc etc) I would love to hear about some positive things that I can really look forward to as a parent, instead of wondering how I’m going to manage all the hard stuff. My little boy is only 4 months old, but for anyone with a newborn I can say that so many things got better for us! He stopped crying all the time after 10 weeks. He started laughing LOADS at about 11 weeks. The colic and the reflux disappeared as his digestive system matured. Taking him out in public is actually fun now that we can look at things together. Sleep is still broken but now he knows the difference between night and day we get loads more sleep. Anyone else?? 🙂 via /r/NewParents https://ift.tt/I4Lswqn

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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 me access to the club. I say well I bought these tix because your customer service told me I would have access. I only need to use the mothers room to feed my baby. They deny me. I leave sit at my gate and chat with customer service again this time in chat. The agent tells me again I have access to the club. I go back. They deny me again even after seeing the chat where their agent told me I had access to this club. Once again this was the reason I bought 2 1st class tix, to have a safe space to feed my baby. They deny me again each time being more and more condescending. I ask to speak to a manager, she’s sitting at a podium behind me. Heard the entire ordeal each time and does nothing. I ask to use the mothers room to feed my baby since my flight has been delayed for over 4 hours and due to the miscommunication on their end. They deny me again. I say I don’t want food, drink, only to feed my baby and leave. They still deny me. A kind guest hears me pleading and adds me as his guest. I’m on the verge of tears. Once in the lounge I see it’s empty as is the mothers room. The three women that lack customer service and empathy need new jobs and my tickets refunded. AA offered $250 in flight credits for the flight being delayed. I deserve a refund. No breastfeeding parent should have to deal with this type of treatment. via /r/breastfeeding https://ift.tt/BlEXqNa

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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 flat on the floor but her left foot is tiptoed. When she’s standing, both of her feet are flat on the floor. But she does normal kicking and crawling. She previously had thrombosis in her left leg and that was treated and gone, not sure whether that would affect her walking. Or is she simply having NICU ptsd from constantly pricks on her left foot? Has anyone experienced this? I’ve mentioned to her pediatrician and will get assessed by PT as well. via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/HvMFCB5

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Our baby was born 27w4d and he’s been in the NICU for a little over 3 weeks now. What I’ve found interesting is that most of the babies in our NICU born at that age were born due to pre-eclampsia and related health concerns. In our case my wife was healthy but had gone into pre-term labor spontaneously. Did anyone else have a similar experience? If you did and you had another child, did you go into pre-term labor again?We wanted 3-4 kids originally but if our second child ends up pre-term we will likely call it quits. This stuff is too scary to deal with repeatedly. Thanks for any feedback and wishing the best for everyone and their babies. via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/TA9t0R2

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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 getting donor milk to make up for the remaining. They stopped donor milk at 38 weeks and started formula. My baby hasn’t been gaining a ton of weight and when I talk to the doctor they tell me it’s not great but it’s not bad either. This is probably the most frustrating thing a nicu parent can hear. Anyways, she drinks both breast milk and formula whenever milk isn’t enough. Since we started the formula, she got her 2 month vaccine, which slowed her down a little bit with the bottle feeds… which is expected – however, I am noticing that she usually finished or is close to completing the breast milk bottles than the formula bottles… she starts squirming and pushes the bottle with her tongue or pretends to fall asleep while bottle feeding with formula and as soon as I take the bottle out, she is wide awake…I have brought up the possibility of changing her formula but the providers don’t seem to entertain that idea. They also fortify the breast milk to help with her weight gain… it makes my poor child so gassy and fussy… The main reason they haven’t removed her nasal and feeding tube is because she needs to finish 90% of the bottle consistently… well that is not happening right now… I don’t know what to do.. have any of y’all gone through a similar situation? Any advice is highly appreciated! A tired and frustrated mom. via /r/NICUParents https://ift.tt/RXG1Omd

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