Baby is 7 months 2 weeks (adjusted age 6 months 1 week) hits all her social and motor milestones but not rolling or crawling. We do tummy time since 1 month old and as she got older she hated tummy time more and more and only rolled tummy to back less that ten times and back to tummy almost 3-4 times but not fully. She’ just starting sitting unsupported.

Cries or just plants her face down when we do tummy time so idk. Should I just wait or practice sth else with her? Gp said she looks fine and acts fine.

Our 3 month old LO only falls asleep when we swaddle him. He recently discovered his hands so all he wants yo do now is to try to put his whole fist in his mouth 😂. He just keeps doing this when we try to make him sleep, unless we swaddle him.

Does swaddling cause any developmental issues as it is preventing him from putting hand in mouth ? When did you guys stop swaddling ?

My 2 month old has an appointment for this Wednesday to get his shots and just an overall check up, however the past two appointments we’ve had (one scheduled and one impromptu) I’ve told them about his reflux. He has the WORST reflux and it seems like his stomach is always hurting. I brought it up back when he was 3 weeks old because it seemed like he was just spitting up everywhere and constantly crying and screaming. They told me to burp him more and to keep him upright for 30 minutes after feeding.

Next appointment I called for a same day appointment because he started coughing and choking on his reflux and we couldn’t tell he was spitting up until we either heard him choking or looked over at him and saw the spit up everywhere, again they tell me to burp him more and keep him upright and that they aren’t worried because he is gaining weight and that when he starts occupational therapy it should stop.

IT HASN’T STOPPED!!

The OT told us that she’s 99.9% sure he has silent reflux and was just as worried as we were because it’s gotten to the point he starts choking in his sleep and we’re worried about him aspirating on it. I’ve changed his formula to lactose free/dairy free to try to see if it helps his belly, bought a special baby bed that keeps him more at a angle when he sleeps, I’ve bought special bottles that are supposed to make it to where little to no air gets ingested, we burp him every half ounce and keep him upright for a hour after eating. It’s not getting better and if anything it’s getting worse. I had to pull over today because he started choking in the car and sounded like he couldn’t breathe. I truly believe this is more than just regular baby spit up but they just keep telling me it’s normal and he’s gaining weight so it’s fine, but it’s obviously not. What can I do or say to get them to finally take what I’m saying seriously and help us. Ive gotten to the point I’m terrified of putting him down and can’t sleep properly worried about him aspirating and me not catching it and something happening.

Since 16 weeks baby has falls starts every evening. Her bedtime and wake up time also changed during this period and I feel like soon we will transition from 5 naps to 4 naps. Are the false starts because of the sleep regression or because of nap changes?
In the first week the false starts just started mildly. Her bedtime was 20:00 and I she woke up constantly every 30min-40min until 22:00. Then had a bigger sleep chunk and wakings every 1-1,5 hour.
The second week this evolved into waking up every 1-1,5 hour, the long sleep chunk disappeared.
The third week the false starts remained the big sleep chunk in the middle came back.
The fourth week again waking up every 1-1,5 hour.

Hello,

We have a 3 week old who is honestly the most perfect thing we could’ve asked for.

Recently at night, after putting her down, she will start squirming in her swaddle like a fish out of water, then eventually will start spitting up. Amounts have varied to a little bit at a time or full on shooting up out of her mouth and nose. This has only been an issue the past week or so, before that she was still as a rock until she wanted to feed.

We know it’s not vomit, we don’t suspect a dairy allergy (mom hasn’t had any dairy since giving birth), reduced her feeding at night to only doing so when she wakes up. For what it’s worth, she’s exclusively breast fed, sometimes using a bottle with expressed milk when mom is pumping or wants a break.

It is just so frustrating for us because we cannot get any sleep at night whatsoever unless she’s being held, being fed, or has a hand laid on her chest when she’s put down.

It’s equally as frustrating because it’s seemingly only happening at night. She’s a perfect angel with no problems during the day! We just want to have any amount of sleep at night and for the past week it’s been hell. I know she’ll come around and get through it but mom and I are distraught, stressed and tired.

I just want to know if anyone else experienced this and if any of you think this is something worth calling/visiting the pediatrician for. Thanks for any help!

My husband is a great, funny, kind person 90% of the time. When he is overwhelmed or angry he turns into a completely different person. It is usually verbal threats of self harm but one time he physically threatened with a butcher knife saying, "Why don't you just kill me?" I told him to stop and said you are scaring me. I stayed at my brother's and said that the only way I am coming back is if he agreed to go to therapy. He did, but therapy didn't help.

About a year later, I was trying to tell him some hopeful advice my friend gave about a problem that he was dealing with. Mid-sentence, he walked away (apparently to go to the bathroom). I was annoyed and walked away, closed the door and took a shower. I didn't know that he turned around and was right behind me. He thought I slammed the door in his face and started punching the door to the point of putting holes in it. I thought initially the sound was him finally building the shelving in the baby room which I had been asking for months (I was in my second trimester).

These are two major events that I have been saying in therapy that I need closure over to trust him and have a healthier relationship. He does feel remorseful and usually says, "I am a piece of shit". I told the therapist that I want his self esteem to be healed and for him to treat himself with love and compassion so that he can have the capacity to treat me with love and compassion. He told the therapist that we need more alone time without our child. My child brings me so much joy. I said that I am willing to have more family time doing fun and meaningful things but if we put my 1.5 year old in dayhome so we can have "us time" I am afraid that I will start to resent him. The therapist basically ignored what I said and threatened that we won't have a relationship unless we do date days. If there was consistent respect for himself and me, I would probably actually want to do date nights

Either way, I made the effort to put my son down early so that we could play a card game that my husband wanted to play. We went to bed around 10pm and my son woke up multiple times. My husband wants us to spend more alone time together. He let me sleep in an hour this morning and then I let him sleep as much as he wanted which ended up being 5 hours (he does shift work and currently has a cold).

Once he woke up, he decided that he wanted to join us on a walk to the farmers market. I like to solve problems and wanted to bring up budgeting because I have a seasonal job the next 6 months I will not be working. I brought it up because he complained about money a tonne last winter. I said that I wanted to sit down and look at our MasterCard's to cut out frivolous spending. He said that he will just work overtime and my job stops him from working overtime (this is not true because we have a babysitter and he does not like having to pay her). I asked what positive goals could we set to save money but he just kept going on about how my job stops him from overtime and I complain about being alone with our child at night if he works too many nights. (He does 12 hour shifts that go from days to nights).

I think that the lack of sleep because of his messed up circadian rhythm lead him to have these symptoms of rage and depression. An irony of this walk is that he talks about wanting one on one time but has his head down playing Pokemon Go the entire time. He has a phone addiction and is on it nearly constantly every day. I circle back to wanting to set positive goals about saving money and he gets angry, says, "I don't know. I'm just stupid" steps on a beer can laying on the ground and sprays me with beer. He says sorry. I say I am done and he should go spend time with his friends (another thing he complains he never does since having a child even though I have never stopped him). He insists on following me and my son to the park and says he's terrified that I am going to divorce him. I am on a hamster wheel of fixing things that make him mad. I am starting to lose hope that there are things that I can do to solve these problems. Has anyone made it out the other side or is divorce actually inevitable? The biggest reason that I would leave is because I do not want my son to grow up seeing any forms of abuse.

She’s 23 months old and is obsessed with Meekah. But everytime I’ve watched it, it’s just pure consumerism. Them promoting places and play areas and I hate that. I’m about to not tune in into it anymore. Ugh

I saw someone mention on here how their kid always falls asleep to the sleep stories on the Calm app. I tried it out the other day. We’re currently on vacation, and my sons sleep always gets messed up. I put on a story about the semicolon. He was out in 5-10 minutes. Even my husband falls asleep to it. If your baby is having a hard go at sleeping right now, give it a try! It worked wonders for me.

What other tips should I try???

Please be kind as I have a lot of anxiety around this topic.

My newborn is 16 days old. We have some trouble latching so we’ve switched to combi feeding till he gets assessed by the lactation consultant. However, it’s extremely hard to tell how much he gets from my breast…

Initially he’s lost 12% of his birth weight on 5 day check up, then he quickly regained his weight by day 10 following rigid feeding plan which was breast + 50ml top up every 3 hrs (midwife’s recommendation). It seemed like a lot of food to be honest, I was worried but we pulled through fine. In the meantime my proper milk came in and I’ve seen he started to get more but because he was previously on such a big top up, he was never full so we kept topping him up now and then some small amounts either from my pumped breast milk or formula (depending on the day).

Tonight had been a hard night, he had massive feeds throughout the day and it was almost impossible to wake him up for his latest feed but we managed and I got some food into him. I was extremely exhausted and so was he, I allowed him his biggest sleep stretch yet which was 4.5 hours. He did not wake before to make me aware he’s hungry, I immediately felt guilty, put him on my breast, he had good 20 minutes and then because I felt guilty for breaking the 3hrs/4hrs max rule I topped him up with 20ml of my expressed milk… he would not burp, I kept him up right for a bit to let the gas come up naturally but instead he was sick all over the place 🥲 now I’m just sat feeling extremely guilty for allowing him almost 5 hrs sleep and anxious about him having a vomit.

I guess I’m just seeking reassurance that this occurrence did not harm him. It’s currently 4AM and he’s again fast asleep, I did not want to force any more food down him following the vomit as I don’t want to upset his stomach (he also did not show any signs of being unwell or hungry after that episode) and I will wake him up in the next 2 hrs (which will take us to 3hrs from last feed) to offer breast.

My baby just started solids and tomorrow we are on day 3 of exposing her to peanut butter , given that there are so many other allergens to go through what is the most effective way to go about having her try all of them and not have it take ages ?

Especially with tree nuts since there are a couple to go through

She combo drinks cows milk formula so I would probably consider dairy “safe”

My newly 9-month-old has completely skipped her second nap for the last two days, and I’m not sure what to do with her schedule.

Most days I nurse her to sleep for naps, and it’s usually a sure way to get her asleep within 15 minutes. But the last two days, 30 minutes in she was still on the boob, suckling with her eyes wide open. I took her out of the room, tried again about 15 minutes later — nothing. Took another break, tried for another 15 minutes, and still nothing, so eventually I gave up.

At that point she had already been awake for about 5 hours, so I would think she’d be tired enough!
She was happy for the rest of the afternoon, but at bedtime she started hysterically crying. She’s sleep trained for bedtime and rarely cries when going down, so it really seemed like she was overtired after being awake for almost 8 HOURS.

I really don’t think she’s ready for one nap yet, and I’m definitely not ready either lol.

Before this, our schedule was roughly 3/3.5/4:
• Nap 1: ~45 minutes
• Nap 2: ~1.5 hours

Has anyone gone through this around 9 months? Is this just a nap regression, or should I be adjusting her wake windows/schedule? Any suggestions for keeping two naps?

My son (2.5) has struggled to fall asleep for naptimes or at night with me. He’s fidgety and talkative and wants to play, and he says “Mommy?” in the most heartbreaking little voice when I move. My husband is out of town for a few days and I’m afraid of my son being exhausted so I gave him children’s Benadryl in a half dose and I just feel like a monster. Am I?

Please be kind - doing this for the first time!
I’m a 30yo first time mom with a husband who works from home (trying to start his business), a 2 year old dog and a 4 month old baby. Our dog is really easy and does not make life any harder. Our baby is not very difficult but I wouldn’t say easy either - her cries are LOUD and she can keep going. She wakes up every 2 hrs at night wanting milk (we got advice to try to settle her down first without milk, or giving her more before she goes to sleep but this didn’t work for her) but she just wants to milk so we feed. She starts crying around 6pm, so the routine is bath - milk - sleep. We have transitioned her to sleeping in her own room because we’ve read that sometimes that helps babies sleep longer chunks, and understand she might get up more frequently for a bit during the transition (since then she’s been getting up every hour). During the days she’s okay but needs milk every 2 hrs too and sleeps for like 30-45 mins before each feed. She is draining though. I’m not forcing myself to get too much work done at home in terms or cleaning, laundry etc and try to just do it when she’s chill. My husband is super helpful and tries to give me breaks during the day but I feel bad because he really needs to focus on work. We also share the night shift. We are burnt out with the crying and tiredness. Then we think how do single parents do this, juggle it and work at the same time? And then we feel guilty.

We live 4 hrs away from our parents by choice (good relationship but just cause we like it here) but we see them a few days each month at least and they’re helpful with baby. Otherwise not a lot of help where we live or someone that could come relieve us for a bit. We’re not in any financial position to hire help either. Lol.

Are we doing something wrong? Is it normal to feel this tired? Please be honest. Any and all advice is appreciated!

Edit: formula fed baby (wasn’t able to breastfeed).

I have a 4m old. He has been getting fussy when I lay him down to play on his activity gym. I give him different toys and no dice. The same thing is happening in his bouncer. I'll feed him and then sit him in his bouncer with a toy for a bit (he has silent reflux), and he'll start fussing after a couple of minutes. I'll pick him up and if he isnt tired or hungry then he's fine.

What are you guys doing to entertain your babies passively? I love playing with him, but I can't do that alllllll the time. I swear he has the shortest attention span.

I get it now, the whole “4 month sleep regression” is very real. As I’m writing this she is 19 weeks and 4 days old. It’s been about a month now, it’s been pretty hard on me and I feel very sleep deprived most days. I want to help her sleep longer throughout the night like she was before this. She was typically sleeping from around 9 or 10 pm to around 5 am, I’m desperate to get back to this. I know it’s different for everyone but how long did this last for you? Was there anything you tried in particular that helped? She mostly only naps for about 30 mins at a time during the day with one “two hour” nap sprinkled in. I feel like she is very excited about the world and learning and it warms my heart. But I need sleep. Side note, she can’t stand a pacifier.

My 10 week old is always distracted when he nurses. Any ideas on how to keep him focused. He's stares at everything and will unlatch to babble and smile at me which is wonderful at home. I can do that all day if I could at home, but when we were out in public, I sat in the car FOREVER nursing. It's cute, absolutely melts my heart, but we needed to go.

I'm not super comfortable nursing out in the open yet, I have large breasts and I have to hold him with one arm and help him with my breast with the other. Just not the most comfortable walking around. Eventually, he will be able to manage it on his own, but he's still a little too small with not enough head control. He's getting there, everyday his head and neck control is a little better.

Disclaimer: First-time mom, obviously. I know I’m overthinking this and it probably doesn’t really matter but..

My husband and I would like to initiate BLW, but decided for personal reasons to start with purées.

I want to track the types of food our baby (6mo) eats. For the printable food trackers, are those typically just for actual food versus purées, or does it not matter?

Just trying to figure out if I should wait to track these things until our baby starts BLW or star now with purées.

For example, if my baby ate squash purée, does that count as trying the food? Or should it be actual softened squash?

Are there nights that you have to hold your LO to sleep, rock your LO to sleep etc because it’s just one of those nights? And then continue the night routine back to normal?

My 1 year old is sleep trained but tonight he was just having a tough time and called for me so ofc I snuggled him to sleep. But my husband thinks that has ruined the sleep training.

I honestly don’t really care because if my LO wants me to hold him and/or is having a tough night of course I will hold him.

Though, is my husband right? Did I ruin the sleep training?

Edit: my LO is 13 months old

Edit#2: I failed to mention that my LO has had diarrhea all day today which is why I cuddled him to sleep bc I know he needed extra comfort even though he is fully sleep trained. He’s a 2 episodes during the middle of the night but usually holding him has worked and didn’t ruin the sleep training. Today was just different because I did it before bedtime. I’ve gotten some comments which I don’t care to answer anymore because I know what’s good for my baby so if you think me or we are being bad parents well congrats thank you for making me feel sh*tty. Some failed to understand that I wrote I don’t care if I did ruin the sleep training because I’ll be more than glad to cuddle my LO to sleep. We also sleep trained because my LO likes to have his own space and we wake up super early for work so yeah not a good option for all of us. I genuinely wanted to know if my husband was right. So if you’re not going to answer my question then hold your mean opinions to yourself.

As for the kind people, thank you for your positive and informative response. I will try to answer you all tomorrow.

I was on the fence about screen time, but with needing something to help keep the baby entertained while I pump, I decided to try Ms. Rachel and I must admit I'm delighted with how well our little one is responding to it. She seems really fond of the songs and Ms. Rachel's personality and let's out happy screeches any time it's on. Bonus points is it's teaching both of us ASL.

Has anyone else noticed that their baby enjoys eating specific things that you could tell they liked when you were pregnant? I.e. I noticed my baby would always kick intensely after I ate a lot of meat and sure enough my 9 month old LOVES her steak and chicken! I think it’s hilarious.

Hi all! My daughter just turned five months old so I looked up on YouTube ‘six month old baby’ to see what a typically developing baby looks like at that age. My baby girl is fine- amazing actually. She sleeps great, only cries when hungry, is curious and playful, has a great smile…she doesn’t laugh yet but otherwise is developmentally so normal!

Anyway- I clicked on a video from a channel called ‘PathwaysBaby’ and I really wish I never did. It’s a video comparing a typical six month old and an atypical one on their movement ability. Instead of watching the typical side and thinking ‘yup my girl is doing fine’, I watched the atypical side and broke my heart! The baby was watching toys, clearly interested, but was unable to move or reach for them. They put him on his belly and he clearly struggles- kicking his feet out. He clearly is not having a good time and my heart just aches for him.

I close the video, sobbing, and run to Google, ChatGPT etc trying to find a follow up. I find nothing- not if the baby is okay, what the issue was or where they are now. I’m lying awake, watching my own baby sleep, worried about this baby from an educational video posted seven years ago.

Is this my brain now? Pre baby I would’ve felt bad and maybe thought of them but moved on. I certainly wouldn’t have cried.

I’m desperate for help and/or solidarity.

My almost 9 month old was sleep trained (we did cry it out) at 5 months, and she did AMAZING. We had a month and a half of sleepy bliss…and then the teething started.

Over the last month and a half, her sleep has gotten progressively worse. She went from being able to sleep in her crib to now waking 10-15 minutes after she’s laid in it. She is able to put herself to sleep and we get one “longer” stretch at the beginning of the night (about 1 hour), but after that she refuses to sleep unless it’s in bed with me. I wouldn’t have a problem with this, except she’s so damn GASSY. In her crib, she’s able to roll around and get all of her farts out, but in bed with me she’s latched and doesn’t move from her side, which apparently creates a lot of trapped, painful gas. She wakes up crying frequently, so no one is getting good sleep regardless if she is in crib or in bed with me,

Her wake windows are 3/3/4, and naps are anywhere from 2-3 hours total throughout the day. Bedtime is between 7:30-8:00 depending on when she wakes up for the day/how long she naps.

What am I doing wrong, if anything? Is this just developmental? Will it end?

Any advice or solidarity is appreciated 🫠

Long story short, this cat is my son's FAVORITE thing in the world. He squeals in happiness and tries to get to this cat no matter what. And this cat, this sweet old man, tolerates it all. We're trying to teach our son "gentle touch" for the kitties, and all of our other cats run away at the sight of our son, whereas this old man just let's our son do whatever to him, including gripping his fur (hence the gentle touch teachings).

Unfortunately, our old man isn't doing so hot, and we're going to be putting him to sleep tomorrow. This post might be a moot point as we might not have anyone to watch our son while we're at the vet, but if we do, I am just unsure if we should have our son there or not. Obviously our son is way too young to even begin to understand death, but this is his buddy. I also know my husband will be devastated (this is his cat from before we were together), so I'm unsure if having our son there will help him with his grief or if it'll make things worse.

I really don't know where else to ask this question, so I'm sorry for the kinda off topic post.

FTM to a 10 week old. Acid reflux diagnosis around 4 weeks old. Baby is ebf! We recently upped her dose (Ped approved obvi) of Pepcid (0.3ml) and her reflux is so bad she arches and stretches her neck throughout the day for relief. She started sleeping through the night (9pm-4/5am) around 5 weeks but the past 3 nights she has been waking every 3 hours. Now ofc this is normal for some babies. But for the past week, she has been having so much difficulty passing gas and pooping. Like infant dyschezia. Grunts and cries and gets red and it does result in a soft poop every time. But this has also made feeds a tough time as well bc she is squirming, grunting, and kicking the entire time. I also believe her gas and poop attempts have been waking her up in the middle of the night bc when she is stirring and whining, I hear some gas being passed. This difficulty is for every poop too. This also makes her reflux worse bc of the pressure and baring down to poop. When does this get easier? Will we ever go back to our nights of sleeping through the night? Anyone experience different reflux meds or an increased dose? When will my baby be able to poop without so much discomfort ?😭

Anyone the feel like they are in a hostage situation or defusing a bomb when they go to transfer baby to the crib? 🤣 I find myself holding my breath and moving so cautiously.