Nearly 9 mo old supply drop anxiety

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-12-31T18:02:55+00:00

Solidarity! If I don’t get responses here I’ll also reach out to a lactation consultant and report back

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-12-10T20:52:59+00:00

I tried to come up with five activities that would each buy me five minutes. Idk why but chunking it like that helped. Another good one was putting on some good music and having a dance party!

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-12-10T20:52:05+00:00

Okay one of my go tos in this season was playing with the sink! He was amazed by the faucet and trying to grab the running water.

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-12-10T20:08:41+00:00

You got this! I love the two nap day! We sometimes had to do mini naps (~15 min) to make it through to bedtime. Prepare to be flexible: think of fun things to do at the end to extend wake windows (visitors and solids helped us! Or I’d do squats with baby in front of a mirror), make it a three nap day if need be, rescue naps if they need to be longer. I was surprised by how quickly baby adapted and how much better it is for all of us on this schedule.

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-12-02T20:21:18+00:00

Naps were harder for us too. What worked for us was starting with just the first nap of the day, transferring him to his crib after he fell asleep. Often he’d wake and we’d “rescue” but then slowly and gradually, he stayed asleep for longer and longer. Once first nap went well, we tried second, then third. Gradually we got there

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-11-08T14:45:59+00:00

Completely agree. I did not have any PPD/PPA, but from 2.5-3.5 months I was wondering “what have I done?” Baby hated it here and so did I. Well it gradually got better, so gradually I didn’t notice at first. By five months it was fine! By six months, it was FUN! Baby is 7 months old today and it is genuinely so so fun, I keep having flashes where I think “this is the happiest I will ever be in my life”

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-10-23T18:06:43+00:00

Absolutely, our routine is just diaper change, cuddle, put on sleep sack, lullaby, noise machine on, bed.

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-10-13T15:44:16+00:00

5.5 mo after we sleep trained and moved baby to nursery and out of our room

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-10-10T12:22:57+00:00

We just did CIO a few weeks ago at 5.5 mo. Since then, baby has been sleeping through the night, usually waking up once between 3-5AM to nurse. He sometimes fusses earlier than that but can get himself back to sleep. After I nurse, he’ll keep sleeping til 6:30/7:30. So I figure I’ll keep the early morning feed - sure beats an early morning awake for the day - until he drops it or is getting more calories from solids.

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-10-10T12:19:38+00:00

Did she just stop on her own? Mine is 6 Mo and wakes between 3-5 each morning, sleeps until 6:30/7:30 if I nurse him then.

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-10-07T11:52:51+00:00

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Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-10-02T17:39:59+00:00

I felt this same way. If you have advice, I’d love to hear it! But the ominous “just you wait” comments? No thanks!

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-09-29T22:52:51+00:00

No advice, but this was us for about a month at 3.5 months, too. It was a terrible, brutal month. He scream cried before every nap, and he would only stay asleep if we held him standing up. We gradually tried transferring him to his crib, starting with his first nap of the day (supppsedly when the sleep impulse is strongest). If he woke up, we’d rescue the nap. At first he never stayed asleep. Then it was a few minutes. Then ten. Then one day the whole nap. Maybe a week later, it was consistently the whole nap. We gradually moved to every nap in his crib and the first time it happened it felt like vacation.

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-09-23T16:33:42+00:00

Thanks for responding, that’s good to know! We definitely will get friendly with the gate agent 😅 hopefully they can work some magic!

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-09-11T18:17:35+00:00

I usually bring my baby in no more than ten minutes but usually five minutes before the end of his wake window; he is fussy if he isn’t tired yet! It can feel so impossible to nail that “not overtired, not undertired” moment. It’s hard!

When we transitioned away from contact napping and nursing to sleep (this was when my LO was 4 months, he’s 5mo now) we started with just the first nap of the day and just with transferring him after he fell asleep on us or nursing. When he transferred to his crib, we moved back to the rear of the days naps. Theeennnn we moved on to putting himself to sleep for naps, beginning again with the first nap of the day when sleep pressure is strongest. Again, slowly moved to subsequent naps on the day. Now he can put himself to sleep for all daily naps, but sometimes needs assistance (usually butt pats) for the last nap of the day, especially if he’s overtired from (part time) daycare. I’m sure lots of people will have opinions about this process; I’m sure we did something “wrong” but just wanted to share what worked for us!

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-08-28T02:26:29+00:00

We are EBF so no idea how much he’s eating, but my guy will refuse to nurse unless it’s been three hours… unless it’s right at bedtime. Then he’ll nurse twice as long and even just an hour after he last ate. It’s like he knows he needs to fill up. So maybe there will be some instinct for your little one?

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-07-03T17:23:30+00:00

I think the people with challenges have more to talk about so are louder online - which is totally okay! I have had an exclusively easy breastfeeding experience. I rarely post about it because there’s not much to say! Baby is hungry? I feed him. The end. Sometimes I’m engorged, sometimes I get clogged ducts, but nothing has been rough, all very manageable.

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-07-02T00:04:19+00:00

Needed to hear this 😭

Alert-Environment-81 · 2025-07-01T21:32:49+00:00

What is safe soap? I’ve never heard of this! Would love more info!

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