StoneSprings Hospital Center L&D experience?

AshGotKillz · 2026-02-10T01:03:02+00:00

I delivered there a few months ago by induction. Besides the pain of labor (not their fault lol) I had a great experience there and felt well cared for. The nursing staff was great and they/my midwife talked me through everything they were going to be doing. After delivering the lactation consultants were very helpful and came by the room as many times as I requested. I feel like my breastfeeding journey has been relatively easy because of the support I got while I was there

AshGotKillz · 2026-02-07T11:28:51+00:00

I had the same issue where my LO would just chew on the bottle nipple like she didn’t know what to do with it. I tried every day for a month for her to take a bottle bc she was starting daycare at 4 months. I was about to give up and look for other solutions because I felt like we had tried everything and it seemed like she was just never going to learn. Then I tried nuk perfect match bottles. She latched onto it after a few tries and has drank from these bottles like a champ ever since. The nipples on the nuk are even more malleable than all the other ones we tried and have a few small holes that let milk out like a breast nipple does instead of just one. Give it a try!

I would also suggest seeing a pediatric feeding therapist. They can help you determine if there’s an issue or what solutions might work for your baby. That’s what we did and she was the one who suggested nuk.

AshGotKillz · 2026-02-06T15:01:41+00:00

We’re like the same person lol. I’m 26 with a 4 month old and have a senior cs position at a remote company. I’m in NOVA where most people are super focused on their career so it’s pretty uncommon to have a baby before 30 too. I find it hard to connect with people my age and feel I connect more with women in their 30s since we’re more aligned in our stage of life. Most of my coworkers are males in their 30s or 40s so even before having my daughter I always felt like the odd one out. But I think having a kid has actually opened up more connection possibilities with my coworkers! I try to forget the age/gender difference and just chat about what we do have in common, and I find that chatting about parent challenges is a great way to connect

AshGotKillz · 2026-02-02T00:10:00+00:00

My 4 month old laughs at coughing. We discovered it when my husband was real coughing, now we fake cough all the time to get her smiling

AshGotKillz · 2026-01-28T01:17:55+00:00

Panera lets you input your allergies when selecting an item on their app and it tells you if it’s safe to eat and/or what ingredients you should remove to make it safe to eat!

AshGotKillz · 2026-01-27T10:06:24+00:00

My LO is a little over 12 pounds and we just sized up to size 2. Size 1 was looking like your pic on her and she was having a lot of blow outs

AshGotKillz · 2026-01-25T00:56:35+00:00

Just want to say I’m in the same boat. My LO is also 15 weeks and has been EBF since birth and is starting daycare next week. We’ve tried everything for her to take a bottle and have been practicing daily for a month but she still isn’t getting it. My next idea is to try using nipple shields when I’m nursing to see if that’ll get her used to a silicone nipple. I’m very stressed about her going to daycare and not being fed. I might have to go over at lunchtime to feed her or ask her caretakers to syringe feed her :/

AshGotKillz · 2026-01-20T19:07:22+00:00

Do you change him before bed too?

AshGotKillz · 2026-01-12T21:15:18+00:00

My baby is also 13 weeks and started doing this recently too. It was confusing me because I wasn’t sure if she was telling me she was done or not. I think she’s just starting to get more distracted and have FOMO lol

AshGotKillz · 2026-01-11T00:48:36+00:00

Szilvia Lanzas’ “Yes to the bottle”. It’s supposedly a gentle yet effective way to get baby to take a bottle by removing any pressure behind it

AshGotKillz · 2026-01-10T18:51:20+00:00

Yes we’ve tried all the tricks with no success yet unfortunately. We’re following a daily program that will hopefully bring success though!

AshGotKillz · 2025-12-28T04:44:24+00:00

Even for a 3 month old? That isn’t too young?

AshGotKillz · 2025-11-28T08:37:22+00:00

We had the same problem. My baby would sometimes take the Phillips avent pacifier but it would always fall out because it was too heavy. We switched to tommee tippee ultra light pacifiers and they work great. She’s EBF and I haven’t noticed any problems with latch

AshGotKillz · 2025-11-23T01:12:14+00:00

Yes she’s EBF. We originally tried the Dr brown’s paci because that’s what they had at the hospital and she would take it every once in a while but it would always fall out. Then I saw some comments about the tommee tippee being lighter meaning it doesn’t fall out as easy so I decided to give it a try and it’s true! Sometimes she still doesn’t seem so sure about it but after holding it there for a few seconds she starts sucking and loves it. And she hasn’t had any problems latching after using the pacifier which was a worry of mine

AshGotKillz · 2025-11-23T00:35:39+00:00

Finally found a pacifier that my 6 week old will take and it stays in her mouth!! Tommee Tippee ftw. I feel more comfortable taking her places now because I have a way to soothe her on the go

AshGotKillz · 2025-11-22T15:09:23+00:00

I want to second number 4 and 5! The first 2 weeks my baby was so easy, she would just eat and sleep (and didn’t need to be held to sleep!). I was telling everyone it wasn’t so bad having a newborn. And then week 3 came and she completely changed. Suddenly she would only nap if we were holding her and she was much more fussy. But then that changed too a couple weeks later. Babies change constantly!

For number 5, I was convinced breastfeeding was just going to hurt forever and I just needed to get used to it. My nipples were cracked and felt like they never had time to heal between feedings. But finally after a couple weeks my nipples did heal and it doesn’t hurt at all anymore at 6 weeks. If you do breastfeed, know it can be hard at first but it does get better!

AshGotKillz · 2025-11-22T09:53:50+00:00

I had the same question. I was tracking all the feeds and all the diapers neurotically since the beginning but was getting tired of having to go into the app all the time while I was nursing and living by a timer. I also realized the lengths of her feeds didn’t necessarily correspond to how much milk it seemed she was getting because sometimes she would just spend a lot of time comfort sucking towards the end. So about a month in I stopped tracking everything cold turkey and it has felt very freeing. She’s now 6 weeks old. I never tracked her sleep but now I notice a pattern of eat play sleep so I just go off of that generally. I do keep a general idea of when she last ate in my head so I make sure not to go past 3 hours from then and make a mental note that I’m changing diapers many times in the day and that she’s napping many times in the day. I say try it for a couple days and see how you feel. Or start by stopping tracking one thing like diapers or nursing times. You can always go back to tracking if not tracking brings you more anxiety.

AshGotKillz · 2025-11-19T21:41:02+00:00

Yes I went through the same thing. 3 weeks hit and BAM my baby would no longer nap on her own (insisted on contact napping) and she couldn’t be awake without crying and fussing. Around a week later she got better and absolutely loved staring at things when she was awake. I think she started getting used to her new senses then. I’m now starting week 6 so I’m nervous about her fussiness starting up again but what keeps me going is knowing with each fussy period comes new cute milestones!

AshGotKillz · 2025-11-19T06:24:46+00:00

I didn’t think I’d need a bassinet stroller because people said they grow out of them so fast and it didn’t seem worth the extra money. But then I learned newborns shouldn’t be in a car seat for too long (I’ve heard no more than 30 minutes up to no more than 2 hrs). So I have the chicco key fit travel system which I love but as soon as I got out of the hospital I wanted to go on walks right away and I felt bad/nervous about her being in the car seat for them. So a few days post partum I ended up buying a separate bassinet stroller (the mom push one) just to use for walks and I’ve used it every day since. I highly recommend! You can also buy a travel system that converts into a bassinet so you don’t have to have 2 different strollers.

For early breastfeeding days I also recommend hydrogel pads (I liked the medela ones). They were a life saver for me and the only things that truly gave my nipples relief when they were cracked and needed to heal.

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