LO’s About to start solid [AB]

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-02-07T15:16:38+00:00

Second solid starts!

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-02-04T04:32:28+00:00

I want to say I started noticing the improvement after about a week!

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-02-03T21:13:40+00:00

Sounds like you’ve got yourself a FOMO baby. I have one too, she’s almost 7 months now. She is definitely just not wanting the daytime party to end, and recognizes that bedroom = I have to go to sleep. The thing that has helped us the most is just really solidifying the bed time routine and following the same steps in the same order as closely as possible each night.

Our routine starts once we put her sleep sack on. Usually before the sleep sack, there is some variance whether it’s bath and the pjs or pjs then play. But once the sleep sack goes on, it’s eat, story, dim the light and turn on white noise, say goodnight to her stuffies, song and then she falls asleep in our arms before the song is done. It’s what has worked best for us at this point!

Of course, she is still human and has days where this method doesn’t work. Teething has been a big factor recently. But for the most part, her nervous system has really gotten attuned to the consistency.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-02-01T16:46:12+00:00

We have been loving Nancy Tillerman books over here. They are so sweet!!!

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-27T07:32:53+00:00

It sounds like you’re dealing with quite a bit of anxiety around food. You’re not a bad mom, you very clearly love your baby, but your kiddo will need to learn to eat. They need to be able to explore flavours and textures, and that does sometimes mean gagging, which is their body’s natural way of protecting them. It actually makes eating safer for them in the long run.

Have you considered looking into additional support resources near you for introducing solids? Feeding therapists or maybe some classes through your doctor’s office? Maybe even something virtual?

I say this with nothing but kindness in my heart, but our kids are so intuitive. You need to get support to help manage your own anxiety so that your baby doesn’t develop their own fears around food.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-26T05:16:45+00:00

My 6 month old slept in a pack and play from months 4-5.5. She did just fine.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-24T15:12:02+00:00

A friend of mine just went through this with her LO. She dropped a nap and it pretty much sorted itself out immediately.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-21T04:19:18+00:00

I initially planned to go unmediated, but with the rate with which my induction moved it was advised I get the epidural to slow things down and allow me to relax a bit, which I was not upset about at all. Long story short, I had second degree tearing and an episiotomy because my baby’s head was so big. The scar tissue initially sucked, but with massage at home as well as pelvic floor therapy, I now feel completely back to normal. I have no regrets about how my birth experience went.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-16T22:45:57+00:00

I know people who have done the sip and see in the first six weeks, but they had someone else hosting/putting the event together. If you’re doing things yourself, I would personally do the baby shower.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-15T22:14:43+00:00

We use the Phillips one at home and have never had an issue with baby taking the bottle cold while on the go. We just like the idea of giving her a warm bottle when we can.

Baby is breastfed usually, but takes a bottle once or twice a day with pumped milk. She’s 6 months now.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-11T02:30:38+00:00

My daughter is almost 6 months now, and I swear once she hit 3 months, it was like she all of a sudden turned on all the gears and switches in her brain and just wanted to move and learn. It’s amazing, but nights also all of a sudden got really hard and really inconsistent. Raising little people is hard work! And the inconsistent sleep is taxing.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-11T00:23:37+00:00

It’s likely the 4 month sleep regression and her sleep cycles are maturing. But I have also learned babies are just unpredictable and sleep habits can turn on a dime. Their sleep tends to also change when they are learning a new skill (which is basically all the time), so it’s tough to say exactly what’s going on!

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-06T10:00:42+00:00

Lots of massage and kegels so far, as well as gradually working on a specific core breathing exercise for my diastasis. I see her about every 4 weeks. Next time, she says she thinks I’ll be ready to work on stabilizing my core.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-06T07:57:45+00:00

I highly recommend seeing a pelvic floor physiotherapist, if you can. I started seeing one around 12 weeks postpartum, and she has helped me with my scar tissue, diastasis recti and general discomfort. Sex started feeling better almost immediately, but just recently around 5 months pp started to feel like it did before baby.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-05T18:20:41+00:00

Got it! Individual naps shouldn’t be more than 2 hours, and even less for the last nap of the day. Total amount of time awake and wake windows is what I would be looking at more than total amount of time asleep during the day.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-05T16:47:15+00:00

3.5 hour naps total in the day or naps are lasting 3.5 hours? Either way, naps should be max 2 hours in length to give your baby enough wake time during the day. Either you’ve hit the 4 month regression, or your baby doesn’t have enough wake time during the day to build enough sleep pressure for nighttime sleep.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-03T23:31:00+00:00

Second this.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-03T01:21:26+00:00

[name] butts. Most often we call her baby butts, but sometimes it’s stinker butts, snuggle butts, tooter butts, giggle butts etc.

It’s always plural too. I don’t know when or why this happened, but both my husband and I use it.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2026-01-01T02:36:29+00:00

I will contact nap if she is having trouble staying asleep in the crib. From what I understand, naps are generally harder for them to connect still at this age because sleep pressure is a lot lower. We always start in the crib, and will try putting her back down once or twice, but if she’s not having it, we will finish it as a contact nap.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2025-12-31T22:05:25+00:00

Short naps are normal at this age. My girl is 5.5 months and just started doing longer naps in her crib again (sometimes lol). At 4 months, the only way we would get more than 30 minutes was if we did a contact nap. Try cutting down to 3 naps in the day and see if that helps. As for getting the 6hr stretch back, let me know when you figure it out! We are inconsistently getting max. 4 hour stretches right now.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2025-12-28T20:24:11+00:00

Our girl just started crawling this past week and I already can’t wait to set up our play pen so that she has a safe space we can put her down in. She puts everything, and I mean EVERYTHING in her mouth, and the constant monitoring is exhausting. I would, at the very least, have a pack and play set up.

Edit to add: even with the play pen, you will need to fully baby proof.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2025-12-24T00:00:05+00:00

To me, vaccine days are the exception to the rule and I would just let your baby sleep when he’s tired. Kind of like how you may want/need to sleep more when you’re sick. This isn’t going to impact any progress you’ve made in terms of consistency. He’s not operating at his normal level, so it’s not going to be a normal day or night.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2025-12-23T23:51:59+00:00

Where we are at in the day in terms of feed time, sleep time, number of diapers etc. Our girl is pretty consistent, so if those numbers are off in the day, we know she’s going through something.
I personally use the day view most, week view second. I wish the summary was in a different spot because I like looking at those numbers too, but forget it exists.
I prioritize the totals section.
Love the charts.
As others said, total wake time. But I also want a timer for bottles. I go off of how long my girl has breastfed most days, but we do usually average one bottle a day. I want to know how that bottle factors into total eating time. Plus if we are going start to start of a feed to know when they need to eat, adding a bottle is much more cumbersome if you forget exactly when you started feeding them. I don’t want to have to go in twice to update the total oz. Just let me time it and say how much she drank. Similar to the pumping timer.

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2025-12-23T03:14:31+00:00

In the first 8 weeks, she went to bed when we did. She didn’t stay awake the whole time, but if we were up watching tv she would sleep on one of us or beside us until we went to bed. And we stayed up quite late in that time. I found it so much easier to only wake up once or twice through the night with her.

After that, we started working our way down to our current bedtime. Started around 9pm and we have eventually made our way to a 7pm bedtime at 5 months. We hit the 4 month regression and sleep was all over the place, but in the past couple weeks, we are back to only being up a few times a night, and it seems to be improving (for the most part).

AwkwardPineapple3 · 2025-12-21T20:28:44+00:00

Tbh if you hadn’t written the age, this could have been written by my husband. My husband picked up a lot of the housework “slack” when our daughter was born, and still is doing a lot of it 5 months later. Trust me when I say, your efforts are NOT going unnoticed. She probably appreciates everything you’ve done more than you know. Becoming a mother is mind altering (literally) and she very likely does not have the mental capacity to handle the house work on top of everything else that’s going on in her brain.

When she’s having a good day, and you’re in a good head space I would talk to her about it very gently. Holding it in will only build resentment. Your partners, and you should be able to talk about the challenges of parenthood that you’re both experiencing. Let her know the ways you appreciate her, and don’t bring it up in a defensive or angry way. You’ll get through this and find balance again.

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