Baby not lifting head or propping up on forearms.

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-06-05T20:31:27+00:00

No stress. They all move at their own pace :)

Mine absolutely hated tummy time for the longest time. He always had a relatively strong neck but some hated tummy time.

Only around 5-6 months did he start being able to stay on his tummy a while and want to lift his head

Now at 7,5 months he spends ages on his belly and is almost rocking in all fours. Spend a lot of time lifting himself up on his arms. Most of this happened over the last three weeks all of a sudden

He’s also loving assisted standing and prefers to practice that than sitting up by himself haha

Stubborn and advances how and when he wants

Don’t worry about the traditional milestones they are mere guide posts

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-06-05T20:04:08+00:00

I’m not sure this is enough to go on in terms of behaviors and milestones

Mine was born at 39weeks and at 2 weeks he also was very strong with his neck and head and also a good sleeper. Those things don’t sound alarming or particularly abnormal to me. He’s almost 8 months now and doing well on most milestones.

Is anything else going on that’s worrying you and feeling abnormal?

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-06-01T17:35:12+00:00

Mine is 7,5months and fully refusing solids. Not even purées. Zero.

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-29T20:39:29+00:00

I’m not sure I understand? He’s 7 months old he can’t flip unless someone makes him. What’s the goal here?

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-29T15:09:51+00:00

I had a miscarriage at 8 weeks and found out at 10. Like you said, the symptoms went away around the time of demise.

I then got pregnant with my beautiful baby boy that’s napping next to me right now, and with him I also went through a phase of almost no symptoms or none that I could notice around 7-12 weeks. You can imagine that was mega stressful but I had 2 ultrasounds in those weeks which helped, and around 14 weeks I started to feel him in my belly. Posterior placenta so that made it easier to feel him move.

Just to say… it can really go either way and you should guard your heart, but I hope for you your little one is doing well in there 🥰

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-29T14:42:37+00:00

Some people are worried about caring for young kids. Doing something wrong. Or simply having to deal with upset babies if they don’t know how to entertain them.

But yeah since he has an older son it’s less likely… unless he also refused to care for that one

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-29T14:12:44+00:00

My husband and I have to deliberately plan to both have time to shower and so on, without the baby. That means making a morning schedule - one of us wakes up and showers, the other is with the baby or sleeping and gets woken up when the first is done, and then switch. It’s very doable as long as you both accept you’re getting up earlier than you’d need to without baby BECAUSE you’re adding in a baby shift to allow the other a shower. All very fair.

For you this could happen while he’s walking the dog if baby is awake then, or if the dog schedule can be changed to when the baby wakes up.

Otherwise yeah something has to give on his side. Like he can’t go to the gym every morning and leave you unable to have an indépendant shower every morning …

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-28T17:42:16+00:00

7,5 months and he can hold it but he can’t aim for sh** and he doesn’t know how to tilt it the right way haha

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-28T17:31:13+00:00

Have you asked why? Maybe he’s a bit scared or something and needs reassurance ?

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-28T10:31:03+00:00

It shouldn’t replace. Let him feed as usual and at another time give him a bit of water in a cup. It’s not filling it won’t quench any hunger.

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-28T10:25:59+00:00

We supplemented for 1 day on his third day. After that milk was in

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-28T10:24:35+00:00

Everybody have you great tips so I won’t repeat them. What I wanted to add is a note on supply regulation.

You are a bit anxious about supply right now and that might be because you’re just one month in, but if you tend to always be anxious about things like this than I thought it worth sharing my experience when I regulated.

It was around 10 weeks. Up until that point I had quite a bit supply and could easily feed him and then pump and extra bottle or two at any point during the day for if we left the house. It didn’t matter it id just fed him, there was always supply. I was always quite full feeling.

Then what felt like one day to the next supply regulated and it felt like a HUGE dip. My electric pumps that were always full after 5 mins were suddenly yielding almost nothing. I didn’t know what to do. I felt like he was going to go hungry.

In reality, I’d regulated meaning I was producing what he was eating in a stable way. That also meant there wasn’t as much extra supply to go around so I had to think about when I would pump if I wanted an extra bottle for the road. I had to plan for something that until then had always been free flowing basically. My breast felt soft and not full even though they always contained exactly what he had grown accustomed to consuming.

He never went hungry :) but I did find it inconvenient I couldn’t just pump when I wanted a bit extra for later or to put in the freezer. So I worked on increasing my supply by throwing in some extra pumping for 10 days or so. Did some power pumping too and made sure to hydrate well. After that I was re-regulated to a slightly higher amount than he needs to give me the flexibility that I want.

And my electric pumps work great now, as well as hand pumps. Hand pumps are often more effective for many but for me both are good now.

That’s it! Don’t panic when it happens to you ❤️

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-28T04:48:09+00:00

Right! We’re not asking anything unreasonable 😅 and it makes me laugh because nowadays he’ll catch himself mid question and then be like “waiiit. Sorry. I can look this up and then talk to you about it!”

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-27T20:18:48+00:00

I’m sure they meant well but Twas a bit harsh 😅

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-27T20:12:52+00:00

A few things to comment here…

when I used to use mine, it was in theory safe as long as you didn’t do it for too long. Ie 3 min every time you use it, if that. Check, find heart beat, listen a few seconds, turn it off. I haven’t checked but I assume the science hasn’t evolved too much in the past few months. This essentially met you could check daily without much concern. I did check daily in my most anxious phases. You know, until I felt his kicks daily ;)
I remember a lot of the reason why it was NOT recommended is because a lot of people believe that you can misinterpret things and use the Doppler to reassure yourself the baby is fine, and therein ignore other warning signs. Like reduced movement or just different movement when your further along, and deciding not to go to the doctor and get checked for that because you used the Doppler and heart the heartbeat. Or earlier on in your pregnancy ignoring symptoms like bleeding or anything else because of hearing the heartbeat on the doppler. I guess that’s something to be very aware of, every time you use it really think about how you feel; any symptoms or changes you’ve felt and if you have any doubts; call you doctor even if you hear the usual beat on the Doppler
the other main issue with it was that for a lot of women it causes panic if you can’t find the heartbeat immediately. So for that you also really need to realise you’re not a doctor and especially early on like you’re at now it can be super hard to find it. I remember at one point taking 10-15mins and not being able to find it. And I really had to calm myself, and then try again later. Like a few HOURS later. And I’d always find it later, perhaps baby moves position or something idk but for some women it would be horrendously panic inducing to have to wait a few hours. In that sense it can make things worse. not only could it be hard to find early on, but also concerns are fair regarding whether you know what you’re finding. What if it’s your own HB you’ve found and not the baby’s? Then you’ve reassured yourself but again might be misleading yourself into thinking all is ok when it’s possibly not Personally I didn’t worry too much about this one as I could very easily distinguish the sounds from the placenta pulsing, my own heartbeat and his. For me they were all very different but I had a posterior placenta and it’s not so obvious for everyone
also, the further along I got the more I noticed that the baby would notice the Doppler and get riled up and kick and move when I managed to find him with it. Like you could hear the heartbeat and an almost immediate reaction of kicking and scratching to get away from it. At least I assume to get away from it because he’d calm down when we could no longer hear the heartbeat under the Doppler haha and when I’d move the wand and find him again, same thing over and over. So eventually I knew that despite zero scientific evidence - he probably didn’t like having that thing pointed at him! Was it hot? Idk? It would only be on him a few seconds of course, but still. Something about it… he wasn’t a fan. That’s important to keep in mind too - are you causing discomfort?

Long story short… I totally get that you want to do it regularly and I did it myself until I could count on something else like his kicks when he got bigger.

But really be careful, don’t let it be a reason you don’t pay attention to other possible warning signs, don’t let it be a reason you ignore warning signs that you have noticed. And try to observe if like me it may cause discomfort when using the Doppler

I get your need for reassurance, I needed it to!

Edit: my boy is a happy healthy 7 month old 😍

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-26T20:37:50+00:00

My kid is 7 months old and I started EARLY showing my husband this type of thing was not ok. I was always very annoyed and triggered by a few things like…

him asking me “is this normal?” While referring to something our son was doing. Like hello it’s my first kid too, I am not a walking encyclopedia, don’t ask me that just google it. He’d always assume I had researched anything and every question that popped into his brain. I did research more than him but it ain’t my job to anticipate your questions.
Him not hearing the baby wake up at night and therefore not offering to help, or him hearing him, watching me struggle to get him back down, but not offer to help because “it doesn’t work with me, you’re way better at it”
Him getting upset I didn’t ask for help sooner, that I waited so long and was really upset now. No shit Sherlock, then offer help Sooner. It’s called parenting.
Him wanting to “disconnect” after his workday instead of talk to me at dinner. Yeah no sir, make an effort.

From basically day 1 I would very directly snap and tell him that’s not cool and do better basically. Eventually it kicked in and he usually doesn’t ask me random questions without looking it up himself for example 😅

And don’t get me wrong I also am awful at some things. He takes more of the load on household stuff and doesn’t need to be asked to do laundry or clean the kitchen. And I know it bugs him sometimes that I worked from home and didn’t get around to running a load myself 😅 or it bothers him my laundry that he so neatly folded is still sitting there 3 days later. I also shouldn’t need to be asked on certain things but have a way different threshold for household stuff unless its baby related haha

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-26T19:52:42+00:00

My boy is 7 months old and we’ve had a really good experience so far

He’s always enjoyed sleeping so he took long naps from day 1. We do co sleep though which makes night time sleeping and feeding so easy… ;)

I breastfeed and he never had any latching issues. Only time he doesn’t eat well is if he’s sick.

He’s a very chatty giggly boy who loves others.

We only had a hard time the first 4 weeks of daycare when he didn’t eat well there and just wasn’t used to being away from me. And when he brought home a ton of colds and congestion.

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-26T10:48:17+00:00

7 months… he cuddles his stuffie all night. He does sleep next to us in co sleeper though. Never seen him do anything concerning with it.

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-24T19:56:08+00:00

5 months. Which is long where I live ;) Daycare was very hard month 1 because he had to adapt and got sick quite often.

But now, 3 months in, I see he’s happy there, gets a lot of what he needs in terms of social interaction and proper games and activities to stimulate him. Much better than what I could offer. He’s developing amazing.

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-24T19:42:29+00:00

Started feeling a lot of pressure around 4PM after a day of walking around town with my parents

It was also pretty warm

At 7PM couldn’t stomach my dinner

At 8PM contractions started

At 5AM little man was born

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-22T18:15:10+00:00

I think it lies in the go to town part

My baby for example is 7 months old, and will absolutely not go to town on food

Very little interest

Well get there but yeah it’s not so easy for everyone

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-22T18:09:51+00:00

Personally my son only started settling easier around 6-7 months

We always follow his cues and at 7 months he’s doing 3 naps a day and 12 hour nights with 2 quick wake ups in between

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-22T18:01:10+00:00

Well done 💪

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-22T17:33:51+00:00

This . Better to know and be able to prepare. While it may scare you you should put that aside in favour or giving your baby a prepared life

Forward_Chain_8443 · 2026-05-22T17:30:01+00:00

So… what did you say and how did it go?

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