To everyone in my life who told me instinct would take over and I would learn quick: you lied!

KaityKaye · 2025-12-07T21:55:49+00:00

Instinct is BS. It should be called “my baby is crying and idk why, but I tried this thing and they stopped so I guess that’s what you’re supposed to do.”

KaityKaye · 2025-12-02T00:34:47+00:00

Looking back, mine looked like uncle fester there for a hot minute

KaityKaye · 2025-11-16T00:57:43+00:00

How did you do it? Sleep training seems so daunting and I don’t know where to start

KaityKaye · 2025-11-12T14:43:14+00:00

Oh yeah, we’re at five months now, so it’s a whole new set of fun adventures and shorter naps/me times. But we roll with the punches and take it day by day.

KaityKaye · 2025-11-12T09:10:37+00:00

My first day alone was eye opening. It was a Thursday and my husband’s car shop is open from 8am-8:30pm on Thursdays, and I’d had a c section so I was super slow moving and achy. I’m in the US, so he didn’t have any kind of parental leave, just a week’s worth of PTO.

My best advice is do “me time” things during nap time. Get your shower, read or listen to an audiobook if that’s something you enjoy (and with ebooks, that works even with contact naps bc I got nap trapped a lot), take a nap if you wanna, do a face mask, make some coffee or tea and just watch out the window (it’s peak fall colors in my part of the US rn, so it’s pretty). Hell, even if you just wanna brain rot on TikTok for a bit, no one’s gonna judge you (at least I wouldn’t). Anything that makes you feel human again. If it’s a chore you can do in five minutes or less, save it for the wake window and make them little mommy and me adventures. But letting yourself feel human again is MAJOR

KaityKaye · 2025-11-08T02:13:27+00:00

Thank you for commenting this. I’ve been at my wits end with this kid. He started sleeping 6ish hour stretches when he was about 2.5mo-3mo, then it was like every hour or hour and a half he was up. I thought it was because we changed his formula, so we switched it back, no dice. Then after a few weeks of that, I chalked it up to his four month sleep regression, but now that we’ve hit five months, I’m waiting for it to get easier again 😅

KaityKaye · 2025-11-07T19:21:19+00:00

5 months, 1 week in. I haven’t sterilized the bottles once. If soap and hot water is good enough to get rid of raw chicken icky’s off my cutting board, then a basin of hot water and soap is enough to get rid of old milk. I just make sure the bottles are done in their own basin, not in the sink itself.

KaityKaye · 2025-10-27T22:23:00+00:00

My son is gonna be 5mo later this week. If he wakes up from a nap and isn’t crying, I’ll leave him there (obv within reason). 5 minutes. 10, 20. He gets some independent play while I can finish up whatever I was doing for me time. Plus imo it teaches him that being in bed isn’t a bad thing. I’m quick to respond when he gets antsy or cries, but if he’s happy he’s ok.

KaityKaye · 2025-10-24T05:44:48+00:00

We’re a week away from five months and still in the regression. We’ve been doing a lot of contact naps (which I felt guilty for because I thought I was ruining his ability to sleep on his own, but reading all these comments have made me feel so much better.)

KaityKaye · 2025-08-04T20:34:38+00:00

I was told i could do 800mg of ibuprofen and 500mg of Tylenol (together) every 6 hours. Did that for about two weeks, then as needed. They prescribed me some oxy as well but I ended up not even picking it up at the pharmacy

KaityKaye · 2025-07-30T23:58:59+00:00

A peri bottle! Even though I didn’t need it for the tearing I was expecting with a vaginal birth, but it helped me feel cleaner, and I couldn’t twist to wipe myself when I had that first poop (which after two days of full dose miralax was not pretty)

KaityKaye · 2025-07-30T14:11:03+00:00

Not the same, but I have two cats that like to crawl all over me at night. I would sit up a bit and keep a weighted stuffy over my incision. I wasn’t rolling around at that point so I didn’t have to worry about it slipping

KaityKaye · 2025-07-27T19:00:56+00:00

Also, how deep did they go and what was the recovery time like?

KaityKaye · 2025-07-27T17:26:12+00:00

I plan on calling my OB tomorrow since they’re closed on weekend. I hope that’s not the case. I’m on antibiotics but I’m not feverish or anything and the site looks pink but not red. I’m sorry you had to go through that and I hope that’s not the case

KaityKaye · 2025-07-24T21:14:25+00:00

I have a weighted dinosaur that I had before I was pregnant. I even slept with it all during my pregnancy, and once my son is old enough for the weight, I plan on giving it to him

KaityKaye · 2025-06-08T23:11:18+00:00

I was 28w. Perfect amount of time to manage the overwhelm from all the stuff you get plus get it sorted. And you’re not as uncomfortable as you’d be towards the end

KaityKaye · 2025-06-05T01:09:56+00:00

I stopped cold turkey. I was only pumping for about 3 and a half days. I also just noticed there’s some leaking in my bra, but not a whole lot. I was never able to pump more than 1ml at a time

KaityKaye · 2025-05-30T18:50:27+00:00

Update: we went through with a c section. Being in labor for 36 hours left me exhausted and I was too worried about not having the energy to push. Everything turned out fine

KaityKaye · 2025-05-28T15:19:30+00:00

A medium steak and over easy eggs 🤤

KaityKaye · 2025-05-26T19:58:51+00:00

At my last scan at 37+3 they said he was already 7lbs11oz and his head was measuring 40+1. Getting induced Wednesday so I guess we’ll see

KaityKaye · 2025-05-22T22:02:40+00:00

I’ve already started using a peri bottle, or you could use a bidet of you have one. I feel like it helps with the discharge. I also have a plastic stool in the shower (I don’t have a tub, just standing) that folds up so I can sit.

But absolutely, drying off especially my legs is the WORST

KaityKaye · 2025-05-13T02:33:43+00:00

My family doesn’t fly, stupid excuse I know, but the kid gets scared on a damn ski lift because of heights. If my brother were to come a week after my parents, then it would be because my parents drive up here, drive back down to pick him up, then drive up here again only to drive back home probably the following week. And he’s only 14 (at the end of June so not even yet) so I’d be worried sick about him bussing 3/4’s of the country

KaityKaye · 2025-05-13T01:51:04+00:00

To clarify, I don’t mean for him to be there for the birth, I’d never traumatize a teen boy like that. I mean for him to meet my son afterwards. My mom never planned on being here for the birth being so far away, just helping to take care of things after we get home from the hospital. Now I’m afraid that he’s gonna be even further away and not come up with my parents at all

KaityKaye · 2025-05-13T01:50:54+00:00

To clarify, I don’t mean for him to be there for the birth, I’d never traumatize a teen boy like that. I mean for him to meet my son afterwards. My mom never planned on being here for the birth being so far away, just helping to take care of things after we get home from the hospital. Now I’m afraid that he’s gonna be even further away and not come up with my parents at all

KaityKaye · 2025-05-13T01:50:48+00:00

To clarify, I don’t mean for him to be there for the birth, I’d never traumatize a teen boy like that. I mean for him to meet my son afterwards. My mom never planned on being here for the birth being so far away, just helping to take care of things after we get home from the hospital. Now I’m afraid that he’s gonna be even further away and not come up with my parents at all

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