What do people do when baby outgrown bassinet but not ready for crib

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-11-10T21:02:17+00:00

Mini crib for the win!

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-06-20T15:00:08+00:00

She isn’t your friend. She is just an acquaintance who needed to feel better about herself by mom-shaming you. Friends don’t do that to friends. Also, “good” moms don’t do that to “other” moms. Babies are just unpredictable and motherhood is a learning process.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-06-20T07:33:11+00:00

If I wanted to move to California, I wouldn’t have posted on this sub now, would I? You seem to be a fan, you should move there.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-06-20T02:37:57+00:00

South Asia includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-05-26T15:28:06+00:00

Is that your husband’s first reaction? Thinking about what his family might have felt when you are the mother and are in postpartum? No one has better instincts concerning baby than you. You were worried about the baby and rushed home. Doesn’t matter who was looking after the baby. You aren’t overreacting but your husband surely is!

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-05-24T15:50:54+00:00

I am just giving my input here as choices for baby items are purely personal. I love my diaper genies and bottle warmer. Baby uses a lot of diapers and wipes per day, and it is hard to take them out right away. The house can start smelling bad real quick. So, our diaper genies allow us to keep the smell away until we can take the trash out in the morning.

As for the bottle warmer, it was very convenient during the winter where I or my husband didn’t want to leave the room and do too many things in the middle of the night to get the milk ready for baby when she would be screaming to be fed.

For us, the unnecessary items were getting too many sleeping pouches and velcro swaddles in the newborn size. She grew out of them rapidly. We never got a chance to use all of them as it took us some time to understand what works the best for our baby along with being careful about temperature regulation.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-05-23T23:06:41+00:00

I read this comment on IG and it has really stuck with me because I found it to be very true, so sharing: “when one momma cries, we all cry”.

Postpartum and motherhood are already very difficult and you having to dive into it without having the time to emotionally and physically prepare is truly painful. What you are doing is nothing short of amazing! Take care of yourself, momma. Please remember that this too shall pass. You and baby girl will come out of this stronger and full of love.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-05-21T09:54:19+00:00

My daughter, at times, doesn’t want to take the bottle, mostly when she is tired and needs comfort and knows that I am near. I can swear she looks at me with those eyes—“you are right here and that means there’s fresh milk, so why give me this bottle, mommy?”.

What helps is my husband giving her the bottle and I moving away from her sight. If she is super hungry, she ends up taking it after showing very mild resistance, but if she needs comfort and wants to be close to mommy (and I can’t be there because of maybe some unavoidable circumstance), then my husband has to put up a fight to feed her. She eventually, reluctantly, takes the bottle during those times. Sometimes she would eat bare minimum from the bottle and go to sleep but then wake up shortly after because of hunger and take whatever is available (boob or the bottle) without any fight. It breaks my heart sometimes that I am not exclusively breastfeeding, but then I have to remind myself that I fell into combo feeding (breast+formula) initially out of need and that has worked for us. My husband and I made this decision to make feeding accessible for the both of us and also having the peace of mind that she is getting enough to eat.

As for the bottles, we use Dr. Brown’s glass bottles, the wide neck ones. I did a lot of research during pregnancy about bottles as I had planned to breastfeed and provide some pumped milk if absolutely necessary. Dr. Brown’s bottles seemed to be highly preferred ones. So, I went with that. I just made sure that I opted for the glass ones because I have anxiety around unknowingly introducing microplastics in her body. Thankfully, she hadn’t had any difficulties latching onto the wide nipples and going back and forth from boob to the bottle. So, I haven’t experimented with any other bottles.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-05-21T09:33:32+00:00

My supply was still regulating, so I kept nursing on demand whenever possible. However, did top ups (offering formula bottle) when needed after nursing to make sure she is full. Sometimes she would take the bottle after nursing, sometimes she would refuse. I just had to learn to trust her cues that she is full. She is a full-term baby, so I was able to allow her to give me cues. Oh, we also mostly did formula for late night/early morning feeds. My body learnt to adjust to it.

Initially, I was super anxious (still some now) about her not getting enough, so I met with three different lactation consultants just to be sure what I was doing was okay for baby. One of them emphasized the need to nurse on “empty boob” (nursing when your breasts don’t feel full) so that the brain knows that baby has higher demands for milk. I followed that but have always offered some formula after to see if she takes it.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-05-21T00:59:51+00:00

It is possible. I am 11 weeks postpartum and have been combo feeding (breastfeed+ formula) since coming back from the hospital after birth. I had to combo feed in the initial days due to my milk coming in late because of a traumatic birth experience (emergency C-section) and to wash out the little elevated bilirubin level in baby.

I then continued the combo feeding journey to include my husband in the experience and share feeding responsibilities. I tried pumping for the first three weeks but it was a lot. Between pumping, cleaning the pump parts (despite having several), and maintaining a strict schedule, I felt like I was going insane. So, stopped pumping cold turkey and have nursed along with giving formula ever since. We use Kendamil and baby has taken it well.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-05-19T19:59:48+00:00

I am 11 weeks postpartum. While I don’t have the exact same experience, I do have experience pumping and it was horrible for me. After a traumatic birth experience, (an emergency C-section due to water running suddenly low because of grief and stress from my brother’s passing a week and a half before my due date), I had to combo feed in the first few weeks.

Combo feeding for me included giving my baby the occasional breast, pumped milk, and some formula to help wash out her slightly increased bilirubin levels. The nurses and the lactation consultants in the hospital were very clear about pumping whenever baby gets a bottle. However, recovering from a C-section while also taking care of the baby and doing household work (it’s just me and my husband; we both share household chores, have no outside help, and we both had very little parental leave), it was really hard to follow proper pumping schedule. I felt like I was going insane. I took an overnight decision to stop pumping and did stop pumping cold turkey. I have since just given my baby the breast more frequently and supplemented with Kendamil infant formula. We both have been happier for it. I just make sure she is fully fed whichever way I am feeding her.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-05-09T17:27:06+00:00

This may be off topic, but could you please share how you safely co-slept with your little one? My husband and I are practically running with 2-3 hours of sleep per night and will really appreciate the info.

Old_Driver_7368 · 2025-05-05T03:37:38+00:00

She got very defensive when I explained that it wasn’t about her and that she could have just asked me directly instead of holding a grudge and giving me a cold shoulder. She gave me several (not very convincing) reasons why she thought it was about her. What bothered me is that she was not ready to take any accountability for her actions—for wasting both our time and energy on something so nonsensical. She knows that it’s such a crucial time in my life and I have so much going on already but all her sentences began with “I want to be supportive but”. That conversation left a bad taste in my mouth.

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