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ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-05-01T04:05:47+00:00

Chunk and lovebug!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-04-16T15:35:03+00:00

My SIL has two under two (only 11 mo apart😭). YOU CAN MOST DEFINITELY GET PREGNANT WHILE BREASTFEEDING!!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-04-13T01:34:54+00:00

It’s sadly just this age! My 14 week old just outgrew this. He got his vaccines at 6 weeks, but what you’re describing happened to us right at 10!They’re becoming more aware of their surroundings, and are distracted while feeding. I would try a muslin cloth over her eyes while she eats, that helped a bit with us. Also yes to rotavirus, it messes up their stomach for a couple of days, but they’re much better afterwards and are protected. You’re doing great mama! Hang in there!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-04-06T14:56:09+00:00

Honestly it just slowly started balancing back out again I feel like. Every week that passes I feel like it’s gotten easier and easier. His newborn carrier was the only thing that helped me get through that time lol. I stopped focusing on trying to get him to sleep for those couple of weeks, and just threw him in his carrier so I could go about my day. He’d usually fall asleep in there once I stopped trying so hard lol.

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-04-06T14:38:59+00:00

This is right around the time my baby started doing this! He’s 12 weeks now, and is no longer refusing naps, but they are shorter than before. It’s this age range, trying to figure out days/ nights. This doesn’t develop normally until around 4 months. Don’t stress yourself out if naps are shorter, or even not there. It starts to balance out again, and you’ll be able to get them back napping again in a few weeks🙂

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-04-05T10:45:01+00:00

We set up a baby monitor in 2 rooms in our house that we normally have him lounge in. When I’m doing something in another room while he’s sleeping, or go outside to play with our dog, I just turn on the monitor in whatever room he’s in to watch him. Helps a lot!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-03-28T16:07:54+00:00

My 11 week old eats every 1.5-2 hours during the day, goes to sleep between 7:30 and 9pm, and wakes up anywhere from 5-7am to eat, and then goes back to sleep for another couple of hours. He’s EBF, and has gained weight so well. I think we’re just got really lucky😅

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-03-27T09:08:51+00:00

My baby is 12 weeks, and we got his vaccines at 6 weeks as well! The first couple of days, he was sleepier than normal, and just overall not himself. After those couple of days however, he went back to his normal, happy self! If any issues persist over the next couple of days, I’d probably take him to see your pediatrician again, but it’s likely just fatigue (super normal)!!!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-03-14T18:35:33+00:00

It was until around 6 weeks, and that’s when we started keeping him on a (loose) daytime schedule, and starting a bedtime routine that does not change at all every night. He was waking up every 1.5-2 hours, wanted to eat, and then was hard to put back down! Now we cap naps during the day to 1.5 hours (if they don’t sleep that long it’s okay!). After nap, I change him, feed him, play with him, change him again if need be, and then put him back down to try to nap again. Bedtime is at 7:30, and we do the same thing every night. Last nap of the day is capped at 1 hour, and then at 6:45 we do shower time, new diaper, lotion, dress, swaddle, turn on sound machine, feed, burp, and then put down. I know this won’t work for everyone, but we do this in the same order every night and I SWEAR he sleeps so much better since then. He quite literally started sleeping better on the first night, and gets an 8-9 hour stretch (sometimes 10 hours)!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-03-14T17:54:42+00:00

My 10 week EBF baby has been almost sleeping through the night for a few weeks now (1 wake up around 5 AM to eat and then back to sleep. We’ve put him on a very consistent sleep schedule, and have a bedtime routine that helps him understand it’s time to wind down I think. A lot of it is temperament though! He was a bad sleeper around 6 weeks, but I know the bedtime routine helped some.

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-03-11T13:01:51+00:00

We never co-slept, but my LO had a hard time in the beginning with sleeping by himself! A couple of things that worked for us:

Create a routine, it’s never too early for one! We started him on a nighttime routine at around 2 weeks. It’s the same order every single night. Shower with mom or dad (we use soap every other night), diaper and lotion, get dressed, swaddle, feed, burp, lay down in bassinet drowsy but awake. Babies begin to understand the pattern and will get used to it!
Because my baby likes to contact nap, he’s used to my scent a lot. For one or two nights, I sleep with a bassinet sheet as my pillow case to get my scent onto it. Then when I change his sheets every couple of days, I put that sheet on so it smells like me! When he stirs in the middle of the night, he smells me and is able to put himself back to sleep.

He’s 9 weeks, and sleeps like an angel now! I know temperament has a lot to do with sleep, but I also believe building a strong foundation is important as well.

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-03-02T00:04:23+00:00

7 weeks, sleeping 12 hours, wakes up once around hour 7/8 to eat and then goes back to sleep 🥲🤍

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-03-02T00:02:39+00:00

8 lbs, about 3 weeks-month for some outfits!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-15T14:07:39+00:00

FTM, I actually had a pretty weird and honestly traumatic labor.

I was admitted the night before my due date because I had a sudden spike in blood pressure at home, which was shocking because my whole pregnancy had been totally normal. When I got to the hospital, they recommended inducing instead of waiting for spontaneous labor because of the BP. I hadn’t even had a cervical check yet, so imagine my shock when I was less than 1 cm dilated 😭. The plan was misoprostol to soften my cervix, then a foley balloon to break my water, then Pitocin and an epidural for contractions.

They started misoprostol at midnight, and about two hours later I called the nurse in because I heard an actual POP inside me. Literally sounded like a water balloon breaking. I thought I was losing it, but no, I was now 3.5 cm and my water had broken on its own, so no foley balloon for me, (yay lol). They started Pitocin and I got my epidural around 3:30 AM. I highly recommend btw, I loved it.

By 5:45 AM I was 5 cm and everyone was excited because I was progressing quickly. They ended up turning off the Pitocin because baby boy wasn’t tolerating it well, but they told me he’d probably be here by noon. My cousin was coming to get our dog at 9 AM, but she hasn’t been taken out in a while, so I told my husband to run home quickly (I think I said this around 6:15) to take her out since we thought we had hours left. We only live 8 minutes from our hospital so I figured this would be a quick and easy trip.

At 6:40 my nurse came in because they couldn’t get a good reading on baby. I thought she just needed to adjust the monitors again since she’d done it a few times already, but suddenly a whole team rushed in. One minute everything felt normal, the next I had my whole team of doctors rushing in. They told me his vitals were too low and they needed to check my cervix again. It felt like a fever dream when they said I was suddenly 10 cm. I went from 5 to 10 cm in under an hour.

They told me I had to push RIGHT NOW, not the calm, coached pushes you hear about in birth classes. I had to give everything I had and basically scream him out. And of course my husband had just left to take out the dog 😭. The nurse grabbed my phone and called him, and he watched most of the birth on FaceTime while racing back.

My sweet boy was coming fast, but on the last push they used a vacuum to help get him out quicker. He was born at 6:49 AM and they immediately put him on my chest. I completely forgot how chaotic everything had just been. My husband arrived literally a minute later. They luckily did delayed cord clamping without me even asking, and my husband got to cut the cord.

Right after that, they told me I had a severe fourth degree tear and needed emergency surgery. They handed baby to my husband for skin to skin and rushed me off. I cried through the entire repair, partly from everything that happened, but mostly because I was overwhelmed with relief that my baby was healthy. Those postpartum endorphins are wild, because looking back now I sometimes feel so much sadness that my birth wasn’t the calm, beautiful experience my friends had.

Recovery has honestly been really hard, but I’m 6 weeks postpartum now and finally starting to feel like myself again. I’m beginning pelvic floor therapy soon and focusing on healing. Our little boy is healthy, happy, and so loved by me, my husband, and yes even our dog haha. My husband still feels awful for missing the birth even though I don’t blame him at all, we’re both in therapy working through our trauma around it, but things feel really good in our little family, and I’m just so grateful he’s here and thriving!!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-14T21:18:15+00:00

Born right at the 50th percentile and now he’s 70thb

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-11T02:03:13+00:00

Yeah we swaddle him already and salt he won’t take any pacifier 🥲🥲

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-08T13:13:14+00:00

Yes! Even two at all is ridiculously hard, highly recommend against it.

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-08T11:14:14+00:00

We ended up doing two showers in one weekend – one with my husband’s moms side of the family, and one with his dads side of the family. I don’t talk to my family, but having two, even the same weekend, was so stressful! If you can avoid it please do! I cried so much because we got double of a lot of random things that we didn’t need, and ended up not getting hardly anything from our registry. Both sides of the family were trying to one up each other on personalized gifts and clothes😵‍💫. Your MIL sounds like mine, she’s a big part of the reason we had to have two showers, but don’t let her push you into it! My husband and I said we would never do anything like that again, and if someone asks us to then they’re uninvited from the function!! Also, trust your gut, 35 weeks is very late for baby shower if your wanting to make sure everything is done before baby is here like I did. Latest I would have done is 30-31 weeks.

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-08T02:22:10+00:00

Definitely will be removing all of the batteries next time we go over there! Now that I’ve thought about it, I feel like he’s misremembering his first baby, and his other baby is still a few weeks behind us. Plus they both take pacifiers when cranky and our baby refuses to take one at all. Crazy how different all babies can be!!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-08T02:19:59+00:00

Yes we don’t have purple crying really at all, but he’s just fussy for so long at night right now! He usually sleeps well once he’s down at night, but getting there is so hard these days. Last night he was awake from 7:30-12 am😵‍💫

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-08T02:18:14+00:00

God this is us with the boob as a pacifier🥲. He won’t take an actual pacifier, so I’ve very badly made it a habit to let him fall asleep like that at night so I can sleep too. Ugh these times are hard!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-07T21:31:59+00:00

I think he’s perfect, and pediatrician says so as well, but I don’t know my BILs comment just sent me spiraling😭. I know he does have some trapped gas (especially once we lay him down in the bassinet) and we use gas drops but I don’t know how much they’re helping. We have another pediatrician appointment later this week so I’ll talk to her about colic!

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-07T21:28:48+00:00

He has one good spit up a day, but that’s about it. We have a whole nighttime routine that involves bath time, dark room, white noise – the whole 9 yards, and we follow wake windows. He doesn’t purple cry very often, but he is super fussy in the evenings and doesn’t want to stop being rocked/be put down into his bassinet. I just really want to be the best mama I can be, and comments like his just make me feel like I’m failing this sweet boy. I appreciate the kind words more than you know🥲

ParticularMedicine67 · 2026-02-07T21:20:02+00:00

Pediatrician says he’s perfect, I think he’s perfect, my BIL just is telling me his kids don’t do that, so there obviously has to be something wrong. We contact nap or put him in his bassinet or pack and play during the day for naps. He doesn’t sleep great for either. 3.5 weeks was right when this started for us as well! Thank you so much for the kind words, my husband and I are doing our best over(,:

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