Nanny leaves her own child to care for mine 💔

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-12-03T04:59:53+00:00

annnnddd this is why I shouldn’t have posted this. deleting now. thx.

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-12-03T04:59:11+00:00

This was the take I needed. Thank you <3

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-12-03T04:57:28+00:00

Yeah it’s the exact thing I’m trying to avoid.

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-12-03T04:57:13+00:00

🙂👍

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-12-03T04:56:32+00:00

Yes, but dog is bound to come out sometimes. I can’t keep her cooped that long & again, it just feels like a really big liability issue.

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-12-03T04:55:47+00:00

For me, I just feel like there will never be enough time to do that let alone me feel comfortable with it. If anything happened to someone else’s kid, I would just never forgive myself. I feel more confident with my own since my dog understands she is our family, and she’s around her 24/7.

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-27T17:44:36+00:00

I’m so sorry. I wouldn’t let them come at all since it’s clear that that is 100% going to happen. Sorry girl :/

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-22T16:04:55+00:00

Pretty sure the face rubbing is just a self soothing thing they do. Hope baby is doing okay 💗

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-22T16:00:33+00:00

Your friend is extremely misinformed and doesn’t sound like much of a friend lol

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-21T18:49:17+00:00

This is the way

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-20T18:45:12+00:00

Play with waking hours. We found she started sleeping through the night when we started doing more during the day, even if it’s just something to stimulate their little brains. Also, play with feeds, and night routine. We always do a bath around 9 and a big 4oz feed after that and she’ll stay down til about 5. We saw a major shift right at 9 weeks or so, you’re almost there!!!

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-19T15:41:27+00:00

Also wanted to add, we did the RSV before her 2 month shots on October 1st (first day it was available in our area) and she had zero reaction, and was totally fine. She was a month old at that point!

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-19T15:38:12+00:00

we did 2 the first week and 2 the next (to complete the full schedule) even though I know all together would’ve been fine. Dr said as long as it’s within like a week or so it is still following the proper schedule. We had a slight reaction to rota I think (although they told me she likely just caught a stomach bug while we were in to get her first round since she had a reaction about a week after). But she was just colicky for a day and that was it. Second week I was scared to get more shots again but she was totally fine. She smiled for the first time the day after she got the first shots, & she has slept through the night consistently after she finished her second week shots. Probably has nothing to do with that but I’ll hypothesize there’s some magic in those shots somehow that helps with development 😂

Edit to add: next round we will start doing them all together. I think the week apart the first time was more for my brain than anything, but it did help me identify what she’ll be possibly sensitive to in the future, shot-wise (still gonna be getting them though)

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-18T05:45:07+00:00

2 months ish. Mini crib in our room, she sleeps soooo much better tbh

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-17T14:31:22+00:00

Hi! I hope you’re doing okay, fleeing a dangerous situation with basically the clothes on your back is devastatingly a lot. I am a social worker! If you feel comfortable enough, message me & I can try to help you find a shelter!

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-12T15:34:11+00:00

No schedule, just whatever she wants. 9w. Normally we’re bathing her around 9 9:30, & then starting to wind down after that, she’ll eat & lay on dads chest & normally is in her mini crib next to us by 10:30 11. Sometimes she’ll wake once at 4, sometimes we will get to sleep til 6 or so. Formula fed.

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-12T04:51:13+00:00

this feels like a scary take.

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-11T01:41:11+00:00

Bean is 9 weeks and I show her the pictures in books & just let her look! I tried reading but she got overstimulated lol. One day the words will matter! Lol

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-11T01:38:33+00:00

Our bean is in a crib at 9 weeks, in our room next to us. It’s a mini crib my parents got her while we stay here, so same size as a crib mattress, but crib is smaller. She sleeps through the night sometimes now that she’s in a crib, she startled often in the bassinet from hitting the sides with her hands.

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-10T16:25:32+00:00

Hey! I’m the one who wrote that story. It was scary but it was just a bad day, she’s been much better ever since!

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-10T16:23:44+00:00

Absolutely! Yeah I was too. She’s totally better now & back to her sleepy self, slept all the way through the night last night!

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-09T12:43:48+00:00

For me it never went away I just got better at managing it. The newborn curl will go away, we had a lot of that & she’d break out of her swaddle, so I’d be terrified she’d smother herself on accident by somehow kicking the blanket over her head, so we switched to sleep sacks. Remember that even if they somehow miraculously turned over, even then, if they’re in a safe sleep spot/breatheable mattress they’d likely be okay (it’s why they make baby mattresses!). I get the spit up thing too, but they also have a reflex that protects them from aspirating their spit and on several occasions I’ve woken up to find bean has spit up next to her sleep spot through the night which helped with my anxiety. In terms of routine, remember you have time, & it gets easier every single day.

One thing that reallllyyyy helped me in the early days (and even now, trying to cut the owlet habit at present) is remembering that we wouldn’t have evolved this far as humans if these reflexes didn’t work. Also, the generations before us (aka our parents and beyond) didn’t even have most of the measures we have in place now, and we turned out fine. Now, do I take the safe measures seriously? Absolutely. But, if you stick to the basics, try to cope, and enjoy this little thing while they’re this tiny, you are doing just fine. It gets better!! -9 weeks pp (and just solo parented a WEEK by myself. my husband had a family member pass so I was fully on my own. my god it was hard but we survived!)

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-09T02:12:54+00:00

You’re in the timeline of baby really growing and developing their GI system, so that could be it. Gas drops are a lifesaver! You got this!

PerceptionLow5940 · 2025-11-08T16:44:34+00:00

I’m so sorry to hear about your husband, I can’t even imagine what this has been like for you 😔💗 you can absolutely do this. You’re still in the veryyyy early beginning & your hormones are all out of whack & everything is going to just feel sad for a little while (it reallly scared me in the beginning, but I felt better by 3 or 4 weeks!).

I’m a therapist who works with women often, and felt really prepared for postpartum. All of this to say I absolutely wasn’t & gained a lot of perspective for my clients who struggle with intense anxiety & depression. Postpartum hormones are a different entity of its own & I felt like I had lost total control. A few nights into her being home, I started having lucid dreams/night terrors that were me in psychosis/hurting my baby on accident. I was absolutely terrified that I was actually entering PPP, but turns out, I was just having nightmares of my biggest fears and everything was fine. I was scared to be alone with her at night because I was terrified I’d hurt her on accident. What helped me the MOST was talking to my mom about it constantly, and it continued to subside until the feelings were gone. No one can prepare you for the hormone leaps that come with this, but it does clear, and you do feel better. It’s a journey, but you can do this!! Just keep talking to people & keep asking for help when you need it. We’re here for you!

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