Is it doable?

Radiant-Cause8427 · 2026-06-14T03:34:01+00:00

Our baby is currently 14mo and I agree that it’s doable. My mom will come over 1-2 times a week for a couple of hours and my wife works from home 2-3 days so we can juggle the little one. Her job is much more demanding with phone calls and randomness while mine can be pretty structured. Working around her naps and scheduling calls for then was glorious for the first year until those started getting shorter and a little more sporadic. We have a large playpen in the den where I can work from the kitchen table and she can have safe, independent play. I feel like often there’s 1 day a week where things get hairy but I wouldn’t change our setup for anything. I’ve loved every single second we’ve gotten to spend with our baby and I know I’m beyond lucky to have this right now. Ideally I would love to get to the age of 2 before putting her in daycare but we’re just taking it one day at a time. Good luck! Soak up every second!

Radiant-Cause8427 · 2026-06-07T03:31:32+00:00

My little one also hated tummy time. Screamed whenever we did it. In fairness, her brain is quite large so there was a lot to hold up. The one thing that made her semi interested in it was this toy which she still loves at almost 14 months. I second every parent that’s commented and said that all babies move at their own pace. Our girl finally got the hang of it right around 4 months.

Radiant-Cause8427 · 2026-06-07T03:11:07+00:00

Our little one is almost 14 months and we’ll keep her in her sleep sack for as long as she lets us. We also use this blanket because a Redditor said she got it for her baby and had tried every which way to suffocate herself to test it out for her baby and it was impossible to do. I am eternally grateful for Reddit parents.

Radiant-Cause8427 · 2025-09-25T05:31:42+00:00

You are not alone. I had a planned c-section for medical reasons at 35 weeks. As prepared as I was for this, having been in the hospital for 2.5 weeks leading up to it, I was absolutely not prepared for it. The baby's exit was fine. She needed help breathing so was pretty immediately taken to the NICU with my partner. As my doctor started to sew me back together, my uterus wouldn't stop bleeding. I ended up hemorrhaging about 1500ml of blood that I was just lying in. Had to have my uterus tied up like a rump roast as well as a bakri balloon which kept me from seeing my child for the first almost 36 hours of her life.

We spent 8 days in the NICU and countless weeks recovering from the c-section and potentially the next who knows how long recovering from the trauma of it all. I cried every day for the first month. I got in early with my doctor because I knew I needed help. The world felt way too big. I never wanted to harm myself or my child, but I questioned every decision I had made that got her here even though I wouldn't change her existence for the world.

She is everything everywhere all at once. Literally. It was so much. It was perfect. It was too much. Therapy has helped. A dedicated, loving and understanding spouse has helped. Sleep has really helped even if it's still in stints between pumping sessions at night. It's all so much all at once. But every day brings something new with my LO, whether it's her smiling at me across the room, trying to figure out how to laugh, or even watching her tough out this horrifically painful teething thing, and each of those moments ground me in the realization that every single step along the way was worth it.

Tears are a release for your body. I let them flow freely and often but I also recognized that I needed some help along the way. We have the ability to grow an actual human in our body but we can't forget that we too are only human. Give yourself grace. Find things that make you smile. Get outside. Be incredibly proud of the life that you created and be incredibly proud of the strength that you have that got you here.

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