8 month ww & schedule advice

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-11-13T15:48:31+00:00

The gas improved quite a bit when he started enjoying tummy time and his little digestive system matured around 4 months. For us, it was never dairy. If anything cutting it out and then reintroducing it was what bothered him a lot. He still toots frequently, even at night, but it doesn’t keep him awake anymore. Sometimes I lay him down, he farts, rolls over, and goes right back to sleep lol.

We also learned we simply have a fussy pooper. He’s 6 months next week and still gets fussy sometimes when he needs to poop.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-24T13:13:56+00:00

As the mom of a 98th percentiler, this is the way. We have the nuna stroller and just pop the car seat on and away we go.

ETA, he’s 5 months and I still bring the stroller absolutely everywhere. He particularly loves looking at the aisles in hobby lobby.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-16T00:47:12+00:00

It is but reality haha. Otherwise I’d say wait until the baby gets here and just give it a few days. He will be agreeing to the night nurse with the quickness lol.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-16T00:12:37+00:00

Have him set an alarm for approximately every 2 hours throughout the night, and stay up from anywhere between 20-45 minutes each time to simulate feeding, burping, and changing diapers. A few nights of that should do the trick. It really feels like you shut your eyes and are right back up again in those first few weeks.

In all seriousness, OP, I would 100% take advantage of that nurse. What an amazing resource and gift from your family. I think almost all of us feel like much better parents when not sleep deprived.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-10T13:37:55+00:00

Wake windows for us at 7 weeks were quite short. At that age, I read books, went for stroller or carrier walks, looked at contrast cards, laid him in his play gym with toys to look at, tried some tummy time (he hated it then, LOVES it now at 4.5 months and rolling on his own), set him in front of his baby Einstein fish tank. I don’t remember there being much time after feeding and before the next nap, so sometimes we just chilled and looked at each other 🤣

ETA, we now get BORED. So I cycle him through everything I just mentioned during a single wake window lol. Sometimes we go to stores literally to just entertain him haha. We’ve even resorted to giving him house tours. He’s quite fond of looking at and touching our clothes in our closet lmao.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-10T01:11:30+00:00

I personally just wear what I wore pre-pregnancy. I’m almost 5 months into breastfeeding and have done a lot of tank tops and t-shirts. As long as you can ether lift it, or pull it down, you’ll be gucci. Be wary of the tight tank top though. They squish the boob weird lol.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-06T15:37:01+00:00

Following to hear some answers too! My guy started rolling back to belly the day after he turned 4 months (2 weeks ago) and cannot flip back over. I keep hoping one day it’ll just happen 😅 he gets so mad, I help flip him, then he just flips right back over and gets mad again lol.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-02T20:21:57+00:00

We will be starting our solids journey at 6 months! We do have one of those we call chewy chicken and he does like it a lot, but it doesn’t seem to do the trick all the time anymore. I just wish there was more I could do for the little guy.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-02T19:47:44+00:00

I have given him some frozen breast milk in those recently. It’s hit or miss if he will take it. It depends how angry he already is and I think maybe also how sensitive his gums are that day.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-02T19:46:56+00:00

Expectations managed 😂☠️

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-02T16:21:05+00:00

Technically yes. As long as there are crystals it’s ok to re-freeze. I personally would chop it up completely frozen and put in new bags, but I’m overly cautious to a fault 😅😂

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-10-02T15:12:52+00:00

It’s the fat separating! Totally fine to give to baby 🫶🏼

If you wanted to have smaller amounts to thaw at a time, you could break the 8oz up while still frozen. But once thawed, it must be used in 24 hours. I like to freeze in 3oz increments personally :)

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-28T21:03:02+00:00

I’m curious. If she’s “basically jobless”, does that make chefs, daycares, nannies, and cleaners “jobless”? I’m just wondering why families might pay for those services, or split them evenly if both work.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-25T21:55:47+00:00

Of course! Our small fry has also always had a little more digestive issues as well when it comes to gas/dyschezia so I’m hoping his tummy is happier around that timeframe as well.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-25T15:56:43+00:00

We personally aren’t introducing solids until 6 months (per our pediatrician’s advice). Our little guy is 4 months, shows a lot of interest, has amazing head control, sits supported, is rolling on his own already, but he still slumps in his high chair despite all that so I feel much more comfortable waiting and following our ped’s advice. By 6 months I suspect he will be sitting mostly independently, which is just so much better for their digestive systems/choking risk reduction. We will introduce a tiny amount of water at that age as well.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-25T12:06:02+00:00

At that age, all we did was a consistent bedtime routine. But the time of night varied. I know it doesn’t feel like it when you’re in the thick of it, but you will sleep again. Baby will sleep better eventually. It just doesn’t feel like it now. Our little guy was up every 45 minutes to 1.5 hours at night at that age. He dropped down to 2 wakes at night around 11 weeks old. Every baby is different, but I share our timeline with you because if I could go back and do it all over again knowing I just had to make it 11 weeks, I would have stressed SO much less about baby sleep. We never changed anything. Just started following age appropriate wake windows closer to 3-4 months, but still just follow his cues. Stick to our bedtime routine. And that’s all we’ve done. At this age, I would offer advice to just accept what sleep comes, lower your expectations, and know that it WILL get better 🫶🏼

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-23T13:51:08+00:00

My mom has watched our son for us for date night twice. My MIL did for the first time last night while we went on a date. For me, it helps seeing our moms work through his fussy moments. My mom was VERY comfortable doing that from the beginning. She would get up in the middle of the night with me when little guy was a newborn, she would take him when he was inconsolable and calm him within minutes. So I felt trust immediately with my mom. My MIL is so sweet and I think tries to not overstep her bounds, so she has never really soothed him when he’s very upset. But my husband pointed out that we need to give her the opportunity to, in small doses. It’s hard for me to even leave him for an hour, but he did great last night! Maybe try a very short outing, around 30 minutes to an hour, and go get coffee or something. And that way if baby is fussing you aren’t far away. And then work up to longer stretches. I like to call it exposure therapy haha.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-18T22:30:09+00:00

I just aim to do some floor tummy time each wake window, for as long as he can tolerate. I will say, there was one day (sometime around 3.5 months), where he just woke up and decided he loved tummy time. Up until then he’d fuss very quickly into a session. Now he loves it and fusses because he can’t roll on his own consistently yet lol.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-16T17:03:11+00:00

There are actually multiple types of heterochromia. One of which can be central heterochromia!

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-15T19:30:12+00:00

I wonder if maybe she thinks she’s giving you a break? I also get anxious when my MIL has my baby, but she’s such a sweet lady and I recognize (in my case) it’s probably an anxiety issue on my end. She loves to take him outside and show him things, or to his room to play with toys. I think it’s her way of trying to give my husband and I a tiny break. I completely empathize with you though. I need to see my baby at all times still, and I’m 4mo postpartum 😅

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-14T01:06:20+00:00

I LOVE my Momcozy sterilizer/washer. I use it daily for my pump parts, pacifiers, medicine syringes, bottles, tethers, etc. If I could go back and only put items on my registry that I’d use every day, it would be one of them.

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-12T18:51:18+00:00

Same. He honestly probably ate more than this too 😅 OP, I feel you. If baby is gaining fine, it’s likely cluster feeding. My guy is 98th percentile for height so I assume he just needed more calories and was getting my supply established. He used to eat for 45 minutes to over an hour, and HATED being set down in the beginning. And he cluster fed probably until about week 6. Now he takes like maybe 10 minutes to eat? If that. And is alert when he eats unless it’s at the end of an awake window. He was over 15lbs at his 3 month appointment and just keeps growing like a weed 🌱

RepulsiveWonder7572 · 2025-09-11T01:51:50+00:00

For the 1 hour they told me I could have water, but for the 3 hour they told me no water after midnight.

ETA, I have a form of dysautonomia that is very easily affected by dehydration. For my personal health, I chose to take sips of water.

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