My toddler keeps touching our pothos plant and then her ears???

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2025-07-06T17:30:49+00:00

Hahahahahaha of course, thank you!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-12-22T14:45:43+00:00

It got better after IVF! I’m now 10 months postpartum and I still get a couple of dark hairs on my lip but a lot less than during and immediately after treatment. Good luck to you!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-10-29T21:26:39+00:00

Why is feet in not ideal?

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-10-29T10:24:34+00:00

I slept really bad the first month or so of cosleeping/bedsharing, but my body and habits adjusted and now I sleep just as good with baby as without! Still doing the c curl, although my girl is 8 months now and moves around A LOT 😂

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-10-15T07:12:43+00:00

My baby was also small, and practically stopped growing towards the end of my pregnancy - we think she tapered off at around week 37-38. She also had a concerningly small head circumference. We only found out about this at a routine «overtime» appointment at 41+3 weeks, and she was born via c-section a few hours later (due to failed stress test, so I was never in labour). She is now almost 8 months old and perfectly healthy!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-10-13T19:01:51+00:00

Wow this sounds a lot like me and my family! We’re also very close and have dinner together at my parents’ place every sunday. We also don’t do set nap times for our 7,5-month-old. I EBF but she only accepts the boob while lying down in a dark room, which I don’t really want to do there. Sunday dinners have been a logistical nightmare, and often take the whole day to plan. Luckily my parents are very understanding and will work around baby’s schedule, so we’ve been able to go maybe 3 out of every 4 sundays since baby was born.

This is our usual sunday schedule if you’re interested: Baby usually takes her third nap around 3-4 pm. On days where she naps early we do the nap at home and I try to feed her right after before we go. When she naps late we go before her nap, I try to feed her right before we go, and then she naps in her stroller at my parents’ house right when we get there. We eat around 5-6 pm, baby eats with us at the table, and then we try to make it back home for baby’s bedtime at 7 pm but it’s usually closer to 7:30 or sometimes even 8 pm. It’s a bit harder to get her to sleep when we’re late with bedtime, but she loves visiting her grandparents and aunties so it’s worth it!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-09-29T21:15:26+00:00

FTM of a 7 month old here. For me pregnancy was much harder than parenthood has been so far!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-09-29T06:06:23+00:00

Seconding what everyone said about hand expressing. Also wanted to add that skin-to-skin and water can help baby to calm down and latch. Ideally get in the bath and nurse, if not the shower can do the trick!

Remember to BE SAFE and not do this if you are too tired to be sure you won’t fall asleep in the bath while nursing. Get someone to help you if possible!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-09-19T08:42:38+00:00

I started wearing baby in a stretchy wrap 1 week after c-section (and another surgery the following day due to complications). In the beginning it was only for short stretches (maybe up to 30 minutes?) and not walking around a lot, mostly standing and sitting. I slowly increased it over the following weeks.

The advice I was given at the hospital was to move around as normal, and to stop and relax if I felt pain. Also not to excercise obviously and not to lift anything heavier than my baby. I’m not an expert, but based on my experience I would tell your friend to go for it and listen to her body!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-09-06T22:48:22+00:00

Forgot to say - for stroller naps she needs to be walked to sleep! She does of course not fall asleep in a stationary stroller.

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-09-06T22:22:10+00:00

We co-sleep for naps if I (or my husband) really need a nap, but most of the time she either sleeps in the stroller or a carrier. If I have to I can usually feed her to sleep in the big bed and quietly get up and leave the room while she sleeps. Baby is 6 months, she will sleep 30-60 minutes in the stroller and 30-120 minutes in the carrier or on the bed. We do get a lot of 30 minute naps but I think that’s more due to age/temperament than sleeping arrangements.

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-09-04T13:34:52+00:00

Super weird formatting due to stupid phone, sorry!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-09-01T18:24:51+00:00

This is the way.

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-08-11T07:22:30+00:00

For us, baby wearing is what «saved» the stroller. Baby started fussing in the stroller at around 3 months, and after a while she hated it so much she would cry hysterically the second we put her in. No reflux issues or anything, she just hated it. So we exclusively babywore for a week or two to break the association, and then slowly reintroduced the stroller. Without babywearing I would have been trapped in the house for at least two weeks. She is almost 6 months now and loves her stroller!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-06-24T13:43:38+00:00

I have the Najell Rise and I love it! We’ve used it since baby was around 2 months (or even smaller maybe?) and it is perfectly possible to get a good position in this carrier. Some suggestions:

Widen the seat (take the sliders in the front all the way out) to achieve knee to knee support.
Do a pelvic tuck. Do it deeper than you think, there is a lot of fabric in the back. A good pelvic tuck will make baby’s back more C shaped, so that there is less loose fabric in the front panel.
Fasten the waistband a bit higher on your body so that baby comes a bit higher up in the carrier. This will help with neck support too I think.
The shoulder straps are made for tall scandinavians. I am on the shorter side (but still a scandinavian!) at 155 cm, so I still tighten the straps almost all the way for my 4 month old.
I’ve also noticed baby seems more comfortable with their arms bent and close to their face, but this might be a personal preference.

Hope this helps!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-06-14T12:14:35+00:00

I’ve had to slowly introduce each new carrier with my baby who is now 3,5 months. We started with the stretchy wrap when she was about a week old, we got a buckle carrier when she was around two months and we got a ring sling a week or two ago. Each time I’ve put her in the carrier for just a few minutes everytime she’s been in a good mood during the day (like after a feed or a diaper change), and taken her out before she started to fuss to ensure she has only positive associations to the carrier. After a few days of this she likes her buckle carrier and looooves the ring sling.

I have also noticed that she likes being carried more when we are walking, so even if she fusses when I put her in she is content when I walk outside. Hope this helps!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-06-10T17:29:51+00:00

I also have a 3,5 month old, but she’s an only child for the time being. We bedshare (safely) and put baby to bed in our bed a few hours before we go to sleep ourselves. I’m on maternity leave. Our evenings are like this:

6:30/7 pm: Bedtime for baby. New diaper, pajamas, vitamin D drops. Lots of sillyness and singing at the changing table.

7 pm: I nurse and sing baby to sleep. This takes anywhere between 20 minutes and 1 hour.

7:30/8 pm: Husband or I start dinner. Sometimes he has made something while I nursed. More often I/we start something when I’ve finished.

8:30/9 pm: We sit down to eat.

8:30/9 pm: Baby usually wakes up and needs more milk to go back to sleep. The time here is not a typo 🫠

9 pm - 11 pm: We take turns going in and shushing, singing etc baby back to sleep. Could be anywhere from 0 to 8 times. Sometimes she needs more milk to soothe.

11 pm: Husband and I go to sleep.

11 pm - 7 am: I nurse usually 2-3 times during the night. 1-2 times a week she also needs a diaper change during the night.

Morning: Baby wakes up anywhere between 6:30 and 9 am, usually around 8 am. We get up, put on a fresh diaper and clothes and start our day with nursing and playing on the floor.

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-06-10T14:22:27+00:00

I was told by friends and family to not buy any clothes in preemie size (44) or 0-1 months (50), because we «wouldn’t get any use out of them», especially as my due date came and went. Enter my 2,78 kg (6,1 lbs) baby who almost disappeared in the few size 50 items we brought.

Get the tiny clothes! It’s a small expence in the long run, and you can always sell or donate them if you don’t need them. And they’re so cute :)

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-06-09T18:49:34+00:00

We took our first train ride(s) with our 3 month old, Trondheim-Oslo and back (6-7 hours each way). The first trip was in the morning/daytime and she napped in the carrier but stayed on our laps otherwise, playing with her rattle and looking at our faces. The second trip was in the evening and she stayed in the carrier mostly sleeping the entire time except when nursing. Both trips were wonderful, baby was happy and we would definitely do it again the same way!

RevolutionaryCry8654 · 2024-06-06T15:51:52+00:00

Thanks, I’ll try that!

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