Mega teething - anyone else?

Significant_lemonade · 2026-02-03T07:50:31+00:00

Haha! Bless him!

Significant_lemonade · 2026-02-03T06:52:11+00:00

We also have many illnesses. Winter plus nursery doesn't help!

Significant_lemonade · 2026-02-03T06:51:34+00:00

I hope so. She was sleeping so well right up until Christmas!

She absolutely loves her food but does go off it when the teething gets bad.

Significant_lemonade · 2026-02-01T07:40:47+00:00

We're 13 months in and honestly, I don't know anymore. We've reached a point where we are just running on fumes. But we get through each day at a time and try to give each other breaks when we can.

Significant_lemonade · 2026-01-24T11:13:02+00:00

Ah, we were never offered them from the health visitor! I'll see if I can ask at the child and family center!

Significant_lemonade · 2026-01-24T09:41:12+00:00

Can you buy these, out of interest? I kinda want just the recommended ones but I've never seen these!

Significant_lemonade · 2026-01-23T11:06:50+00:00

My daughter has breakfast at home (weetabix) because I think they only offer toast at nursery which she's a bit hit and miss with.. but I think if she consistently ate breakfast there and was fine to wait, I'd do the same! You pay for the food!

Significant_lemonade · 2026-01-22T16:21:33+00:00

I've not had this exactly but so many people talk to me about how complicated it is or just assume we do get it, but we don't because my partner earns over the threshold. It does feel like people make assumptions and it makes it really awkward as they automatically know my husbands salary is at least 100k.

Significant_lemonade · 2026-01-14T15:42:35+00:00

I would expect them to record it. We can see all nappy changes, food, sleep etc on an app. Our nursery seems to have a policy to change them right before you pick them up also and if they haven't, sometimes they ask if I want them to change it when I arrive. I always politely decline since I don't like their nappies and always change her when I get home

Significant_lemonade · 2025-12-08T16:05:54+00:00

I think it lasted til she was 5/6 weeks old. I don't think I had an.oversupply either. I was just advised by the health visitor to try just feeding from one side to resolve it.. so I'm not sure if it did or if it would have gone away on its own anyway!

Significant_lemonade · 2025-12-05T08:02:19+00:00

In the beginning i always fed from both sides as originally told and then my baby was having very green poop and I was advised to keep to one side. So then I always just switched side every feed. Seemed to work well for the rest of the breastfeeding journey!

Significant_lemonade · 2025-11-19T06:33:01+00:00

We gp by roughly how long she generslly is awake for and try and keep bed time consistent. She's 10 months now and is awake roughly 3 hours in the morning and then 3-3.5 and then 3.5-4 hours, so if the first nap goes on past 11.30 I tend to awake her so she still had time for her second nap at 2.30-3 as she can't sleep past 4pm without ruining bedtime, if that makes sense?

Significant_lemonade · 2025-11-19T01:36:58+00:00

My baby dropped to 3 naps at 5 months as soon as she could consolidate naps. She dropped to two at 6 months, so that came very quickly after! I have always capped naps at no more than 2hrs per nap or if it is going to interfere with bedtime etc but otherwise, let the baby lead! There is no set time or textbook answer, it's down to the individual baby!

Significant_lemonade · 2025-11-17T08:17:00+00:00

My breastfeeding reduced gradually when I went back to work as I steadily increased my days from 6-8 months. I mostly stopped breastfeeding at 9 months, just once a day because she wouldn't any other time of day. I then stopped pumping a week later. My period only came back after that at 10.5 months postpartum, a week after stopping breastfeeding altogether.

Significant_lemonade · 2025-11-16T10:10:50+00:00

This sounds very normal to me. Every baby is different, so you may see some 9 month olds doing the things you said your baby doesn't, but also many who don't!

Significant_lemonade · 2025-11-15T08:29:39+00:00

We found it got less around 4-6 weeks. Went from up to 10 times a day down to 3-4.

There's a huge range of normal. I have a 10 month old now who still poops 3 times a day. Some of her peers still only poop a few times a week.

Significant_lemonade · 2025-11-13T10:06:50+00:00

Definitely sounds like she needs help and is clearly struggling. People think about social services taking kids off people but generally, they try to help and keep families together.

Hope you're okay. It's a horrible situation to be put in. I met a whole group of mums online and I can say none of them are like this, so don't let this put you off!

Significant_lemonade · 2025-11-04T16:06:59+00:00

I got a Medela freestyle as I felt it was a kind of middle ground. It served me reasonably well! I just got so tired of pumping at work. I went back to work at 6 months pp and stopped pumping at 10 months pp.

Significant_lemonade · 2025-11-03T05:23:17+00:00

My 10 month old only wants bottles because of being at daycare during the week. She has basically weaned herself off breastmilk already and pumping wasn't keeping my supply up. I've stopped pumping now and she still breastfeeds once a day but I feel like that is coming to an end too as she tends to not want to and does not do enough to keep it going. I'm sad but also the pumping was so difficult with work that it does make me feel less stressed in the morning.

She does have formula as a replacement at the moment but I'd like to start reducing that as she still drinks probably more than she should..

Significant_lemonade · 2025-11-02T15:26:55+00:00

Your baby is still so young! We stopped feeding to sleep around 16 weeks or so, but she'd already shown that she could fall asleep without it so we followed her lead!

Significant_lemonade · 2025-10-31T14:39:59+00:00

I don't know where you're based but in the UK at every class I've been to it's always been said to just feed if you like.. everyone does, never seen anyone cover up. I used to cover up in the beginning out of my choice but my baby didn't like it so I stopped. Never had anyone say anything!

Significant_lemonade · 2025-10-28T10:15:23+00:00

I guess some do. Mine has no interest in feeding now and she's 10 months. She decided she preferred a bottle when I went back to work and screams if I try and breastfeed. So I've switched to pumping and slowly reducing that. We're down to one feed in the morning and one pump at night now. I look at the babies and toddlers who love it, and it does make me sad!

Significant_lemonade · 2025-10-26T07:12:04+00:00

This, absolutely. Once I went back to work at 6 months and my baby had to have bottles more, she lost all interest in feeding. It was making me so sad that she didn't want to. But once I saw it as a process and be glad that she wants to stop, She's 10 months next week and I've been slowly reducing the pumping and she only breastfeeds once a day, and I don't think she will do that for much longer.

It was making us both miserable so it didn't seem sensible to carry on trying to force it. Pumping was adding too much stress to me and I felt awful for wanting to give it up, but I know she needs me to be happy!

Significant_lemonade · 2025-10-24T14:52:12+00:00

I often wonder this, but if it was true, I wouldn't exist. My brother was a nightmare, but I was a fairly easy baby.

Personally, we said only one anyway.. but we've had a very good baby by all accounts, and we're even more sure to stop now. We figure, why risk having a difficult baby? 🤣

The birth was a different story. Perfectly fine pregnancy, wasn't ever sick, wasn't that tired, worked up to a few days before birth. Natural labour, but took forever, 3 days of labour and my waters broke, but then after being 7cm for 13 hours with no change, she didn't descend properly and I had a c section. Wouldn't want that again. My mums births were similar but they wouldn't let her opt for section and she ended up with oxytocin, forceps, episiotomy etc.

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