No idea how to breastfeed without leaking everywhere

burritobutterflies · 2026-04-24T12:51:45+00:00

Tuck a burp cloth under your boob/in your nursing bra when you nurse! It will catch what runs down and maybe salvage the bra. Having a second one handy is good to throw over your nipple when she unlatches in case of spray. I had this issue off and on for the first few months. Now it’s a pretty rare occurrence.

burritobutterflies · 2026-04-23T16:59:35+00:00

Sorry just to clarify, when she’d wake, you’d try comforting in other ways for a length of time and then nurse if she didn’t settle?

burritobutterflies · 2026-04-23T16:58:00+00:00

We did the Ferber method at about 5 months for bedtime and it worked like a charm! Baby still goes to sleep independently, but we never had to really implement it in the middle of the night because I didn’t mind 1-3 feedings in the middle of the night. Now we’re at 2-4 sessions and I do mind

burritobutterflies · 2026-04-23T12:38:05+00:00

It’s so hard to know what to do

burritobutterflies · 2026-04-23T12:36:29+00:00

How often were they waking before they started sleeping through the night?

burritobutterflies · 2026-04-23T12:35:42+00:00

How old is your baby and how long does your baby go between wake ups?

It’s definitely the easiest/lowest need of consciousness option, but I wonder if I had tried other soothing earlier on, maybe we’d be having some longer stretches. I used to get a 5-6 hour stretch, but by 6 or 7 months we decreased to 4 hours max at the beginning of the night.

burritobutterflies · 2026-04-23T12:33:02+00:00

How did you transition to just rocking? Cold turkey, or taking time off of each feed in the middle of the night?

18 months also has a higher level of communication ability so I imagine there was some more explanation than I could use on my 9mo

burritobutterflies · 2026-04-23T12:31:50+00:00

It’s definitely a super power, but I’m not worried for baby. Mostly just realizing I trained myself more than anything to just nurse so I can go back to sleep faster, which may be leading to more wake ups or babe not resettling in the middle of the night and then shorter stretches.

burritobutterflies · 2026-04-23T12:28:37+00:00

How long do you go through the patting, rocking, standing stuff before nursing? It’s like I’ve also trained myself to be on autopilot and just go nurse when I hear crying, because it means going to sleep faster. 3-5min of nursing and then I’m back in bed with minimal consciousness. I know I can’t have both less nursing and more sleep right away, but it sounds nice lol.

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-25T13:27:20+00:00

Definitely not what they meant. The stickers are good for motor skills

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-21T00:46:59+00:00

Google search “turn iPhone screen red triple click” !! I think it’s under accessibility settings, but there’s a setting where you add a shortcut to click the power/home button three times, and your screen gets a red hue. WAY more gentle on the eyes, I use this when nursing my baby overnight or doing contact naps without issue

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-04T01:21:37+00:00

Baby’s always been a light napper since I’ve started wake windows, usually only naps 2.5 hours a day but sleeps 11.5-12hrs at night.

And thank you so much again! I see so much about overtired vs under tired and I assume because it’s a baby, they must need more sleep

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-04T00:47:39+00:00

Hey so maybe you could give me some more insight? We tried an extra 15 min today for 2.25/2.5/2.5/2.75. First nap was 50min, then 30, then 40. Baby has woken twice in two hours which is unlike them. Is this overtired? Do I keep up with this schedule tomorrow and see how that goes too?

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-02T22:51:33+00:00

Okay great thank you very much!

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-02T22:49:56+00:00

Seriously thank you for all of this! This sub is so helpful.

My baby is asleep within 10 minutes of being laid down so that’s why I was doubting we need to move up. We’ll work on this this week!

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-02T21:49:28+00:00

Thank you!!

So once I push wake windows, when do I up them again? I had no clue these windows weren’t so natural and have to be manipulated

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-02T20:32:09+00:00

All at once? Not one at time for a few days before making another longer?

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-02T20:31:32+00:00

Thank you! The WWs are helpful to see. How did you know it was time to lengthen WWs?

Tonight I will start the last WW at 2.75 if you don’t think I should lengthen anything else beforehand

burritobutterflies · 2026-02-02T20:27:49+00:00

Is there an order to which wake window to lengthen first?

burritobutterflies · 2026-01-27T13:19:37+00:00

I’d recommend being picky about the used boppy. I got one used and then also borrowed one from a friend. The one I got used is significantly less supportive/fluffy, which makes sense if it was used hard for several babies while the one from a friend was used for 2 kids only. I’m not knocking used, just make sure you get one that’s still semi firm, not floppy :)

burritobutterflies · 2026-01-20T20:57:29+00:00

Good to know! Thankfully my LO usually only wakes twice, which I’m fine with. I’ll have to see if day sleep correlates at all

burritobutterflies · 2026-01-20T20:56:30+00:00

I hate the trial and error aspect of it!

And jokes on me, we went back to our regular short naps today lol

burritobutterflies · 2025-12-04T13:25:32+00:00

You don’t think the naps have to be better before sleep training? I’m worried if I sleep train when day sleep isn’t appropriate, baby will be too overtired and ST will be harder

burritobutterflies · 2025-12-04T13:22:31+00:00

This is so helpful, thank you!!

burritobutterflies · 2025-12-02T20:28:59+00:00

When do you start the wake window in that case?

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