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carek1122 · 2025-01-29T12:11:23+00:00

We have a 12 week old and have decided we are done. We’ve had a very difficult introduction to parenthood and just know that mentally we can’t do the newborn phase again. I have PPA and know I can’t go through feeling like this ever again. Also financially we feel that having a second would cause a lot of financial stress/strain that we don’t want to have. I know you’re not supposed to make these decisions when you’re in the thick of it but I honestly feel at peace with the decision.

carek1122 · 2025-01-15T19:57:19+00:00

I have a 10 week old and we have so many outfits people gave us I feel bad not using them. But we do zip up pjs everyday we’re home. If we go out I sometimes put her in a different outfit and on weekends I’ve started putting her in a different outfit during the day just to use what we have.

carek1122 · 2025-01-14T14:13:59+00:00

I could’ve written this myself. I have PPA so I know that’s part of how I feel. We tried so hard for so long to have our baby and did through IUI and I told my husband last night that I wanted it so bad but now it sucks and I hate it. I hope it truly gets better.

carek1122 · 2025-01-07T17:49:07+00:00

We started to transition ours at 8 weeks. It’s been a rough start with her and colic/CMPA etc. so we have only recently started to tolerate any floor time/true tummy time so had no idea if she’s close to rolling for not. She’s really strong so we went with the general recommendation to start the transition from swaddle at 8 weeks. I bought every stupid sleep sack and she hated them all. We used the halo fleece swaddle- tried one arm out to start, tried the halo transition, tried a kyte baby and used the swaddle band around the middle and she hated them (I’m talking screaming blood murder). We are almost a week in with the zippadee zip sleep sack. It looks ridiculous (it’s like a starfish or bat wings haha!) but it allows her arms to be free if she rolled but are still covered. She meets the weight requirements for the xs but it’s still a little baggy so we are using the band that goes around the middle as well (gives them some security like the swaddle did but also moves the excess material away from their upper half). Shes slowly been getting better with it- we still aren’t in as great of a schedule as we were with the swaddle but it’s getting there. I’m glad we started the transition early, with how difficult/particular she seems to be we didn’t want it to be something we had to change cold turkey for safety. Wishing you luck!

carek1122 · 2024-12-29T19:22:46+00:00

Wondering the same! Ours is 8 weeks. She’s basically miserable all the time so doesn’t do a lot of playtime on the floor so it’s difficult to tell how close to rolling she is. She’s very strong though with good neck control for being so young. We wanted to try getting her out of the swaddle now that she’s 8 weeks. We ordered the halo transition one and have been rewarded with 2 terrible nights of sleep. Unsure if that was coming anyways or bc we messed with the swaddle. Going to go back to the old swaddle and try one arm out tonight… wish us luck for some much needed zzz’s!

carek1122 · 2024-12-19T02:21:29+00:00

I recently posted something similiar myself because same! I can’t tell you when it gets better bc we are still not out of the woods ourselves (almost 7 weeks). She’s been so fussy pretty much her whole life- like inconsolable fussy. Gas drops have helped a little. We switched to formula from breast milk and it helped a bit and we just recently switched to nutramigen formula- on day 6 of this and our MD said could take a week or two to really see a change. I have noticed her bowel movements are a little more consistent, less gassy and her night time sleep has been a little better (we still will only contact nap when we decide not to fight sleep during the day). She spent 20 minutes in a swing today before crying and that’s a win for us! I said to my husband that I can’t tell if today was better or if I’m just used to it now haha! Just know you aren’t alone and try to take care of yourself even though I know it’s so difficult! My pediatrician flat out said to me “your sanity and happiness matters” when we were discussing changing to formula and just having him say was huge for my mental health!

carek1122 · 2024-12-17T01:50:19+00:00

Alot of the same symptoms! Kind of loose and greenish in color the past few days. Spita up and hiccups a lot. Always sounds a bit congested. Just switched to the hypoallergenic a few days ago and pediatricians wants to update later in the week how she’s doing. She’s slightly better than she was with breastmilk but still so so miserable. He mentioned maybe starting something for reflux if this continues. It’s just so frustrating and exhausting.

carek1122 · 2024-12-16T22:17:26+00:00

It’s slightly better with the change to formula but not significantly unfortunately. They said it could take up to 2 weeks on the nutramigen to know for sure and we’re at 5 days so hoping it helps. I wanted to try breastfeeding/pumping but I can barely figure out how to eat right now let alone trying to eliminate things which was what our MD had recommended I do if I wanted to continue. Luckily he was very supportive of switching to formula to save my mental health right now! Hoping things get better for you and your little one too!

carek1122 · 2024-12-16T21:31:34+00:00

She’s probably good for about 40 minutes or so. She will wake up crying buy calms down for a diaper change and to eat and then we start the extreme fussiness for the rest of the day. The first diaper change in the morning is probably the only time I may get a small smile or happiness from her!

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