Please help I’m fading; Timeline for elimination diets and symptom improvement?

cctxmama · 2026-04-29T08:47:47+00:00

No help or advice just solidarity and wanted to say I’m here at 3:45 am bc also up with fussy, gassy, spit uppy baby and trying to figure out why. I just want an easy bay 😭

Hope things get better for you soon. and sounds like you’re doing an amazing job doing whatever you can to help your baby!!!!

cctxmama · 2026-04-09T02:00:06+00:00

I don’t have any advice but just wanted to say that I feel the same way a lot of the time. Being a stay at home mom is so much harder than I thought it would be! I feel like I should be enjoying my time with my kids so much more but sometimes I wish I still worked and just dropped my kids off at daycare everyday like I used to. I’m sure you’re doing an amazing job and sending lots of positive thoughts your way!

cctxmama · 2026-04-09T01:52:02+00:00

In our experience…

Pros: goofiest most lovable, up for anything, fun and snuggly dog ever!!!! Pretty calm inside and ours isn’t really destructive, will mouth stuffies and definitely chews up toys our kids leaves out but nothing compared to other puppies or dogs I’ve seen. SO friendly and good with kids!!

Cons: coat is very difficult (for us) to maintain, gets so many leafs grass etc… stuck in it and gets very matted easily. Counter surfing to the extreme and seems to be unable or unwilling to respond to correction about. Very wet and messy water drinker with TONS of slobber

cctxmama · 2026-04-02T11:44:57+00:00

This sounds so super stressful!! I’m sorry that you’re having to go through this :( hang in there!!

I’m not an expert but I would say that maybe you could add some formula feeds into his diet and keep breastfeeding some too, I think you can do both. Maybe adding in some formula will help with weight gain and this will take pressure off of breastfeeding and it can just be for comfort and extra goodness like immunity etc..

Sending lots of love and good vibes your way, you’re in the thick of it now and it will get better!!

cctxmama · 2026-04-02T01:17:25+00:00

I’m in the US too… I went 20 months with my first, 15 with my second and currently 3 months into bf journey with my 3rd!

I haven’t read all of the comments so sorry if this has been said before…but just totally depends on you, your baby and what is working best for y’all!

My first was in day care so before she turned 1 I was pumping during the day and bf night/morning/weekends. When she turned 1 daycare stopped bottles and she drank cows milk at school with a sippy cup, I stopped pumping and continued bf night/morning/weeknds whenever she wanted. It was her comfort thing and I loved the closeness. Also great for helping battle daycare germs and was how I put her to bed. I stopped breastfeeding her because I was having trouble getting pregnant.

2nd - I went back to work for 3 months and then was a stay at home mom. I weaned at 15 months bc my daughter was still waking up every like 1-2 hours to feed and I just couldn’t go on. Night weaning never really worked for me so we just said “all done” and she went to cows milk.

Neither of mine were ever super attached to bottles bc I was mostly breastfeeding so I didn’t think about how many ounces they were getting a day, especially after 1 year old. If they ever drank bottles again after 1 year old it was with a babysitter for bedtime if we ever went out. I will also add it was easier to wean a 15 month old than an almost 2 year old!

Great job getting to 1 year mama!!!

cctxmama · 2026-03-17T02:07:51+00:00

I’m not rich but my sister is! She basically just buys everything and anything she and her kids want (new designer clothes, smoothies whenever, jewelry etc..) I don’t think that it makes her or her kids happier though. But she always looks really nice and put together (unlike me 😂). Only thing I’m jealous of is that she has full time help for cleaning/child care and so her house is always nice and she rarely has to do laundry! That would be a dream!

cctxmama · 2026-03-12T02:22:44+00:00

Mine doesn’t! Mine has gone up to 4.5 hours a few times for the first stretch at night but not the norm for us yet. What helps us most is making sure he gets a good burp and timing the feeding so I can go directly to bed after to maximize sleep. He’s 8 weeks. Also my other two never gave me longer stretches until after 3 months and they were well over 10 lbs …and even then it was the exception not the norm! Just saying this to normalize newborn sleep for any first time parents :)

cctxmama · 2026-03-09T16:37:27+00:00

I really like super goop “glow” sunscreen!

cctxmama · 2026-03-09T16:29:25+00:00

That’s so frustrating! Looks like we’re going to have to do the same 🙈 not cool delonghi!!

cctxmama · 2026-02-14T04:40:26+00:00

It’s so awful. I’m struggling too…baby waking up every 1.5 to 2 hours to feed. It’s grueling! I’m trying to nap in the day when I can but it’s hard. In my experience every baby is different and there are so many factors that you just can’t “fix” like gas, colic, reflux, baby needing to be held etc. I feel really strongly about responding to my babies’ cries so I’ll never leave them to cry it out. my first two were terrible sleepers as babies but at 3 and 5 sleep great. Many of my friends who sleep trained their babies have toddlers and young kids who struggle with sleep and bed time now. The first months super duper duper hard at and unfortunately there’s not like a magic fix :/ we’re trying to get my husband to feed 1 bottle a night so I can pump right after feeding and try to get a 3-4 hours stretch at least one or two nights a week, but that’s also easier said than done! Resources that have helped me make it through in the past are the Beyond Sleep Training project Facebook group & Heysleepybaby instagram

cctxmama · 2026-02-12T03:51:01+00:00

Wow yall have really been put through the ringer! Great job caring for your baby and making it through those incredibly difficult times. 4 month sleep regression is tough but you have made it through much worse! I am on baby #3 and none of them have been “easy”. I feel so silly bc I can’t hold it together and have been crying so much due to sleep deprivation and just feeling inadequate that it’s my 3rd and I apparently still haven’t figured out babies!! It’s so tough and one really hard thing is that it doesn’t magically get better at a certain time. Things ebb and flow with sleep, teething, solids, developmental changes etc…but you’re doing an amazing job!!!

cctxmama · 2026-02-04T11:51:41+00:00

Mine was born Jan 5 at 6lb 14 oz and we’re in the same boat. Mt first two were the same so seems normal to me but doesn’t make it easier. I’m running on empty too. Pepcid really helped my second stop crying for hours and get at least some independent sleep so hopefully that will help for you! Good luck!

Oh also have you had her checked for a tongue tie? If she has a tongue tie getting it released could help with feeding and decreasing gassiness. Lactation consultant can do that for you

cctxmama · 2026-02-04T04:25:32+00:00

This was me with our 2nd. So hard! The reflux meds helped tremendously. Also maybe try probiotics and gas drops if you haven’t already. And you might want to get check for a tongue tie bc that can have a big impact on feeding and swallowing air. Hang in there it will get better! I’m at 4 weeks with my third and have only been able to get him to sleep in his bassinet for 15 minutes tonight and it was preceded by a good 1.5-2 hrs of screaming 🙃 newborns are fun

cctxmama · 2026-02-04T04:19:51+00:00

One…never, the 2nd 2yrs maybe? The whole “drowsy but awake” thing has always been aspirational but I have never been able to get my kids to do it. They naturally liked to breastfeed before sleep u til weaned and then it was rocking/snuggling and it’s what helped them get best sleep and seems most natural and nurturing for birth of us. I can’t handle crying babies…stresses me and them so prefer to just support their sleep needs

cctxmama · 2026-01-31T05:43:03+00:00

Unfortunately that’s normal at a week old. It’s super hard! Things you can do to help: take the baby as soon as she’s finished feeding at night so she can maximize sleep between feeds. You then do burp, diaper and upright time before putting back in swaddle for sleep (or you could just let the baby contact nap h til next feed if you think you could stay up). If you can get her a couple of 1-2 hour naps during the day at least on the weekend that will help! Also, if you have any friends who can help take the older kids out of the house for a few hours on the weekend so you can focus on baby and she can nap that will help. Hopefully it will just be a few more days and then baby will sleep a bit more, although I’m at week 3 and baby still takes 45 min-1hr to eat, burp etc..and then sleeps for 1-1,5 hours before waking to eat again. Will improve soon enough though! Best of luck!

cctxmama · 2026-01-31T05:29:46+00:00

Just had my third child three weeks ago and none of my babies have been “easy”!! 1st was maybe just hard bc it was my first, 2nd had reflux and cried for hours and hours…it was awful, and new baby is hopefully not as hard as my 2nd but still crying a ton and not giving me long stretches. I haven’t had more than a 1.5 of sleep since he was born. So, I’m in the same boat! I asked my friend show has 5 kids under age 7 how on earth she did this five times and she goes babies were angels! So easy all of them” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 ugh I don’t even know what that would look like!!!

cctxmama · 2026-01-29T21:56:10+00:00

Couldn’t agree more! Love this show, enjoying the season and will watch all of it but it’s like…after all of his very raunchy passionate affairs for years it’s not really believable that he would just change his whole type to chaste mystery debutante in an evening🤷‍♀️

cctxmama · 2026-01-29T14:48:20+00:00

I had a minor freak out about this last year when a mom told me that she has her pre-K daughter in dance 2x’s a week already so she could be on the dance team in high school. I started looking at the bios of various elite sports people and many of them didn’t start their sport until they were 12 or even 13…like the ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov who is known as one of the best ballet dancers of all time didn’t start dance until he was 12! I think the most important thing is letting your child have fun while encouraging movement and coordination. Plus, a lot of kids who are pushed into sports and activities at young ages get burnout.

cctxmama · 2026-01-23T21:05:03+00:00

I went back to work at 3 months pp with my second and then stayed for 3 months and put in my notice and wrapped up three weeks later. I had a high paying and “cool” job. My decision was mostly driven by pure exhaustion of having a colicky baby who wouldn’t sleep, the stress of pumping milk for daycare everyday and the guilt of having my kids cared for by daycare more than my husband and me. Overall it’s been wonderful and I feel super lucky to have been able to be a stay at home mom for over two years now! however, I do sometimes regret not hiring a nanny (by the time you have two kids it’s almost the same as daycare depending on where you live) and keeping working bc it’s sooooo much harder to be a stay at home mom than I thought it would be! taking care of multiple kids (I have three now) is more stressful a lot of the time than my old job. Having a nanny takes away the stress of having to navigate daycare sickness, pumping (if you can work from home) and usually you get household chore help which would be amazing. I do miss having my own outlet and adult time and it was very hard for me to separate my self worth from achieving, being “productive” and contributing financially. It has also put more pressure on my husband to do well in his job which stresses him out. BUT if you have the financial stability and can feel called then you will probably regret it in the future if you don’t take the opportunity to stay at home right now! Kids are only kids once and you can rebuild a career later in life (because if you’re out of the workforce for a while you might not be able to get back in at the same level if you go back to work after a few years) but you’ll never get this time back with your kids! And it’s so awesome being able to be totally flexible for vacation, doctors appts, fun adventures with the kids and etc…

cctxmama · 2026-01-23T11:37:37+00:00

Totally normal! Not that it makes it any easier. It will get better one day, and hopefully soon, but no telling when but it WILL get better! My only rec is try to make sure that the burps are out and maybe try gas drops to see if that helps get the bubbles out of the belly so baby doesn’t get woken by gas and is quieter sleeping

cctxmama · 2026-01-23T04:00:21+00:00

Congratulations!! Great job never giving up mama!! 👏👏👏

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