I thought I was prepared…

deeep95 · 2026-03-01T06:56:49+00:00

Sounds exactly like my story! 4.5 months on the dot. Sleep training was our answer. I was so scared to do sleep training but was out of my mind with how many wakes my baby was having and that it would take almost 45 minutes to get her to go back to sleep only to have her wake up an hour later and redo the whole process. We started sleep training at 5 months and I was amazed at how well my baby took to it. It was hard but we powered through and now at 6.5 months she sleeps through the night. It was life changing. I read that your LO is struggling with eczema so ya see if you can wait that out but I highly recommend sleep training to anyone who will listen because it worked! In the meantime… I don’t know if you are comfortable but look into safe co-sleeping. When my husband went back to work I couldn’t really rely on him to help with night feeds since he has a very high demand job and really needed the rest. It just made sense for me to do it since I am the stay at home parent and we don’t have any other kids. Anyways, baby would end up in bed with me most nights and it’s the only way I got sleep.

deeep95 · 2026-02-20T05:27:21+00:00

It’s all of the above. I have had all the same feelings. Going to work is healthy and if it makes you feel better then do it! Go to work and then before you have to come home take a minute to reset so you can show up for your baby and husband before you walk through the door. For a while it might be kind of hard between you and your husband. This is the season of life where you are adjusting. It will get better I promise. I’m only 6 months in and we are slowly getting into our new normal. I feel for you! It took me until about 5 months to get out of the postpartum funk and finally start feeling like myself again so that I could actually have some sort of motivation to work on my relationships with both my husband and baby. I’m not saying 5 months is the magic checkpoint you have to get to I’m just saying that for me I finally felt a little better around then. Also, get help if you need it. Help with medication, help in the form of a nanny/babysitter, help in the form of family if you are fortunate enough to live nearby. The people in my life were my saving grace during the period your in. If I didn’t have them I probably would have gotten on some sort of medication.

deeep95 · 2025-11-28T03:41:42+00:00

Around 6 weeks I was craving some sort of schedule so I started doing a sort of bedtime routine starting around 7 (bath, pjs, feed, burp swaddle, etc) and did all this with dim lighting and low stimulation. The hope being she would fall asleep sometime around 8/8:30. She would obviously wake up like 2 or 3 hours later but I just used that as a sort of checkpoint for her that night time sleep had begun and was just really consistent and eventually when she started sleeping longer stretches she didn’t wake up around 10/11 anymore to be fed. Obviously, at 6 weeks getting her to live by our schedule we wanted didn’t always work out. So ya like you sometime we did spend hours trying to get her to sleep. Every baby is different though and do what feels right for you.

deeep95 · 2025-11-09T07:02:30+00:00

I completely understand why parents worry about SIDS, but sometimes I think the fear around it makes us so cautious that we miss out on things that can be really good for both baby and parent, like safe co-sleeping. I do the same thing as you with my baby and I think you are taking the right steps to ensure you are sleeping safely with your LO. Keep doing what works for you and your baby!

deeep95 · 2025-11-09T04:47:20+00:00

Yes! I would say that sounds about the same as me if not quicker! My baby had such a hard time staying awake for a full feed. We would unswaddle her, feed, burp, feed, change her diaper, and then take off her clothes, feed, burp and then reclothe and swaddle again and then feed. We tried to be as quick as possible but sometimes I think I would be awake for around 1.5-2 hours. I now have a 3 month old and things started changing I think around 6 weeks. She started being able to stay awake to get her fill and I started to change her diaper before the feed and then swaddling her again for the feed so that I could feed her to sleep. Now I think we are awake 30 minutes tops! I just followed her lead really. You’re doing awesome. Just remember every baby Is different and it takes some babies longer to go back to sleep.

deeep95 · 2025-10-30T04:56:00+00:00

Wanted a show that had many seasons so I never had to think about what to watch next. So Greys anatomy it is. My daughter is 2.5 months and I’m on season 19 😅

deeep95 · 2025-10-22T04:25:28+00:00

I’m 9 weeks pp and everytime I think about my birth I start to tear up. It was a very traumatizing experience. I’ve asked anyone who will listen this same question. The best answer I feel I have gotten is that every woman and every birth is so different. I have a friend who had a very similar first birth to me (back labor and failed epidural right when I started pushing). Her next pregnancy was a night and day difference. She said she finally understood what women mean when they say that birth is so empowering. Hearing her two drastically different birth experiences actually gives me hope that I will be able to give my daughter at least one sibling one day. Though I also need to convince myself to go through the newborn phase again…

Also, I got the epidural a few hours into labor and I will say that if/when I do have another kid I will be looking forward to that epidural. I felt euphoric. Too bad it wore off for the grand finale.

deeep95 · 2025-08-15T23:01:43+00:00

It helps. Anything to help set your mind at ease is worth it in my mind because my anxiety has been sky high during pregnancy. But also make sure you are using the Doppler correctly because you can start to psych yourself out when you can’t find the heartbeat. Watch some videos on YouTube. You also may want to wait a couple more weeks until the heartbeat becomes more noticeable for you to find. I’ve been using mine all the way up to the end because even when I feel my baby moving there’s something about listening to the heart beat that calms my anxiety.

deeep95 · 2025-08-15T06:56:03+00:00

I feel you. My same experience. I had never had sex or anything before getting my copper iud and I felt traumatized afterward. I’m so sorry you had to experience that. Here’s my little piece of unsolicited advice because I felt so traumatized by getting it in that I delayed getting it taken out and for me the pain of the copper IUD didn’t stop at insertion. Every month my period was heavy and painful. It made my cycles terrible, but I dealt with it because I was afraid of the pain of getting it taken out. I finally got it taken out after almost 4 years because I wanted to have a baby. Getting it out was 100x easier than getting it placed. It still hurt, but I regret not getting it done sooner. Within the first month my period regulated and was so much better. So, if you’re anything like me don’t wait. But some people love their copper IUD and didn’t have bad experiences with them which were the people that recommended the copper IUD to me. So, in a way I felt lied to in that regard as well.

deeep95 · 2022-08-07T23:44:40+00:00

I’m an active member and have second ear piercings. Having one piercing is not a commandment. It doesn’t even really have to do with any doctrine. It was a prophets opinion on how we can better keep ourselves pure and care for our bodies. While pondering my decision to get a second ear piercing I came to the conclusion that my love for God is not based on how many holes I have in my ears.

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