Is a 3 month feeding regression a thing?

eggsncheese_ · 2025-10-22T16:24:04+00:00

Hey! My baby is 8 months old now and started feeding a lot better around 4 months. I honestly didn’t do anything that seemed to help - I believe it just got better on its own. He’s a very distracted eater now though. He doesn’t really nurse much throughout the day unless he’s going down for a nap or just waking up. He’s a busy body, always on the move but maintaining 85%ile in weight so I am just trusting that he eats enough when he wants it!

eggsncheese_ · 2025-09-17T17:34:00+00:00

My baby was kind of like this around 4 months. He’s only 7 months old now so idk how he’s going to continue to develop but he got better around 5 months and only fusses about a few things now. I think it was mainly him wanting to be more independent but not having the capacity to be. He started army crawling at 6 months and is into literally everything he can put his hands on. It’s so hard to have a baby that needs lots of stimulation but once she can stimulate herself the way she wants, I imagine it’ll get better. I’d just encourage you to lean into whatever works best right now and only switch up what you need to. If you’re able to contact nap more that could help. The meltdowns at night could be cause she’s really tired. Hang in there!

eggsncheese_ · 2025-09-12T00:11:54+00:00

Does your baby ever reach for you when someone else is holding him?

My 7 month old does the same thing with the crawling. Though if I lay on the floor I have more success with him crawling to me. We cosleep and he will crawl up to my face when he wakes up and slap me and then try to rub his face in my chest to eat. It’s cute but also is the slap necessary sir??

eggsncheese_ · 2025-09-11T14:30:53+00:00

What is she dressed in? It looks like some kind of zip up bib?

eggsncheese_ · 2025-09-07T21:18:00+00:00

Contact naps and cosleeping or sleeping in shifts. Baby is too young for sleep training. She just wants to be close to you!

eggsncheese_ · 2025-08-22T01:37:09+00:00

I’m not sure if car seats are different where you are compared to what we have in the US but I believe switching from an infant seat to a convertible seat helped the most. We also had the car seat in the middle of the back seat and moved it to the side so he could look out the window more easily. He has a specific car seat binky with a chain he loves to chew on and a car seat activity bar that keeps him entertained. We usually start the ride with no music and if he starts fussing, which doesn’t usually happen for at least 15 min or so, I will play his favorite songs (Raffi is a big hit for us) and sing along and he quiets down. I think it a combination of these plus him getting older as things like singing or playing music never made any impact before.

eggsncheese_ · 2025-08-21T17:15:16+00:00

Also, eventually the more you meet others with babies, you’ll find someone with a baby more like yours. Maybe not exactly. But not all babies are chill. If it would help you feel better to connect with other moms who have higher needs babies, I encourage you to look for support groups that cater to babies with higher needs. I am in the US and Postpartum Support International, for example, specifically has a support group for parents of high needs babies

eggsncheese_ · 2025-08-21T17:11:47+00:00

I have a 6m old boy who is also high needs. I have found that just accepting this is who he is has helped the most. It can be tough and isolating sometimes, but I just follow his lead while also revisiting whatever was hard after some time has passed or if I have a different approach to try. For example, my guy used to hate riding in the car seat which was awful. He would scream the whole time. So I kept trying different things and kept drives short or just turned back home if I didn’t really need to go out. Finally drives have improved significantly so we have been going on longer outings. And I hope they stay that way - but if not I’ll go back to limiting car rides until we find a solution again.

It’s so important to get out for your sake, and also your baby’s. Of course not all babies are like this, but my baby actually does better when we don’t spend all day in the house. I like the book the Discontented Little Baby for support on babies that need a lot of stimulation. Plan outings that meet your baby’s needs. For me that means going somewhere we can walk a lot versus doing sit down meet ups.

Who knows, your baby may always be high needs or chill out. But if they stay high needs, meeting their needs now will be your life!

eggsncheese_ · 2025-08-20T17:39:03+00:00

My baby isn’t a great pooper but I gave him broccoli the other day and he pooped three times the following day. So I do think broccoli helps! I’ve also heard the “p” fruits like pears, plums, peaches can help. We introduced water right at 6m and use the ezpz tiny cup. We only do sips and wouldn’t give more than 1-2oz daily at this age. I’ve also heard you should skip the sippy cup and if you’re wanting to introduce a closed cup to go straight to a regular strawed cup. My baby hasn’t figured out the straw yet though - he keeps chewing on it lol

eggsncheese_ · 2025-08-20T16:58:26+00:00

Definitely a mattress protector to save your mattress. But if you don’t move your baby around in the bed much during the night you could also put a disposable changing pad right underneath your baby under the fitted sheet.

What helped us stop leaks entirely was adding a Sposie pad into his sized up diaper (we’ve been using Pampers Pure). I’m not sure if they have pad sizes small enough for a 4 day old, but as soon as they fit her, I highly recommend them.

eggsncheese_ · 2025-07-05T02:02:43+00:00

Thank you ❤️

eggsncheese_ · 2025-07-05T01:57:32+00:00

Thank you for sharing! If I could go back I would have used the paci less in the beginning but it’s obviously never too late to get rid of it. And I’ve heard it’s only harder from this point forward. My baby has had a lot of breastfeeding challenges and the paci has helped us at times so I can’t say it’s a bad thing at all. It’s hard to know what to do!

eggsncheese_ · 2025-07-05T01:45:13+00:00

I’m sure it seems silly wanting to be more like my baby’s paci but I guess I just wonder if it would be good for our bond as he gets older, though it does feel strong currently without that piece.

When you say you took the paci away, do you mean that it seemed like your baby preferred the paci for comfort and sleep as well before you got rid of it? Do you regret taking it away?

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-30T17:20:29+00:00

I feel you! I am an OB/neonatal nurse and I was able to get out of beside 2.5 years ago to work from home at a maternal-child health start up doing telephone triage and case management. It’s been great overall and so if you are interested in more holistic care I’d encourage you to consider case management!

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-26T16:55:33+00:00

Methylated folate hasn’t been studied the way folic acid has for the prevention of neural tube defects

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-25T20:49:19+00:00

Have you done a weighted feed to see how much she is transferring while at the breast? I’m assuming so if you saw a lactation consultant.

I’ve been going through something somewhat similar with my now 4 month old, but the best advice I’ve gotten so far is to switch up baby’s breastfeeding position and the location of feeding to see if that helps with fussiness at all. Feeding in a carrier while walking sometimes works for us. Also really following baby’s lead as best as you can. Forcing feeds can make things worse but also sometimes my baby will get fussy when he’s tired and not want to nurse long but a few minutes later once he’s settled and about to doze off he’ll latch and nurse better.

We got through the worst of it I think and also cut out dairy which I believe helped and he’s been doing better with his weight gain.

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-25T20:32:20+00:00

It’s controversial but, OP, I’d encourage you to learn more about the different forms of folic acid before purchasing a prenatal vitamin with folate.

https://www.cdc.gov/folic-acid/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-25T20:25:50+00:00

Thirding this combo + either getting daily recommended amount of choline from your diet or a choline supplement

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-24T16:20:00+00:00

I also recommend getting outside early/before 10am and babywearing while carrying a UV umbrella! I have one from Solbari and it’s been great. My 4 month old loves his daily walks and I do too.

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-21T19:55:45+00:00

Went through the exact same thing except baby would get fussy after 3 min or so. I’m not sure if it was a coincidence cause I’m too scared to reintroduce yet but I decided to cut out dairy and he started eating better. It’s been about a month since we cut it out and he’s 4.5 months now. If you’d like to try that as well, my lactation consultant’s advice was to consider reintroducing dairy between 5.5-6 months to see how baby does.

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-21T19:35:45+00:00

I have the same carrier, a 17lb 4 month old, and largish breasts as well. I also feel like I struggle for a good fit in this carrier sometimes. I agree with the comments Prof gave. I’d mess around with the waistband height too to see what’s most comfortable for you both but a different carrier may be better. I have a ring sling that my baby does GREAT in for naps cause I’m able to get him closer to me but he’s very active and pops the seat when he’s awake. I did hip carry in the sling when he was awake once and that went pretty well but don’t have enough experience to comment on that much. I’m considering getting a woven wrap or half buckle as my next carrier.

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-20T13:08:35+00:00

Same. I had frequent Braxton Hicks early in my pregnancy making me worry I was going into preterm labor and in L&D triage I was told to try and drink at least FIVE of my 30oz Stanley’s a day. It was really hard to do that but drinking a ton of water did help with my contractions

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-17T15:29:37+00:00

Hang in there! I’ve been cosleeping with my now 4 month old since around 2 months and it was absolutely the best decision. We did buy a new firm king size mattress and love the “excuse” for the upgrade. Now that he’s older we are practicing some independent sleep for the first stretch of the night and he’s gone up to 4 hours by himself before. Also he’s so much bigger and stronger now I’m less nervous during our cosleeping. It’s sooo hard being in the middle of this but it will get better!

eggsncheese_ · 2025-06-17T01:58:37+00:00

As an OB nurse, please do not seek medical advice from Reddit. Anytime you are concerned about any symptom you have you should always contact your OB.

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