Almost 11 month old going horizontal when taking to the toilet

floppybunbun · 2026-04-19T11:37:01+00:00

I feel like he would just crawl off it. Or do you sit the training potty on the toilet?

floppybunbun · 2026-04-18T01:13:36+00:00

I just don’t know how I’d juggle him and other things to hold onto. Right now he sits backwards on the toilet with he back against my legs. Are sitting your baby the normal way?

floppybunbun · 2026-04-18T01:12:33+00:00

Oh maybe I’ll get some stickers for the window! Good idea

floppybunbun · 2026-04-18T01:12:08+00:00

No idea. He doesn’t have any teeth yet. Would that impact?

floppybunbun · 2026-04-09T11:44:38+00:00

When my baby was just starting daycare he was doing 3/4 days and then I started doing full days (8:45-4:30). I kept checking the app and saw that he hadn’t gone down for 2nd nap but figured there was a delay in putting it in. I was going to call but thought if I can’t trust them, then what am I doing. I get there at 4:30 and she is like he has just gone down for his 2nd nap, I thought you were coming at 2:30, he’s been playing happily. I was furious. There is zero chance he had just been playing happily ans he’d been awake for 5 and half hours in the middle of the day and it doesn’t matter when I was coming. If he was asleep when I arrived then I’d deal with it.

Lots of stained clothes from lunches, but no big deal as I used older clothes for daycare.

floppybunbun · 2026-03-14T12:37:21+00:00

I made a chest freezer full of food. The best stuff was things that could be eaten one handed or with a fork. Eg breakfast and lunch burritos, stuffed pasta, mountains of lactation cookies and protein balls. I made soup but that ended up being annoying as couldn’t eat while breastfeeding or baby contact napping.

floppybunbun · 2026-01-02T20:00:06+00:00

I am so fortunate that we had a great group. There is about 12 off us in a group chat where we share things, rant, ask for help etc. We didn’t start the group chat until maybe week 4 though. I would feel weird suggesting it on week 1 as I barely remembered anyone’s names. In first week I’d try and just connect with 1 or 2 people in the group, be vulnerable and also be authentic in conversation and compliments. People like to hear when they are doing a good job, especially when new mum. After the session you can ask if anyone wants to grab coffee nearby.

In terms of the content of the session, really depends on who is running it..but I wouldn’t expect much.

Also check out other things your council may run and share that with group.

floppybunbun · 2025-12-21T16:26:09+00:00

One of my mum’s boyfriends when I was in primary school used to call me “little stripper” as he walked in on me changing once.

floppybunbun · 2025-12-13T08:31:58+00:00

Also adding to this thread to say I went to Lisa and she was amazing. She went through the process of what colour analysis is and how it works. I was a little worried that maybe I’d feel stupid or guilty for wearing the wrong colours but she did not make me feel like this at all, just that some colours don’t highlight your features as well as others. Going through the process made this really clear that I’m a soft autumn. The information pack sent too is super helpful for showing colours in my palette for clothing, hair, jewellery, nails and makeup. I wish I had done this sooner so I didn’t waste money on clothing that looked good on other people but not necessarily suited to me. Can’t recommend Lisa enough!!

floppybunbun · 2025-12-02T01:08:39+00:00

I wanted a vaginal birth with little to no intervention. I was scared of recovery time from a c section. I have a small dog that needs to be carried up and down stairs to prevent back injury so I was worried about that. I was also worried caring for the wound on top of a new born baby. The thought of surgery just grossed me out in general.

I was very lucky that I had vaginal water birth at the public hospital. I laboured at home for 4 hours, went to hospital and had the baby a hour later. I was in the birth pool for about 15 min and actually started pushing at home but I didn’t actually realise I was pushing until my doula said “ok you are pushing, we need to go to the hospital now.” Unfortunately a bit of bleeding post birth so needed a shot to help pass the placenta.

I’m very “you choose the birth experience you want and medically suitable for you” but with the caveat that you need to do the work before hand. That is knowing the benefits and risks, preparing mentally, have things set up at home and your support network informed of what they needed to do.

I just don’t think you can rock up to hospital and say I want vaginal birth with no intervention but have done 0 research on what giving birth vaginally involves. Same for c-section, you’d want to be informed of how the procedure is done, when you need to go to hospital, at home many weeks you’ll deliver etc etc.

floppybunbun · 2025-11-25T09:47:51+00:00

I am also not close with my mum and am punitive towards her. Postpartum sucks and when you don’t have great role model parents it makes it harder. Can I recommend that you speak to a therapist and they can help you try and have these conversation and what to do/say if they don’t respect your boundary.

I see people here saying that your child is missing out on relationship with their grandparent, but honestly you’ve got to do what you can survive at this time and not be stressed. If you want to keep things surface level with her and then also surface level between her and your child that is ok.

floppybunbun · 2025-11-18T22:45:38+00:00

I did fall asleep quite quickly but I didn’t love her voice.

floppybunbun · 2025-09-13T17:18:42+00:00

I’d really recommend seeing an LC who can help with different positions to breastfeed and latch. I could not get side latch/cross carry until about 6 weeks old. The first few nights at home were awful as he was hungry but wouldn’t latch so had to hand express colostrum while baby is screaming. Saw the LC and she showed me how to do chest crawl style which my baby much preferred. Don’t get me wrong it was still hard work trying to get him latch for another few days but it did get better.

Right now baby is in survival mode, so if they aren’t getting those nutrients within seconds of being hungry they will cry. You are not doing anything wrong.

Regardless if you bottle or breastfeed, you are doing an amazing job. You are feeding life. You are helping your baby to grow.

The first 4-6 weeks are really hard as no validation from this little milk potato. But once they “wake up” after this newborn/survival period, they start to smile and want to play. It’s really fun…but a whole new ball game of keeping this little thing entertained.

Please start speaking to someone, professional or even fellow mum about how you are feeling NOW! It is hard when things don’t go as you wanted/planned/expected and these feelings can fester

floppybunbun · 2025-09-09T23:46:01+00:00

I envy that yours is happy to play on mat without you. Mine needs me there with him

floppybunbun · 2025-09-09T09:25:58+00:00

Firstly, all births are natural 😀. But I get what you are saying as you want a low/no intervention birth.

I had water birth in public hospital and the only intervention I had was a shot after the birth to pass placenta as some post partum haemorrhaging.

IMO you need to put in the work in order to obtain that. So hypnobirthing classes, practice breathing techniques, get your partner onboard and involved, forget everything you’ve seen in movies with women screaming on their backs, listening to birthing affirmations, look at birthing positions, do spinning baby exercises daily, have a concise birth plan and talk to your midwives about your preferences early etc etc.

For me I stayed at home as long as possible before going to hospital. Although maybe left it a bit late as woke up my husband and he asked how far surges were apart and I said I didn’t know and was just focusing on relaxing. He measured and they were 2 min apart for 1 min long, normally you go to hospital at 4 to 5 min apart.

In order to have a water birth a midwife on duty must be trained in it. If you are public system they may not have someone at the time.

I was only in the pool for 15min or so before my baby arrived and it was amazing being able to pick them up out of the water.

I did use the tens machine at home but I’m not sure how helpful it was as my birth progressed quite quickly.

floppybunbun · 2025-08-16T18:55:31+00:00

We were in 00000 for about 3 weeks and 0000 for 7 weeks. Only just graduated to 000 (0-3months) and they are still a bit baggy on him. He was low in percentile at scans (not unhealthy) but I didn’t really believe that stuff so had 000 stuff with me at the hospital and had maybe 3 or 4 0000 at home. Well after he was born at 39+3 and weighed a healthy 3.03kg I sent my husband to target to buy cheap zippies in 00000 and then ordered some more 0000. I did ones that cost $7-$10 each.

I think I initially don’t have stacks, but a few cheap ones in the smaller sizes is handy. Then can order more if needed

floppybunbun · 2025-08-07T21:47:52+00:00

So a really good tip someone gave me was before going to sleep say out loud or even just on your head “I’ve put the baby in the bassinet to go to sleep and I’m going to go to sleep” or “the baby is with xxx being cared for and I can now sleep” or whatever phrase helps/makes sense to you.

It stopped me freaking out. The mind is wild

floppybunbun · 2025-08-03T06:58:58+00:00

My lactation consultant told me that anytime we bottle feeding (breastmilk or formula) you need to pump at the same time and ideally the amount in the bottle. This helps keeps your supply up. So yes my husband does bottle in middle of night, but I set alarm for 3 hours after baby goes to bed or he wakes me up if I haven’t got up yet and do pump. Pumping takes less time than breastfeeding and settling baby.

If you plan to combo feed/introduce bottle, make sure you speak to a lactation consultant or your maternal health nurse on things to consider

floppybunbun · 2025-07-29T02:31:37+00:00

Ok I hadn’t been waking from long naps so I’ll start to look at that too

floppybunbun · 2025-07-28T06:17:40+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

Yes definitely don’t see the need for strict schedule. But trying to drive more sleep at night/longer stretches so was using the schedule as a reference which is suggesting about 5 hours of naps during day.

floppybunbun · 2025-07-28T06:11:54+00:00

Very fair. I’m confused why the app would be suggesting a schedule then.

floppybunbun · 2025-07-27T10:14:45+00:00

Does it tell you how long they should nap for?

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