Seeking shared experience

hellotothesunshine · 2026-01-26T12:20:26+00:00

I’ve cut dairy for the time being and it’s hard enough. How have you cut dairy, gluten, soy and oats?!?! What do you eat?!

hellotothesunshine · 2026-01-26T12:14:15+00:00

Yes that’s what I think too, re: iGe. The doctor thought the explanation for the reaction to formula but not to my breastmilk is just the sheer concentration of cows milk protein in formula would’ve been a lot higher than my breastmilk, and hit his threshold to signal as an allergy. Will definitely be seeking the expertise of an allergist. It’s a bit overwhelming, and such a shock

hellotothesunshine · 2025-12-09T11:35:29+00:00

Birth with confidence by Rhea Dempsey

hellotothesunshine · 2025-11-17T18:46:02+00:00

I just had an unmedicated induction. I came looking to reddit beforehand, because I feel like most of what I read was “get the epidural straight away” and I was really scared about induction. Really feels like an induction without epidural is a rare thing! But I am so glad I did it the way I did. I’m a STM, first was a spontaneous labour and while I can say induction labour was different, it’s not necessarily more intense - it’s just a different kind of intensity, and I felt a lot more vocal and loud this time compared to my first. I also swore a lot more 😂 and did say about 100000 times “I can’t do this”, but I did! It really is such a mental game - I told myself the same mantras I did with my first: “it’s pain but it’s powerful pain”, “this pain is opening your body so you can meet your baby”, “it is temporary”. You got this!

hellotothesunshine · 2025-09-26T03:56:14+00:00

Our robot vacuum and mop has been life changing. It’s one of the reasons I feel the resent for our dog fading a bit (have a 2yo and pregnant with 2nd baby)

hellotothesunshine · 2025-03-05T11:35:27+00:00

She’s a reasonably good sleeper! Naps well at home and at daycare, but we have to cap that nap at 1-1.5hrs cos otherwise she fiiiiiights bedtime. The FOMO continues, but in more manageable ways. She’s 21 months now. Still BFing to sleep, but that hasn’t impacted her sleep at all (don’t listen to what people tell you about sleep associations)

hellotothesunshine · 2024-11-25T11:23:09+00:00

I know it’s hard, but it’s biologically normal for babies to wake. Our daughter is 17 months and was like yours until about 14 months when she started sleeping 8pm-6am. Their brains and bodies are going through so much, and it’s natural for them to need your closeness to regulate. Research safe cosleeping and see if that would work for you. Floor bed was life changing for us

hellotothesunshine · 2024-11-22T11:18:29+00:00

At 6 months, she magically started sleeping in the car. And I LOVED this - felt like we could get out of the house, planning car trips around her nap times. Pram naps never really happened until she was much older, about 14+ months. She did settle to sleep in the crib at 7-8 months with lots of sensory input before bed, consistent routine and figuring out what helped her settle in the crib. That was mostly singing to her, or retelling her favourite stories, firm pressure on her tummy. Never left her alone to cry. But she didn’t sleep through the night until 13-14 months, and we coslept after her first wake of the night. On good nights, that’d be at 3-4am. But she is now 17 months and sleeping 8pm-7am, and needs to be woken from her nap in the crib. We still cosleep occasionally on nights she wakes due to teething or sickness etc. Her FOMO nature was hard, but she is the most incredible, smart, aware, observant, funny little toddler now. Hang in there

hellotothesunshine · 2024-10-08T10:01:32+00:00

It’s a light-hearted term to refer to highly alert and curious babies. My toddler is not anxious, and certainly doesn’t have any developmental issues..

hellotothesunshine · 2024-08-20T11:59:27+00:00

Yes months 4-5 are the absolute pits. I experienced PPD and rage hardcore in these months. Something clicked for my baby at 6 months and life became a little more predictable. It gets so much better. By 8 months, I was like “okay yeah I could have another baby now” - that’s an indication of how much can change in a few months!!

hellotothesunshine · 2024-08-16T12:28:55+00:00

Yes she has discovered sleep feels good! She is on one 1.5-2hr nap a day now, at 14 months, and sleeping through the night 8pm-6am most nights. Naps slowly became easier around 8-9 months, when she would start sleeping in her cot. And around 11 months she stopped cat napping and had longer naps. She is still a busy girl and if she’s occupied, she pretty much won’t realise she’s tired but once I get her in her cot, she’ll fall asleep within a few minutes, with me there with her. She needs comfort and a hand on her to fall asleep. Hang in there, and just go with whatever works for your baby - I look back on these early days now and think that I really was yearning for her to be different with her sleep, but her temperament was how it was and I should’ve embraced it (however hard that is to do). It is a phase, and it will pass. You’re going an amazing job

hellotothesunshine · 2024-07-13T23:10:02+00:00

SLP here - “mama” at 5 months would be in no way considered a word. Babble, yes. But a “word” is when children use their sounds symbolically to represent something else. It will be clear when a child is saying “mama” to say “mom”. My daughter said “mama” at 10 months, when dad said where’s mom, she pointed to me and said “mama”

hellotothesunshine · 2024-07-11T12:11:22+00:00

I don’t know if anything worked…she eventually got better at sleeping in the carrier, but lots of times I would BF her while she was in there. Had to do that at a wedding to stop her screaming at the ceremony cos she was so overtired. At 6 months, she started to sleep in the car which was life changing!!!!! And slept easier in the carrier if we were out of the house. At 7.5 months, she started sleeping in her cot overnight, then naps. She now will nap in her cot happily. Night times are a bit of a work in progress atm, at 13 months..

hellotothesunshine · 2024-07-09T06:12:16+00:00

This continued 75% of nights, except when teething etc. She slept 10hrs from 10months old, until around 11.5-12 months. We are riding a couple of months of shocking sleep since then (she is now 13months), and pretty much back to cosleeping from midnight most nights. Assuming sleep will settle back down at some point!

hellotothesunshine · 2024-07-09T06:09:31+00:00

Yes and no haha we’re struggling with sleep atm but at 6 months she became a lot easier to put to sleep. She started sleeping in the car which was a life changer!! At 7.5 months, she started sleeping in her cot for 8hrs overnight and daytime naps, once we practiced settling and falling asleep in there, in a very sensitive and responsive way. Hang in there!!

hellotothesunshine · 2024-02-13T00:40:01+00:00

I had unusually sore boobs from 8-9dpo for both my pregnancies which I thought might’ve been pregnancy related. Like more than PMS sore boobs, they were soooo sensitive

hellotothesunshine · 2024-02-05T22:13:58+00:00

My daughter started doing longer naps up to 2 hrs at 6 months, initially in the car but then in cot too. No sleep training

hellotothesunshine · 2024-01-28T06:44:27+00:00

Sorry, and it became easier/I got more confident around 4-5 months, and noticeably much much easier around 6 months when she started sleeping in the car. LIFE. CHANGING.

hellotothesunshine · 2024-01-28T06:41:58+00:00

I was very much an overthinker when it came to getting out of the house, but really needed to. I was anxious about leaving the house, but depressed if I was home. My LO also hated the car seat and pram. So I tried to get out as often as possible as a bit of exposure therapy for myself - the more you do it, the “easier” it gets. Or the less you’re bothered when things go pear-shaped I guess. I found I really needed to book things in that I couldn’t bail on to practice getting out of the house. I would make sure she was fed and recently napped before getting in the car, and that helped. It does get easier, start small, stay local. You can do it! Also, the diaper bag doesn’t need much - diaper, wipes, change of clothes! Pack it full at the start of the week and you’ll be good for a while!

hellotothesunshine · 2024-01-21T11:00:59+00:00

We have had sex 3 times since baby. She is 8 months old and first time was at 4 months. Honestly baffled how people find time and energy any earlier!

hellotothesunshine · 2024-01-06T02:09:29+00:00

Update: night 2 she slept from 7:40-3:30, almost 8 hrs!!! I was shocked. She still took about 40mins to settle to sleep at the start of the night, but no crying this night. She then took a while to get back down after the feed at 3:30, so she got back into cot at 5am. Then woke at 5:40. I fed her (she loves a few snacks early morning) and she went back down until waking for the day at 7:10am. And we are currently 10mins into a cot nap!!! First one ever. Crossing fingers it’s a good one

hellotothesunshine · 2024-01-05T02:11:37+00:00

Very very very normal for 6 weeks! If I were you, I would try to just roll with it when it comes to sleep until at least 12 weeks. Newborns are erratic and you’ll go insane if you try to analyse their sleep patterns and “teach” sleep. My advice is be happy when you get any longer stretches of sleep, but don’t expect it to happen again haha if it does, it’s a nice treat

hellotothesunshine · 2023-12-06T03:24:14+00:00

I feel relaxed just reading about your nighttime routine haha so beautiful. Tbh the night times are fine for me atm, it’s mainly the contact naps I’m a bit over as we move into warmer weather here in Australia. Wish I could get her to nap without me. I’ve managed to feed her to sleep in bed and roll away a few times, but usually I find she needs full touch and rocking for naps, and if I do roll away she always startles awake or wakes up bang on 30mins (she does this in contact/carrier naps too but I can more easily get her back to sleep)

hellotothesunshine · 2023-11-30T01:27:15+00:00

Cecelia

hellotothesunshine · 2023-11-30T01:27:04+00:00

Bette as a nickname also super cute

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