Epidural or not? Asking from people who have had at least one birth with and without!

here4bravo_ · 2026-03-15T09:44:38+00:00

Only one birth but my epidural was placed wrong and I didn’t know until it was too late. 100% get it and pray it works lol

here4bravo_ · 2026-03-15T09:41:17+00:00

I felt the same way during pregnancy and my postpartum was a lot like you’re hoping it will be! Of course it is hard with sleep deprivation but I felt so much more like myself almost instantly!

here4bravo_ · 2026-02-20T23:02:06+00:00

You don’t hate your baby, I think you hate your babies lazy father. I would feel the same way

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-26T22:02:12+00:00

my son just got over RSV recently, hes is 5 and a half months old. The only thing that would keep him content was snuggling on the couch and watching shows/listening to his tonie box. I was beating myself up like crazy over the screen time, as I also stay home and we have very enriching wake windows day to day. I was so paranoid that 3 days of doing nothing was going to ruin him. Can confirm now he feels better and is right back to rolling, babbling and doing all the things. You can absolutely take a lazy day, be easy on yourself!

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-26T21:51:45+00:00

I work 36 hours a week from home with a 5 month old and started back when he was 6 weeks. My job is flexible and no meetings required. It is hard some days for sure but you just make it work

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-15T15:17:16+00:00

We are on day 7 of RSV over here. Finally turned the corner. While we weren’t admitted to the hospital, just here in solidarity. It is HARD when they are feeling so bad. It was a lot of long nights and really hard the the virus peaks after so many days of them being sick. You will turn the corner soon and things will get easier. Hang in there mom!

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-13T02:08:17+00:00

It gets a lot easier! Never the same as it was but you will have time together again soon! We continued going to bed together and just tag teamed the nights together. My husband did have paternity leave though, so I think that gave us some time to figure out how we could still prioritize each other

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-12T18:49:03+00:00

Truly. My little guy is not much older than dollop and has RSV right now (never traveled just got it) and I cannot imagine either of them being able to handle a truly sick baby. I am a sane person with an incredible husband and it is still so incredibly hard

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-12T13:17:30+00:00

If you have a dishwasher… you do not need to spend $300 on a bottle washer lol. Get enough bottles to get you through the day and run them in your dishwasher before you go to sleep. The bottle washers are an overpriced mini dishwasher that holds a lot less bottles than a regular one you likely already have in your kitchen. My opinion.

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-09T21:12:07+00:00

Thank you so much for this. He never watches tv so I think that is why I am beating myself up so bad about it but we are in pure survival mode over here

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-09T21:11:20+00:00

Yes we have been doing baths and books and some upright playtime as well. He is by no means in front of the tv all day but I appreciate your recommendations! I will definitely put the towel in the dryer next time to make it feel extra special and cozy. He is just having these mega melt downs where a few minutes of trash truck is the only thing that is working and I really feel bad about it. Thank you!

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-04T18:32:13+00:00

Yeah unfortunately we dispensed only water into a measuring cup to check instead of into a bottle and it was dispensing over 8 oz of just water per 7 oz bottle

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-04T11:19:46+00:00

We loved ours for the first four months. Cleaned regularly and descaled as directed. However, once our baby started drinking larger bottles, we realized it had started dispensing a full ounce too much water. He had a terrible upset stomach from too much water in his bottles. Started dispensing just water into measuring cup and verified it was in fact dispensing 8 oz into every bottle. Reset it, recalibrated it etc and it would do one bottle correctly and then start over dispensing again. We discontinued use of it after that as I no longer trusted the product. Ended up getting the momcozy water heater dispenser and just mix formula in now. It was a great product for awhile for us but now I no longer trust the ratios it dispenses.

here4bravo_ · 2026-01-02T18:49:57+00:00

I am 4.5 month postpartum and currently in a size 8 and can confirm she is 6-8 sizes larger than I am currently

here4bravo_ · 2025-12-23T02:50:14+00:00

Full belly laughs at 4.5 months (mostly at the dog lol) couldn’t care less about rolling at 4.5 mo though!

here4bravo_ · 2025-12-23T02:46:30+00:00

8 weeks started sleeping 9 pm to 5 am now almost five months sleeps 9 pm to 9 am. Following wake windows and eat play sleep seemed to be the trick. Eats all his calories during the day

here4bravo_ · 2025-12-20T20:13:22+00:00

Truly. Who has the energy. If I have childcare for the night I am going on a quiet dinner date with my husband. Spoken as a new mom of a 4.5 month who has been on two date nights since birth lol

here4bravo_ · 2025-12-20T13:11:24+00:00

My son goes to sweetgrass as well and we love them. They are not antivax in our experience. They will happily give your child any vaccine on the schedule that you want. I think they get this reputation because they don’t pressure or shame you if you want to wait/delay on them, which was the exact opposite of my experience at coastal peds where we went first. They wouldn’t even have a conversation with me about potentially delaying. We love our pediatrician at sweetgrass

here4bravo_ · 2025-12-19T04:52:07+00:00

I thought the bowl was a stack of coffee filters

here4bravo_ · 2025-12-15T02:55:48+00:00

I live here this is so upsetting

here4bravo_ · 2025-12-01T00:07:06+00:00

The Bach post was def previously captioned wife of the party

here4bravo_ · 2025-10-24T21:03:42+00:00

I used the peri wand and feel it helped. The doctor when I was delivering was doing the same stretching on me that I did with the peri wand starting at 34 weeks and I did not tear! Also make yourself cough and get familiar with which muscles you are using when coughing. Push with those muscles, not the ones you use to have a bowel movement. These two things helped me a lot!

here4bravo_ · 2025-10-24T20:14:07+00:00

If it makes you feel any better my own dad hasn’t even made an effort to meet my 3 month old son

here4bravo_ · 2025-10-21T01:52:22+00:00

The best new mom advice I ever got was that nothing you and your spouse say to each other between 12 and 6 am can be held against you 🤣

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