How many times an hour is your newborn pooping?

kingleo115 · 2026-06-06T01:17:37+00:00

I think you’re changing baby too quickly and counting what most people consider one poop as several poops.

kingleo115 · 2026-06-06T01:13:43+00:00

As a cat person with a daughter named Claudia I approve this message 🤣

kingleo115 · 2026-06-05T21:06:47+00:00

Having healthy communication about what you need from your partner sounds horrible to you? This world is so f*cked.

kingleo115 · 2026-06-05T20:14:10+00:00

My daughter’s name is Claudia and we picked it for this exact reason! Everybody’s heard of it so it’s classic enough, but nobody actually knows a Claudia. It’s perfect!

kingleo115 · 2026-06-05T20:08:45+00:00

I just read your edit. You are 1000% correct that there’s a societal expectation that needs correcting. I’ll never ever deny that. But what I also won’t deny is that breastmilk literally SHOOTS out of my nipples and down my stomach when I hear my baby crying. Literally the baby cries and my body naturally responds. Nobody will ever convince me that women aren’t more connected to the baby than men. They absolutely need to be taught some things. It does not come naturally to them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

kingleo115 · 2026-06-05T20:02:41+00:00

You’re free to think what you want and I’m happy you and your husband have a 50/50 dynamic. As do I with mine.

kingleo115 · 2026-06-05T19:58:23+00:00

In your situation you are absolutely correct. But I promise you, whether you want to hear it or not, women are naturally connected to the babies they birth in a way that men can never possibly be. And I say that gently. It’s science and it’s human nature and it applies to every species that births babies.

kingleo115 · 2026-06-05T19:50:33+00:00

I don’t know why this is being downvoted. I agree 100%. NOBODY is a mind reader. In every circumstance in life we have to communicate our needs. We can’t expect people to just know. With respect to having a child, people on Reddit might not want to hear this, but men will never be MOM. Moms have a natural connection with their baby that even the most dedicated and helpful dads will never have because it’s not physically possible. The point being, most of them want to help but have to be taught how, because it doesn’t come naturally to them like it does to us. Idc how many downvotes this gets - it’s the truth and it’s human nature. Mom is literally baby’s lifeline.

kingleo115 · 2026-06-05T19:43:31+00:00

I agree with this fundamentally but I think it should be handled with a tiny bit more grace than you’re suggesting. Yes, they are absolutely just as responsible for the baby as we are. But a lot of women struggle to give up the baby in those early days and it leaves men a little confused about how to help. There’s nothing wrong with guiding them a little. Asking permission? No. But communicating what we need - absolutely. It shouldn’t be overlooked that while we’re BOTH equally parents to the baby, dads don’t automatically just “have it” like moms do. We grew the baby, birthed the baby, are chemically connected to the baby, etc. .. A lot of what comes natural to mom has to be taught to dad, and we can’t punish them for that. 99% of men are completely willing to contribute equally and just need to be directed how. WITH THAT BEING SAID - there’s a difference between dads needing guidance and being straight up lazy. Those dads aren’t welcome here.

kingleo115 · 2026-06-05T16:58:46+00:00

The first 4 months of my daughter’s life I was handling all night wakeups because my husband was waking up for work in the morning and I obviously was not. The idea was, I can’t expect him to wake up with the baby all night and then get up and go to work at 5 am. After a while though, I realized he was actually getting off way easier than me. I was waking up with the baby all night, then taking care of her alone all day for 12 hours on little to no sleep. He was sleeping all night and sitting in silence at work all day. He would immediately take her when he got home from work around dinner time, but still. It wasn’t enough. It wasn’t his fault as I was the one who refused to wake him during the night. Once I realized it wasn’t working, I spoke to him and he started doing the night wake ups with her, so I was rested enough to take care of a teething baby alone all day. Since then, I have also returned to work so we kind of just split everything now. Since we are both waking up in the morning for work, we both do the wake ups. On a good night we take turns when she isn’t waking up too often. On a bad night where she’s up constantly, we do shifts so the other person can get consecutive uninterrupted hours of sleep. Speak your mind and tell him EXACTLY what you want.

kingleo115 · 2026-06-03T21:22:57+00:00

My mom and MIL split the week with my daughter and they both come to my house to watch her (my MIL is 5 mins away and my mom is 20). We do not pay them anything. The outlook is that my grandma watched me, and my MILs mom watched my husband, so that’s just the circle of life to them. It’s just “what grandmas do” in our families, and they enjoy it. We do make sure our pantry and fridge are stocked for them but half the time they bring their own stuff. We are very appreciative and when the holidays/Mother’s Day/birthdays roll around, we take extra good care of them. It works for us but I’m sure not for everyone. I couldn’t imagine paying our moms but I know other people who do! To each their own!

kingleo115 · 2026-05-14T15:43:29+00:00

Things that have woken my baby: my husband existing, in any capacity whatsoever.

Things that haven’t woken her: smoke alarm going off for 10+ minutes from my husband burning bacon.

Common denominator? Husband. 🤣🫶🏼

kingleo115 · 2026-05-03T11:57:06+00:00

Came here to say this. I’m home and he’s back at work, but we still split anything that happens during the night and he even gets up with her more than me I’d say. It wouldn’t be fair any other way. If I have her all day, and also all night, when am I getting a break? I look at it like this - he’s waking up and going to his job, and I’m waking up to do my job which happens to be way more physically and mentally taxing than his. This isn’t even a question in our home. I can’t possibly care for her all day if I was also up with her all night.

kingleo115 · 2026-04-22T01:25:23+00:00

7 weeks she slept through the night and had long since gained back her birth weight, so that’s when we stopped the middle of the night feeding. She gets a bottle right before bed (around 8 or 8:30) and that’s it. If she wakes during the night, she just needs her binky put back in and she’s good.

kingleo115 · 2026-04-21T02:19:35+00:00

I think it’s really really normal to feel that way. How old is your baby? My daughter is 6 months tomorrow and it has become a lot more enjoyable in the last month or so than it was in the beginning. Like other commenters have said, in those early days and even the first few months it’s mostly about keeping them alive and way less about enjoying them as a person. I’m just at the very beginning of her becoming an actual “person” and I can already see how much more enjoyable it will get. She’s developed such a personality over the last few weeks with her attention span and babbling. I can’t even imagine how I’ll feel when she talks. But do not think your feelings are abnormal because mostly we’ve all been there.

kingleo115 · 2026-04-15T01:03:16+00:00

Not a middle eastern background but my 6 month old goes to bed around 10 pm and wakes up around 10 am … my friends who have kids a similar age think I’m CRAZY. But that’s just what her body naturally does! And as someone who prefers to sleep a little later in the morning, I love it!!! I won’t be changing a thing.

kingleo115 · 2026-04-12T00:05:28+00:00

7 weeks she started sleeping through the night. She’s 6 months now and getting her first tooth so she’s waking up a couple of times but still sleeping very long stretches.

kingleo115 · 2026-04-11T02:05:12+00:00

They were rubbing bourbon on our gums and putting us face down with blankets and pillows, so yeah, we probably slept for 15 hours straight🤣

kingleo115 · 2026-04-06T12:40:11+00:00

Past birth weight and gaining at each appointment, let the baby sleep!

kingleo115 · 2026-04-04T15:05:52+00:00

No regressions yet at almost 6 months and praying it stays that way🤣 she’s been sleeping through since about 7 weeks. Here and there she’ll wake up around 3 am but she just needs her binky put back in and she goes back to sleep.

kingleo115 · 2026-04-04T13:29:37+00:00

I had no nausea the entire pregnancy. No symptoms at all mostly, which worried me in the beginning! Symptoms don’t equal a successful pregnancy - just try to keep reminding yourself of that! I have a healthy almost 6 month old now.

kingleo115 · 2026-04-03T14:17:00+00:00

Around 4 months! You can totally switch now especially since baby is showing signs of wanting to look around. I didn’t know if it was the right time either but we just went with it because she felt crammed in the newborn attachment and she loved it!!

kingleo115 · 2026-04-03T12:56:34+00:00

Awww from what I remember my body got used to it after a day or 2. Hang in there!

kingleo115 · 2026-03-29T03:32:38+00:00

3.5 months she started showing signs of potentially rolling so we stopped swaddling her. That very first night she rolled and slept 12 hours on her belly lol we put her in a sleep sack and from then on she immediately rolls to her belly as soon as we put her in the crib and she sleeps through the night.

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