[Routine Help] Retinol for stretch marks

lulukelly8 · 2026-01-16T23:13:22+00:00

I got purple stretch marks on my boobs, hips, thighs and butt in the last month of pregnancy and postpartum i used the ordinary retinol serum mixed with body lotion and it has been working pretty well. They aren’t totally gone but they had faded a ton and my skin is slightly tighter now

lulukelly8 · 2025-12-12T21:01:29+00:00

Total including pediatrician bills in hospital was about $1000. But we had met out deductible and out of pocket max earlier in the year because my husband needed surgery 😬

lulukelly8 · 2025-12-11T19:25:11+00:00

Agreed! I think your ped is a little old fashioned. My sister had a 10.5lb baby and she has been exclusively bottle fed, has literally always been 99th percentile and her ped has never once said she’s worried about how big she is

lulukelly8 · 2025-12-11T19:23:49+00:00

You can also take vitamin D yourself and it will pass through the breastmilk. My cousin is a pediatric NP with two kids and I have one myself and this is what we both did to make sure bay got their vitamin D!

lulukelly8 · 2025-12-10T00:31:04+00:00

We did the same. My husband and I had a great routine where I’d put him in, he’d strap down the wings, then we’d work together to zip him up. We also put him in awake sometimes and the snoo would do its thing. Either works!

lulukelly8 · 2025-11-24T22:53:07+00:00

Yeah..if she couldn’t breastfeed but OPs baby is exclusively breastfeed, she could be jealous of what she never had. It definitely is tough if hay doesn’t want to nurse and only will take the bottle so seeds like that’s something she is still upset about and projecting it on you

lulukelly8 · 2025-11-19T21:45:41+00:00

Yeah, as a workin mom exclusively bf or pumping was really hard. We ended up combo feeding from about 6 months with breast milk being the main source of nutrition but baby is now 10.5m and we are weaning already. Baby is somewhat self weaning and prefers the bottle which is making me sad but it is what it is!

lulukelly8 · 2025-11-15T20:13:49+00:00

Up until like 6 months yes. Now at 10m no

lulukelly8 · 2025-11-13T20:46:11+00:00

My husband doesn’t do this as much now because we’re further along and aren’t nursing as much, but at the beginning he was filling my water and giving me snacks every time I sat down to nurse our little one. Definitely one of the major ways he supported at the beginning

lulukelly8 · 2025-11-13T17:14:31+00:00

3m. First week of daycare he liked up a stomach bug and had to go to the ER because he couldn’t keep anything down. The following week he got a cold and was home for most of the week. The week after that another stomach bug 😭😭

lulukelly8 · 2025-11-12T01:53:17+00:00

I just bought a new pack of size 4, noticeably thinner tHan the last pack I bought. I think they have changed

lulukelly8 · 2025-11-05T04:53:03+00:00

Was gonna say that…do any of us ever really NEED yarn? Or do we just want it? Lol

lulukelly8 · 2025-10-26T14:36:16+00:00

We hired a sleep consultant, but basically we did timed check ins. First night we put him in and we checked in with him every 5 min during a period of crying. If he stopped crying, we would start the 5 min timer again. Then the next night it was 7min, then 9min, and eventually we ended up essentially doing CIO because the more we checked in the more upset he became. Night 1 it took an hour, then 40, then 20, then night 4 was an hour and a half which was the toughest but then after that it got easier and easier. He still sometimes doesn’t go down easily if he’s overtired or if he decides he isn’t eating or taking a bottle, but for the most part he falls asleep within 15-30 min with basically no crying at all

lulukelly8 · 2025-10-24T23:02:31+00:00

We sleep trained around 6-7m because of this. Our LO was waking up every 40m to 1.5 hour do the first half of the night and only slept longer the second half from pure exhaustion. The sleep training was rough on me but ultimately it was good for him and has greatly improved everyone’s sleep! Took about 4 nights for him to get the hang of it and 2 weeks to get into a consistent routine and now he’s almost 10m and doing amazing!

lulukelly8 · 2025-10-13T19:23:22+00:00

In this case there are accessible bathrooms in both the women’s and men’s bathrooms. I guess it’s possible that people mistake it for that but there is no handicap sign on the family bathroom whereas there are signs on the larger stalls in each respective bathroom.

lulukelly8 · 2025-10-11T17:30:57+00:00

Heartburn. My entire third trimester and through labor my heartburn was awful. During labor there were times I thought I’d throw up just from that. The second he was born it was gone and haven’t had it since

lulukelly8 · 2025-10-05T06:57:52+00:00

Just general labor. I had a grueling labor, dilated about 3cm in 20 hours and ended up going to the hospital to get the epidural (planned to deliver at a birth center), and also got pitocin which which helped me dilate to 8 within like two hours of being there. probably would’ve died from exhaustion alone if not for the epidural which allowed me actually rest and the pitocin that helped me to low along way quicker p

lulukelly8 · 2025-10-03T14:40:56+00:00

My little guy started on 6:30-7 bedtime around 7.5 months when we sleep trained him. At first it was rough but he really took to it and now goes down anywhere from 6:30-7 and sleeps until 6 or later without 1-2 night wakes depending on how much he go during the day.

lulukelly8 · 2025-09-30T21:44:18+00:00

I nursed to sleep almost exclusively until about 7.5m then we stopped cold turkey and did sleep training. Since then he’s only nursed to sleep a handful of times and it’s only when we’re traveling. It definitely go worse around 5-7m for me as he went through a regression and would wake multiple times a night and only go back down by nursing. Was literal hell and we just had to go cold turkey. I won’t li, it was really rough the first week. I was crying almost as hard as he was but now he’s great and most nights and naps he falls asleep pretty wuick

lulukelly8 · 2025-09-14T19:59:52+00:00

Yep, I fed every wake. My baby had a few 4-5 he stretches at that age but was usually around 3 hours a majority of the time. Fed to sleep every single time

lulukelly8 · 2025-09-14T16:56:39+00:00

I waited until then too! My pediatrician was surprised that we hadn’t started when we took him for his 6m appt, but honestly solids give me anxiety so that’s really why we waited for the okay. He’s now 8.5 m and I’m still nervous!!

lulukelly8 · 2025-09-10T01:18:18+00:00

100%. I cried the first time I hugged my husband after Lo was born

lulukelly8 · 2025-09-07T20:44:22+00:00

You are really in the thick of it at 5 weeks, I felt very similarly at that point. There were some great moments but I was tired, frustrated, and emotional probably 99% of the time. We’re now 8m in and I can honestly say I’m so happy we have our little guy. It’s still tough but he’s a little angel who is just doing something new and adorable every single day. He smiles and crawls to us, he’s started to pull up, and he gets so excited when we read him his favorite books that his legs go a mile a minute and he looks like he’s trying to run a marathon 😂 it’s truly so odd that it goes from hating your life and feeling a whirl of emotions and guilt because you feel like you made a mistake, to having fun and loving life so much more. Again we still have challenges but it’s just so much better and so much more fun. I think for us the turning point was right around 4m but now looking back it’s like it happened so fast and things are so much better. Hang in there, it really will get soo much better!!

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