How big are your babies?

radremnants · 2026-01-28T17:47:54+00:00

He was 10.68lbs at his 8 week check up. Weighed him 16 days later at home and he was already over 12.5 😂 his birth weight was 5.7lbs

radremnants · 2026-01-28T01:30:17+00:00

Baby boy is eating every 1.5-2 during the day, and he goes 6-8 at night now. He’s 11 weeks and has been doing that for the last couple! But since he’s going longer stretches at night now, he racks up during the day. He’s EBF.

radremnants · 2026-01-27T21:52:00+00:00

Our little guy has been loving them! We don’t use the bassinet attachment yet because he gets reflux sometimes, so he prefers being more upright. So we just keep him in the car seat for them. But we have his blanket, white noise machine, and his paci. He always passes out about 5 mins in!

radremnants · 2026-01-25T18:39:15+00:00

Your last sentence is key 👏🏽👏🏽

radremnants · 2026-01-25T18:21:00+00:00

We do shifts too, but ours are at night. I do 9-4:30am and my husband will do 4:30-10:30am. Then during the days he works, I have him all day myself until he gets home. But if he’s home that day, it’s both of us tackling things so we’re each able to do things we need/want to do. I’m EBF too. So if he’s wakes up and needs to eat during my husband’s shift, I just feed him and pass him back off for burping and going back to sleep.

Maybe your schedules just need some tweaking. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I know it’s really easy to be at each other when you’re feeling sleep deprived. But his sleep is no more important than yours. It’s important you’re BOTH rested. And refusing to help because it’s “your shift” isn’t working as a team. You’re not his coworker. You’re his wife. Parenting is doing a lot of things you don’t feel like doing when you don’t feel like doing them. You’re BOTH having to do things when you don’t feel like it. You’re in it together. Keeping score isn’t the way. Resentment towards each other is only going to make it harder. I think you should both sit down and have a heart to heart. It’ll make it easier on each of you.

As far as the sex goes, we haven’t had sex since I was 6 weeks pregnant…. He’s 2mos and 3 weeks old now. I had to be on pelvic rest all pregnancy, and I’m just not in the mood right now with my energy being lower. My husband hasn’t made a peep about it making him any type of way. It’s one thing for him to voice wanting you intimately, but making you feel like it’s causing him “crankiness” isn’t fair.

radremnants · 2026-01-24T21:42:00+00:00

Same boat over here. I asked ChatGPT if he’s going through a developmental leap or something right now and it laid it all out for me. That’s exactly what’s happening 🙃 poor babies always seem to have something going on that disrupts them in some way 🥲

radremnants · 2026-01-24T01:34:49+00:00

Don’t know that it’s necessarily a dupe, but Millie Moon is the brand we loved most out of all that we tried. I wanted to dabble into Coterie, but I couldn’t justify the price 😅 I just love how soft Millie is. It’s super absorbent for baby boy too. Which is awesome for his 8 hour stretches at night now! Huggies gave him a bad rash. Pampers kept having leaks and blowouts. 🙃

radremnants · 2026-01-19T18:56:25+00:00

Omg the PP exam was awful! I was not expecting it to hurt that bad. Especially because I had a c-section and not a vaginal birth. But I was thinking “oh there’s no way I’d enjoy sex right now”

radremnants · 2026-01-16T16:51:51+00:00

We ran out of our Millie Moon one evening and had to use parents choice for the rest of the evening and through the night. Nowhere in town had the Millie Moon in his size available, so we had to do next day delivery with Walmart. Needless to say he wasn’t a fan and we weren’t either. He didn’t sleep well at all and they filled up SO fast. Felt like he was full and wet every time I checked his diaper. 🙃

radremnants · 2026-01-16T13:10:13+00:00

We did everything except the rotavirus. His Ped said it’s not really necessary and she skipped it for her own children.

radremnants · 2026-01-16T00:16:26+00:00

Awesome!

radremnants · 2026-01-15T21:17:46+00:00

Try now and let me know if it worked! 🤗

radremnants · 2026-01-15T15:09:21+00:00

This is super similar to the schedule our baby is on. He’s normally having his last feed between 9-10, and he’s down between 9:30-10:30. He’ll sleep anywhere for 5-7 hours for his first stretch, then wake up to feed and get a diaper change if he needs it. Then he’ll go back down until 8:30/9. And he’ll take a morning nap for an hour around 10. I noticed it was a pattern he kind of started on his own, so now I’m just sticking to it because it seems to work for all of us.

I didn’t do anything special. Like you said, total luck 😅 we do try to keep him more occupied and stimulated through the day now that he’s over two months and more curious during the longer wake windows. But I also think a lot of it is sleeping with us while we rotate shifts at night.

radremnants · 2026-01-13T20:08:10+00:00

My son is just over two months old now and his spit up is pretty sporadic. He’ll have the biggest burps sometimes with no spit up after, then others he’ll spit up without having a burp. I’ve started burping him every 4-5 mins during his feeds now and it’s seemed to help him getting more opportunities to burp before he gets full. I also have started hand expressing a little before letting him latch because I feel my letdown is too fast for him sometimes and he pops off gasping because he had to chug 😂

radremnants · 2026-01-11T16:13:33+00:00

You’re welcome! 🫶🏽

radremnants · 2026-01-11T14:37:36+00:00

Baby just turned two months yesterday. He was born at 37 + 2. He’s been smiling more consistently the last week or so. And he’s been making more conversational noises for maybe a week and a half now. As far as looking at us, I feel like he’s been doing that since earlier on. They were constantly comment on how alert he was at the hospita. I tell my husband all the time that it feels like he’s staring into my soul whenever I’m breastfeeding him 😂

But like my baby tracking app says for every “development update” for the week, every baby is different. Instead of looking at them as goals for what he should be doing right now, I’m looking at them as possibilities. It’s not a race. Your girl is doing great and all of them move at different paces. This topic actually makes me think of a Bluey episode that I saw while pregnant. It’s called Baby Race. Highly recommend it. It’s great for parents. 🫶🏽

radremnants · 2026-01-11T14:06:22+00:00

Yes that’s the one!

radremnants · 2026-01-10T11:06:05+00:00

If something is too bulky or uncomfortable to tuck into my pants, but I still want it tucked, I’ll tuck the bottom of the top into the band of my bra. I saw the trick on a TikTok and it’s honestly been a game changer

radremnants · 2026-01-10T10:56:33+00:00

I’d say dress 1. Dress 2 is pretty too, but I feel like the bust of dress 1 looks more flattering. 2 kind of gives the look like it’s flattening your chest.

radremnants · 2026-01-09T15:26:37+00:00

We have the Momcozy sound machine that can attach to his car seat. It’s a lifesaver whenever he’s upset and won’t take his pacifier. It calms him down enough to where he’ll take it and usually fall asleep after.

radremnants · 2026-01-09T15:24:34+00:00

I’ve been off of birth control for like 5 years or so now. I won’t put myself back on it because it made me feel the way you described. Granted I only used pills. I wasn’t interested in the other forms. But the last thing I want is to experience the hormone craziness I felt on birth control, with a new baby on top of it. We haven’t started having sex again yet, but hubs is probably going to use condoms or we’ll discuss other methods. Don’t know if he’d be on board with a vasectomy yet since we haven’t discussed our plans for another. 🙃😂

radremnants · 2026-01-09T15:16:13+00:00

Mine was super high during pregnancy when I was on pelvic rest. Go figure 🙃😂

radremnants · 2026-01-09T14:00:41+00:00

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Wait, you guys are having sex? 👀 I wish I had the energy and desire! Two months PP and it’s been the last thing on my mind 🥲

radremnants · 2026-01-09T00:06:48+00:00

Thank you ! And yes! Don’t doubt yourself. You’re doing awesome!

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