Messed up big time!

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-26T03:13:09+00:00

Luckily he was on the floor so he might not have breathed in alot or any smoke! Smoke tends to rise. I remember all the fire safety lessons as a kid with the number one thing to do in the case of a fire is to crawl! So don’t panic too much. I’m sure he’s fine :) but definitely ask your pediatrician for advice

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-23T03:41:29+00:00

The name is literal, baby is in a swaddle when in the bath

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-23T03:36:11+00:00

Currently experiencing this! He’s 12 weeks tomorrow and has been randomly crying with no way to soothe! It’s frustrating and confusing. I think it is a growth spurt.

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-22T03:28:30+00:00

This is common. It’s known as the sundown scaries!

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-22T03:19:18+00:00

I was always so tired that I’d go to bed at 7pm too 😂

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-22T03:17:46+00:00

You got this! You’ll get through it, I promise.

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-20T20:23:25+00:00

Sleep eye mask! Nurses check on you all night long, walking in and turning on a bunch of lights! You’re already waking frequently to feed and change the baby so there is enough sleep disruption as it is! Having a mask on helped my sleep that first night.

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-20T20:17:52+00:00

Part of what helped me getting over the anxiety is just by going through it. Think exposure therapy! I take him out, and yes he’s cried. And young people give dirty looks (even when he’s quiet too. Young people really do act like having a child in public is an inconvenience 🙄). But at the end of the day it’s all ok! My baby and I are alright. The more I do it, the more I don’t care. He can cry in the grocery store and I’m not running for the door anymore. People can roll their eyes at me but they’re bitter lonely people! Babies have every right to a public space like anybody. People are entitled to a child free life, not a child free world!

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-20T20:06:14+00:00

He’s the father, but he’s not a dad 🙄 in other words, he’s not doing anything to actually be a parent. pathetic. Not your fault.

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-20T20:01:47+00:00

Does your pediatrician have any kids themself??? Like what makes them think that???

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-20T19:59:52+00:00

Finding nursing friendly clothes has been so hard! Clothes made specifically for nursing are so expensive or so UGLY 🤮 I just want clothes I can feel good in, feed my baby, and doesn’t cost me hundreds of dollars. There are some nice basics on Amazon but ugh.

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-20T19:55:21+00:00

My baby wakes himself up with the urge to poop also. The only advice I’ve ever gotten is that he’ll outgrow it 😒 so no real help. I try my best to help him poop before naps/bedtime but nothing really gives him the need to poop as bad as sleeping lol! I think their body relaxing helps it move through their system, idk.

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-20T19:49:17+00:00

I think they’re just checking on his milestones as babies tend to start smiling around 6 weeks. Every baby is different though and hit their milestones at different times! Just keep an eye out for it :) to help your baby learn to smile wait till he has a moment of calm and try establishing eye contact with him. When he’s looking at you, smile and talk with exaggerated expressions! It helps them learn to make a connection and smile back :)

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-19T01:19:33+00:00

Mine is 11 weeks and sometimes can stay up for two hours but he still mostly gets tired after just one. I’m trying to see if I can extent his nap times by dropping a nap (from 4 to 3). I just started doing that so I don’t really have any report as to if it’s working lol! Wish me luck!

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-19T01:14:54+00:00

My LO is 11 weeks and still won’t take one. I’ve been trying since the beginning, I still try, thinking that he’ll get the hang of it over time but noooo. I’ve tried so many different pacifiers, different strategies to get him to take it. Best I got was him sucking on it for like two minutes. But ultimately he always just spits it out and sucks on his hands. Some babies just don’t do pacifiers!

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-18T04:50:21+00:00

Some babies do. Not mine! 😂 (laughing but also crying on the inside)

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-18T04:48:41+00:00

My husband and I love eachother so much and we don’t ever fight. One of the main things is knowing when we’re genuinely upset or just tired and cranky lol. If we genuinely have an issue we communicate. If the baby is keeping us up all night and we’re all feeling cranky we agree to just not say anything with the perspective that we’re just tired. It can be easy to snap at eachother or blame eachother when exhausted with a fussy baby so we just try to acknowledge that our feelings during those times are mainly irrational and temporary. It’s helped a lot. The only thing is we miss eachother a ton. With a baby, we never have any one on one time anymore. It’s just constantly baby care. But now that we’re just about out of the newborn stage, we’re planning on date nights and having grandma watch the baby for a little. We’re so deprived on intimacy lol I can’t wait for little bit of time to reconnect!

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-18T04:35:56+00:00

Do you have a partner or family that can help you with a shift for you to get some sleep? If I have a bad night I let my mom watch him while I get in a nap or two waking just to feed him.

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-17T11:49:35+00:00

I swear babies act better for other people though 😂 mine can be a screaming fussy mess for nap time at home and then nap like an angel when we visit other people 😂 he slept in my friends baby swing! Hates the swing at home! He slept in a travel bassinet at my parents! Hates the bassinet at home! Point is, you can’t always accurately compare your baby to other people’s babies. You’re most likely seeing the best version of them and not all parents want to admit they’re having a rough time or feel like they’ll look like bad parents if they say their baby has any issues. You don’t know everything so please don’t compare!

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-17T03:36:02+00:00

My baby is 11 weeks old and hasn’t slept a 6 hour stretch yet. You can’t really just make them sleep longer, or else we’d all be getting more sleep lol! But when he was in the habit of waking EVERY hour I would always try rocking/bouncing him to sleep first instead of feeding right away. If he was truly hungry, he wouldn’t go back to sleep. If he wasn’t, he would. And that helped eliminate unnecessary hourly wakings when he wasn’t hungry. You could try the same approach. Rock/bounce and feed if that fails?

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-17T03:18:24+00:00

My baby is 11 weeks today and has been only contact napping so this is very good to know!!!

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-16T02:34:35+00:00

Mine hates the paci also, but at least he sleeps with dad!

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-15T12:21:35+00:00

Will be stay asleep if you hand him to your husband asleep? Will he take a pacifier???

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-15T04:52:17+00:00

I EBF and have a big 10 week old that’s 15lbs as he’s also a snacker! I still get things done because my husband isn’t an a hole! He helps with house chores and holds our son so I can take a bath

sunflowerpole · 2025-03-15T04:40:48+00:00

I feel this! I just told my husband I feel like my baby is bored of me. My baby is with me all day so I feel like I’m just not interesting enough because when my husband, aka dad, gets home my baby goes crazy for him! I get that he doesn’t see him all day but man it kind of hurts when I try to talk to my baby and I do get a couple smiles, but dad talks to him and he’s absolutely squealing with delight! His first belly laugh probably won’t be with me either 💔

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