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String in babies poop?

My LB is nearly 7 months, he had some prunes yesterday and an Ella’s kitchen katsu curry pouch for tea. An hour after he threw it all up. His been having his bottles perfectly since no problems there at all. I changed his nappy this morning and he had diarrhoea and again about 20 mins ago after his breakfast he had ...

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Fill your cup!

Just a friendly reminder to fill your cup. I did not realize I was running on empty till today when my husband demanded I go to bed and he stay awake with the baby. Then he sent me away all day to be with my bestie. Not once to be bothered just asked me to be home at a certain time. Since my baby was born 3mo ago I ...

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Active sleeping

I'm a FTM and I feel I should put it out there. No one told me before about active sleeping. It freaked me out!! So if you don't know what it is, watch some video on tik tok lol my lovely girl at night she sleeps but makes loot of noises and move a lot to the point I used to pick her up thinking she needed soothing....

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Baby Carrier

Kindly suggest names of comfortable baby carriers for long travels.

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Sleep

Fuming with my husband! He spoke openly and freely about our babies sleep now the oldest had started sleeping through and the baby getting longer stretches of sleep. We had lovely “lie ins” till 6.30/7am and here we are up at 5am. We all know the golden rule don’t talk about their sleep 🤣😩 Just venting really

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Daughter fell out of the car

My 15 months old daughter out of the car in the parking lot today. We went to park. Sister-in-law left her in the car seat and went to sit in the other car. I asked if she strapped her in and she said no. I was already irritated thinking why. I opened the door. LO was leaning on the window and fell on the concrete g...

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Travelling in a car seat!

My little girl is 10 weeks, at this point is the max car seat time still 45 minutes does anyone know?! Thanks in advance xx

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Future thinking, night feeds

We got given a ‘dad pad’ from the health visitor which is basically just a lot of information for dads/partners to read through but we’ve been going through it together this morning. In it, it says that ‘babies usually feed at least 8 times in 24 hours, including at least once at night. Do not look at the clock, b...

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Birth control

Just a heads up for other new moms bc I wish my doctors would’ve informed me before hand if you want to breast feed don’t get on birth control my lactationist just informed me the other day that birth control will drastically decrease your milk supply😭 this whole time I been thinking I’m the one that caused it to…

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Sleeping pattern??

My combi fed baby boy is 11 weeks old now, he’s never been a good sleeper & still wakes up every 2/3 hours on a night (sometimes even 1 hour) and only seems to settle with a feed… i’ve tried everything.. rocking him, swaddling, white noise, bathing, dream feed, i just cannot get him to sleep longer stretches at all,...

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Extreme guilt - no judgement pls

My baby is still very difficult at night. I try so hard to get her to sleep in the next to me and usually have a nice bedtime routine. But sometimes she just won’t settle at all. I’ve considered trying to safely cosleep but she just wants to be on my chest constantly, not even just next to me on the bed. Anyways som...

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Sleeping in separate beds .

I just wanted to know do any other couples sleep separately ? We have a 5 week old baby who wakes at least twice in the night to feed /change . I get up with the baby both times and sometimes he won’t go straight back to sleep. My partner has taken to sleeping on the sofa or spare bed in order to get some unbroken...

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Drinking your breastmilk

Does anyone drink their own breast milk I am 4 days postpartum with a heavy cough wonder if it can heal me ???

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Am I over reacting ?

I went through a hard time during my vaginal delivery. The pushing was about 75 min of me pushing with each and every contraction . The baby’s head was out since the first 10 min but it kept going back in The nurses kept telling me to open my leg wider and without thinking I kept closing it back (not completely ob...

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A funny one…😂

My niece is 3 days old and my sister can’t even move after her c-section to feed her in the night so I stayed over to help her, just so she wasn’t falling asleep with her in her arms to keep them safe and let her rest. When I tell you I was so sleep-deprived I was having conversations to myself about having nightmar...

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“This is because you chose to breastfeed”

My partner has no idea how good he has it and his answer to everything is “serves you right choosing to breastfeed” no idea how much easier I’ve made it on him the last 8 months. Anyone else?

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