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Bath

How often are you bathing your baby? We are bathing our 4m every 2/3 day do you think that is right. Other day someone was horrified we don't do it every night.

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Play mats UK

Can anyone recommend a playmat good quality something similar to totter and tumble but without the huge price tag x

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12 week jabs

My son has his 12 week jabs later and I am absolutely dreading them as I've heard they are worse than the 8 week ones. Is this true?

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Advice on hip pain!

Hey, I’m 24 weeks and have been getting hip pain - especially at night. It’s waking me up as I have to constantly swap sides, and I’m guessing it’s only going to get worse as I get bigger. So far I’ve bought a mattress topper, the bbhugme pillow, and the babymoov sleep belt, but none of these things really work for ...

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Do you need to let nursery know every time your baby isn't coming in because they're unwell?

May be a silly question but I've let them know the last 2 days we weren't coming in, not sending her in today either, so do I still need to let them know or do you think they'd just get the gist??

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5 days left

5 days left till my son comes out of hospital i cant wait its been a long month

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Tongue tie privately

Hello! Anyone had their child’s tongue tie cut privately? My child is 10 weeks old, always struggled to latch because of it but midwives and dr said they won’t cut it because she’s putting on weight, but feeding time is a battle of latch on and off, we breast feed and we’re feeding constantly and it’s getting me ser...

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Registering baby

Might seem a daft question but going to register my baby today at derby, does baby need to be present at the appointment 🙈🤣 I’ve seen other district councils online say that don’t have to come but can’t see that on Derby city website

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Frequent Runny poo for last 10 days

My 5.5mo is doing lots of runny poo around 6 a day , Yellow or greenish yellow in colour. I read online if baby has no fever and is active there shouldn’t be concern. However I am very upset as he was a one poop or two poop a day boy and potty use to be soft and yellow. I did contacted gp and they prescribed some p...

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How? Just how?

How do i shave my legs in the third trimester??? 😭 I can’t bend the way I need to, to shave and just wondering if anybody has any tips?

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Bathing

How often tall bathing your babies? Mine is almost 12 weeks and I’m only bathing him like once a week. He is my second and my daughter gets a bath every night, I can’t remember when we started that however. Just much harder with two! Am thinking maybe he needs to be bathed more often!

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non stress test and others

does every ob office do the non stress test? i’m starting to feel like my office is a little TOO hands off. they don’t do any type of growth scans or anything like that which makes more sense to me being low risk especially but im approaching 38w and they haven’t felt or checked for the position of my baby at all an...

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Ugh I Just fell

Should i be concerned? I didn’t fall on my belly i tripped over my sons scooter inside our house and fell sort of on it sitting down on my butt/ side. I bruised my arm where i fell on the scooter/counter. Im icing it now and i feel baby kick. But I can’t help but feel scared. Ugh it hurt but im crying cause im sad a...

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Boogers in babies nose

Are yall pulling out big white boogers out your babies nose too ?

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Reflux or gas?

My littlest seems to cry in the afternoon 7-10pm and especially while eating. I’m confused since it seems like he’s straining like he’s trying to poop/pass gas but he also spits up at the same time. I can’t really tell what the problem is.

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CMPA babies

Hi moms, for those who babies has CMPA what were the symptoms? And how did you get a diagnosis? Thanks

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