Community Posts, Tips & Support on Baby

Looking for people's experiences with breastfeeding and going back to work. We had baby no2 in November and I am currently breastfeeding, due back in work in 6 months. I'm just curious how everyone navigated their experience when they returned to work if baby was still breastfeeding? My little girl stopped at 7 mont...

Has anyone else been told by HV not to give baby milk in the nights anymore and only offer water? I was told this and I’m quite surprised as never heard of this before? Baby is not taking bottles fully in the day and I was still advised to only give milk in the day now and not the night?

My baby is 4 days old. Every night he’s refused to sleep more than an hour at a time when in a bassinet or even in a safe cosleep set up. He wakes up with no needs other than being held and it’s affecting me. I know it’s still so early but he sleeps in multiple hour stretches in my arms and only 20-40 mins without b...

Any advice on how to tell if newborn is smiling socially or it’s “just windy”? I’d love to say she’s smiling but honestly couldn’t tell you at the minute 😂

Hi everyone, I’m 4 weeks PP and had a planned c-section. I wasn’t able to breastfeed my LO for a couple of reasons. Firstly my milk didn’t come in until 5 days in. It was like my body didn’t know that it gave birth. After that my section wound reopened and I had to be put on antibiotics twice. I was trying to pu...

All I wanted to do was get dressed and you say to me that you don’t have time and to get dressed when LO sleeps; I respond by saying it takes me 2 mins to get ready!!! LO has been awake since 8am and normally sleeps between 10:30-11:30. LO’s 10 months old and wake windows are normal 2-3hours not 4? Is this norm?

My baby is exclusively bf and currently 8 months old. She'll start nursery when she's 11 months old. They have advised us to get her used to bottles now. Until she was about 2 months old, we gave her a bottle a day until she refused to take them. Since then, she's been ebf. Now, we're gonna try again, but I don't re...

Anyone else kind of laugh when people talk about the 4 month sleep regression because their baby has literally never slept through the night 😭😭😭😭😭 my bags are getting darker by the month and I’ve just accepted constant exhaustion as my reality and walk around like a zombie x and yes before you ask my baby is ebf…

Hi ladies! Any of your 23 month olds not saying many words yet? My little boy will be 2 at the end of April, and he seems to not say many words at all! Advice would be lovely! 💜

My little will be coming up to 1 next month. I will express as long as he needs it and is still on breast milk but I want to start winding down. I have a good freezer stash. I currently pump 5x a day. 8 12 4 8 and 11pm The 11pm one is surplus just so I dont feel too full overnight and allows me to build a stash. ...

My 8.5 month old has completely changed, constantly moaning and fussing as soon as I leave her, I could be in the kitchen while she’s in the sitting room and she’ll start crying and come to find me (she’s currently army crawling everywhere) she did go through a stage of realising i could leave her around 6/7 months ...

I really need some advice. I feel crazy. My 15 month old still wakes up at night. Sometimes it’s just one time at 4 AM but other times she’ll wake up at 12 AM and then again 4 AM. At 4 AM, 5 AM if I’m lucky she will not go to bed unless she’s touching me. If I try to just put her in bed with me, she wiggles around, ...

My little boy is 16 weeks, his wake windows very rarely stretch to 2 hours which is supposedly the top end for his age. Interested to hear what others are experiencing for their ones around the 4 month mark? X

Y’all, I have been awake since like 3:30 am after going to sleep at like 1:30 am and it’s now almost 7:30. I got up for a bit and moved around some to try and get my brain to slow down and got on the heating pad because my lower back was hurting. Still tossing and turning with no progress falling asleep. Been having...

Has anyone had successful nights of their baby sleeping in their bassinet/crib? My baby will only sleep on his dads and my chest but I don’t even get a descent night of sleep with him on me. I either wake up to check on him or wake up due to him moving around. It’s 5am and I tried putting him to sleep in his bassine...

How do you know when you baby is full I don't know when his full cos heel go off the boob then go back on after 3 seconds off been off and keep doing that

I have them regularly, they don’t effect me that much, they just let me be more focused and alert 🚨😂 Example: I leave my baby in the safe playpen, so I can do something around the house, then this intrusive thought come in and I’m scare she will chock on something inside ( even if there is nothing to be choked…

Little one goes to bed around 7/8PM, we wake up to feed at 10/11PM and then he goes back to sleep until 5/6AM. Some wake ups in the night but never for food. Do you ever drop the 10/11PM feed as that seems like a long time to sleep? If yes, how would you know when to do it and would you increase frequency of feeds i...

Has anyone found using bottles of formula at night helps their baby sleep longer stretches? I’m exclusively pumping but considering doing this.

I was exclusively breastfeeding my LO for the first couple of weeks, but was advised to introduce formula as she wasn't gaining weight. Since introducing it, life has been so much easier and I have been much less stressed about how much food she is getting. She is also gaining weight really well. I am still breastfe...