Life with a newborn brings lots of time to think and lots of things to worry about: from formula and breastfeeding to sleep and self-care. Peanut is here to share real stories from real women and expert information to support your first year of motherhood.
hey ladies I let my newborn sleep on my chest for a few hours as it’s the only way he would settle and go to sleep and now I’m so scared he might develop SIDS? What do I do 😣 please help
Our 10m old girl is happy to fall asleep with dad during the day (carrier or pushchair) and sometimes even in the evening on his chest. 90% of evenings she falls asleep on the boob. We want to get dad to settle her if she has a false start, as it's been always boob to the rescue. If he comes upstairs, she cries unt...
When did/is everyone hand expressing and collecting colostrum ?! I’m so eager to start
I got the stomach flu 4 days ago and since then my milk is like so clear is this normal I'm confused it looks normalish in the pic but irl it's like clear 🤔should I still feed it to my baby
When my baby girl was born my MIL came over quite often and kept telling me how she needed to do a massage on my baby girl. This included some sort of leg press (apparently so that my little one wouldn't end up with arched legs?), shaping her head and squeezing my little ones breasts (apparently this prevents them f...
So for a while my little girl has been crying, screaming and generally in pain and uncomfortable during her feeds (formula bottle fed on Aptimil). We went to the doctors last week and he said it sounds like colic so we have started using Colief in all her feeds which had worked amazing and she wasn’t having any trou...
Has anyone else given a breastfed newborn a dummy? The hospital made us watch a video about how it prevents latching etc. I had planned on giving LB a dummy due to SIDs prevention etc but now unsure? I am planning on exclusively pumping and bottle feeding anyway just these first few days we’re doing breast so he get...
My baby wont settle at all today. Been eating and crying since about 2pm just can’t get her to settle down at all usually falls asleep on me after feeds but that hasn’t happened since this morning. Should I be concerned all I can do is call the doctors tomorrow but I’m just worryinf
Is it normal that I’m finding myself waking up in the middle of the night sleeping on my back? I’m 27 weeks pregnant and feel like it’s my body telling me to roll over!?!
What is everyone opinion on it ? For me I have slept in the same bed as my little girl she is 4 months but always scared to say it to people when ask me about where she sleeps but I find it so comforting when she is in the bed with me and to see her face light up in the morning when she see me and have morning cud...
My daughter is 7 weeks old tomorrow and tonight after her bath she began screaming, bright red, tears streaming down her face. Shes never done this before ever, she’s not one to cry unless I take to long getting my boob out to feed her. This lasted for about 45minutes and everything I tried didn’t work, eventually s...
Is it okay for babies to sleep on thier tummy overnight? My daughter has had a stomach ache all day and has not had a real nap unless he’s in her belly.
I have a newborn and my firstborn daughter has continuously gotten more and more angry I guess about the fact she has a sibling now. She is rude and mean and always on edge but only really towards me. I've tried talking with her about how I love her and all that, and how she will be a great big sister and I'm doing ...
My baby is 4 weeks old, and won’t go into her Moses basket, especially at night. We’re having to stay up with her because she only sleeps on us or next to us being cuddled. We’re very tired so any tips would be great 😊
I'm venting right now being as vulnerable as possible. So please don't come here judging me.I can't talk to anyone else so here I am My attitude has been getting me in alot of trouble these past couple days. When I feel like I'm being disrespected or played with my emotions take over and get the best of me. It's t...
At home I use huckleberry to track sweet spots and usually find them pretty accurate - my LG is still on 3 naps a day and (I think) shows signs of being tired after 2-2.5 hours. We can do a mix of contact naps or cot naps - contact naps sometimes she will do 30 mins and sometimes over an hour whereas the most we've ...
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