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Grief.

One of my best friends passed away exactly a month ago. She was pregnant and was actually a couple of days late from her due date. Unfortunately she passed away in a tragic car accident on her way to the hospital. Baby instantly passed. And she had severe brain trauma, and after 3 days of life support she was gone. ...

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Contact naps

Anyone else just contact nap with their babies? My little girl is 5 months and will sleep for up to 2 hours on me and at the most 25 mins in her cot. However, she can go for 4 hour stretches at night time. I love the cuddles, but now her naps are longer it’s becoming draining! I had anxiety and PND so found it diffi...

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Help - Going out

So my LO is currently two months old, and everything we try and go out somewhere we have about 30 minutes to an hour max where she is fine. After that she is hysterically crying, I fed change her and burp her but still is unhappy. We have tried using the pram, car seat, carrier and even just holding her but nothin...

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Sleep

Might be a one off but first time in months, she’s slept through with no feed or wake ups ✨ Feel like a new woman this morning 🙌🏽

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Losing my fuckin mind.

My mental health has plummeted, I can't stand anyone not even my 2 months old, I'm having panic attacks for unknown reasons, I literally just can't anymore. My baby won't stop crying and screaming and she's fed burped and changed and I offered her food again with no interest. I walked away I'm sleeping on the couch....

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Baths

So I keep over stressing about having baths as every time I look online it says you can only sit up right in the bath and should only stay in for 10 minutes, and the temperature should be like 38 degrees or something like that and I just wondered if anyone else followed this to a T or if some parts are more importan...

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MAM bottles - help 😂

Up until the last day or so my husband has been doing all the bottle prep but as he’s back at work next week (LO is 23 days old) I decided I should probably learn…I’m so confused re the MAM self sterilising bottles. The instructions say you need to dry after sterilising (using microwave) but also say in order for th...

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OMG!!

I JUST REALIZED I HAVENT GIVEN MY BABY VITAMIN D DROPS IN MONTHS!! I AM FREAKING OUT My baby was exclusively breastfed up until when he was 4 months old. He is now 6.5 months old…. I think the last time I gave him the drops was when he was around 3-4 months old…. WHAT SHOULD I DO??

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Milk Supply

Morning All, Looking for some advice on increasing milk supply…my LO is 9 weeks and EBF however recently I have noticed LO is getting frustrated at the breast (causing some nipple trauma) and after a little pumping session my milk supply seems to have dropped from around 4oz to 2/3oz, I am currently feeding and pum...

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Wondering if prep machine is giving babies colic & silent reflux?

We went on holiday to Tenerife last month, we had no prep machine, used the rapid cool all week and baby slept through every night. Been reading about silent reflux (which we think our LO may be suffering from) then starting coming across loads of articles that the Tommee Tippee prep machine is causing this?

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Toys

Anyone else seem to notice that fisher price toys just go off at random points during the day.. even if nobody is touching it. Scares the living day lights out of me!

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Help!? 6 month sleep regression so bad I can’t cope.

I can’t take it anymore, I just don’t know what to do. I feel like we’ve gone from the 4 months to 6 month regression without a break. Nothing is helping or working. LG use to sleep well waking 0-1 times until 3months. Then it was 3-4 times, then hourly and then back to 2-3. We have a good routine, she goes to sl...

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Visitors

Hi all, I’m a first time mum and gave birth to my baby girl last week. She is perfect in every way! However I’m very nervous about having visitors over, especially over Christmas when there is so many colds and viruses going around. I unfortunately missed having the RSV vaccine during pregnancy too. How are you all ...

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Hip pain

I need this baby out 😫 not allowed to sleep on my back or belly, but can't sleep on my left side as my left hip is in agony, can't sleep on my right side as my right hip is in agony. I just want to sleep without pain

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Girl VS Boy ?

Is it me or is my daughter accomplishing milestones faster than my boys ? ... I had 2 boys before my girl and it just seems like she's holding bottles , crawling & walking , and talking much faster than my boys did . Have y'all experienced that as well ?

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Formula feeding

My LO is now 3 days old and doesn’t drink more than 2 oz a time every four hours which we have to wake her every time for and the midwife said this isn’t enough is anyone else In the same boat?

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