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Cone Head Baby (Caput Succedaneum): Why It Happens and When It Actually Rounds Out

Your Guide to Baby’s First Bath

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Travels With Baby: 23 Essential Tips

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Torticollis in Babies: What It Is, What to Look For & How to Help Your Baby

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How Often to Bathe a Newborn

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Newborn Scrunch Explained: Why Babies Curl Up and What It Means

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Newborn Baby: Feeding, Care, Sleep & What to Expect

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What Does It Mean If Baby Arches Their Back While Crying?

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What is Purple Crying? And What Does It Stand For?

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Breath-Holding Spell: What to Do When Baby Stops Breathing While Crying

Katie Mill

Helpful Resources for Parents of Children with Down Syndrome: What to Know & Where to Find Support

Holli Sheahan

Why Do Babies Cry On Airplanes?

Katie Mill

Baby’s First Pediatrician Visit: Your Expert Guide

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Childs Farm’s Complete Guide to Baby Skincare for Parents

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How Many Diapers Do I Need for a Newborn? (Hint: It’s a Lot!)

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How to Prevent Dehydration in Babies

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From the community

Recent discussions

Changing a baby with reflux

I'm not sure there's an solution for this but does anyone have any tips for changing a baby with reflux. I always change him before a feed but sometimes he'll need changing afterwards. If i lie him down too soon after a feed he'll spit up and then the hiccups will start and we'll have 30-40 minutes of trying to soothe him again. Its really frustrating.

Visitors - advice/rant

My baby is 8 days old today.
My brother and family are desperate to meet him.
But my brothers wife and child had a diarrhoea and vomiting bug when I spoke to him yesterday but he said they had been clear since early hours of morning.
Then this morning my mum told me he is planning on travelling up to see baby at weekend (they live 2 hours away).
Ive said id rather him not visit as been unwell this week and i’d rather be safe than sorry.
Am i being over the top?

Nursery bath days

How many times a week do you usually bath your toddlers when they are at nursery ??

Blow outs!!

I’m losing my mind with these blow outs.
EBF baby, on 2 meals a day but doesn’t eat more than a few spoons each meal.
She does 1x poo per day but it is EXPLOSIVE and leaks out almost EVERY day, especially if we’ve been in the car (so essentially house bound as she will 100% have a blow out). We have to strip her completely naked and clean her whenever we get to our destination and she has a complete melt down now the weather is colder.
This has been happening for almost 2 months now and I’m sick of it.
She’s 9kg now; we’ve sized up twice in the last couple months and currently in size 5 which is way above her weight. We’ve tried Pampers, Aldi, Rascals. Tapes and pants.
I don’t know what else to try!!?

4 month old breast-fed baby constipated

My baby hasn’t pooped in 2 days, it has happened a few time and I immediately start self doubting if he had enough milk or my supply wasn’t enough for him to poop.
Usually it goes back to normal after 2 days, worried if it is to do with my milk supply or constipation
He looks well otherwise and has enough wet nappies.

Bath time struggles

Anyone else's little one hate bath time

My little man is 6 weeks and screams everytime he has a bath. My daughter was the opposite and loved bath time when she was a baby 👶
Ive tried everything to make it an enjoyable experience but he always gets so worked up any tips ?

Reflux

My little girl is 6 weeks old. She has reflux but I feel like it’s currently at its worst. She is throwing up like 5+ times after every feed up to an hour after. We are going through like 8+ outfits a day and changing the sheets every night. Night feeds can take up to 2-3 hours as I keep having to change her and hold her up for 30+ minutes and she’s still throwing up when I put her down anyway and coughs/chokes on her sick. I’m getting hardly any sleep due to the time it takes and the worry of her choking. HV says as she is gaining weight well we don’t need to do anything about it. Does anyone have any advice or know when it may get better?

Nursery Nappy Changes

Mums, is it normal for baby to be returned to you with a full poopy diaper? Is it something that happens a lot, or not at all in your experience?

In our case it’s happened twice in the last 2 weeks and essentially on complaining I’ve been told “oh it was just 30 mins since we last changed her” but in my head, “nobody has gone within smelling distance of my baby for 30 mins”.

I’m happy with the nursery on most other things but a mum this is a basic non negotiable and now I’m wondering what else they don’t do properly (have had some concerns on food reporting, it’s always “all all” but she comes from nursery ravenous).

Not sure if expect too much but 2 unchecked poops in 2 weeks for me is not okay. It makes me worried coz I don’t have many alternative nurseries as well 😓

11 week old is crying it out while i hide in another room

It’s the cmpa, reflux, constant comfort nursing, n nothing ever being good enough i feel like im mentally checkin out. i dont know what to do

Development check

Has anyone had a letter for their babies 9-12 month development check yet? I had my daughters super early years ago and her appt was when she turned 9 months, but still not had anything for my son yet (start of Jan baby) so was just curious🥰

Pregnancy support belts

Are they worth it? I suffered with bad back pain in my first pregnancy towards the end. Are the support belts worth considering for my second pregnancy?

3 year vaccines

Just received my text about the 3yr vaccines, has anyones toddler had theirs yet?
Also what’s peoples opinion on them adding the chickenpox vaccine in?

Reflux

Has anyone else’s babies now around 4.5 months started to reflux way more than before? Seems every bottle I give now she throws up so much throughout the feed

Reflux!

My baby was just born on the first and he has really bad reflux and is screaming in pain every 10 mins and is refusing to be fed

Vaccination

I need some opinions please... my first is fully vaccinated no problems. But every vaccine appointment i had just a terrible gut feeling like I didn't want to do it. Now with my newborn im debating on what vaccines to get him. Which ones to delay or if I should do any at all? I feel like they want to give them way to many at the 2-8 month appointments.. and I hear that's when sids happen the most. So I just need some hell and opinions I don't have anyone else to talk to about this stuff.

Gluten Allergy please help

I have a a 7 week old EBF baby. We’ve been going through the elimination diet. Doctor told me cut everything out. Dairy, eggs, soy and if still showing symptoms to cut gluten out since gluten is more rare. Long story short ended up cutting all out due to symptoms still showing. Well I accidentally ate hidden gluten and all the symptoms are back and extremely uncomfortable.

Main questions is has anyone’s little one that was EBF had a gluten sensitivity or allergy and is it actually as rare as they say it is?

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