Moms on Call

Looking for some input on Mom’s on Call.

My LO is 3 months old and has to be rocked to sleep. His naps are crap naps unless I rescue it with holding him and his night sleep is all over the place. He’s EBF and will not take a bottle. He’s started sucking on his hands when he wakes up, but hasn’t mastered putting himself back to sleep and I’m thinking it’s because I help him get to sleep.

Moms on call just seems daunting and I’ve read so many things that say sleep training isn’t until 4+ months. But, MOC starts so much earlier. I just want him to be able to put himself to sleep!

Anyone have success starting MOC around this time with an EBF baby? I’m so nervous to hear him cry a lot. He‘a happy and a healthy 15lbs little man!

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It’s not because you help him get to sleep it’s because he’s 3 months old. It’s normal.

You cannot sleep train a 3 month old! This is developmentally appropriate.

Hang in there! I know it’s extremely hard on you, but soon he’ll be 4mo and you’ll be able to ST him. Same thing happened to me, then there was the 4 months sleep regression, I was a mess and exhausted. When my daughter was 4.5mo I decided to ST her and it was life changing. But before that she would only do contact naps and when she woke up at night would only go back to sleep nursing and would scream her lungs out when my husband picked her up. Again, hang in there, this will soon be over.

If he won’t take a bottle, MOC is probably not the right fit. And it’s not super breastfeeding friendly in my opinion. You need to know exactly how many ounces he’s eating during the day. And it does involve quite a bit of crying. 3 months is very young, you aren’t developing any “bad habits”, it’s just normal infant behavior.

My son is 15 months old and we still have to rock him to sleep, idk if he's spoiled at this point or if theirs a way we can break the habit. At this point I'm thinking he'll grow out of it with age

my girl is 5.5 mo and i’m interested in people’s experience sleep training. she has been co-sleeping with us since birth and we need to get her in her own space. what did you do?

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My boyfriend booked a trip for us to go to mexico for a week as my push present. I have severe anxiety leaving my 7 month old with my mom. I know she will be in good hands but she’s exclusively breast fed for the most part but accepts bottles just fine. i have all my pumping parts packed and will pump when baby normally eats but i don’t want baby to forget me or have latch issues when i return!! any mommas ever experience this?

When does it get better?

I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

Rant/WWYD

My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.

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Heya, my 3 week old daughter is currently exclusively breastfed and I’m not pumping. Can anyone recommend the best way to share the load with my partner? At the moment I’m doing all the feeds/burbs/settling and my partner is sleeping through which obviously isn’t sustainable, I’m trying to work out the best way to get him involved. Any advice very much appreciated!

Rapid cool/ hot shot method

Sorry if this sound stupid but how are we doing the hot shot method?
Are we boiling the kettle and letting it cool a little before adding to hot flask? Then with the cool water do you boil the kettle and leave it to cool right down before putting into another flask?
My baby brain is fried trying to work out the easiest way!

i just want someone to talk to😔😔😔😔

when things get hard i have nothing not any support from my partner im convinced he doesn’t even love me anymore but thats another story
I have a 3 yo and a 2yo that are in bed sleeping only just now. I have a 1 yo that’s been sleeping from 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock. I just gave her her milk and she would’ve gone back to sleep if it wasn’t that
I lost her dummy earlier in the day when I went out
so now she won’t go back to sleep and she won’t accept any of the other dummy’s i have!😔😔and it’s 10 o’clock and I’m gonna be up until 3 o’clock with her and when she does want to go to sleep i won’t have any dummy to give her she will accept and she won’t sleep without it i just wanna cry 😔i have nobody to talk to and i feel so alone i get no support from anybody i’m so tired and i don’t feel well to top it off😔