Best of Luck Mamas!

I was originally due 10/05/23 with my first baby girl but she was brought into the world a little early on 9/28. I wanted to wish all of the October moms the best of luck as you look towards your due dates this month! 🩷 Some things this whole process has taught me:

- When it was go time, I really didn’t care if I pooped or not when I pushed. Hot button topic, I know, but baby > poop. 😂

- Learning to swaddle has been a life saver for my little one. If she’s fussy a sleep sack won’t cut it, but a swaddle will usually calm her down.

- My nurse touched to show me where to push and it helped SO much. If you are having a hard time it might help, and good focused pushes helped so much.

- Small amounts of postpartum sleep with a newborn are WAY better than the restless sleep you get towards the end of your pregnancy.

-Use the nursery if your hospital allows it! Night one was so tempting to just soak in all the time with baby, but you need your sleep. You having more energy to address baby’s needs is better than having none.

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I second the pooping! After a pushing I felt a little slip out and just announced, “I pooped, so sorry” 😆 it really was no big deal compared to the fact I was pushing a human out if my vagina!!

What also helped my know where to push was closing my eyes and visualizing him coming down my birth canal. Really helped me to focus and not keep it all in my face.

I really like the idea of using the nursery while in hospital so I can sleep but then, once you get home, how do you know what to look out for in the night and how to monitor their sleep if your baby hasn’t spent the first few nights with you? I feel like I would be more anxious to have the baby sleep in my room once we get back home if I haven’t already tried it under the nurses supervision. How did you deal with that part, i.e. learning how to monitor/supervise while sleeping once you get home?

I will say that with babies sleeping so much of the time, there was plenty of time where she was sleeping during my 48 hours I had to be there before being discharged. I felt like I had plenty of opportunities, at least with my birth experience, to ask questions to my nurses about her sleep while I was there!

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When did you circumcise your baby?
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Vanilla extract

Has anyone used alcohol free vanilla in their babies formal to help them drink?
I’m 100% sure my baby refuses her bottles as she doesn’t like the taste of it!

Just anxious to try it, don’t want her to get used to it and then refuse bottles again after two weeks of using (correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve read you use it for 2 weeks max)

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Can someone pls help i keep making this post and nobody is responding

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?

Car seat crying

My 6 month old PANICS the second I put him in a car seat and screams, cries, chokes and recently even projectile vomited on a 14 minute drive. It’s gotten to the point I don’t even bring him out unless it’s to a doctors appointment. I’m a stay at home mom with no family in my state and it has been very isolating. We’ve tried 3 different car seats with no improvement. Has anyone had a baby who hated the car seat? Any advice? This started at 3 months. I will add it does seem worse when he’s tired. He does cry on every trip though. He only contact naps and co sleeps so he reaches for me and will not sleep in the car seat.

Sex post C section

Hi ladies I’m 4 weeks 5 days postpartum and I had a C section. I’m not bleeding properly anymore just some brownish discharge stuff that starts on and off. I’d like to do the deed with my partner; is it okay to do so or shall I wait the full 6 weeks. I feel up for it but also worried because the advice is 6-8 weeks.

Postpartum

I’m only 3 days postpartum (FTM) and already have extremely bad anxiety. I’m crying every night, as I think of another night of no sleep. My baby will not settle in his cot, he cries every moment we put him down unless in his chair rocker. So me and my partner are having to alternate after 3/4 hours of being awake with him downstairs. I’m trying everything to get him to settle. It’s a load of overwhelming stress. I’m 23, I was desperate for a baby and now I have one and feel completely useless. I miss it just being me and my partner.