Wake window or nap time?

Those of you who have managed to get into a routine with your little one, do you take your babies for a walk during their wake window or nap time? My little one is 8 weeks old and will more than likely sleep once the pram is moving, but don’t want to take her during nap time incase she doesn’t sleep or incase the walk doesn’t last as long as her nap needs to be🤣 but also don’t want to take her in her wake window incase she sleeps and throws herself off ! Trying really hard to get into a routine and failing miserably 🤣

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I walk for nap time with the bassinet that way when we are home she can stay sleeping

I have the exact same issue. Interested to see what others do

I walk during nap time usually in the papuse as I time it with the dog walk and if it is a shorter nap then he will generally have a longer one in the next nap cycle. I try not to stress too much on the times or I’ll be forever routine trapped x

Hey
I may be slightly different to others. I have a 2 year old, 3 times a week we do the nursery run and on days we are at home I need to get out and about with my toddler (he has alot of energy).
This means naps for my 6 week old are all over the place.

I work on as long as he gets something between feeds and try 1 nap a day in his crib so it is a long one (usually around lunch time) that's a good start.
I have also tried having a longer wake window before his evening/ night feed. That way it sets him up tired for the night.

Get a rockit rocker for the pushchair, take out whenever you like but if they fall asleep, you don’t have to carry on walking as you can put the rocker on.

My lo will have his first nap 2-2,5 hours after he wakes up from the night. So it's usually around 10-11. I would take him for a walk so he can fall asleep, or if the weather is shit I take him for a car trip. He will sleep for around 3 hours after the walk/trip.

Walk during naptime and then just keep him in the carrycot 😊

I go for walk during nap time and leave in the pram in my hall outside livingroom door if she's still sleeping when we get home

Usually nap time bur I've found if she's been asleep ans had a good nap then we go on a walk she will stay awake and she is 7 weeks

Maybe I’m in the minority but with my 10 week old I just leave whenever and have never really tracked his naps/feeds, I just like to try and feed and change him as soon as possible to when I leave x

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Over supply of milk

I am nearly 5weeks postpartum and I have such a big over supply of BM.
Has anyone donated / sold their supply, if so where do you recommend for this?

AITA

In the uk there is an outbreak of meningitis, in a specific area mainly. My BD has family from that area and decided to go and meet up with them, I said if he does then he cannot have contact with the kids for 7-10 days after incase he picks anything up. Am I being over dramatic? I reallyyy don’t want my young kids getting anything serious

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

Baby clothes

Just out of curiosity, why do parents love zipper onesies?

Don’t get me wrong, I tried zipper ones it’s easy to zip in and out when putting it on the first time and taking it out, but I find it difficult when changing diapers especially when baby is asleep.

I prefer those kimono style buttons where it’s easy to button or too down button with crotch snaps.

Is everyone thinking the same or different? Lol

Car seat

No idea which car seat to get next. Please hit me with your recommendations, 1year+ (preferably rear facing or 360). Thank you 🫶🏻

This might rattle some people

Ok, this might get a bit long, and a bit bumpy, so get comfy and buckle up.

So about a week or 2 ago, there was a post on here regarding sleepovers. Not letting their child go to them as you can't trust who'll be at the house etc.

Now, given recent incidents in nurseries and schools, plus my own experience back in the 90s, I am more concerned about sending my child to nursery and later school than I am to a friend's house for a sleep over.

The other day a man was jailed for abusing children at the nursery he worked at. A woman has been arrested for sleeping with an underage boy and then getting pregnant by a different underage boy while on bail for the first offence.

Young girls and boys get sexually harassed and bullied when at school, not all of them. But more than you think. And not just by other kids, but by adults who we as parents are trusting to look after our kids.

A sleepover, is a more controlled environment, with only a handful of people coming into contact with your child. A school, a club etc there can be 100s of people coming into contact with your child.

I was targeted at 7 years old by the owner of a prominent private school. Thankfully, I wasn't SA'd. In year 5 of primary school, I started to develop early, I was harassed by the boys and teachers made remarks about how my uniform didn't fit right, always "adjusting it" around my chest and legs.

Years 7-9 of secondary school were hell. But it was all under the guise of "we're just messing around". A teacher twanging my exposed bra strap (none uniform day) is not "messing around".

Boys pinning me down trying to rip open my shirt to see my breasts.

I fear for my daughter. I hope she takes after my father's family, flat chested.

We need to educate all our children, what is acceptable behaviour. And to come to us, as their parents should ANYTHING happen.