I’m desperate..

This may be a long shot, not sure if this is allowed but I’m desperate. Anybody willing to share their Taking Cara Babies course or any sleep course? I’m broke, desperate and sleep deprived

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I don't have a sleeping course but may be able to offer a few tips. I have a few questions.
What is your baby's bedtime routine?
How many naps is your baby taking? How long are the naps?
What is your baby's diet?

Feel free to message me!

I don’t have one but my son literally just started sleeping through the nights a couple months ago. Happy to offer advise if you’d like it

He’ll have a bath but sometimes there’s not enough time so it’ll be diaper change sleep sack then feed to sleep. Typically he takes two naps that are about 2.5 hours total. I try to keep his diet majority whole foods so eggs chicken and meat and fish with fruit and veggies and grain. He also breast feeds but working on introducing whole milk

yes please!

@Felicia he's sounds similar to my son. Here are a few things that helped us start getting our son to sleep through the night
-Calming lotion during his bedtime routine
- White noise during sleep
-I made sure he was getting 3 meals and at least 1 snack daily
-We started patting him to sleep. That was a big one for us because he was being fed and rocked to sleep. I started giving him his milk about 45mins before bedtime. We'll read a book after getting jammies on and I lay him down right after. I pat or rub his back for a few mins then walk out the room. Usually he'll cry for about 30 secs, suck on his favorite teether and go to sleep a few mins later. If he cries longer than 30 secs then I'll go in pat him again for a bit and walk out. If he doesn't settle down after a few rounds of that then I know it's something else....more than likely teething. We started doing the patting because I read that when we rocked, he would wake up expecting to still he held.

just any lotion? I’ve seen ads about magnesium lotion but not sure if that actually worked or not. Yeahh my baby is big on being fed to sleep but will also let me bounce on a ball to sleep. We started patting him to sleep a few months back and that worked for a while but all of a sudden he wasn’t having it at all so we fell back into the habit of feeding to sleep. I definitely need to give that another go. So you started patting him to sleep and then eventually just patted him a little bit and walked out before he fell asleep?

We use baby aveeno calming lotion. I also use zarbees soothing chest rub from time to time...especially if he's had a fussy day. It's not just for when they have colds.

Yes, I use to pat to sleep but it started hurting my back to lean over the crib for so long.

ahh okay thank you!

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

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

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?

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

Car seat

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

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