Baby wipes or cotton wool

What is everyone using for newborn please?

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baby wipes

Baby wipes

I did water wipes for a couple of weeks then just sensitive baby wipes :)

Cotton wool

We are still on cotton pads when needed with our semi-potty trained 2.5yrs old 😊 for me it was always easier. I only use wet wipes when out & about 😊🤷‍♀️

Used cotton wool for a bit with my first but I’ll use straight wipes with my second x

Probably cotton wool at first and then reusable wipes. Maybe some good brand disposable baby wipes for out and about 😊

I used water wipes throughout, still use them now and my son’s 3 😂 we use the Huggies ones x

Baby wipes

Wipes. We use mama bear from Amazon on a subscription they’re so good x

I took cotton wool to the hospital but they never provided anything to put warm water in so il be using baby wipes this time

I tried to use cotton pads with my first but underestimated how much more convenient wipes were!! We use the Amazon sensitive wipes on repeat subscription, we get a box delivered every month so we never run out x

Think I’ll do what I did with my first again, cotton wool pads with warm water in the beginning and then switch to wipes

Bought baby wipes for my first and you quickly find out they will cry because they are cold. Better to use cotton wool and warm water xx

I’ll be using cotton wool and warm water first 2 months or so. Babies skin is so sensitive and thin so wouldn’t be comfortable going straight to wipes except when we’re out and about. I’ve ordered water wipes but being a winter baby isn’t going to be ideal using cold wipes :(

We are using water based wipes (the huggies ones are best value for money), we are using them because I can't stand the smell or normal wipes even the fragrance free ones.

We pretty much loved Aldi’s Mamia wipes. It was moist and large enough and cheap

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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

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

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?

Crawling and walking

So my girl is 9 months now and shes great at sitting up and stays on her tummy for awhile but she seems to have no interest in trying to move or crawl or bum shuffle. Shes a big baby always has been but I'm disabled and I feel like it's my fault she's not hitting milestones I feel like there's something I'm not doing and it's making me a bad mum

Night feeding in sleeping bag

Do you guys keep your baby in their sleeping bag when you feed them in the night, or do you take it off? I take it off as don’t want him to be too hot but then sometimes when he’s sleepy after his feed and I go to put it back on him he wakes up and is fussy. Not sure if I should just keep him in it?