Baby turned into dinosaur

Did anyone else's baby start screeching like a dinosaur at around 6 months? It's not even crying, just screaming 🙈

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2 yo raptor. I have a 2 yo who does it. I ignore it. It’s for attention

I have a 15 month of velociraptor. It's not even just crying either, like idk maybe she was a velociraptor in her past life but she's constantly making dino noises

My daughter did it, we made noises back to her, she slowly started talking and then now it's mostly talking, now if her baby brother makes a weird noise she does it back to him lol

I remember when my daughter used to do this 🤣 thankfully she stopped, but once she made the noise so loud in a shop she scared a baby and made him cry 🫣 mortified

This is all so funny and good to know its not just mine! Hoping the current phase will pass soon 😅

At that age it’s discovering their voice. Talk it out!

My daughter's almost 4 months and she's finding her voice, she's babbling but also really high-pitched squeals. I think there's something wrong until I look at her and see a huge smile on her face ☺️

This is what my almost 4 month old baby have been doing since about 2 ish month.. He screams and yells 😭

We’ve just had this with my 4 months old. He’s been squealing like a dinosaur for fun but also while crying. He’s like addicted to this new scream since he figured out he could do it

@Catalina haha yeah, it's like they're so excited by their new skill 🙈

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I need to rant I’m so upset

When I was pregnant my mother in law told me part of her Nigerian culture is to wash the baby with African black soap when they are a day old. Apparently in their culture it is said to stop body odour. Now even I wouldn’t use African black soap on my own skin it is SO DRYING. I was so against it because newborn skin is so delicate and I LOVE the newborn baby smell, but I didn’t want to upset her and I didn’t want to offend my partner. So I asked to compromise, I said can we do this when he’s a little older, like 3 months where his skin is more mature. She agreed, she asked if she could use an African net to scrub him, I said absolutely not.
Fast forward to the day after my son was born we had a big altercation where she and my partner accused me of starving my son because I refused formula and wanted to breast feed but I wasn’t producing enough ( it was the next day, my body was just producing colostrum and I was feeding it to him through a syringe) he was absolutely fine she just wanted to be a bitch. I was so upset and refused to speak to her or my partner. Eventually me and my partner we made up and our son spent 7 days in neonatal unit and was eventually told we can go home. He spoke to his mum who said she didn’t feel welcome in our home ( I lived with my mum at the time). I told him to tell her it’s the home of her grandson she is more than welcome. He then said that she said she’ll only come to see her grandson on the day he comes out of hospital if she can do the African black soap. I felt manipulated because how could I say no. So she did it. And she scrubbed my son silly. He was 6 days old, I’m still traumatised. Now he’s 4 months and has the driest ezecma prone skin. It’s heartbreaking I’m trying everything. My partner said he had ezecma as a baby/kid, but when I ask my mother in law she lies and says he didn’t when I know he did. How could he not? You scrubbed your son just like how you scrubbed mine. I’ve tried everything, creams, baths, no soap just water like how I would have wanted to do from the beginning. I can’t help but feel so much resentment. She got to do her silly ritual for her grandson and F off and now I’m left with a baby with such sensitive ezecma dry skin. I hate her for it, our relationship has never been the same since my baby was born. I’ve told my partner how I feel and he understands but it’s his mum so he feels like he can’t do or say anything. Any way I just wanted to rant. If anyone is of Nigerian descent and has had this done to their child, what did you do to help them? Did they have dry skin too? Or if anyones child has dry or ezecma prone skin, what did you do?

Thank you.

Starting to dislike breastfeeding

I know it’s completely normal but our girl is sometimes only going every hour in the night for a feed and then she will fall asleep not even getting a full feed so I have to try and wake her.

It’s really starting to get to me the lack of sleep, I’m jealous my husband is getting like 7 hours a night when he could help if it was formula, and can’t stop comparing to my first who at this age was taking an expressed bottle 3 times a night only.

Any breast feeding mums - when does this get better? I don’t think I can do it much longer. I find myself getting frustrated with this gorgeous girl in the early hours and I hate that. I don’t want to pump this time either

Nap routine?

When is the best time to start getting a routine in with napping? And what do you do, eg put them in crib, contact nap, let them fall to sleep on you then transfer them, what if your out? I feel a bit clueless with it all x

Period after 5 weeks

Hello,
Just wondering if there any other women out there who got their period after 5 weeks. I am exclusively breastfeeding as well. It looks like my normal period flow but wanted to check if there were any other women out there who’ve had a similar experience.

Nappy brands

What nappies is everyone using? We are having regular poonami’s and have tried a few different brand and sizing up 😩

Feel down after Health Visitor review

Had the 9 to 12 month review today. They said he’s lost some weight and is on the 25th percentile and I need to drop milk feeds and just focus on solids. I’ve been giving him 3 meals a day but he doesn’t always want it and will want milk afterwards. They say to breastfeed for as long as possible but now I’m being told to stop offering so much. So when should I breastfeed him? It doesn’t help that he usually needs feeding to sleep. His sleep is terrible but rather than be given advice I was told it was wrong to co sleep despite the last health visitor we saw recommending it! I just feel so confused and like I’m doing everything wrong