Am I doing this right?

Okay so my 5 1/2 month old has the weirdest sleep patterns, one day she’s sleeping 30 mins at a time and the next is 2 hours. When she sleeps 30 mins at a time I’ve tried leaving her to fall back asleep and she has but it’s rare, she will just sit in her bassinet and dilly dally for almost an hour and I can’t just have the whole day be trying to get her to sleep. When she sleeps for only 30 mins do I still wait 2 hours to put her down? If I put her down within an hour she will go back to bed but then again the whole day is basically doing a big sleep routine lol.. what am I doing wrong here?? She’s definitely a fomo baby and she needs to get a lot of stimulation out before bedtime or she becomes manic but I’ve been addressing that so I don’t know what else it could be?

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Every baby is different, but if my baby only takes a 30 minute nap, then her next wake window is a bit shorter than if she were to take an hour or an hour and a half nap. If this the nap before bed, i definitely wait as close to 2 hours before putting her to sleep

My baby does that too!! I don’t follow the sleep stuff, I know I’m supposed to but it was taking up my entire day. So now I j lay him down and if he wakes up we will play for a little while and then I’ll baby wear him while I clean. Most the time if I’m wearing him he will nap hour - hour and a half. And then be up for a while. At bed time tho he will sleep from 8-6 am

My baby sleeps from when we put him down at night till like noon the next day with exception of eating past 7 he goes right back to sleep after eating but after noon-1 he’s up the rest of the day unless he cat naps for like 20 minutes randomly throughout the day normally after a bottle tho the bottle holds special powers lol

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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?

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.

When does it get better?

I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

Rant/WWYD

My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.

Night time routine

Heya, my 3 week old daughter is currently exclusively breastfed and I’m not pumping. Can anyone recommend the best way to share the load with my partner? At the moment I’m doing all the feeds/burbs/settling and my partner is sleeping through which obviously isn’t sustainable, I’m trying to work out the best way to get him involved. Any advice very much appreciated!

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Are we boiling the kettle and letting it cool a little before adding to hot flask? Then with the cool water do you boil the kettle and leave it to cool right down before putting into another flask?
My baby brain is fried trying to work out the easiest way!