Offering breast as comforting baby

Hello everyone! 👋🏼 I have a 5 weeks old baby who is fully formula fed now ( since he was 2 weeks old) but he likes to pacify on my breast before bedtime to calm down as he is very colicky and gets quite unsettled after bath/ sleep time. Im wondering if offering the breast occasionally could ‘confuse’ him and might refuse to take bottle? Sorry if this is a silly question Im a FTM 🫣☺️ Many thanks for any advise x

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Sleep during day

I use the Huckleberry app, and a lot of the advice for daytime naps seems to be blackout curtains, white noise, etc. But that feels a bit excessive to me when it’s the middle of the day, so I’m looking for more realistic advice.

My baby is 3.5 months old and actually sleeps quite well at night. He usually only wakes 2–3 times to breastfeed. We used to co-sleep, but he has recently moved into a next-to-me cot and is doing well there at night.

Daytime naps are a completely different story! He pretty much refuses to sleep anywhere except his BabyBjörn bouncer. Please don’t come at me about the bouncer, I sit right beside him and watch him closely the entire time.

The problem is that because I have to stay there watching him, I can’t get anything done while he naps.

Has anyone managed to get their baby to nap in a cot during the day without completely blacking out the room? I’d love realistic tips on what actually helped your babies sleep during the day in a normal, light room. Did they eventually just get used to it? Any routines or tricks that worked for you?

Anyone else’s 13 mo trying to do headstands in bed?

Weird one, my little girl is in a continuous cycle of trying to do headstands in bed. She worms around pushing her head face down against the mattress and rams it up toward the frame of the bed. I try and try to redirect her to a more comfy position but it is constant. She’s fighting naps and night time sleep a fair bit too and this behaviour has been around for quite a few weeks now, although she slept through for the first time in forever last night.

We thought it was teething, then I took her to my gp yesterday just to rule out ear infection. I’m wondering if it’s her own way of self soothing? Sometimes she’s quite chilled doing it and other times it’s whilst she’s crying. We’ve checked for trapped wind, give her infacol and probiotics and ruled out allergens etc in case it was tummy upset. When we thought it was teething we also gave her calpol and teething gel and it didn’t stop her doing it. I don’t know if it’s a regression behaviour or a phase or whether somethings wrong?

Has anyone else had this with their kiddos? I’m a ftm and I’m just trying to figure out if it’s normal. 😅

What would you do?

Breastfeeding
Pros:
- Better for baby
- Don't have to pay for formula
Cons:
- I'm probably gonna get touched out
- Worries, what if I don't produce enough, latching etc
- I want my partner to be able to handle feeds too
- I'll be going back to work after 9m

Formula
Pros:
- Already know what I'm doing
- Dad can do feeds
- Feel like this will be easier when baby starts nursery at 9m but don't know.
Cons
- More expense

Also please give me more pros/cons for both as that might help me make a decision 😅

Day naps lengthening

Online I read somewhere around 4-5 months day naps could start lengthening. Has anyone’s baby started doing this who previously only napped 30-40 min? Just curious!

Sleep regression but we haven’t even had a progression !!

Some advice please !!!
My LO is nearly 12 weeks and the longest stretch at night is 4.5 hours that’s happened VERY infrequently and most of the time he sleeps only 1.5-2.5 hour blocks. I’m exhausted, emotional and finding I am getting frustrated and inpatient at night because I feel as though we should be making some kind of sleep progress at this age. I then feel guilty about being frustrated later in the day.

All I can find is info on sleep 3 month regression at this age but I don’t feel like he’s even progressed to have a regression?! Is it normal to still be feeding on demand in the day and night? Occasionally he’s settled back to sleep with rocking and no feeding but not often. Is there light at the end of the tunnel ? My partner works long hours so I try not to involve him in nights but lately it’s been a joint effort but as I’m EBF, he can’t do much so I feel I always end up waking up anyway even if he does help out.

Baby washing

Not sure if this is going to sound silly but what are we doing with fluffy coats/pram suits etc I feel like washing them is going to ruin them or make them look shabby