Co- sleeping 🥰💕
Can I just say to all those co-sleeping mama’s out there…… you’re doing one of the most natural things possible providing security, love, care and attention to not only your babies needs but your own 💕 It is so right yet you are lead to believe it’s so wrong! Why?
Soak in all the love and cuddles whilst they are small as one day they won’t need us like we need them 🥰💕
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My discharging midwife told me not to co sleep after giving me the lullaby trust leaflet that shows the safest way to co-sleep, safe to say our bed is not the perfect co sleeping picture, but I have a happy baby 90% of the time ♥️
I was terrified of co sleeping for a few different reasons but after weeks of exhausting nights I started to co sleep and its been the best thing ever I wake beofre she cries to settle her and feed her she sleeps 6/7 hour between feeds at night and I sleep much better !
I was actually afraid to leave my baby in a cot away from me. I couldn't sleep at all...
We co-slept from the beginning, but now he sleeps in his bed next to me.
He sleeps on his belly and loves it. As a breast feeding mama I can't imagine getting off the bed for at least 5 times at night to nurse him.
I don't like sleeping alone at all and can't imagine leaving my child to sleep by himself while me and my husband are cuddling.
Everyone is different, we really don't mind to have him in our bed!
Even though where I come from people say "Babies don't belong in their parents bed"!
We had next to the bed crib for the first two months and after that we started to co-sleep because he just couldn't sleep in the cot by himself and moved around. When he would be in our bed in the middle he would sleep so calmly
It’s such a shame , it’s the Same with the narrative feeding your baby to sleep is a bad habit. The milk is designed to help baby fall asleep and to sleep better 🫶 Social media is just making things up so we will buy more crap, courses , cribs!!
& if your not co sleeping you're not traumatising your baby! I keep seeing so much negativity about getting them into their own room and sometimes that is what's best for you both too 😭 it's making me feel like shit for doing it but we are both sleeping so much better
10 months of co sleeping & we’ve just bought a floor bed so she can learn to get in and out safely as she’s been waking up when I’m not in the room and crawling to the edge! I’m racing up like a bat out of hell when I see the camera. But she’s a happy co sleeping baby. She sleeps 7-7 with no feeds or wakes usually unless new teeth are coming.
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3. When did you start washing baby clothes and packing hospital bag? I pretty much have everything we need already so I could pack now I just don’t know if I should wait. Same with washing babies clothes etc I plan on washing all newborn and 0-3 months initially then bigger sizes closer to when she’ll actually need them but I still have 8 weeks how early did you start washing clothes and organising drawers etc?
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Can someone please tell me this gets better 😭😅
My baby was sleeping really well and now his sleep is completely chaotic, he will go to sleep initially but then 3 hours later he’s making noises, crying out etc and then it’s every hour after that!😭 he can fall asleep on his own most of the time so I don’t understand this and what I’m meant to do. He’s 13 weeks old but I’d say the disrupted sleep has been happening for the past 2/3 weeks.
Anyone else? or anyone else been through this and know when it ends/how to help it?
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My partner woke up with a cold on Monday, and I knew it was obviously going to do the rounds in our house! 🙄
I have a bit of a sore throat/headache - nothing major, but little miss (nearly 10 weeks) has woken up a little bit bunged up today. 🤧
I managed to collect and freeze about 50ml of colostrum before she arrived, and I’m wondering if I should give her some of that preemptively? If so, how much is enough? Wanna protect my supply as much as I can especially with winter on the way but if I can use it as a preventative measure I absolutely will! 🤷🏼♀️🫶🏼
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What do we think about this, am I being dramatic for being annoyed ?
Last time my in laws saw baby, she was super unhappy because she was hungry (The mum kept saying to just give her a dummy) I left the room about 5 times to breastfeed so they hardly saw her.
Last night we visited them & I made sure I even topped up with formula to avoid that situation happening again so they can have some nice cuddles. She had been awake for ages then fell asleep on the 5 min car journey there.
When we got there and put her in their arms…all they both did was complain that she’s sleeping and kept saying “do something” and kept shaking her arms and legs and poking her face and saying “wake up”.
I explained to them to please do NOT wake her as I’ve literally only just got her to sleep 5 mins ago so she will be super unhappy, she will just cry and want boob. Did they listen? No.
She’s a newborn for Christ sake. When she’s awake she doesn’t do much anyways. What do they expect?
The mum then phoned her neighbour and asked if she wanted to come see the baby (didn’t ask me if that was ok, this person is a stranger to me). She came in with her husband and child, all started touching her….they all visibly had a rotten cold !!!
After some time, they admitted they were really ill. I just looked at my partner, hoping he’d say something in that moment.
But I mean, the damage was already done. They’ve all already touched her and got up in her face.
Every time I visit my in laws they do stuff I’m not happy with. Just puts me off seeing them every time.
I can’t mention it to my partner because any time I do, he gets defensive and angry at me🤣
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