EBF baby not putting weight on!!

My baby is 8 weeks, and I've been told my baby is dropping percentiles so we're going for regular weigh ins again and it's making me feel anxious. I feed on demand, let her comfort feed, offer both sides and try not to let it go more than 4 hours without a feed. I don't know what else I can do. The regular weigh ins make me feel like I'm being a terrible mum. Sometimes when she's asleep I'm forcing her to get up which really agitates her too.

Can anyone offer me any advice?

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Starting solids, effect on breastfeeding?

Hey mamas, my 6 month old has been having a blast trying solid foods. She will try to eat anything and everything and nothing slows her down. Has anyone had a negative impact on breastfeeding after starting solids? My girl has had lots of "breastfeeding strikes" and gets mad about nursing a lot.

Crawling

My baby is refusing to crawl and she is 9months old. She hates being on her stomach. She also isn’t pulling herself up. I know she has arm, ab and neck strength. I don’t know what’s going on. She just throws a absolute fit.

napping/self soothing tips

my little one is 10 weeks old, and when tired he used to like being rocked to sleep and have either a dummy, a bottle or to suck his hands. over the last few days he’s started to really fight sleep and i feel awful because he gets so upset and it takes much longer than before to get him to sleep, and sometimes i have to resort to driving him around to get him to sleep, which with the petrol prices currently is not ideal😂 does anyone have any tips on how to let him self soothe/put himself to sleep? i don’t know if it’s maybe too early for that yet but i want him to be getting the sleep he needs and if he’s able to do it without my help then that works out better for him!

mother in laws 🤷🏻‍♀️

i’ll preface with she’s amazing, raised my trophy husband as a single mom, and i’m lucky she was a labor and delivery nurse for like 30 years but just looking for some solidarity here.

anyone else get deeply annoyed when MIL tells YOU who your baby is?? I mean a baby cries, babies get fussy, but MIL telling me “It must be her personality, I think she’s going to be a vocal one” etc etc makes me think, “bruh she’s been alive only a few months, she hasn’t had the time to develop a personality” and she sees her just a couple hours a week so I’m more of the mind like, baby just isn’t used to you but biting my tongue here!!!

9 day old not sleeping

First time mum, my 9 day old baby will not sleep during the night in her bassinet, during the day she's fine and sleeps everywhere and anywhere and feeds fine (breastfeeding), however during the night from around half 7 she gets very fussy is constantly wanting to feed and everytime I try and put her down in the bassinet she'll stay there for around 5 or 10 minutes then gets all fussy and starts crying again and chewing on her hands (taking that as a sign she's still hungry and wants to feed more) this can go on for a few hours until she finally settles and sleeps for about an hour or two and then repeats itself.

Is this normal for her age and is there anything I can do to help her get into a better sleep pattern?

Thanks x

To pump or not to pump?

That is thy question 😂

No but seriously my breasts are so heavy and aching. I’m 5 months pregnant and my milk didn’t fully “dissolve” from my first pregnancy two years ago. I didn’t breast feed because I wasn’t able to produce much milk but something tells me it will be different this time around.

Anyone with 2 under 2 experienced this type of discomfort? Should I use the pump to see if anything comes out and if so, how long should I be on it?

Help 🥺