Crawling

Hello 👋🏻 My baby is 6 months and 1 week old and basically started crawling overnight. It started two nights ago while he was on my bed and he’s now full on crawling and FAST. It’s like a little army crawl, but he definitely gets from point A to B. He’s already getting into everything but what should I expect? I know I need to baby proof but I thought I would have more time😩 Any advice will be greatly appreciated!

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Genuine question for moms that feed baby with breast milk and formula

Hi, I’m a young FTM & I’ve recently heard of a lot of women that do either formula or mixed feeding. Since I exclusively breastfeed, I am just genuinely curious of what are the various reasons women choose this option?
I know some like low milk supply, going back to work & wanting your partner to help - but is there many other ones that maybe are less common/talked about?

Also curious, does the baby not mind having both the boob and bottle if you do mixed feeding?

Thrush

EBF mom, are we still breastfeeding our babies if they have thrush in the mouth and you’ve got it on your nipples and are both on medication? We’ve had it for four weeks now using different medicines and the doctor has told me to formula feed for 2 weeks so we can both heal, but I don’t want to stop breastfeeding 😭

Sleepover

I have a question and I want to get yall view on it. My son having a sleepover with my bf nephew and niece. The boys are 10 the girl is 7. I said the niece can sleep on a blow up mattress in our room because she doesn't need to be in the same room as the boys. My bf said im thinking too deep into it. What's your view on it

Asking grandparents to watch baby overnight

So I already feel guilty for even asking my MIL to have my baby (15months) overnight but I am at my breaking point, I am so exhausted as he wakes up every morning between 4.30am-5am and won’t go back to sleep until 9am and then he will have an hour before he’s up for the day. I’m home alone with him 90% of the time. I just need one night to catch up on sleep and to try and few human again but the thought of leaving him overnight is giving me some anxiety and the guilt of even asking someone to watch him is eating my alive. Any advice?

8/9 weeks fussiness

Girls, when does it stop 😭

My little one just turned 9 weeks and we had the most awful nights this week.
First it takes ages for her to go down at night, it's constant fighting, moaning, fussing for 4, 5h.
She wakes up after a first stretch and it's 1h30 at the breast with her crying every time I unlatch her.
I just gave her to daddy because I needed a break and she cried for 15min till she finally relaxed in his arms.
It takes us 2h trying to settle her to go back to sleep. And it's gonna be the same again in 2h.
We're exhausted and we don't know what to do anymore.

How long is it going to last?? When will we have a peaceful night again!

Baby will not sleep or settle

My baby is three weeks old and originally he was settling well. But the last few days have been absolute hell. I'm an SMBC so no partner or support network, it's just me and him. Last night he screamed all night, white noise didn't soothe him having given me a few hour's respite in the afternoon to wash my hair for the first time in a month (yes, really!). Eventually he fell asleep for a few hours on my chest but was agitated when I put him back in his cot. I tried everything last night but all he did was scream. I hate him being so distressed and nothing seems to work. He's exclusively breastfed so I need to take time to eat myself to protect the milk supply. Any advice would be greatly appreciated....