Working Moms: Mastering Marriage, Motherhood and Your Career

Burdening my husband with my feelings???

I am quite an emotional person and process those emotiones through talking and venting. Because I don’t have anyone else I feel comfortable talking to, I dump it all on my husband. I can tell he’s not always listening or just exhausted and can’t handle it. Half the time he is a wonderful listener, and great husband overall, but I struggle with needing an outlet and right now he is my only one. Anyone else dealt with this? Am i being to hard on him? What do I do with all my emotions??

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Car seat

What car seats did you move onto once your little one outgrew their first car seat? Any you’d recommended (or avoid)

Pump recommendations?

I’m exclusively breastfeeding my 7 week old, but would like to now have a freezer stash and have the option for my partner to do an evening feed, I’ve seen the momcozy pumps, but they are quite expensive any recommendations for something cheaper? ☺️ thanks!

Breastfeeding continuously

I am starting to feel like all my baby does is latch to my boobs (she has since birth if I’m honest) I understand they use the boobs for food, comfort, to regulate themselves etc, which I don’t want to stop but it’s beginning to make me feel isolated and unable to do anything other than sit and feed her. Advice or suggestions welcome to get me through 🙏 x

Overfeeding newborn?!

Today I found out from my GP that feed on demand relates to breastfeeding. I’ve in fact been overfeeding my precious newborn and I feel both embarrassed and guilty.

I’m neurodiverse so I took that phrase literally and although I shouldn’t I feel so bad. She’s been in pain and her stomach was large!! My husband was like that’s normal and I’m so happy I finally listened to myself to get it checked after being gaslit so many times.

Anyway, this is to say follow your instincts and ignore formula pack feeding guidance 😅

Colostrum harvesting

Anyone else really struggling to collect any colostrum? I've tried all of the recommendations for it and watched several videos but just getting nothing. I'm worried as I'm due to go in for a c section on Friday ☹️

Sleep training

No hate please, I know this is a controversial topic.

Has anyone looked into sleep training now our little ones are approaching 5 months old? My daughter is still waking multiple times in the night and needs her dummy, rocking or feeding to get back to sleep. She is also very hard to get to sleep at bedtime. I am not set on eliminating night feeds altogether as I know these are normal, but I would like to be able to get some sleep in the near future and also do my eldest daughter’s bedtime, which is impossible at the moment.

Considering some form of sleep training but don’t really know where to start. Is anyone else looking into this or have any advice?