Sleeping

I am a FTM and my little girl is 4 months old, we have found recently that we have been disturbing her in the night we if get up for a drink or the loo. Does anyone have any tips, she Currently is in a next to me with all the sides up. We have even tried putting it away from our bed just incase we were knocking her. Don't really want to put her into her own room yet but don't want to keep disturbing her in the night, it's been a month and can't seem to find a way to stop disturbing her. She's normally a wake up once a night girl but at the minute it's 4/5 times

Read more on Peanut

The views expressed in community are solely the opinions of participants, and do not reflect those of Peanut.

Learn more about our guidelines.

Add a comment

My baby is the same the slightest twitch from us and she’s awake. Don’t even have to get out of bed. Hopefully someone else has tips for us!

I've been reading up about the 4 month sleep regression and during this time apparently they become really light sleepers and want comfort constantly. If it is that then I just hope it passes quickly for you 🙏 it HURTS when they go from waking once to every other hour or more xx

We’ve found this with our son and he’s 4 months, it’s painful to have the lack of sleep. We’ve found a white noice machine helps for naps during the day and we might try this at night too to help mask some of the noises as we move around. We’ve found that we give my son a dummy whilst he’s asleep but wriggling and that helps to calm him too

in our community

Only child - I cried this morning

I have a son who’s 2 and I do not want anymore. I suffer with mental health and I cannot have anymore due to that reason.
But my sister in law has said how sad she feels for my little boy being alone etc and it’s not fair that I will
Leave him alone and the guilt I feel is awful 😭😭😭 the thing is not one of my partners side of the family help us

Hot take. I think it's better to rehome your pets after having kids if it's affecting your postpartum mental health.

I had to. I had cats and I could not manage the twins and take care of them. It wasn't possible for me.

Am I being selfish?

My husband has had a lay in until 9am the last two mornings whilst I’ve taken the baby downstairs from 6am so he could have peace and quiet.

This morning was meant to be my turn for a lay in, he is cuddling the baby but he is crying in the bed and I say to him, I think he needs his nappy done as that’s why he is crying and he ignores me after I told him around 5 times that the nappy needs to be done as baby isn’t settling… so I took the baby off him and did the nappy myself and took baby downstairs and said to husband enjoy your lay in 😂

I don’t understand why he couldn’t just do the nappy or take him downstairs like I do for him 😫

Is anyone else’s husband like this?

Not crawling

My LO just turned 8 months as isn’t crawling, not sure if I should be concerned.
He goes up on straight arms and pushing around and off things

When to feed more?

When do you know when to feed your newborn more ozs? My LO (almost 6 weeks old) has been on 3oz, sometimes 3 and a half if he seems extra hungry. But lately he’s been getting hangry an hour before his next feeding time (we go every 3 hours), and he seems to struggle pooping. I tried him on 4ozs, and he seemed just fine, there was a little extra spit up but other than that he went back to normal with not getting angry between feedings and his pooping was back to normal. Should I keep him at 4ozs?

Time flies- first time mom

I just wanted to share how I’m feeling and see if anyone else feels the same. My baby was born March 4th and he’s just turned 2 months. I find myself very emotional and sad that he has grown so much. At first I was so overwhelmed with fear of having to take care of a whole other human- he was so tiny- but now that he’s getting big I wish I could go back in time. Obviously it’s good he’s growing and is healthy but it’s so sad how time flies.