Feeding demand

For the ladies that have already had their babies, what oz of formula is your baby on if they’re formula fed?
My baby is 5 days old and very hungry. Currently at 2oz every 2 hours as she can’t go longer than that. I feel like 3oz every 3hrs may be too much for her? Any advice is welcome please!
Her current weight is 7lbs 1oz as per yesterdays weigh in x

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AITA

Should I be mad that my husband sleeps all day long…? He works 4pm-12am but doesn’t go to bed till around 2:30am… then he sleeps until 2-3pm… he misses almost all of the day with his 2 year old child and I’m currently pregnant with baby #2… idk if it’s pregnancy hormones but it just makes me so irritated and depressed because he literally misses out on everything…

14wk screams every time I put him down

PLEASE give me advice or tell me if this is a normal phase. My 14 week old is struggling to transition from one sleep cycle to the next during naps and will always wake up at 30 mins unless he’s being held.

If I even ✨attempt✨ to put him down, no matter how smooth (trust me I’ve tried all the tricks) he instantly opens his eyes and screams. He’s then so difficult to soothe back to sleep and gets himself so worked up.

I’ve tried letting him get into a deeper sleep being held, I’ve tried drowsy but awake. Hand on stomach, rocking the crib, white noise, brown noise, fan noise.

He also shows no signs of tiredness before an absolute meltdown. I keep an eye on wake windows but sometimes it’s nowhere near the huckleberry app “sweet spot” and he will just become hysterical.

Once I give up after 45 mins, he will smile and go back to his happy self, so I doubt he’s in pain. It just seems like absolute refusal to sleep😶

He’s exclusively BF atm because he really fusses with bottles and he’s waking me every 2 hours at night so I am exhausted 😭😭

Please help 🫶

Baby won’t babble

My 6mo is the chattiest baby ever at home with us but he goes completely silent for everyone else. Even people he is very familiar with like his grandparents and close friends of ours. Is this normal?

When do you stop using a baby monitor?

So I’ve been using a camera baby monitor since birth and still use it now (she’s now 3)
So my question is are you all still using your monitors or when did you stop?

I love the fact that I can keep checking on her when she’s sleeping or if she stirs in the night I can see her and know if I need to go in her room or not, she’s a light sleeper too so if she stirs in the night and I got in her room she would be wide awake again 🫣 but she also settles herself amazingly well too if not disturbed.

Colostrum harvesting

Going to try and collect my colostrum for the first time tonight.
My nipples have leaked colostrum for a fair while now however only just hit 37 weeks.
Please can I have people’s tips and tricks to have a successful harvest.

(Am aware I might not get much the first few times just want it to be a comfortable experience)

Thank you xx

Nappies

any suggestions on good nappies??? we used pampers for the first 5 months however there quite pricy and we had regular poonarmis even after sizing up and stuff so we tried aldi nappies and again every poo ends up being a poonarmi and she also ends up leaking through with wee in the night so wondered if there were any ones better?