Taking baby outside

How old was your baby when you started taking them outside, or when do you plan to?

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Washing Toddler’s Hair

😆 This is exactly why I just have him lay on the counter and wash his hair in the sink using a diaper changing pad.

April 24th, I made the mistake of not watching where I was going, thankfully it was after I already put my baby girl in her car seat so she wasn’t with me when it happened, and I was ran over by a truck in front of my house. It initially hit me and knocked me down but the back tire grabbed my right leg and pulled me under it. I thought that was it. That was the final moments I had with my family on the way to the hospital. My husband breaking every traffic rule to get me there because I didn’t think I had time to wait for an ambulance. In reality if it was my time, I didn’t want to go in front of our home, I didn’t want that for them. I just remember holding my little girls hand while she babbled away telling my husband and her how much I loved them, telling my husband to promise me that he’ll have her know who I was and that I never wanted to leave her. I ended up in the icu followed by multiple hospital stays and more appointments to come. I have multiple broken ribs, a broken back, I had internal bleeding from my liver, a collapsed lung and severe damage to my right leg. That they are still unsure the extent of the damage it has caused to it. Now I’m navigating being a mom, barely able to hold my baby, technically not even supposed to carry her. And be a wife when just getting up and getting myself dressed takes every bit of strength I have. So household chores and dinners everything I devoted myself to be being a wife and a mother was stripped from me. Everyday is a struggle. My husband has stepped up to do both roles as best as he could but you know how that can be. I feel lonely, lost, useless and a burden. But at that same time I’m so blessed to be here to feel these things just because of this little girl I thought I had to say goodbye to forever.

3 week old cluster feeding and restless!

FTM of 3 week old boy and the past 24 hours have been HARD. Waking every hour to feed and I’m talking 4oz a time. He’s a big baby at 10lb and up above his birth weight so I’m not too concerned with the amount per feed but it’s CONSTANT. Did anyone else experience this at this age, is so advise please 🙏

Quiet Toddler

Is it normal if toddlers have a day where there less active and want to just lay down? My toddler is normally active,running around and playing with her toys,but today she woke up looking tierd, when we went outside all she wanted to do was laying the same, we inside now and she just want to lay down and the couch and watch some dinosaurs movies. She still eating and is being very talkative. We were pretty busy on Mother's day and she did go to bed late then usual. But she has gone to bed late before and would be active the next day

Separation Anxiety - help!

Any advice for a mum who has a VERY (physically and emotionally) attached baby? She will only sleep if I put her to sleep. She will only eat if I feed her (she’s bottle fed). And she will only stop crying when I comfort her. She also has now started crying when I’m out of sight.

We have tried increasing her time with Dad when he’s at home and letting him be the one that settles her, but she starts hyperventilating and it’s very difficult to not comfort her. He has also been wearing my hoodies so he smells like me. I just don’t know what else to do now.

Does anyone have any advice because she’s starting nursery in 3 months and I’m dreading it now 🫠

Bed time

I just want to know if anyone feels the same as me because I genuinely feel awful about it.

My lo moves into his room this week though! Duh duh duhhhh!!!

So I absolutely LOVE spending the days with my little man and I go back to work in a few months. Boooooo!

But I’m at a mental barrier, I absolutely hate doing the bedtime routine. I actually have nothing to moan for about it because majority of the time he does go straight down but if he doesn’t it’ll take ages and every night when I know bedtime is coming my mood just plummets. I hate it, I hate the routine (it isn’t actually bad tbh) but I just hate bed time and I don’t know how to make myself feel better about it. I’m going to try stick an AirPod in one ear and start listening to something but I just want to if anyone else feels the same or if I’m just being weird. Maybe a little PPD coming in or something. I really don’t know.