Dummy or avoid?

My baby is 4 weeks and we haven’t introduced a dummy yet. Are there any drawbacks to doing this? It’s not a huge issue to avoid it for us but would probably help us stop some fussing and provide a bit of comfort. We are breastfeeding but it’s going well so far. Any thoughts welcome! Also wondering on sterilising them especially on the go how does everyone do this doesn’t it become a huge faff?

in our community

As a mother of nonverbal kids I need y'all with verbal kids to know that our babies are being abused at school.

Every other day there is something. A mom put a camera in her son's braids and caught a teacher choking him and calling him the n word. Poor baby couldn't speak but she knew something was up. There were multiple autistic kids in a school being taken to a basement and stripped naked.

I hope you teach your kids if they see something to say something to you because not everyone's babies can.

Stopping formula

Hiya! My son is just over 8 months and is on 3 meals a day, I had to start weaning at 5 months as he’s a hungry baby 😂 He has a bottle when he wakes up and one before he goes to bed. But when should I stop formula and just give whole milk?

how long does your LO sleep for?

i hope it's normal or i just hit the baby jackpot but my 2m old can sleep (nap) for 3+ hours.. I don't want to wake her but i feel bad because i'd think she'd be hungry by now? ofc i fed her when she wakes up but im just curious if sleeping 3+ hours is okay?? I will feed her and try to keep
her awake but then she'll go right back to sleep lol i shouldn't be complaining but that girl can sleeppppp.

FTM btw.

How to start un-swaddling

I have a 9 month old little boy and he still needs to be swaddled to go to sleep!! Yes hes able to roll but hasn’t rolled ever when asleep. He struggles with eczema and if his hands aren’t wrapped away he will scratch himself all night!! I have tried using socks to cause less damage to his face but still doesn’t help, i’ve also tried putting extra cream on which yet again doesn’t work as he will just rub it off!!

He is not a “cuddly” baby, i have tried soothing him by rocking him in my arms and still he doesn’t like it.

I have also tried just putting him down with his dummy and tried leaving him to “self soothe” also wasn’t the best idea I’ve ever had as he just screamed and cried and kept crawling around keeping himself awake🫩🫩

Any advice would be DEEPLY appreciated!💕

Abusive Husband

Im really looking for advice on leaving your abusive husband when you have (a) child(ren.) Im looking for advice as a sahm who unfortunately is very sick right now. On how to get out and ensure your baby is syill going to be taken care of when you havent been able to work. Some background of what im going through Hes trying to get a "co parent" in the home situation (a together but seperate) but my alarms go off on that because he knows hes been abusive and that would be represented in court. I dont know how court would go with custody hes trying to push for 50/50 and the thought of me not being able to know how hes treating my baby during that time makes me sick to my stomach. I dont have the best relationship with my family but they'll still "help" where they can. Hes abused me financially, mentally, physically, sexually, hes isolated me from my family. His is in his ear making up all kinds of wild things and even enabling the abuse. My family tells me I need to sit down with him and talk about a divorce, but ive tried I just get a run around, he gets aggressive when I try to assert any type of power and ive been trying to do the fake it till you can walk away and its not working with how abusive he is. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

25 degrees

My room is currently 25 degrees and baby feels very warm. Is he ok to sleep in a nappy only? Feeling extremely anxious