Wake windows

Does anyone not follow the whole wake window thing and just follow cues instead? The older generation say they never had all this wake window stuff and roll their eyes when I obsess over it

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We just go with cues and it works well for us!

Glad you have said this because my baby is awake longer than 90 minutes regularly at 9 weeks…. I was worried everyone else was following it instead of cues

I just go with whenever she’s tired the only routine we do with sleeping is the nighttime bottle & this got her to sleep through the night i think xx

I just follow cues. I used to follow wake windows with my first and ended up letting it control my days a lot as I felt I couldn't go out during nap times. This time around I'm just going with the flow and it's working well x

I just follow my baby's cues/lead x

I tried to follow the wake windows after 3 months with my son. It hardly worked even paid for Huckleberry. I was always panicking about being to late for the "sweet spot".

This time around I'm not doing anything like that. If she sleeps she sleeps. She is breastfed to sleep. So if she wants to she can sleep. She is on her 2nd proper nap today. Woke up from the first 12:33 gone down for this nap 16:30.

I went out for a walk for school pickup 15:30 and she didn't want to sleep whatsoever. X

Try to follow your baby's clues as all babies are different xx

Little one is 13 weeks & still following cues - he's basically still on demand but he is starting to get his own pattern forming & we go with that x

I considered wake windows to be a guideline and estimate, not a hardline rule to follow. If the end of the typical "window" was approaching, then I knew there was a good chance my kiddo would start showing tired signs and I could be prepared for that - have a bottle ready, set up our contact nap area, etc. But then I would go by cues. Windows just gave me an idea of when those cues might start happening.

Yes I go with cues. It was never a thing before either with my 1st and if you shut out the outside noise out it’s much easier

I go with cues and have decided to ‘smile and wave’ and allot of advice given because I’m learning fast that babies are all SO different - trust your instincts, you’ve got this ❤️

We follow cues! My baby (3 mos) has had absolutely zero interest in the typical wake windows

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I’m from quite a religious family. In your opinion What age is appropriate to breastfeed in public without it becoming weird for people

Advice please 🫠

Hey guys ,
To give a little context I have an 8 month old and live with my in laws . They are middle eastern while I am British . Every time I give my daughter a bath I wrap her in a hooded towel and then a fluffy blanket around the towel and bring her downstairs to lotion her and change her as I don’t want to in the bathroom floor as it’s tiled and not comfortable in general . Its to a point I just avoid giving her baths when my mother in law is in the house as she has a major issue with me bringing my daughter downstairs to change her and thinks I’m making her sick and she’s too cold and that it should be done in the bathroom . I try rush down before she sees 🙂‍↕️ She always comments and tuts and keeps muttering in her own language hurrying me to go down quickly and then gives out to my husband about it . I’m like so confused I’ve always grown up doing this in my family . I’ve researched and babies don’t get sick from being a little chilly which I don’t think she even is . They get sick from viruses . It just is so frustrating . I’d rather do our wind down routine in the bedroom on the comfy bed and I take my time with her and give her a breastfeed than do it quickly in the bathroom while she’s on a hard surface . Am I making sense or am I being cruel and I should change her upstairs ? This is genuinely a major issue since birth .

I am so so so ANNOYED! We go to the beach, they have worn their swimsuits only once! And I am planning on using them alot more this year when the weather gets better but I have washed them only once and on the correct temperature...

And they've gone MOULDY!!! I am absolutely fuming!!

Advice please!

My MIL likes to FaceTime my 17 month old while she’s getting ready for the day and she’s been making a lot of comments about her own appearance like “maybe I need an eye lift look how saggy” and “I need spackle to cover these wrinkles.” I really don’t want my daughter growing up 1) paying attention to aging with concern and 2) learning to see bodily changes as negative and 3) having bad associations with self esteem and appearance.

Ultimately, my MIL like to complain around my daughter and talk about how hard life is but like get a therapist for that…

I should say something, but what?

Husband with postpartum depression

Any tips on how to offer support to my husband who I suspect has postpartum depression?
He’s been very low for months, snappy and short tempered and is really struggling to bond with our baby (8 months old).
Our baby is obsessed with me and basically rejects his dad if I am present, or cries for me as soon as he sees me even if he was happily playing with dad a minute earlier. The constant rejection is really getting my husband down and he even says he sometimes hates our son.

We need help but I don’t know how to help him… tips please?

He won’t go to the doctor about it.

Anxiety to go out with baby

Hi all,

I have not gone out with my baby by myself. I have with others but I just feel so anxious going by myself. I live in an apartment building with no lift so I also feel anxious about that. I want to be able to go into town by bus or walking with my baby and sit at a cafe etc but I feel I can't do it. I feel like such a bad mum.

I also get worried about my baby catching viruses etc. u know I can't continue like this. Has anyone else experienced this?

I feel if the apartment building had a lift I would feel better instead of having this extra thing to worry about.