colostrum

i know they say how much colostrum you collect before birth doesn't influence your milk supply after birth but today (my third time collecting it) I got 18 syringes and am worried I'll be an oversupplier and get infections because of it

in our community

Our baby doesn’t sleep any way but contact naps - how do I co sleep?

7 week old baby and he will only contact nap, he won’t sleep next to me or in his crib and he won’t nap on the day. Last night he was up for 6 hours between 1-7. I’m going mad, how do people Co sleep? What steps do you do to get them to sleep next to you.

Independent sleep

I think I want to practice independent sleep when my baby turns one, how is the best way to start doing this?
Her sleep has just started to calm down though after a lot of night wakes and cosleeping, so I also don’t want to mess that up, and she’s also adjusting to me going to work which is affecting her naps

Crawling at 6 months

Anyone else’s baby crawling at 6 months?

Dummies

Thoughts on taking one to hospital?
Think there’s advice to wait if you’re planning on breastfeeding but could be wrong. Hopefully planning on just expressing milk and have plenty of colostrum.

Mental health

This is long, you don't even have to read it. I think i just needed to vent 😵‍💫

Anyone else really struggling mentally?
I am 39 weeks and so so excited to meet my baby.
I can't tell if it's my hormones that have taken over or if it's just how I'm feeling but I cry a lot at least twice a day and it's not a little either it's full on sobbing for over half an hour.
The main thing that is getting to me is how much pain I'm in, it's stopping me from doing anything I could possibly enjoy. It's the kind of pain that you just can't focus on anything else and even just being sat is so painful I'm struggling to read or crochet or even just watching TV the pains so forefront in my mind I just start crying at how frustrated I am I can't do anything without it being there. I've still been mostly managing to do the household things I need to do so that's something and if I can't my partner is more than happy to step in and help.
Got a lot of personal stuff going on with family too and it's all just so much for me.
Also thinking a lot about how overwhelmed I'll be when everyone comes to see the baby I have a massive family and my partners is big too. We're both 1 of 9 children (he only speaks to half of his siblings tho). I have 13 neices and nephews too it's gonna be crazy here. Obviously they won't all come at the same time but even just the waves of that many people is going to be so overwhelming and their all going to want to take my baby from me and if I say no or try set boundaries I know I'll get berated and belittled and they'll think I'm a bitch because that's not really how my family really works.
I just want my baby here 🥲 I know I'll be in so many other pains and I'll be so tired but at least I'll have him to focus on and the pains will start to fade over time.
I have a big feeling I'm going overdue though. And I keep getting into my head when I'm crying that there's no chance I'm gonna go into labour while I'm feeling so low, because it feels like theres 0 oxytocin in my life right now 🫠

Anyone else in the same boat

My girl is 3 months old 4 months on the 14 th
And the only way to get her to sleep is motion or she just won’t go to sleep anyone else having to do the same ?

Getting scared it’s a habit now