Car seat

Does anyone else have the Doona car seat and your baby hate it? She’s 8 weeks today and maybe it isn’t even the car seat. She could just hate sitting in the seat. I’m thinking of trying another one or should I just try a convertible car seat instead of the carrier? Give me your thoughts. I have so much anxiety about leaving the house by myself because she’ll just scream and cry so hard. I hate it. Major mom guilt with that. I have to plan everything to where she’ll fall asleep in the seat and not be awake.

Thank you!!!

in our community

Genuinely confused🥴

My relationship with my MIL is really confusing. I got pregnant pretty quickly into my dating my husband, and she was excited through my pregnancy, but kept making comments to my husband about being in the delivery room.

When I gave birth, she drove 3 hours and tried to get in, but my mom and husband didn't let her in while I was in labour. Literally 8 hours after, she showed up in the hospital room to meet the baby. My baby was struggling with latching at that point, and she offered to "help" and grabbed my boob before I could say anything. I'd also ended up having an episiotomy and forceps delivery, so there was still literal blood and poop leaking out of me. She spent the rest of that visit filming a video holding and talking to my daughter.

I moved on cos I had a baby to focus on. My husband and I moved in with my parents temporarily as we'd just moved cities, but the whole time we lived there she would tell my husband that he's not a "man" because he's not providing (he is now and suddenly she's so proud🥴). She'd also make shady comments to me, and try to tell me about what I should and shouldn't do for my baby and this included things I strongly disagree with. She would compare her access to my baby, even though we lived with my parents and she lived hours away. My husband spoke to her even though he didn't understand the issue, and she stopped making comments to me.

The biggest issue for me is that she has always smoked during visits with my baby, and even once around my baby. I have made my husband tell her to stop three times, and each time, she'll stop for the next visit and then carry on smoking from the following visit. Even worse, my husband quit smoking since we had a baby, but on each visit, she still offers him a pack of cigarettes.

She has also been asking about when my daughter can sleep at her's since she was born, she's 12 months old now and I've never let her sleep over, but it's caused a lot of tension between me and my husband. I just don't think that she would respect other boundaries I might set.

Besides that, she's started being really nice, so I worry that im just overreacting or something. What do you think?

If you have any advice for me, I'd really appreciate it.

Sleeping through the night

My LO is 10 weeks old and has just started randomly sleeping through the night and changed her habits during the day - seems to be a lot fussier etc.

Has anyone else experienced this? How long does everyone else’s LO’s sleep for during the night? What’s the max time they’ve gone and do you feel like it’s impacted how they are during the day?

Do you also wake them up during the night if it’s been a long period of time?

Sorry so many q’s hah xx

FREE BABY NECESSITIES!

Extra Diapers my baby girls grew out of. Message Me.

Help

Nearly 6 months postpartum I can't sleep usually I can fall asleep after 3 am like physically can't sleep tonight I haven't slept at all whenever I walk in the bedroom to go sleep I disturb baby even when I'm silent he starts grunting sometimes he does a lil cry in his sleep and wakes up around 5-6 sometimes 8 am it's frustrating that I can't sleep ,I am getting a blood test at the start of next month for my thyroid and to see if I have deficiency in vitamins but it's getting so frustrating the lack of sleep

Sleep

Anyone’s baby still not the best sleeper? Mine happily goes to sleep at night but wakes up at least twice and has been awake for the day at 5 recently

Is thier a sleep regression around 6 months ?

My little girl turns 6 months on the 19th June …this week in particular we’ve had to rock her to sleep for day time and night time sleep , I was trying to transfer her to cot but this can’t be rocked so we’ve kept her in the next to me …just wondering if anyone is going through similar ? Is this a phase ?