Sleep regression

My little girl is 4.5 months old. I’m in week 2 of what I think is the 4 month sleep regression. Does it normally go on for this long?! #struggling

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Normal grandad behaviour

Apologies for this post, I've never had grandparents and my child does - so I dont know whats normal.

I have a toddler (2), her grandad; tickles her (randomly in random situations), kisses her (requests if when saying bye), pats bum , hugs (requests it), and whispers to her (randomly)

Unsure if this is normal. Please note I am also freshly postpartum with postpartum anxiety and all this news about paedophilia is really getting me worried.

Today made a joke when she was eating ice cream "wide mouth, come inside".

My mom

Omg, my mom is straight up annoying me. To the point where I just want to give her my baby and move on with my life (I’m married and have one child lol)

She literally thinks she’s the mother of my child. She keeps making comments saying I should start solids with my 5 month old soon to be 6, but he’s not even sitting up by himself yet. I told her he’s my baby and I’m the mother not her. I told her she already had her kids and did what she wanted, now let me do me.

Yesterday we went to get out pedicure and my baby was looking at me and smiling at me when she was holding him and the pedicurist said “aww he knows who mama is” and she said “yeah he’s always happy when I hold him” 💀 I wanna tell her off and I already did but man she’s doing too much. She takes care of him while I go to work so she literally sees him more than I do and STILL wants to see him on my days off when she should be doing something else.

Like I love how she loves my son but damn let me breathe as a mother.

Dream feeds?

Does anyone do formula dream feeds when they go to bed & Does it work?
My LO is 12 weeks and sleeps around 7 hours on the first stretch (sometimes up to 10hr sometimes 5hrs) but with his bedtime that makes it around 3am - I wondered if offering a ‘dreamfeed’ like huckleberry suggested would help extend so he could maybe start going longer or even sleeping through til morning but im scared i mess his routine up or i wake him too much and he thinks its morning or something, sleep is a fragile beast haha

Formula on holiday

Has anyone travelled to Majorca recently with a baby on Kendamil Ready-to-Feed?

We’re staying near Cala d’Or and I’m trying to work out the best option. My main worry is the night feeds as my baby still has at least two feeds overnight, so I don’t know what my best option is. We use a prep machine at home!

Any tips or experiences would be really appreciated!

20 month old boy hitting himself in the head a lot.

Is that normal? Is it some kind of developmental milestone?

Advice

I’m 4 months postpartum (not all that important to the story)

My baby sister just called bawling her eyes out and showed me a positive test. Her and the boy are both in college. He’s not good for her at all and they are stuck in a toxic cycle. I’ve been trying to get her to end it for months but she for some reason feels like he’s her only choice. He’s also her first love. He basically told her “find a way to get rid of it”.

I have no idea what I can do to help her make the decision for herself. I know her and I know she is a people pleaser. She really struggles with making her own decisions or even knowing what she wants a lot of the time.

We are long distance so that makes it harder but I want to be there for her.
My fiancé is about to leave for the police academy for 6 weeks so I really can’t up and leave my house and my animals right now or I’d be on my way down with my baby already.