Sleep training methods

Interested to know how people went about sleep training - i.e. how many minutes crying, did you pick them up and stop them crying or just hand on chest for a few secs and leave?

Did it work? What age did you sleep train? Do you have to frequently re-sleep train when they get ill or have a regression? Did it make your baby more clingy in the day?

I am not interested in any anti-sleep training comments please!

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Episiotomy

Ladies who have had an episiotomy, how long afterwards did we shave/trim?

TMI feel like I have a jungle going off down there and my stitches are starting to hurt a bit and I can’t exactly see the stitches/scar it’s self.
I’m only 2 weeks pp so appreciate it will still be a little uncomfortable.

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Someone please help me

Im 36 weeks pregnant. Im so damn depressed and everything is going wrong and sideways… I feel like I can’t do this. I don’t know how to do this. Everything with my husband is wrong. I feel like I’m literally going to jump off a cliff. Especially during post partum someone please msg me and talk to me…

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Leftover medication

When I was pregnant I had gestational diabetes. I was only able to get a box of 5 insulin pens at a time on prescription and therefore have 3 full and completely unused pens (no needles) left with a date for use in 2028. They’ve all been properly stored in the fridge.

Seems a shame to bin them yet impossible to pass them on to anyone and pharmacies etc won’t take them. Does anyone know if there is anything I can do with them or do they just have to go in the bin?

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Car seat

My son hates the car (3 months old) to the point where he is inconsolably crying.
I’ve tried changing car seats, thinking that may have been the issue - he hates the other one also.
What are some tips and tricks to get him to enjoy it more?

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I would like to have someone to vent to who won’t ghost me.

A lot on my mind rn spinning; have a 1 year old and a lot of things going on with her father as he is refusing to coparent and his family is awful. I hope to not be judged but always end up being critiqued.

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Leaking Nappy

My 6 week old is 4kg and moved into size 2 nappies this week. Every night this week her nappy has leaked regardless of size or brand (Aldi and Pampers sizes 1 and 2). We are lucky what she is a good sleeper so get the length of time between changes will be having an impact. But any suggestions on how to stop her waking up covered in her own mess? 😬

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