Slept through 😭

Me and baby boy slept through his alarm to eat, he now hasn't eaten in 5 and a half hours (feeding now) I feel awful 🥲 he is above his birthweight but only 13 days old. I feel so guilty that I slept through 😔

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The advice from my health visitor was once they are above birth weight get rid of the alarms and just go by their signals for food. If he slept through then he had enough calories in the day to allow that. Don’t feel bad, rinse the extra time you had to rest ❤️

Good plan! I had that for a while with mine too. He’s 4 weeks now and has completely gone the other way where he’s awake for hours 😂 hopefully they can reassure tomorrow but you’re doing a fab job if above birth weight X

Agree with the above, was advice I was given with my first, 4 years ago, because like you my first didnt wake but shes healthy, happy and has one massive appetite now lol. You may find he wants bigger feeds though, both my girls ended up wanting a bit more durning the day when left to wake whenever through the night

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I brought these for my one year old to get her off the bottles she was on

I did a lot of research on them, and a few people recommended them for her age

Just wanted to see what mums thought on here about them before I start using them

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How would you react - a bit annoyed at my partner

How would you react - a bit annoyed at my partner

Our LO is just over 2 years old.

Sadly I wasn’t in the room and my partner was in the room and he didn’t see what happened. I’m so annoyed at that. It’s bad enough our toddler fell off the sofa but I’m so annoyed he wasn’t watching to see what happened 😣

Apparently the Toddler was on the sofa and fell off 😔

I heard the impact of the fall from the bedroom and a cry straight after from what I could tell

Toddler was acting normal then and now but when discovered toddler was face up on the floor crying But clutching cheek from inside mouth. At first I thought toddler may have had a self inflicted bite.

This is what their face looks like today.

So all in all toddler seems fine. Although the whole situation is still giving me anxiety.

I mean, one thing that's really, annoying me is the fact that my partner was like so relaxed and was like oh it will be fine, there will be more knocks and worse. But it just pissed me off because I was thinking how does this not worry you?

I just feel like I was so much more worried about this than my partner was/is.

My partner is just so laid back about it. It's just me doing the research, checking, worrying, and wondering if toddler is okay. Partner was just watching football.

Like am I unreasonable?

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