Pregnancy while breastfeeding

Hey mamas, I’m curious! If you were breastfeeding and hadn’t gotten your period back yet, did you end up getting pregnant?

If you did, how did you know? Did you have any symptoms or just take a test? And how long after unprotected sex did you find out?

Just curious to hear everyone’s experiences 😊

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Contact naps

My 7 month old contact naps. I love a contact nap and would quite happily do them until she decides otherwise however, I am going back to work when she is 11 months. I’ve tried putting her down occasionally but every time has ended with tears.
Do I just carry on contact napping until I go back to work and then just randomly stop, slowly wean off contact napping (how to go about this and when it a good time to start?) or just persevere with putting her down every nap until she gets used to it?

Do you find being a mother so hard on the daily

Mine are 7 months and 3.5. Pre shchooler is my biggest stress I’ve never known anything like it. She’s relentless and it’s like being bullied 😂 7 months is a stage 5 clinger and cries when I do anything except holding her. Anyway I spend most my days in high levels of stress so much I can feel it in my chest. Partners like don’t understand why your so stressed!

Going out with newborn

Does anyone else find going out with a newborn really overwhelming? It feels like by the time you’ve left the house you’re already starting the feed, nappy, settle cycle all over again?? I have a refluxy baby who is also straining whilst pooing etc & having big watery diarrhoea like poos sometimes & I almost feel embarrassed to take her out because I don’t know what will happen in terms of spit up / poo etc….

Has anyone quit breastfeeding cold turkey?

Please none of these silly comments that it's detrimental, abusive or harmful for the child. Mums have their reason why they need to quit.

I'm ready to quit breastfeeding cold turkey, our son is almost 2 and I am currently almost 31 weeks pregnant, he has been ebf from the day he was born (yes he eats 3 meals a day). I just can't handle breastfeeding anymore, it's becoming overwhelming, overstimulating and difficult for many reasons. I know my milk has changed or gone and when he feeds now it is draining. He has a habit of nursing for 1 second, stretching the nipple then letting go and he repeats this continuously, he then will chew on the nipple (but without teeth if that makes sense) and it makes me itchy all over. Due to the change he now is waking in the night, when before he would nurse for his nap, then bedtime and sleep through. I tried the bandaid method and it doesn't seem to be working as he just cries and cries and I REFUSE to let him cry. My husband has tried to do sleep time but he won't sleep for my husband as he wants to nurse. He does have cows milk, water and squash, but doesn't want any of it when he wants to nurse. Any help would be appreciated... Again I said help, not unhelpful comments. Not everyone loves breastfeeding and I would love to have some sort of break before our 2nd is born. Photo to not get lost

Squirming all night long

My 9 week old has recently begun squirming all night long, kicking her legs and moving constantly whilst still asleep! She will settle herself for about a minute and then begin again. She naps well during the day in a swaddle, and uses a love to dream sleep sack at night but we've found she's started wiping her face with it so will be trying an ergopouch tonight. She usually sleeps for 4-hour stretches and only wakes once for a feed, but me and my husband aren't able to sleep with the constant noise! Any tips are really welcome.

Is there any problems with my child not socialising?

I know I'm the world's worst parent and I don't need reminders of that or being told how terrible and horrible I am. I'm fully aware.

Due to mental health and a lack of help, I've never taken my daughter to baby groups, toddler groups, nursery or anything. Ive taken her to the garden centre twice and the shop maybe 3 times.
Her dad takes her to see her cousins on Sunday but it's not every Sunday because they're sometimes away.
Sometimes her nan will take her to the shops.
She has a friend of the same age that she sees for a few hours every couple of months.

My mum keeps telling me how behind she's going to be and how she's never going to learn how to behave around kids or learn to play etc.

Has anyone got any actual experience of how this will affect my kid at all?