0.2 tog sleeping bag and nappy in 28 degrees Celsius

He's 18 months old.

I've everything I can to cool the room down but it's been 35 degrees outside today and the heat hasn't let up for weeks. I ran the AC in his room for 6 hours today (removed before bed as I don't think it's ideal to run in his room overnight - it's really noisy and dries the air out) and managed to get it down to 24 degrees. Also kept all electronics off, blackout blinds and curtains closed, and even tried the tin foil on the outside of the window trick, the whole nine. Obviously, as the building is so hot, the temperature in his room shot up in the hours since I removed the AC, although I kept the door and window shut.

LO has a really strong sleep association with his sleeping bag and doesn't sleep so well without it so I bought a 0.2 tog sleeping bag as I didn't think the 0.5 tog was cool enough for this weather. I have a fan running in his room, gave him a cool (not cold though) bath and got him to drink plenty of water and milk before bed.

I can't help but worry with all these warnings about little ones overheating. He's sound asleep. Google is telling me I have to take the sleeping bag off.

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Is it weird that I’m proud of this 🙈

I didn’t collect any with my first because it seemed kinda weird. But with a lot of feeding problems I was determined to do better this time. This was my first session at 36.5 weeks but I feel like I got loads for a first five minute go 🙈

Advice please! Baby won’t stop breastfeeding …

My 8 week old baby won’t stop breastfeeding he has CMPA and reflux so unable to bottle feed as we can’t seem to get a milk he agrees with but he literally wants to feed 24/7. Always hungry and always wanting to be on the boob. What can I do ? I feel like I have no life as we can’t do anything or go anywhere without him wanting feeding.

What’s your view on breastfeeding?

I EBF my first for 9 months

I only managed 3 months with my second. She is 10 months now and I still feel incredibly guilty for not doing it for longer.

6 weeks in. When does it feel easier?

My little girl has just turned 6 weeks and we've had a really difficult last week due to her growth spurt/ development leap. She refused to nap during the day including contact naps, doesnt settle in the pram so we can't go out anywhere, breastfeeds what feels like 24/7 and has spent just over a week constantly fussing. Today has been better, we've managed to get her to contact nap and she did her first 4 hour block of sleep last night which hopefully is her coming to the end of the super fussy period!

My question is, when does this feel like it becomes more manageable or like I dont have a baby attached to me literally 24/7? I dont mind the contact naps at all but I cant do anything or go out anywhere, I'm always stuck indoors trying to get her to nap. Will I ever get 5 minutes to have some kind of evening to myself without trying to soothe her to sleep?

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Some people are not withholding an apology from you. They are incapable of giving you the apology you need.

We like to believe that if people could see the damage they caused, they would take responsibility for it and we spend time trying to show people what they did.

But what if the same brokenness, immaturity, pride, trauma, shame, or emotional dysfunction that caused the wound is the very thing preventing accountability?

An apology requires self-awareness. It requires humility. It requires the ability to sit with guilt without running from it or trying to be defensive.

It requires a person to say, “I was wrong,” without blaming their childhood, their stress, their intentions, the devil, or even you.

The truth is that many people don’t lack intelligence. They lack the emotional and spiritual capacity for accountability. They're underdeveloped!!

This is why some people pray, worship, serve in church, quote Scripture, and still cannot say, “I hurt you.”

Not because they don’t know God.

But because they have never learned how to face themselves.

One of the most painful realities in healing is realizing that some of the people you’re waiting on for closure are emotionally unequipped to provide it.

And if your healing depends on their apology, your healing is still in their hands. You're trapped in time.

Perhaps forgiveness is not agreeing with what happened. Perhaps forgiveness is accepting that some people are too wounded, too defended, too ashamed, or too committed to protecting their ego due to shame.

Do you believe people refuse to apologize because they are unwilling to take responsibility, or because they genuinely lack the emotional and spiritual capacity for accountability?

Some people are not withholding an apology from you. They are incapable of giving you the apology you need.

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Heatwave

What can we do apart from just using the fan on the baby. My 3 month old feels so hot to touch and he just wants to be held. I am scared to give him a cold water bath as he already has cold. What can we do more. My room temp is at 28 deg already.