Contact naps during the day?

Does anyone else’s baby prefer contact naps during the day? My little one is nearly 4 months and prefers sleeping on my chest during the day but is completely independent on a nighttime and sleeps through/self soothes?

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15m old terrible sleep

I’m at my complete wits end with my 15m old sleep. She is up for at least 2 hours in the middle of the night nearly every single night. With usually at least one other wake up aswell.

She only nap max 1.5hrs on any given day and her bedtime is 7.30 (by this point she is totally exhausted and we can’t stretch her any longer.

Does anyone have any advice at all? My partner wants to sleep train but I can’t bear the thought of letting her cry, but I am beyond exhausted and have such little patience for anything 😭 I’m also ill and have been sick quite a bit recently an I think it’s being run down due to lack of sleep 😭

Any advice at all would be appreciated

“Soon he won’t want you, he’ll be wanting me instead!”

Have any of you had a MIL that says, “soon he wont want you, he’ll be wanting me instead!” or anything similar?

When my baby was less than 5 months old, she was holding him, and when I asked for him back because he was showing early hunger queues this is when she stated “Soon he wont be wanting you, he’ll be wanting me instead”.

This comment has haunted me for 2.5 years, plus her behaviour seems to match this statement. She makes me out to be “the bad guy” in front of my son, making me either give in and allow him to have cake whenever she’s around or I have to say no he’s not having cake in front of him (which then causes tantrums) or saying things like, “oh no, whats mummy done now” to him when he’s crying because I’ve got him dressed/changed his nappy/made him have a bath.

Do you think my child will stop loving me? Will he want her instead of me? Is this normal?

Calling secondary school teachers

My boy was born prematurely and therefore was born in August instead of October.

We have to apply for schools this year (a year earlier than we thought due to him being premature) and thus need to consider whether or not to apply for a deferred entry (so he starts reception the following year).

This will ultimately means he is technically a year behind in school but actually only 3 days older than a child born on the 1st of September.

His development is great, very normal for his age but I am considering the deferred entry due to him being so young in the year.

My fear of doing this is that he'll get bullied in secondary school for being 'kept behind a year' 'he's so dumb' that kind of thing.

Just curious to see whether any secondary school teachers on here have experience with this?

I'd never forgive myself if we did keep him back and then got bullied for it!!!

White sound machines

Are yall using the white sound machines to put baby to sleep? Why or why not? I’ve heard mixed opinions and would love to learn more

Idk

I’m 11 weeks pp. I texted my boyfriend I’ve been feeling down. Feels like I’m failing, unloved and just alone. He made it seem like it was towards the relationship or him and started arguing with me. I expressed it wasn’t and he sees it as he keeps telling me he loves me but I keep saying I feel unloved so I must want to be single and find someone to mess around with or be with idk. But I really just have a lot going on internal. But now he won’t texting me even after I told him I’m feeling worse now. I keep so much inside for reasons like this but I just really wanted to open up because I feel like I’m going through stone ppd.But now I regret it because he just made it about him. My mind is just everywhere rn and I’m having some bad thoughts. I just wanted some uplifting but he made me feel like I just deserve to be in my dark hole

Leaky nappies

Does anyone else have issues with nappies leaking out the back overnight, we’ve been using pampers or pampers premium but have the same issue with both. The nappy doesn’t even seem full it seems to come out the back before it’s been absorbed. I’ve made sure it’s high up the back and tight enough but it still happens 🫠 please help, thank you xxxx