First baby, what items do I need at my changing station/changing bag?

I have nappies, cotton wool and wipes but what other items do I need?

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Nappy rash Creams, nappy bags.

I always make sure there’s bepanthon in there, a set of clothes, a jumper, bonjela, baby bottle and pre-made formula bottle Baby wipes
Nappies
Nappy bags
Random 2x small toy
I always use my bag as if I’m going out for a good few hours, then ill never be caught out 😂 (it’s not happened yet, fingers crossed!)

Nappy rash cream (just in case)

Nappy disposal bags (unless your using a nappy bin)

A few muslin cloths in case baby pees while changing them

A few change of clothes for baby

Congratulations 🎉 also have bags for the dirty nappies. A bowl for warm water to use with cotton wool. Sudacrem for nappy rash. For changing bag I put clothes, nappies into sandwich bags for ease of access, plus a fold out nappy changing mat.

I used/use Bepanthon on both boys. Never had a nappy rash.
I also have spare clothes in case of blow outs.
Nappy sacks.
A mini cloth to cover privates if you're having a boy. The cloth catches the pee. Newborn boys pee all the time during a nappy change.

Different nappy creams.
Waste bin
Maybe a topper depending on the table

Nappy bags, muslins/small cloths - especially if you're having a boy!

I also have hand sanitiser and Milton wipes to hand for giving my hands/the mat a quick clean before I can wash them properly.

Ill be putting Mustela water, cotton wool pads, antibacterial hand gel, bepanthen, sudocrem, antibacterial wipes, nappy sacks, nappies, wipes muslins and spare change of clothes

Seconding muslins and spare clothes in nappy bag! I organise my bag into separate smaller zipped bags (like make up bags), one with nappies, wipes, nappy bags, cream, one with spare clothes, bibs and muslins, one with toys and spare dummy. Just makes it easier to organise and find stuff. Sometimes when I pop to the toilets to change him I just take out the zipped bag I need instead of taking the whole nappy bag if I'm confident it's just a quick easy change. I also have hand san!

We used sudocreme, and never had a nappy rash. I usually buy the largest tub when on offer, and use that to refill the smaller ones I have at our two nappy stations in the house and one in the nappy bag.

Also to say we have Milton wipes and spray at our main changing table at home, to wipe down the changing mat. Sometimes there's an accident mid change 😂 especially if a boy!

A few nappies, pack of wipes, change of baby vest, small cream maybe and that’s it really. I never overpacked.

Absolute worse case scenario, there’s always a Primark nearby selling £1.30 T-shirts if baby destroys an outfit. Pram changes are easy, don’t carry more than you need to and don’t waste money on fancy bags.

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World Cup and no help

Hi guys. Unsure if I’m over reacting with this. As my partner works, I have been doing every night feed since little man was born. I have no issue with this being that I’m on mat leave and I feel it’s my job. However on weekends when he is off work he doesn’t rush to get up with the baby. It’s still me doing the feeding which can be 3 times a night and up 2x for settling.

Now I just want to stay in bed for a change and he gets up with the baby but he decided to stay up and watch the football last night meaning he’s running on 4-5 hours sleep. Can I be annoyed that he’s not willing to get up with the baby when it was a personal choice to stay up and not due to being at work?

Feeding battles and sleepless nights!

Hi everyone, I’m after some advice from mums that may have experience the same/similar and how (if you have) you resolved this. Currently have a 5 week old girl and I’m a first time mum and feel like I must be doing something wrong.

First of all feeding - She is formula fed and EVERY feed is a complete battle with my little girl. She shows cues for hunger every 2-3 hours, so I make the bottle, try to feed it her, and she starts squirming almost instantly like it’s painful to drink. She squirms so much I take the bottle away for a moment as it’s also dribbling and she splutters and as soon as I do, she screams and I mean SCREAMS. This is a continuous loop for about an hour until she finally seems somewhat content after the battle. It makes me dread the time for feeding which is obviously so often with only an hour or so break in between. Sometimes she’ll only take a very small amount and fall asleep after screaming, and others she’ll take larger amounts but can guarantee she’ll spit up/sick up a lot of the feed if she does. We went to the Doctors after I did some research with suspected Reflux or CMPA and he prescribed gaviscon. Max dose is 6 sachets per day but my girl is drinking around 10 a day, to be mixed with 4oz but she only drinks between 30 and 60ml so she is not getting the full dose. Really struggling with this and have tried own methods - upright/pace feeding, carobel, infacol (she’s difficult to burp). We’ve also now changed her milk yesterday as the Kendamil she was using apparently can cause tummy upset due to its richness. She’s also an extremely noisy drinker, midwives say she has no tongue tie but her latch seems to be extremely poor with excessive clicking, milk pouring down both sides of her face and spluttering milk everywhere in general - she must be swallowing so much air. Have tried various teat sizes and shapes but none seem to change this. Next step for Doctors is apparently Omeprazole - does anyone have experience using this? But I’ve basically convinced myself she has CMPA due to possible tummy pains as well as the reflux symptoms.

Now for sleeping - Since day 1 of bringing her home, she has never settled well. There’s the odd occasion during the day she might stay in the Moses for up to 1 hour but even then she’s restless throughout. I know babies can be loud sleepers but if I don’t pick her up when she’s really unsettled, again she will cry. I’m currently sleeping upstairs with her in my arms and partner downstairs because he works full time but helps where he can. After the nightmare of trying to feed her, I settle her and wait for her to be asleep (have tried both drowsy and deep sleep) and sometimes when I lower her gently into the crib she will be settled for 5 minutes tops and then cry, or she will wake immediately and cry. I have tried the t shirt hack (making it smell like me) the hot water bottles, swaddles, gentle rocking, white noise machine but this is day and night and its relentless. She will sleep soundly on me but this is not sustainable after 5 weeks, I’m becoming delirious from lack of being able to sleep. Again I thought this could be due to reflux, so I always keep her upright on me for at least 30 mins before the transfer but this still doesn’t seem to make a difference. I’m very reluctant to cosleep but even if I wasn’t, just being on her back seems to make her unsettled. Again why I think she has CMPA, as it could be her tummy hurting but it seems to be so hard for Doctors to listen to me because she doesn’t have any skin rashes - which is apparently their way of diagnosing it.

Can anybody please offer any insight into any of this. Me and my partner feel robbed of the newborn days already, and seem to be wishing time away to when she is likely to sleep better in a few months time. It’s heartbreaking to see her suffer, and it’s exhausting trying to manage it all. So sorry for such a long post, but I’m praying there is some sort of a solution without being told ‘she has colic’. TIA.

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is so fucking hard for me right now. I need someone to tell me it gets better/easier or to provide some helpful tips/tricks.

My baby is 2 and a half weeks old and feeds for about an hour when I put him on the boob and then acts like he’s still hungry so I give him what I pump right after. But then my husband makes me feel horrible by saying stuff like “it’s taken an hour, do we feed him again in 2 hours or do we try and wait 3 hours?” Or when I go to put my baby on my boob to feed him, he’ll say stuff like “I’ll go warm up some of your milk that’s in the fridge, since he won’t be getting enough.” It’s so fucking discouraging.

My husband is so supportive in other aspects. He changes the baby, he soothes him to sleep, he bonds with him well, he plays with him, he talks to him, he feeds him when I’m overtouched and just want to feed the baby my breast milk in a bottle. He does everything a great dad should do and so I hate shitting on him for this but fuck it’s making my breastfeeding journey so much more harder.

Breastmilk

Curious as to weather a pump session is what to go on as what your producing I pump once maybe twice a day earlier on I got 180ml then this evening I got about 80/90ml but hand expressed a little and my breasts are not empty

Is my baby high maintenance?

This is a silly question but I’ve struggled since becoming a mom and when I talk to friends it just seems like things are easier for them and I just feel like it’s hard being a parent. My baby has breastfed almost every hour until about 9 months and then she switched to closer to 2 hours. She had bad reflux as a newborn and we could never put her down without her crying. Even after we got her reflux under control she wouldn’t want to be put down and she’s would cry when other people tried to hold her. I could never leave her for more than 15-20 min a time, this only happened once a day tho when she was really happy, until she started crawling but if I’m not close by she starts to cry. She woke up every 1-2 hours until we started cosleeping around 6 months and ever since she wakes up 4-5 times a night. I am not trying to get sympathy and I love being a mom but I’m so worried to have a second baby because what if she gets really upset? I just feel like she needs all my attention and idk how I’m going to have more kids or start working again. Every one just tells me you figure it out but I just don’t know how I’ll be able to until she’s a lot older

Feeding

Whose baby is breast fed and sleeps in good chunks through the night ?