Nursery bag

Hello! Looking for a small backpack for nursery with my son’s name sewn or printed onto it. I’ve been told to check Etsy but just wanted to ask here for recommendations to see if there are any other good bags out there! Any ideas? ☺️

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Sleep training

My girl is about to turn 8 months and I want to get her sleeping through the night without the cry it out method. Anyone else have had success with sleep training they can share?

Bath seat?

When did you guys stop using a bath seat for your little ones? We’ve kept using a bath seat for our 17 month old as he didn’t have any issues with it etc but now all he wants to do is climb out of it? How is your safely transition them out of using one? Any suggestions?

How do you all do it?

How do you let your baby’s daddy make mistakes? Things that you know don’t work or things that you know LO likes, I try to share these with my partner and he just gets angry at me and he thinks I’m being negative towards him, saying that he is doing it wrong.

I EBF and do all the night times and 98% of the daytime naps. My LO also contact naps during the day only (ever since being a baby and having a tongue tie, LO has always fallen asleep during a feed), which hasn’t been a choice, as LO will wake immediately when put down.

Just now my partner offered to take LO for a nap, after we had argued, as I needed a shower and he was talking loudly towards me while holding the baby, as he was walking upstairs. He put LO in the cot and then slammed the bathroom door to go for a wee before being nap trapped.
I tried to say that being loud and noisy isn’t helpful before putting LO down for a sleep and he got angry at me for it (while holding LO).
So how do you all just let things slide, when you know that you will have to deal with the aftermath of LO being an overtired/frustrated baby later on.
How do you do it?

Feeling like a failure

My little one is 18 months in a couple of days and I think I can count on one hand when he’s had a couple nights decent sleep. He’s never really slept through the night and is doing it more where he’s waking up and no matter what I do to settle him, he’s then awake for a couple of hours then back to sleep. No matter if he has a bad nap or a decent nap throughout the day. I feel like I’m failing and wondering if anyone else has had this?

Any mommas up this evening trying to get there little one down?

Lonely while my husband sleeps and I try to get our 7 week old down to sleep for the night.

Birth trauma

Anyone else have a traumatic birth that they are struggling to get over?

My little dude is 4 weeks old today and I still feel like I’m struggling to process his birth. I was induced at 38 weeks due to late complications in pregnancy. I had the propess and hormone drip. My labour was 56 hrs in total, 25 hrs active, 3 hrs pushing, 2 failed epidurals and then emergency c section. I also had a nasty infection during my labour but they still kept it going for another 7 hrs before deciding to do the section. By the time it got to pushing I just had no energy, felt like I failed my boy. I ended up in recovery for 4 hours after because I wasn’t responding well after the surgery and couldn’t even hold my son, I was so unwell. Then I was taken to the ward and just… had a newborn to look after since.

The lack of processing time, sleep deprivation and baby blues are just a perfect storm aren’t they. Guess I’m just reaching out to anyone who might understand. Last few weeks have been hard.