Own room?

Is it safe and okay for me to put baby boy in his own room now he’s 6 months next week? My partner is so loud and gets up early that he is waking him up so much.

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Am I being selfish by putting my baby to sleep by 8pm and having a strict routine?

My baby goes to sleep between 8 - 8.3 depending on his last nap and I am strict by it as he is goes over its difficult to put him to sleep. It's the same thing with stimulation near his bedtime. It's taken me over an hour to put him to sleep because he fell asleep in the car my husband woke him up and when we walked into the house my in-laws straight away grabbed him and stimulated him. I
Told my husband specifically I need to put him to sleep so take him straight to the room.

I put him down at this time, as 1 he's tired but also after he goes to sleep I get
To shower, make food, eat and have some me time. Whereas for everybody else they want to spend that time with him but I'm the one that has to suffer after.

Am I selfish for wanting some me time in the evening and putting him to sleep and essentially taking away that time with my in-laws? (They work and often back late evening)

Does anyone else’s baby hysterically scream every time they get out of the bath?

My baby is coming up to 5 months old and ever since her first ever bath, she has always screamed her lungs out after about 10 seconds of being in her towel. When it was colder weather, we tried to warm the towel up a bit and have the heating on so she wouldn’t have such a shock in the temperature change but this didn’t work. We tried drying and dressing her in different rooms, putting on calm music/favourite songs, keeping her in the towel for a bit and trying to distract her but it always ends up in tears.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is there anything you find helps or why she may be getting in such a state?

Bedtime routine/times

Hi mamas! Just wondering what bedtime your May 2026 babies have?

I’m feeling a bit guilty because my LO is usually in bed quite early now and it means his dad only gets about 1.5–2 hours with him after work before he’s asleep.

At the moment, his 5th and final nap finishes before 6pm, then he’s awake for around 1.5–2 hours. During that time we play, have some quiet wind-down time and get ready for bed. He’s exclusively breastfed, so I do his feed and bedtime. Dad has suggested I should add in another nap so he can go bed later (when he was a newborn he’d go to sleep around 10pm) but he’s naturally shifted into an earlier bedtime and selfishly I finally get some time to myself but I can’t help but feel guilty.

Over nights

Am I bad In saying I don’t want anyone having my baby over night until they are about 6months old- a year old, I’ve had some people say that if my mum wants to look after baby over night that I’m being horrid saying that I don’t want my baby to stay out overnight

Need help baby isn’t sleeping

Hallie is 10 month old on the 13th and she’s never been a good sleeper but the past 2 months it’s got soo bad she’s on 3 meals a day and doesn’t have formula during the day anymore has a 10 ounce bottle before bed but she goes to sleep having the bottle and less than 10 mins later she’s up screaming throwing her head back not wanting the bottle or dummy don’t even think she wants me holding her. She tires herself out and goes to sleep after almost 2 hours of screaming then is awake again over and over again during the night doing the same thing, sometimes even 8 times during the night. it’s got soo bad we’ve had to take her out every night to get her asleep in the car then transfer her into the cot. We’ve tried everything kept a routine, dropped a nap and filled her up before bed in case she’s hungry but nothings working. It’s also like it doesn’t make a difference how she is during the night she’s fine during the day but I’m hardly sleeping. Ive contacted the health visitor and they said they will come out to see us but been a week and haven’t heard anything.
Does anyone have any advice. Anything else I can try.
Picture from yesterday morning

Settling in sessions nursery

I’ve book my daughters settling in sessions for nursery she gets 2 2 hour sessions. They said the first one I’ll stay with her and the second one i leave her which is very strange I think unless I’ve heard her wrong. Anyways I booked these without thinking 2-4pm and she normally naps at 3pm should I try to move it or keep it as is ?