Combi feeding

What is everyone’s schedules? I’ve been on TikTok etc and everyone seems to feed on demand all day and then have bottles of either BM or formula at the night.

Currently my baby is exclusively breastfed other than a Saturday morning she’ll sometimes have a bottle if I leave dad in bed with her or during a big day out she’ll take one. She’s 12 weeks and I think I was hanging on to it getting easier at this point but it doesn’t feel like it is 🥲

Yesterday after two really hard days with her and my toddler I just literally did not want to breastfeed I was so touched out. She’s a big comfort feeder so would be on me all day sometimes if she could. So to see how I felt about it she was on bottles of expressed milk from the hours of 10-7 yday and I felt soooo free. She went 3 hours between bottles and seemed happier in between and I just couldn’t help but see the difference.

I’m not sure what I want to do going forward, I don’t want to make any decisions from one bad day cos I loved BF despite the hardness but also feel like I’d be doing something wrong cos all combi schedules I see feed on demand during the day but that’s when I’m finding BF the hardest as I like to get out and about and I can’t even nip to the shops round the corner without needing to stop to feed currently.

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Vitamin K shot and baby boy circumcision!!! Advice pls!!!

The doctor told me you can't circumcise your baby boy with out the vitamin k shot, but I don't want him to have the vitamin K shot, but I do want him to get circumcised.

What are your guys experience?

Sleep training?

I am waiting for my daughter to be 6 months to start a sleep training method. Currently, she only does naps on me and nights are divided into two where my husband keeps her until 10:30-11:30 (she sleeps on him) and then we co-sleep. I am not sleeping obviously since she eats often or wakes up because she wants comfort🙃.

Any advice? What did you do? What do you recommend?

She’s extremely attached to both of us and we tried the cry out method when she hit the 4month regression and it was HORRIBLE. I cried with her, she was way too young. She’s 5 months now and we’re going on a trip but as soon as we’re back, for my sanity we need to do something about it🥲.

Cut toddlers bangs or grow them out?

My little one is two years old. We put her hair up or clip it back so it's not in her eyes. I had bangs when I was little and so did my sisters, so my mom naturally asked if I was going to give my daughter them. My husband has also asked me if we're going to. I'm not sure about it. Obviously if she asks for bangs when she's older she can have them, maybe I just have bad memories of trying to grow out my bangs for a while lol and having them be crooked when my mom tried to cut them herself.

exclusively breastfed baby learning to take bottle

hey everyone! i did a Keeping in Touch day today at work for the first time and left my little one with grandma, she was absolutely fine playing but when it came to nap time she cried so much because she usually feeds to sleep with me, around 4 months old she used to take a bottle no problem when I had my mum look after her but now she is refusing the bottle, I guess at 8 months she is obviously able to tell the difference and just doesn’t like it… Im just worried that she won’t nap properly when i go back to work fully because she won’t like feeding from the bottle.

Has anyone got any tips to teach baby to take the bottle too if they’re exclusively breast fed? Luckily today was just a half day so i ran to my mums to feed her and put her down 😀

Postpartum

What effects did you guys experience with your postpartum
trying to see if what I’m feeling is normal

Bras!!

Hello! I've been breastfeeding for 7 months and honestly miss my perky boobs 😭😅 Does anyone have any cute bra suggestions to lift my boobs back up, so I can feel cute again in my clothes? Thankyou xx