5 month sleep 🫩

Anyone else's 5 month old night sleep just gone to pot?! Used to sleep about 10 hours through and now multiple wake ups and taking ages to settle. Having to feed back to sleep each time is exhausting as I want her to start not associating boob with sleep all the time. Trying to take her off as soon as she's done. Just really annoying when it was going so well with sleep before, it's giving me flashbacks to newborn days 😂

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Nappy preferences?

Hi all,
I just wanted to ask what nappies you all prefer, I had my daughter 16 years ago and didn’t really rate pampers back then. What nappies are the best now to avoid leakage etc.

Thanks :)

Baby No.2

Hello, just curious I seen something earlier of another mums experience about having a second child and experiencing rage towards their first born.

Just wondering if this is fairly common? What’s everyone’s experience with rage and rage towards first born?

With my first I had rage towards the dog and my partner a lot when they would wake the baby a lot, I remember the feeling like it was yesterday and I would feel awful if I had this feeling and less patience towards my first ….

Thinking around a 3 year age gap also so if anyone had any similar age gaps what was your experiences?

How did you get your little ones to talk?

My son is 2 and a half, but he's only able to say a few words.. he's currently in speech therapy.. I'm trying not to worry, but it's hard 😮‍💨

Nursing bras

Any recommendations for nursing bras? There are so many options.. It’s getting hard to choose

Health visitor before born

I got a letter come the other day for home visit from health visitor to introduce themselves i didn't realise they did that, has anyone else had an appointment come through or had theirs already.

Help! Has anyone else’s baby started using their nipple as a dummy all night? 😩

It all started when my little boy was around 3.5 months old. I was exhausted, so instead of getting up every time he woke for a feed, I started bringing him into bed and breastfeeding him lying down so I could stay in bed and get some rest.

Gradually, it became a habit. I’d bring him into bed during the second half of the night, feed him, and often fall asleep with him still sucking on my nipple. At the time, I didn’t mind, but I didn’t realise he might become so reliant on it to sleep.

He’s now 5 months old and wakes up religiously around 2 am, crying hysterically until I put him on the breast. He usually feeds for just five minutes before falling asleep, but if I try to remove my nipple and replace it with a dummy, he notices immediately and starts rooting around for me!

I make sure he has a bottle before bed, as we combine breastfeeding during the day with bottle-feeding at night, so I know he’s getting enough milk. It honestly feels like he just wants my nipple for comfort rather than hunger.

Sometimes I’m so exhausted that I let him carry on, but it hurts, and I can’t get proper sleep because he wants to suck all night. If he lets go, he wakes up crying straight away!

He’s nearly 6 months old, and I’d imagined he’d be sleeping in his own room by now. At this point, I’d be happy if he could just sleep in his own cot for a decent stretch, or even co-sleep without using me as a human dummy all night 😂😭

Has anyone been through this? Is it just a phase, or have I created a sleep association? What worked for you to help your baby settle without needing to suck on your nipple all night? I’m exhausted and would really appreciate some advice! ❤️