Is this normal??

Hey friends,
My LO will be 3 weeks on Tuesday. I am breastfeeding. She was doing good, eating about an hour, sleeping for 2-3 hours, eating, sleeping 2-3 hours.. repeat. Now, she’s wanting to eat over an hour and only sleep 30-45 minutes and eat again. I understand babies can be clingy.. but i have also noticed a change in her dirty diapers. Everytime we change her diaper it’s always dirty, not just pee. Any time she passes gas poop comes out with it. I think this is also causing her bottom to be irritated because she passes gas quite frequently and if we changed her diaper every time gas was passed we would be going through several boxes of diapers a day.... could her tummy be upset? Is it something I’m doing wrong/ need to do different??

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Unsure about the feeding. Try putting a layer of aquafor on her clean skin at each diaper change. It will create a barrier to keep her little bottom from getting irritated.

Probs just a growth spurt. Normal for the poos to really pick up during this age too. I feel like I changed 8 poo diapers a day around that age, sometimes more.

Mine is 4 weeks and we have a similar diaper situation. The aquaphor is a good suggestion above. As for the feeding, we had a couple days of that at about 3 weeks, its a typical growth spurt time so its very normal.

Totally normal. My bf baby started starting and pooing really watery poo, pretty much liquid, and I thought the same but my health visitor and said normal. After a couple of weeks they became more like mustard but much more gloopy then my mix fed baby.

They do cluster up a storm too, even my mix fed baby did especially in the evening. They have little growth spurts. If you Google i think there's a growth spurt app which tells you around which times they hit.

Oh and metanium is fantastic for sore bottoms. I also found some wipe brands and nappies, especially pampers, really irritated both my babies when pooing a lot and when they have/had teethy poos.

Good luck, it's very tiring so eat drink loads of water and enjoy as much resting with your baby as you can.

My son would nurse every 45 minutes to 2 hours during his cluster feeding but he wouldn't use a pacifier so I think some of the time he was just sucking, even though milk would come out still. The more they drink the more they poop. It's super normal. Also I found that aquaphor ointment and a zinc oxide cream when mixed helped my baby a whole lot and he got pretty bad rashes that would just pop up after one poop and look awful. Also, he's got a big butt and a larger scrotum so when it was time to go up a size in diapers I noticed the rash would get worse and cream wouldn't help due to chaffing. Try to pointmen cream combo and if that doesn't help then maybe try to go up a size. If she's got a big butt, it could be that. I noticed those rashes started like right outside his rectum and looked raw. I hope this helps

Sounds like cluster feeding! It lasts a few days and then goes back to normal. It’s the baby’s way of increasing your milk production!

This is my life!! I’m relieved to know someone else understands! X

If the feeding is happening every hour or so its cluster feeding. If she's pooping more and it's irritating her skin use Vaseline everywhere the diaper touches her skin instead of diaper rash cream. The cluster feeding will slow down eventually my now 7 month old went through that after a month old or so too. But when babies pass Gass its mostly poops and and as long as she's peeing it proves she's well hydrated. Shouldn't worry.

It’s exhausting but normal. I use waterwipes & they are the only ones that don’t seem to be irritating. And when they are looking a little red I have a calendula diaper balm that I use. It will slow down.... eventually

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Baby clothes

Just out of curiosity, why do parents love zipper onesies?

Don’t get me wrong, I tried zipper ones it’s easy to zip in and out when putting it on the first time and taking it out, but I find it difficult when changing diapers especially when baby is asleep.

I prefer those kimono style buttons where it’s easy to button or too down button with crotch snaps.

Is everyone thinking the same or different? Lol

At this point I’m not enjoying motherhood

My 22 month old is horrendous at the moment🫣 biting, hitting, pushing, pulling and shoving not only adults but children he also wants what other children have and will just snatch it away from them.

We repeat ‘nice hands’ ‘be gentle’ ‘let’s share’ etc

But how do I make him understand what he’s doing isn’t very nice? At the end of the day I feel like I’ve just been saying his name all day and nothing else.

What can I do?

This might rattle some people

Ok, this might get a bit long, and a bit bumpy, so get comfy and buckle up.

So about a week or 2 ago, there was a post on here regarding sleepovers. Not letting their child go to them as you can't trust who'll be at the house etc.

Now, given recent incidents in nurseries and schools, plus my own experience back in the 90s, I am more concerned about sending my child to nursery and later school than I am to a friend's house for a sleep over.

The other day a man was jailed for abusing children at the nursery he worked at. A woman has been arrested for sleeping with an underage boy and then getting pregnant by a different underage boy while on bail for the first offence.

Young girls and boys get sexually harassed and bullied when at school, not all of them. But more than you think. And not just by other kids, but by adults who we as parents are trusting to look after our kids.

A sleepover, is a more controlled environment, with only a handful of people coming into contact with your child. A school, a club etc there can be 100s of people coming into contact with your child.

I was targeted at 7 years old by the owner of a prominent private school. Thankfully, I wasn't SA'd. In year 5 of primary school, I started to develop early, I was harassed by the boys and teachers made remarks about how my uniform didn't fit right, always "adjusting it" around my chest and legs.

Years 7-9 of secondary school were hell. But it was all under the guise of "we're just messing around". A teacher twanging my exposed bra strap (none uniform day) is not "messing around".

Boys pinning me down trying to rip open my shirt to see my breasts.

I fear for my daughter. I hope she takes after my father's family, flat chested.

We need to educate all our children, what is acceptable behaviour. And to come to us, as their parents should ANYTHING happen.

Dummy

My baby has had a dummy since about 2 weeks old (now 5 months) and over the course of the last month we weaned her off it during the day only for naps and night (which was fine) and then 5 days took it completely away during the day.

The first day no dummy was fine, the second bit rougher. But now it feels impossible she just moans and cries all the time it takes ages for her to go down to sleep (she’s always been an amazing sleeper)

I thought it was meant to get better as time went on not worse. I’m at my wits end I dunno what to do.

Currently typing this as she screams uncontrollably in the car and I cry with her cos I can’t do anything.

Help

My LO every feed. Drs don’t seem to think it’s a problem the whole Muslim cloth gets soaked so much I’m using towels now. I’ve tried size O teats he gets really frustrated and still spills it out :(

Of these two, which seems more overall “demanding” to you, overall? Lighthearted poll, not putting anyone down 🫶🏼

As a mum who breastfed for 3 years, I think formula feeding seems 100x harder and more demanding. I give those mamas all the credit because I could not keep up with that faff haha. I truly don’t understand why people say breastfeeding is more effort, other than the fact that no one else can do it. But personally I’d take that over endless bottle prep & cleaning.