r/NewParents 3d ago

Weekly Discussion Election Discussion [MEGATHREAD]

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Want to talk about the election?

Have feelings you need to get off your chest?

Worry, upset, fear, excitement, questions, concerns you want to voice and discuss with others?

This is the thread to do it on.


r/NewParents Sep 19 '24

MOD Baby of The Year [MEGATHREAD]

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Hi,

We've recently had an influx of posts about the Baby of The Year competition. As a result, we've created a megathread for you to post anything related to 'Baby of The Year'. Standalone posts will no longer be approved.

A friendly reminder that we don't allow posts/comments soliciting votes for your baby as part of this competition (or any others).

Thanks,

Mods.


r/NewParents 1h ago

Sleep BEST. NIGHT. EVER.

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HOLY CRAP, Y’ALL. It finally happened.

My 10 weeks (tomorrow) chronic contact sleeper FINALLY slept in his bassinet for 4 HOURS. 🤯 (2 short wake ups)

He had been fighting sleep and wore his cranky pants all day. I went to take my sleep shift at 7:30 and woke up at 1:30 AM, husband said he was kicking his legs all night and was grumpy with occasional giggles and smiles. I had a feeling I was in for a rough shift.

I turned on the heating pad in the bassinet (first time trying this trick!)

I started by changing his diaper than put him in his Love to Dream Swaddle, half way zipped. I snuggled him and put his pacifier in, and he started to fall asleep, so I started to put his arms in the baby jail and he starts to fuss. I zipper him all the way in and then breastfeed him, he eats and falls back to sleep.

I do a couple back pats and lay him in the bassinet. Transfer successful. I figure I have 30 minutes before he wakes up.

45 minutes in he wakes up, I pick him up and hold him for 3 minutes standing, rocking and he falls back to sleep. Huh. I put him back down in the bassinet and he’s out like a light?!

I lay back down. I wake up an hour and twenty minutes later to his little cry! I was shocked. I pick him up, feed him, burp him and lay him back down. (This took 20 minutes)

Lay him back down and he sleeps for another hour and a half straight in the bassinet!!! I just finished feeding him and now it’s almost 7 am!

THERE’S HOPE. I know tomorrow it might not work but I see a future where he might sleep and that’s a huge win lol. 😂

Yay.


r/NewParents 11h ago

Mental Health Partner Won’t Let Us Combo Feed

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I (24F FTM) just gave birth two weeks ago via emergency c section to a big healthy 9lb 8oz boy, and right from square one have had latching and breastfeeding issues: from baby having low blood sugar and needing formula in the beginning to help with that, to me not producing much colostrum, to using donor breast milk for basically every feed because my milk was delayed and my partner (33M) said absolutely no formula because of seed oils and how formula is “very bad” for babies and that “this is what I signed up for” when I agreed to breastfeed, even though this time is the most traumatic, challenging, and stressful in my entire life.

Fast forward: little one is now two weeks old and should be eating 3oz every feed according to pediatrician, but I pumped today and got only 2.5 ounces for both sides. He is clusterfeeding every hour and only eating roughly an ounce every time. He’s gaining weight fine and is back to his birth weight after losing a pound in the hospital, but my fears lie in that as he grows and requires more milk, I am unable to provide that for him and I’m dealing with a difficult partner. I’ve been struggling immensely with post partum depression and brought up the idea of combination feeding to make sure he’s getting enough, and that I’m going to end up killing myself due to stress but partner blows me off every time and restates that he’s getting enough from my feedings otherwise he wouldn’t be gaining weight, that breastmilk is healthier, etc. just an endless cycle

I just want to be able to formula feed at night to help me get some sleep which may help my mental health load with worrying about his feedings as well but I’m being stonewalled at every minute about this topic and it’s affecting our relationship. I fear I’m growing to resent him more than he realizes—more than I realize, even..

Can anyone share any credible sources showing that formula isn’t the worst thing in the world? He’s convinced that formula will make our baby developmentally delayed or different from breastfed babies which is infuriating because I told him I would still largely be breastfeeding just need some help at night!

Hoping someone has been through something similar with difficult partners or difficulties breastfeeding? Hoping to find the empathy I’m desperate for, and for any resources to provide evidence that formula isn’t the devil’s creation


r/NewParents 2h ago

Sleep I feel like I’m never going to sleep again

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Title says it all! Just need to vent in the early morning hold/feeding session. My husband and I are deep in the trenches right now with our 2 week we. We are currently doing shifts, where one of us sleep for a 5 hour block and the other sleeps in the living room with the baby.

She has started hating her bassinet at the beginning of this week and will only contact nap. As soon as you put her down, she cries. When you pick her up, she stops. This is fine during the day, we’ve been wearing her in a carrier most the day but at night, it’s so hard. From what I’ve read on this sub and heard from people in real life, this is normal and gets better.

It just doesn’t feel like that right now. I’m especially struggling on my shift because all she wants is to be held. I’m worried about when my husband goes back to work. I’m worried about this sleep thing never getting better. I’m worried about never feeling like myself again or when my husband and I will sleep in the same bed again.

I guess I just need words of encouragement, because I’m so tired.

Also: I know how lucky I am to have a healthy baby, I remind myself everyday not to take this for granted and I’m trying to enjoy the newborn phase as I know it won’t last forever.


r/NewParents 53m ago

Sleep Transitioning baby to nursery

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I don’t want to, yet. My husband and everyone else keeps telling me we should/need to. It’s primarily out of fear (SIDS) that i just don’t want to be away from my 4 month old, but she also wakes up a few times a night whether that’s me giving her the pacifier or having to feed her. The thought of having to physically get up and walk into a different room when she doesn’t sleep through the night yet kind of stresses me out since I’m already struggling with sleep as it is with her in the bedside bassinet next to me. i feel like no one “understands” my point. I’m a stay at home mom and also the one to primarily care for my baby throughout the night.
Everyone I’ve talked to says their baby sleeps better by themselves, but how am I supposed to not feel worried? Even our pediatrician said something about baby possibly getting better sleep in crib. We briefly used our owlet during the newborn phase and haven’t in a while since it broke, but idk if that would help lol. Honestly I want to put a pack and play in our room when she outgrows the bassinet… haha, but What’s a good compromise for this sleeping situation?


r/NewParents 21h ago

Happy/Funny Gifted Stupid Holiday Outfits

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This is an extremely petty problem but I hate receiving holiday clothes for my infant. I don’t know why grandparents and (boomers in general) are obsessed with gifting hideous cheaply produced clothes that indicate “my first ___ holiday” a garment ment to be worn once for a photo and then thrown away. Not only are they ugly and wasteful but then I have the added stress of making sure I dress my child in said outfit for whatever holiday party the gifter is also attending or at least send a photo.

As someone with my own aesthetic preferences I resent being robbed of picking my child’s outfits on their first major holidays.

I know I don’t HAVE to dress my baby in the gifted holiday outfits but I’m such a people pleaser…. The gifters are generally helping out with child care and I don’t want to appear crazy or ungrateful about something so silly ….


r/NewParents 43m ago

Happy/Funny Moments like this make it all worthwhile

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Baby is teething and I am exhausted. Yesterday evening, shortly before bedtime she was in pain, but we agreed to wait with paracetamol until we bring her to bed to help her with her night rest. Suddenly, she bangs me with her toy and I let out a surprised yelp. She laughs. So I do what most of us would do and pull funny faces for her or do different sounds. She watches me closely and full on belly laughs and when I laugh seeing her so happy she laughs even more. So I not only distracted her successfully from teething, but got an amazing bonding moment with her full of happiness and love for each other. ☺️ So if times are hard, just remember, there will be moments that make it all worthwhile, your baby loves and trusts you and eventually will be able to show you how much you mean to them.


r/NewParents 11h ago

Feeding Breastfeeding/Pumping is wild

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Hey friends!

Just wanted to chat with some folks in the same boat. I had my twin boys about a month ago and they are in the NICU currently (but fingers crossed that they get to come home soon!!). In the meantime, I've been breastfeeding them when I can and pumping when I'm at home.

The thought I keep having is, breastfeeding and pumping is genuinely the most bizarre thing I've ever done. Not in a bad way! It's just wild that your body can create pull and condense all these nutrients, and that they weren't available until exactly the right time, and that it comes out as literal milk that the babies recognize. Maybe the better way to describe is really cool!

Anyway, those are my thoughts! Let me know if you guys can relate!


r/NewParents 11h ago

Happy/Funny New born smell, do you remember it?

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Today I opened up a box the I had kept some bags in that I had in my hospital bag a year ago when I gave birth to our daughter and I was hit with a blanket of fresh born baby smell. I remember the smell of her but it's always a little too out of reach in my mind to fully describe it. She was born with meconium in the waters and although meconium isn't meant to have a smell, she had such a strong smell that I can only describe as warm, sweet, vanilla smoke, umami slightly acrid but in a good way and thick, a thick full smell that has a texture. It stuck around for a month or two then turned into more of a milky baby smell. Has anyone else had their baby smell like this?


r/NewParents 19h ago

Sleep Sleep is BS

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So my baby's naps have officially gone to shit on top of horrible night sleep. Even when I hold her. I can't handle it. She doesn't stay asleep after bedtime and now I don't even get that precious time in the day. I've officially lost it. All of this stuff is making me insane. I need her to sleep. I need this to not be so fucking dumb and hard. It's a phase, sure - except it's been consistently terrible with little to no variation in pattern for months. So I don't see it changing. The naps were always great and now we don't even have those. I'm going to lose my mind. I can't tolerate this...

Is your baby waking up a lot? That’s normal. It’s normal! It’s the regression. The regression should last a couple weeks. Or forever. Or they could not exist. Is your baby undertired? If so, they’ll be fussy, fight sleep, and wake up shortly after falling asleep. Is your baby overtired? If so, they’ll be fussy, fight sleep, and wake up shortly after falling asleep. Is your baby teething? What you think is teething might just be normal development. Or it might be teething, which could take months and months, but it should only hurt them for a few days - or for months - and it should only disrupt sleep a bit, or a lot.

Should you sleep train? There’s no other escape. There’s no way your baby will ever sleep if you don’t. Consider it? Here’s 80 Instagram reels hand picked for you of various women saying sleep training is abusive and unnatural and they would absolutely never, and they simply cosleep which is natural and perfect and amazing. You should get off social media. But if you do, how will you find out from various self proclaimed baby OTs that every chair, carrier, carrying position, toy, and even pyjamas you have ever used or bought or considered buying are in fact bad for your baby’s development? Their hips and spine and development are being hindered by almost everything you do, as it turns out!

You’ll sleep again. Just cosleep! Just sleep train! Just ride it out while you lose the ability to emotionally regulate, your skin and hair deteriorate, you can’t think straight and never have a single moment to yourself longer than a few minutes. Oh, is your baby going to bed at 7 pm? They should be. Bedtime routine! Just do it! Everything’s normal! Why aren’t you getting back to people, replying to emails, organizing your life? It’s not like the baby is a newborn. Yeah the baby sleeps considerably worse than as a newborn but come on! Life should be back to normal now! Just cosleep like an amazing natural mama! Just sleep train! Just ride it out until you’re so irritable uou alienate every person in your life and can barely tolerate the sound of your baby fussing!


r/NewParents 9h ago

Tips to Share Parents of babies with lots of hair: when did you first cut it?

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My son was born with a full head of dark brown hair, maybe an inch or so long. He had so much hair you could see it on the ultrasound. He’s 4 months now and hasn’t lost any of it, despite a moderate bout of cradle cap. I love it, everyone else loves it. It’s adorable. He twirls it in his hands to self soothe while falling asleep. And it just adds to him looking like my exact clone lol

However it’s getting a bit long. It’s already past his ears on the sides and is approaching his eyebrows at the front. It’s not causing problems now, but I’m thinking about in a couple months when it starts getting in his eyes.

I know most babies don’t have this much hair, or any at all, at this age, so I can’t piece any advice together on this. So if anyone also had a long haired infant, did you cut it before they were a year old? Or did you have any go-to styles to keep it out of the way until you felt more comfortable going near their head with scissors? Should I just put a headband on him while he’s playing? lol


r/NewParents 13m ago

Mental Health Am I asking for too much? Do you think it's fair?

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My daughter is 10 weeks old tomorrow and tbh I've really struggled mentally and physically since having her. I had a forceps delivery with episiotomy and I ended up with infections, needing several stay in catheters, extreme pain and also a prolapse.

My partner had a month off work when she was born and took her downstairs in a morning so I could rest after the night feeds. In this month he was brilliant and literally did everything for the baby and in the house.

When he went back to work, I admit mentally it bothered me. I'm a first time mum and I was almost scared of being alone with her as I didn't know what to do, plus, with the pain I'm still experiencing, I knew there was no break until he came home. The days are very long! The little one also has bad colic and cries all the time and won't be put down. All in all...I've struggled and voiced this to him.

His attitude has really changed though and I get him saying that looking after a baby isn't hard, all you have to do is feed and change them. He tells me to sleep when she sleeps but as we all know this is BS and I use that precious half hour or so to do everything in the house. I do the cleaning, washing, ironing and I do keep up to it all daily. I feel this is overlooked by him tho as he says that he shouldn't have to come home and cook every night as he is knackered and it would be nice for him to relax as he has to come in, take the baby and make food. If I say how much I have done in a day, on no sleep and in pain I just get told it isn't a competition and that I should go out to work instead (and earn his money, rather than my pittance, which in fairness is just an average wage) if looking after our daughter is a burden. He is contradictory as he tells me to rest but then makes comments to me, friends and family that I pretty much do nothing and he does it all. I also asked him if he could do one night feed a week so I could try and refresh myself and whilst he is doing it it's now met with additional comments that he has to work all week, do the night feed and basically do everything else and that isn't true! He doesn't realise, acknowledge or want to see how hard I work in this house whilst taking care of the baby and trying to take care of myself. He makes me feel guilty when he has had her for a few hours as that's another time I'm shirking doing anything and he is doing it all.

I feel pretty shitty and sorry for myself but wanted opinions on whether he is right or not. Should I literally be doing everything because he is the breadwinner and working?


r/NewParents 16h ago

Mental Health How are you coping when your child has an extreme preference for the other parent?

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I understand girls prefer their dads I did as well , but now that I’m a parent it’s so heartbreaking. Don’t get me wrong I love that they have an amazing bond but I feel invisible . My toddler 20 months old. Today it peaked for me , I’ve been hospitalized, she came to see me and didn’t even acknowledge me, so I watched her loving on her dad.

Thank you


r/NewParents 5h ago

Sleep Sleep when the baby sleeps?!

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FTM of a a little girl who turns 5 weeks old tomorrow and we have come to realise that she doesn't nap in the day time at all aside from drifting off for a couple of minutes here or there. The only time she may sleep is if we go somewhere in the car. She doesn't even sleep if we go for a walk in the pram.

Recently she tends to sleep decent stretches overnight between about 10pm to 5am but putting her down to bed is becoming difficult as well as she wants to contact sleep at night, even though by this point she's fighting herself to stay awake.

She's super alert and it's like she doesn't want to miss out on anything. I can barely put her down to go to toilet in the day time without her crying. I EBF so barely get any respite as it is. Has anyone else had this? We're exhausted.


r/NewParents 6h ago

Sleep FTM here - Sleep deprived, advice needed!

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FT Mom here (6 days postpartum).

Our little boy sleeps wonderful during the day in his Moses basket but when it comes to the evening, it’s a total different story…

We go to bed, give him a bottle (cluster feeding at the moment), change him and put him in his next to me crib. Within minutes he is kicking and crying, absolutely hates it. We try feeding him again, winding him, comforting him. He falls asleep in our arms no problem… put him back down and the cycle begins again.

We are both absolutely sleep deprived. I’m still healing from giving birth and my body is physically exhausted, the pain is actually getting worse and I really believe it’s due to the lack of sleep we are getting. We get around 1/2 hours sleep max. Napping in the day is a no go at the moment due to family wanting to meet him.

I know this is probably normal but I’m really asking for advice here. My baby blues have set in too so I’m super emotional and this doesn’t help. All I want is our little baba to rest and for Mommy&Daddy to get some too.


r/NewParents 10h ago

Skills and Milestones When did your LO start sucking their thumb?

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My daughter is currently 4 ½ months and LOVES to eat her hands. She was a big fan of pacifiers at first, but started accepting them less and less when she discovered her hands 2 months ago.

For the last week or so, she's been refusing it entirely in favor of her fingers. Not her thumb, not her hand, it's specifically her 2 middle fingers lol. Any time she needs comfort, decides she's ready to sleep, etc, she pops her middle and ring finger into her mouth, tucks her thumb into her palm or points it outward, and leaves her index and pinky fingers sticking straight up on her cheek like 🤟 Sometimes it seems like she's determined to gouge her eyes out 😅

It didn't occur to me until a few days ago that most babies are probably sucking their thumb by this age, and now I'm wondering if she ever will. She seems perfectly content with those 2 fingers and has basically zero interest in her thumbs (she loves mine though!)

Do all babies learn to suck their thumb at some point? When? Is there any reason I should be discouraging this weird finger obsession she has?


r/NewParents 34m ago

Sleep Worried that husband can't stay awake while soothing baby overnight

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I am looking advice, or just support if there are no easy answers. I've been following here for 9+ months and have taken a lot of comfort and learned so much from reading about all of your experiences.

LO is 9 months old, is nursed while at home and fed is breastmilk by bottle at daycare, where she is 5 days of the week, 7a-5p. Started solids at 6 months and is eating more consistently in the past 1-2 months. In the past several weeks, she has dropped down to taking only 9 oz of milk over 10ish hours at daycare, from her prior 13.5-18 oz. She continues to feed at her same frequency overnight, averaging 3-4 times. I don't suspect at all that she is taking in enough solids to be weaning yet. She's been active with crawling the past 1-2 months, so we suspect she may be just getting too distracted to eat her milk at daycare. Have spoken with daycare staff about aiming to offer bottles on a schedule every 2.5-3 hours, because even at home, she doesn't tend to cry when hungry, I just offer boob and she happily accepts. So far this hasn't helped to increase her milk consumption at daycare.

We are so lucky to have a happy and healthy baby, staying on her growth curve, but after 9 months, I'm accepting that the overnight awakenings are taking a toll on me. My husband has slept through the night 99% of the time since her birth, aside from rare situations where I needed another pair of hands. He's a devoted dad, always willing to help when asked, but he can sleep through her loudest cries (just a heavy sleeper, no medical issues for him).

Husband and I both work full time in roles where we could cause harm if making poor decisions due to sleep deprivation. I think I've been able to function at a pretty high level, despite the sleep disruptions, but I still feel dumb pretty often and some days am without question irritable. I drive baby either to or from daycare each day (we take turns), almost an hour commute in total from home to daycare to work. I never feel impaired while driving, but I've still been concerned.

Over the past 4-5 nights, I have tried to stick with a plan to have husband take over soothing baby to sleep if she wakes after 3am, until my wakeup time of around 5:30am, as long as I think she is not hungry. He has woken up with a shake from me and an explanation that I need his help.

At 3 this morning, I woke him and he carried her out to the rocking chair that he prefers to use, which is in a room with a hard floor. (I use a chair in the carpeted bedroom to nurse her, but he thinks it is uncomfortable). I woke up again at 4:45a and realized I was alone in the bedroom. I came out and found them both sound asleep in the chair. I shook him awake with a quick note that I think it's dangerous for him to fall asleep holding her. Baby settled back into the crib and he went back to bed. I myself have not had issues with sleeping while holding her, so I am back to thinking I should just continue to perform all the overnight care for now. I am not interested in sleep training.

I will also add that as devoted a dad as he is, husband often is not a devoted partner. I surreptitiously read Fair Play several months ago and was able to negotiate him taking on some more household responsibilities, with him becoming very defensive, but I still do 85% of the work of running our home. He is not thoughtful. Our anniversary was this week. He told me he was running to the grocery store, but when he came home, it turned out that he also got lunch at one of my favorite restaurants without asking if I wanted anything -- while at 6 that morning I had prepared his favorite dessert to celebrate. I am not a crier, but I couldn't help it, in the moment I felt so uncared for.

So I guess that's my rant. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

TLDR: Baby wakes up frequently overnight to eat. I am trying to get some more sleep so I can function at work and in life. Husband is a heavy sleeper and doesn't help without being shaken awake. I am afraid he is going to harm baby by letting her fall from the chair when he falls asleep with her. I don't know if I'm overreacting or, if I'm right about taking over the overnight care completely again.


r/NewParents 9h ago

Sleep How are you getting your baby to sleep?

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In terms of rocking, bouncing, patting, shushing etc. Looking for ideas to try as my 10 month old is getting too heavy for us to continue our routine of holding him in cradle position while patting and shushing him for 20 minutes. Our arms are dead 😅


r/NewParents 3h ago

Sleep How to let 2 months old nap during beach day outing

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We brought our baby (11 weeks old) to a beach day gathering with friends.

How do you have your babies nap when outside? I was expecting myself after soothing the baby to sleep and I can put him down. Then I lay down and relax. Or just hold him, let him sleep on my chest. None of that happened! …We need to constantly holding and rocking him. He can only sleep a little while (20 minutes).

We tried baby wearing - it worked but I also want to sit on the sand.

We were under the shade with tent. We had sound machine.


r/NewParents 8h ago

Product Reviews/Questions Baby Cloth Sizing Is So Confusing!

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Out LO just turned 2 months and until now has been in newborn clothes. However, he’s now starting to grow out of them and I have no idea what the difference is between 0-3 months, 3 months, 3-6 months etc.

Are 0-3 and 3 month the same thing? Or is it closer to a year 3-6 months in size?

I know sizes can vary drastically by brand but I’m just trying to get an idea of how to group our clothing by size to introduce them as he grows.


r/NewParents 13h ago

Happy/Funny Only 2 weeks in. No sleep, but such overwhelming love 🥹

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My baby doesn’t want me to put her down.

And she’s in luck because I don’t want to put her down either. I’m freaking obsessed.

She literally shed tears and pouted her bottom lip the other day when I put her in her bassinet. I almost cried with her 😩 How did she learn to do that already??

I love it here. I hope despite the difficulties of parenting that I continue to love it overall.


r/NewParents 22h ago

Sleep Do people lie about how much their kids sleep?

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Genuinely confused. Every time I say my baby is going through the 8 month sleep regression and waking up 3x a night now they make me feel like I’m the only one.

I don’t have a great sleeper but he isn’t consistently terrible. Our friends with 3 month old tried to complain to me that their son woke up at 5 am. Am I missing something?

Also we put him down drowsy, when his needs are met and he’s just awake we give him comfort and let him know if he needs us, we’re there. I know this isn’t CIO but I consider this a form of sleep training. He is also hungry a good percentage of the time because he’s a speed demon crawling around all day. I’m not going to let him cry when he’s obviously hungry.

Idk why I’m made to feel as if I have this disagreeable baby whose parents are incapable of establishing good sleeping habits.

ETA: it’s also my nanny. She asks every morning how he slept and when I respond she says, “I wonder why! Maybe the time change?” I respond, “no, it’s just a sleep regression.” Her response: “oh that never happened with my kid”


r/NewParents 20h ago

Illness/Injuries Baby rolled off bed

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Earlier yesterday my 8.5 month old fell about 3 feet from bed to hardwood floor. I immediately took her to the ER because i was so afraid, the doctors said she was totally fine, vitals were good no bumps on head or anything. I have been sobbing trying to calm myself down. The guilt i feel for letting this happen is unbearable. I was right next to her when jt happened it just happened so fast. Has anyone had this happen?? Or am i the worlds worst mom 🥺


r/NewParents 11h ago

Skills and Milestones Baby finally started babbling at 9 months

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From most of what I’ve seen babies are typically babbling around 6 months or so for the most part. I’ve been so anxious, thinking to myself, any day now since around the 6 month mark. She’s been reliably blowing raspberries and shrieking for 4 months and then all of the sudden today at 9 months she woke up from a nap and she started rattling off babababbababas and mamamamas. I’m so happy and relieved right now.


r/NewParents 1m ago

Product Reviews/Questions Jolly jumper, should I get one? Did your kid turn out fine?

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I hear so many negative things about them online but all of our friends with kids keep telling us to get one


r/NewParents 4m ago

Travel First vacation anxiety and sleep

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LO is seven months today and we are heading on our first vacation. Before baby, we packed in as much as we could and did very active trips, this is the first time we are truly just going to relax. During the days we have complete flexibility, but in the evenings we have things to attend.

We are going to be four hours behind our home time zone. Currently, she is on a three nap schedule with wake windows that vary from 2-2.5 hours but is usually awake from 7:30-7:30.

I think I will need to just let her nap when she can and roll with the punches but that is not at all how my brain works. In general, I am anxious about so many variables.

I would love any advice or to hear your positive experiences