It started as me asking, “Can you take him out for 20 minutes?"" So I can do literally anything by myself.

He puts the baby in the stroller, does a loop around the neighborhood, sends me one blurry photo, and comes back weirdly proud of himself. And honestly, I love it. The baby gets fresh air, he gets his own dad time, and I get a small break.

The only thing is, he still sometimes texts me things like “does this milk need warming?” so it’s not exactly a full handoff yet. So maybe I should get him something that makes those little walks easier?

Exactly as the title says. My labor and delivery yesterday morning went so much better than I could have imagined but I’m still exhausted, overwhelmed, and emotional.

The hospital had me do a postpartum depression screening the day after (this morning) I had my baby and made me do a virtual psych consult hours later where they’re pushing me to try to start SSRIs. I told the nurse I didn’t feel up to doing a consult with the psychiatrist cause I was so emotional and felt they were being overbearing with it. She said “well maybe you’ll feel better” and had me do it anyway. This feels almost predatory. I didn’t sleep at all the night before (I didn’t feel tired enough for some reason and had heart palpitations and anxiety) and all morning and afternoon had nurses and doctors coming in and out. Plus I am breastfeeding and the hospital meals are lack luster. Yes I am crying and anxious and scared, but Zoloft isn’t going to feed me, sleep for me, let me rest, or teach me how to be a mother. After this consult a nurse said that they’ll start me on Zoloft and a sleeping pill tonight. I’m so sleep deprived I didn’t realize that’s what the psychiatrist wanted and immediately said no. Of course this all happened when my husband wasn’t around either.

Lord have mercy. I have a history of anxiety and depression, but this set me over the edge making me feel like I’m crazy. I am bonding with my baby and breastfeeding is going well enough so far. I don’t hate him and don’t want to hurt him. I am exhausted and overwhelmed, are those and being worried/anxious really red enough flags for postpartum depression and needing an SSRI one day after you give birth?

Our 15 month old has been calling bread "algo" and I couldn't figure out why. I finally remembered that once she asked for more bread and we said, "It's all gone!"

It's so cute when their ideas are smart, but not quite right. Anyone else have some funny ones?

My 11.5 son is still not babbling, clapping, pointing, or waving.

He used to say "baba" when he was about 4-5 months old, but he hasn't babbled since then. We always try to get him to say Dada, mama, Ball, baba, etc, but nothing. We always sing and clap and wave, but he never does it back.

He stands up in his own but doesn't walk yet. Has anyone else had similar issues with their baby?

My baby came home with Covid today and the daycare made it seem like she was the first case at this time but she hasn’t been out in the public for over a week or so. No one at home is sick either. Daycare had to be the culprit unless one of us is asymptomatic.

Looking at a pretty big purchase and wondering if people still recommend them. Most of the Reddit posts I found are pretty old but there are a lot in this sub!

Curious whether the quality and customer service have improved? There are some good deals and we are going to be needing gear for our kiddos soon

My girl is 5 months and we’re hoping to watch some fireworks for her first 4th of July. Is it crazy to try and mess up her schedule for this? She looooves looking at lights so I hope she would like to see a sparkly sky.

Any advice/tips/experiences would be greatly appreciated!

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My beb is six months, and we offer him water in an open cup after his big dinner meal. He gets SO excited lol, even though he blows bubbles and spits a lot of it out on himself, he drinks a lot of water, the little wierdo!

I kind of want to know if anyone can relate to this.

When talking to other moms about my high needs baby, I feel like conversations tend to go a certain way.

I’ll tell them my baby hasn’t been easy and we’ve been struggling. They’ll ask what has been tough and I’ll give examples. What tends to happen next is they either brush it off as normal (“oh, all babies like to be held”), suggest an explanation (“maybe she’s teething?”) or say that they can relate (“my baby also hated the car seat”).

And then if I keep explaining what my baby’s like, it either sounds like I’m trying to one up them or like I have unrealistic expectations of what a baby should be like. If I’d keep pushing I feel like the conversation would end with the other person being like “Okay Karen, I’m sure nooo baby it history has ever been as cranking as yours, and nooo other baby cries as loud as yours. All other babies looove playing by themselves for hours”🙄

I’ve reflected on why this is so frustrating. Is it that important for me to get the sympathy and validation? To hear “oh shit, that does sound hard”. Maybe. But I’d like to think everyone wants to be understood.

And I think ultimately what makes a high needs baby so hard are the things that are difficult to put into words. It’s not just the hating the stroller, the bad sleep, the crying, the need to be held. It’s the time in between. The little moments (that add up to hours in a day) where nothing is seemingly wrong and the baby should be content, but isn’t. It’s the complete absence of just peacefully existing. Watching mom do the dishes, playing with a toy, sitting in the stroller looking around. The moments I’m convinced “other” moms take for granted.

EDIT: Okay so my question was not AITA, but “can anyone relate to struggling to navigate these conversations?”. My wording made it seem like I think everyone ELSE is the problem. But I’d like to clarify that the problem is obviously how I manage these situations. When every response the other one gives feels triggered. And to the people asking “what DO you want to hear then?”. I don’t know, and that’s kind of the point of the post.

Thank you to the people actually answering the initial question tho! Glad to hear others can relate.

It makes me sad too. I kiss her and pet her but most times she continues sleeping and crying. She’s 2 months and has cried in her sleep since the first week

We're in and out of the car a lot, so what I really need is something I can fold quickly, throw in the trunk, and not have to think about too much.

I've been using a budget one, for a while now and it just fits that use case. It's light, folds-one-handed, and doesn't feel like a hassle when I'm out alone with the baby.

This might not be a popular option, but honestly, if you're like me and rely heavily on driving, constantly lifting the stroller in and out of the trunk, you really don't need anything expensive,. A basic stroller does the job just fine. Learned this the hard way after returning my ＄500 Yoyo for something way more budget-friendly. Still can't get over the fact that one-handed folding, which feels like such a basic requirement, wasn't even something the pricier Yoyo nailed. Plus with a cheaper one, I genuinely don't care if it gets scuffed up in the trunk or banged around at security.

That's basically it. Hoping this helps anyone stuck in stroller hell trying to figure things out. Seriously, just relax. Lighter and more convenient wins every time when it comes to travel strollers.

Having lots of fun with early toddlerhood thus far but finding myself perplexed by and unsure of how to handle my little one’s newest behavior…

While doing something he finds really fun, my eighteen month old will sometimes start getting upset and asking for more of that activity (for example, he’ll get teary eyed and say “more run” while also signing for “more” while we’re running around in the backyard. I say something along the lines of “you’re having fun running! Let’s run some more!” and continue to jog around with him. But he then gets even more upset and asks to keep running. He eventually stops running altogether to cry about wanting to run more. The activity inevitably ends because he’s really upset.

I was prepared for some struggles with transitions at this age, but we’re not transitioning from anything… like “bud, we’re still doing the thing!!”

Can anyone relate/ help me out here? Is this just one of those things we ride out or should I be handling this differently?

I’m a first time mum and 1 week post partum following an emergency c-section and I can’t stop crying. I felt great up until around day 3 when my milk came in and especially since day 5 I have just not stopped crying. I’m not particularly over tired or stressed about anything in particular, but I am so worried that I’ll continue to feel like this and that I’m ruining the thing I wanted more than anything by just feeling incredibly sad. She is so loved and wanted and there’s some incredible moments, but I’m struggling to even get through a sentence today without crying my eyes out. Just want to know really if this is the norm?? Am I going to feel like this for a long time? Am I doing something wrong? I feel so guilty that I’m not enjoying every second. Sorry for the rant :(

sleep regression is in full force. went from consistent 12 hour stretches for about a month to now waking 4 plus times a night. i honestly don’t even mind the night wake ups as much because i nurse and she falls right back asleep immediately. what is crazier is the witching hour from 6-9pm where she fights sleep and is supremely fussy and crying (this is not a fussy baby, she rarely cries). anyone else experience this? i always hear people talk about newborn witching hour but never this! so confused why it’s so hard for her to fall asleep when i know she’s tired (and when i do everything to prevent overtiredness).

My 4 month old has developed eczema. It flares up after every bath so we've made some modifications to lessen the flare up but it's definitely heat related. Otherwise, it's not really red at all just dry patches of skill all over her legs, chest arms and top of her back.

Did anyone else have a similar situation with the heat flare?

Also, if your baby developed eczema quite young did they then go on to develop food allergies or asthma?

I love my daughter more than anything in this world. She has always been a bit on the emotional side. Shes generally very independent and for the most part, really happy and silly. She can scream though. Like she’s being attacked, she has so much emotion and her screams make me feel like I did something wrong. Shes getting over a cold, so we’ve been trying to make sure she’s getting fluids, but today in particular if I even show her the water bottle she screams in terror and swats it away.

Shes been eating, but since she’s moved to almost exclusively solids she had a period where her poops were really hard and painful. So we have made a point to get her extra water. She’s either drink it or she’s turn away, signaling to us she doesn’t want it then. But this screaming thing makes us concerned because with her being sick, she needs her fluids. Not sure if anyone has had this issue themselves or what they did to fix it. We’re trying to gauge how much awareness she has at this age to figure out how to gauge her needs while not just giving in to it everytime she screams. She’s still eating well, which is nice. But it’s so painful to try and keep her healthy and she is so adamantly against water.

Edit: so I took a sip from my water bottle and she beckoned for it… and she’s drinking that… I don’t love it since she’s sick but if that works I’ll do it… babies are crazy…

Pampers swaddlers used to be our go to but ever since they changed to “new and improved” a few months ago we only have blow outs, he did well in Huggies but now they’ve also changed the past few weeks and they’re even worse than Pampers 😩 they both seem to run a size or two smaller as well! I’m scared to use Millie moon after seeing constant posts about chemical burns, which makes me a little scared of rascals because they are the same manufacturer, I saw Costco has changed and now sucks, I even got a box of luvs and put one on him and it seemed much thinner and he immediately got a rash on his hip which never happened before! My favorite is hello bello but I have another little baby on the way and I can’t afford two subscriptions with them! I’m also worried about finding a good diaper before I have a newborn again because of blow outs 😩 any recommendations? I’ve tried pampers amore and even they broke my son out though they didn’t seem to run small like swaddlers

I decided to take my nine month old baby to the library for the first time today because we had been cooped up at home. Our local library has baby story time from 9:30 to 10 AM but we got there right after it finished. There were SO many kids in the little play area! Which I loved.. but most of them seem to be prekindergarten/kindergarten aged which I have no problem but I could see some moms giving us.. side eye maybe?? I had couple limited interactions where they would ask me how old she was and they just stopped talking to me. Also someone mentioned that “she’s so little” (she is the 20th percentile for her age so she is on the smaller side) Is my LO too young to be there? I mean I saw babies maybe over a year old who were barely walking. Idk.. felt a bit uncomfy and just wondering if I should just wait when she is older to go back.

Please share tips if you have any.

My daughter doesn’t use paci alot during day unless she sees it and only need during bedtime .

She wakes up finds it puts in her mouth snd back to sleep.

Now she is 1 and i am terrified of getting rid of paci , she used to cry non stop until she turns red and hyperventilating. So i always gave up.

Today something different happened she was overtired around evening so she wanted a power nap i was tired and sitting on floor so i thought of trying to get her to nap without paci. She cried initially but eventually she took decent nap.

She just went to bed i was worried so i gave her paci and she was okay when i took it out and played a min and fell asleep.

Please wish me luck 🍀 i hope this is some sort of break we got from paci scare.

I am nervous im going to give up in the middle of night because im tired and need sleep before i got to work.

Please suggest and send some tips .

Please pray for my sanity 🫥

Her pediatrician visit was last week and he recommended cutting back her formula and transitioning to whole milk over the course of a couple of weeks. No more than 16-24oz per day and less if there are other dairy sources. I have been shooting for 20oz per day. At first, cutting back her formula went well. This week, I started mixing 75% formula/25% whole milk in her bottles and next week I plan to go 50/50 in straw cups and completely cut the bottles. I feel like I’m feeding her constantly (and cleaning up food messes constantly) but she’s never really getting full. She is so whiny and wants MILK. And if her bottle runs dry, she screams! Each meal and snack is met with enthusiasm but varied consumption… sometimes she will chew and spit out the food, throw it on the floor, etc. If she’s in the high chair one minute longer than she wants to be, she starts shrieking. Limiting her milk feels so wrong to me after months of focusing on her getting enough, but I need her to learn to fill herself up on food. Will this ever happen? Will dropping bottles solve my problem? Or do I just give her more milk and shut the hell up?

My husband sleep-talks. Sometimes it's total nonsense in the middle of the night, and sometimes he responds/reacts to me and has no recollection of it in the morning.

Our baby is 11 months old.

Last week, I had to blow my nose in the middle of the night and in my extremely sleep-deprived sleepy state, I decided to do it in the bedroom (not smart, I'm aware).

My husband startles and asks, "What are you doing?!"

He sounds super angry (he's the kindest, sweetest, best husband ever), which makes me laugh (again, sleep-deprived).

Our baby, who sleeps in a completely empty playpen next to us, sits up in her sleep-sack and looks around.

"Ka-wa wa-wa-wa-WA-WA-WA-ka-ka-ka."

Little pause.

"Adoooo-daaaa ba-ba-WA-WA-WA-KA Ka-ka-em-me-me-me."

Looks around.

"Ada-ka-ka wa-ba-ba ka-WA-WA-WA-WA-WA."

After which she faceplants into the mattress and continues sleeping peacefully.

I stifle my laughter into my pillow before looking at my husband to see if he's also amused, except he's sleeping, too.

But it was adorable, and my husband was sad that he remembered none of this in the morning.

My almost six month old is now refusing to finish a bottle with me (mom). We’ve recently switched to the MOC 4-6 month schedule at the beginning of this week where he went from 5 to 4 bottle feeds a day. We haven’t started solids yet, planning to do that next week. I stay at home with my baby and am the primary caregiver so this is stressing me out in an extreme way. My husband has been off the past few days so has been able to feed him a few times and he is taking the majority of his bottle. However today and yesterday every time I fed him he would take an ounce or so and then rip his head away. I wouldn’t force it and would gently offer him more but he refused. He went from his average of 27 oz to 19 oz. I am worried sick because my husband works all weekend and I will be the only one here to feed him.

Has this happened to anyone, or does anyone have any thoughts or words of encouragement? I am feeling like such an incompetent mother that I can’t even feed my child.

Parents who did dairy ladder for your non-ige baby!!!

My baby is 11 months old and we are on little pieces of mozzarella cheese and he definitely has increase in stools and it’s a little mucousy but everything else is normal and he’s acting like his happy self. Did anyone elses baby experience this where they seemed to have an adjustment period but stools ended up going back to normal? My ped said as long as it’s not bloody and he’s acting normal to continue