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Day naps

What do you all do to put your baby down for day naps?

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How often are you intimate with partner?

I am exhausted daily as my little one is still up during the night, wakes early, I do the cleaning and cooking etc and yeah I’m just drained most days that I’m falling asleep my 9pm. My friend recently told me she and her partner are intimate every other night. I don’t necessarily think that’s the norm in our situat...

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What do you for your baby ???

If you want your baby to stay sleep through night ?? What is best time to give bath 8or 10pm after I can feed her than put her sleep ?? My baby girl is 2 week old .. I was wonder what you do with your baby plan ?

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Annoying next to me crib

Anyone else find they’re next to me cribs really annoying? It’s hard to get out of bed because you have to shuffle down and they take up a lot of room. I’m trialing moving mine slightly away from the bed to enable me to move around a bit better. Has anyone else found this?

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Dream feeds?

Does anyone follow blissful baby expert routines? Wondering whether to try a dream feed with my 10week baby tonight. She went down about 7:30pm and this routine suggests waking them up at 10:30/11pm for a nappy change and feed👀. My baby usually wakes around 1ish then 3 ish then fully around 6am 🥲

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“Sleep when the baby sleeps!”

Okay then are YOU going to do the laundry, dishes, bills, vacuuming, moping, pumping, researching, planning, animal caretaking, exercising, eating, hydrating, showering, brushing teeth and hair, meal prepping/planning, baby bottles, bed making, car cleaning, appointment making and trash emptying for me then? 🤨

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Struggling to settle second half of the night

My son (2 months old) will sleep fairly solidly for the first half of the night. He usually wakes up for a feed around 1am but from then onwards really struggles to settle in his crib. He'll sleep in half hour bursts but in-between will wake up crying and I'm up and down like a yo-yo settling him 🤦🏻‍♀️ He's not…

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5 month old sleep

Had anyone else's 5 month old hit a weird stage with sleep? My LB will be 6 months on the 30th but for the last few days he is sleeping A LOT more than usual, including throughout the night. And when it comes to bottles he is only drinking an oz or 2 and then falling asleep for up to two hours. He usually has 6-7oz ...

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Baby doesn't like contact naps

Does anyone else's baby not like contact naps? My girl literally throws herself off me when she's tired and won't settle on me at all, only in her crib. She used to contact nap when she was younger..she is now nearly 15 weeks. It makes me a bit sad to be honest 😭😭

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Feeling exhausted and down

I'm honestly so tired. My baby is almost 7wks, she is amazing most of the time and she even sleeps from midnight till 5.30. She stays downstairs with my husband from 22.30 and he will bring her up around 1am already Asleep. My morning's are fantastic, I'm full of energy and she sleeps quite a bit in between feeds bu...

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How to keep your baby wake so your baby stay sleep at night ??

My baby girl is 2week almost 3week old ..she sleep 3-4 hrs . When she wake up hungry , diaper , stay up with me 1or 2hrs until she is tired

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Hand sucking

I have an 11wk old who’s well and truly discovered her hands. Spends all day staring at them and all evening and night sucking on them. My problem is she doesn’t sleep for need to ram her hands in her mouth!! Anyone had a baby before that’s done this and can tell me how long it takes to pass because I’m around 2-3 ...

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Does your baby do this too?

Hey ladies, my little girl is 8 weeks old. In the evening (around 7pm till she falls asleep around 11 or so), my little one always does this routine: cry, nurse, gets comfy, fall asleep in my arms, but wakes up and screams as soon as I put her down. So for those hours, I'm stuck in place because she's in this cycle-...

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Sleep deprived

Me again, about sleep again 🤦🏼‍♀️😂. My little girl is 9 months old on Tuesday, she’s exclusively breastfed- won’t take a dummy either. Her sleep has never been great, she only settles for me at night, we feed to sleep, she’s waking around 8 times a night and I’m completely exhausted and I just don’t know what to do…

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feeding newborn in nights

should you wake a newborn for feeds in night if they aren’t crying for it or showing signs of hunger?

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Baby morning routine

What’s your baby morning routine like?

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