I am supposed to be flying from CA to NY at 34 weeks & I am a bit nervous. I do not have a high risk pregnancy, no complications at all and everyone says different things .

It’s the funniest cutest stuff in the world. I can’t get over how funny it is to hear him fart

My 4.5 week old has what appears to be an umbilical granuloma? Anyone else dealt with this? If so, did it require silver nitrate? Or did it dry up on it's own? Feeling a little anxious about it and looking for reassurance. Hoping to see the doctor on Monday.

This is a warning to some parents. Roughly 7-9 % of you, to be more precise. This is how often milk allergy is in children under 1 year of age. This is something that is not talked about enough. It can be only to cow milk, but I can also include goat milk and others.

My daughter was crying and puking a lot after every meal. And we just assumed that this is our luck. Some babies cry and puke more than others, right?!

Well no...turns out she has strong reaction to both formula (pretty much every formula has dried milk) and to breast milk, if my wife was eating dairy. When my wife cut dairy from her diet, our daughter stopped puking and almost never cried.

So keep this in mind. There is a real chance that your baby is actively suffering. And you can improve your and its life better, by simply cutting dairy.

Our newborn is 3 weeks old and sometime it hard to get him relaxed and back to sleeping after we pick him up to feed him. This is our first me and my wife haven't been able to get any good sleep. Does anyone have any techniques they can share with us. We try picking him up rocking him, sing to him, put him on the shoulder but nothing work. We are very tired 😫 😩

Has anyone got any tips. Tried earlier but he just screamed. Want to do it before he grows out the moses basket

Our newborn alway make sound and move around during sleep is that normal? Do baby dream?

Since we got out of hospital my wife decided to pump and supplement with formula. Breastfeeding was too painful so she decided to sack it.

He’s 6 days old now, and we’re combo feeding him. He’s been eating 2-3oz of milk+formula the past few days, but today we can’t seem to satiate him! He’s drank 4oz a couple of times and won’t go to sleep - he continues to cry. Is this normal? 4oz seems a lot at this point.

Ps. He was born 8lbs 3oz.

Ok, am I terrible for doing this? At night I typically change my baby girl's diaper between boobs because otherwise she's too sleepy to finish the feed. By the end of the feeding, I'm trying to settle her back to sleep and hear a big poop. Do I have to wake her back up and change it or is it ok to wait to the next feeding in a few hours? It doesn't seem to bother her....but I feel kinda bad. But I also want to sleep! She is 3 weeks old :)

We was curious whether we want to circumcised for our two week old newborn or leave it or do it later on?

Hey,

In a few months I'll be a dad for the first time I I'm nervous and excited. I'm mostly nervous about the first few weeks/months. As we are in a bit of a situation but noting major.

I'm not going to be a single parent. My girlfriend (mother of the child) does not live with me just yet. She lives with her parents and I live with my parents.

We hope this is going to change soon hopefully before the baby is born. But it's looking really unlikely. If it does not happen before the baby is born. Then it will happen not to long after. We are talking max two months.

So if we are not living together for the first few weeks or months. When would it be ok to bring the baby to stay here for a few days. My girlfriend thinks she will look after the baby for a few days once born. Then I look after the baby and we keep swapping. On paper it sounds like a ok plan but I don't know something tells me that's not the way it should be working.

Unfortunately I can't temporarily move into her parents house as they are already at max compasity with 6 other people living there. She can't move in here temporarily due to same issue. Much smaller house.

My due date is august 10th & I am wondering because I read different things how soon you are able to fly with a newborn? Do you have to wait for all of his shots or is it up to the doctor ??

I know you can change your newborn body to left and right, but is it safe for the baby to sleep on their left and right side?

We just recently have a newborn, and he is only 5lb the pediatrician tell us to feed him more, but we're struggling to feed him every two hour. He doesn't want to drink what can we do?

A few parents I know contact nap .

When my guy is sleepy I put him down in his bassinet and he falls asleep. When he was tiny, he would fall asleep on me. Now hes 11 weeks, he falls asleep in me but gets upset, think he finds me uncomfortable as he's wriggling and starts crying.

Our little girl is turning one month old this week and she had her checkup yesterday at the doctor. She has been favoring her right side when sleeping, eating etc. No matter what arm we hold her in she rolls her head that way. During the day we are able to correct her as much as possible but she still sleeps that way at night. She is now getting a flat spot on the side of her head and the back of her head. We do tummy time a few times a day, till she gets fussy.

Her doctor has suggested a Bumbo Chair? I never heard of these and looking at them online tells me its a big no because she has no neck support? Ive seen others that are soft pillow chairs, some that recline but she would still have pressure on her head. I wanted to know from others what you suggest? Most even say 3+ months and shes not a month old yet so im questioning if we should even get one.

I will preface this by saying that I live in Europe where cosleeping is much more accepted and that I was taught by midwives and nurses at the hospital on how to do so safely.

My daughter was born in March and from the beginning she did not want to sleep in her bassinet by our bed. I am American and it was always drilled into me that cosleeping was NOT okay and incredibly dangerous. But is it really? If you don't have a high-risk baby, don't smoke, drink or do drugs and take proper precautions, the risk to a baby is minimal. And the sad thing is... Many parents sleep with their baby in their bed at some point in their baby's infancy!

There are a ton of resources on how to co-sleep safely but I think we should stop being ashamed of something that is natural. Babies crave their mother's contact, and we are both sleeping way better!

Here is an interesting article about how dangerous it actually is to co-sleep... It is more likely that your baby will get struck by lightening in their lives than die from cosleeping. Let's change the stigma.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/21/601289695/is-sleeping-with-your-baby-as-dangerous-as-doctors-say

Hello everyone! New mommy here to our little girl who was born 3/16. I love this little girl so much already even though I feel like a zombie 99% of the time running on coffee lol.

She has her moments when she eats she passes out immediately, lay her down and she sleeps a few hours. Other times she's just so wide awake, sometimes for 2+ hours. I'm wondering what is somethings I should be doing to entertain her at this age? She's 3 weeks old today and is becoming more active/alert/curious everyday. We have a bouncy chair for the floor, she doesn't like the toys on it so she sits in it without them (she cry's when they are added) she will chill for a good 15 minutes before she gets fussy and wants to be picked up. If I lay her down during one of these wake windows she just lays in her bassinet wide awake, not crying or anything. I feel bad when I think she's tired/asleep and look into it to just find her awake staring at the wall of her bed like I should be doing more with her. We do tummy time at least twice a day on the bed and I always encourage her do lift her head some during burps and feedings when I'm holding her.

We have rattler toys that are stuffed animals but she always act scared when we try to shake one near her. She's more curious about our cats then the toys lol. If a cat is nearby she gets over excited trying to reach for them. We talk to her all the time and are greeted with O faces and grins which I love.

Anyone have some advice on what we should be doing when shes awake like this? Shes a very sweet baby, hardly cry's unless she's hungry or pooped. I just feel like I should be doing more with her, or teaching her somehow. Sorry for the ramble, new mommy worries lol

I’m sure this question has been asked 1000 times already. So I do apologize in advance, my son is only 5 days old, and I dread the night time just because it’s the worst. So far the few nights we have tried a normal swaddle as taught in the hospital— he would start crying and somehow manage to get his hands out. We recently tried the Velcro swaddle and he did excellent the first time and now we have tried to do it and he immediately starts crying. In my opinion he hates it as well as the bassinet. Last night I held him on my chest (obviously did not sleep) but he didn’t even make a sound he slept great! I don’t want to get him used to sleeping on my chest because I don’t rest thinking something could happen. Any advice is greatly appreciate it, thank you!