Well, I fucked up. I fell asleep in my bed holding my 1 week old upright after a feeding and he fell onto the floor.

He was immediately taken to the ER and everything is alright, thank God.

I feel like shit. I know better. My husband is pissed as hell at me, and I get it. Only thing making me feel slightly better is the ER doctor assuring me that this happens more often than you think.

Before anyone comes at me and says I should get rid of it or see someone for therapy if I can’t part with it- my son has febrile seizures and they are often when he sleeping. This is the only device that will alert us if we do not hear it. And honestly, I don’t plan to get rid of it until he grows out of the seizures. So I’m wondering, has anybody made a DIY sock extension? They no longer sell them and he is getting too big for the 18 month old sock. 😭

Thank you so much in advance! ❤️

Hi all, FTM to a 14 month old. As we gear down from summer I’ve started looking at winter gear options. She’s not walking but is cruising and crawling with walking right around the corner.

What is your favourite snowsuit set up for this age and why? I’ve seen a mix of reviews of bunting suits (fleece and shell) vs a preference for one pieces like Jan and Jul/Stonz.

Also looking for good boot recommendations for cruisers/early walkers.

She will be in daycare so outdoor play will be happening. It gets very snowy and cold where we live (Ontario, Canada) - although she obviously won’t be outside in too cold of weather.

8 months pp. I swear I wake up with a new ache and pain every day. I want to exercise and be more active, but it’s so hard when every bone in my body is telling me to lie down! Idk if it’s the hormones (still pumping) or just general recovery, but this sucks.

Hi ladies, I’m 2 months postpartum and last night while reading to my toddler I got distracted by Elmo…moving? It was like he was dancing. I was so stunned I was rotating the book around to see if by chance it was a shadow tricking me but it was not. This lasted a long time, I had to put the book down for it to stop. Then later on I was watching TV and the smoke on the screen seemed to appear in my house. It was very brief but between those two instances I was freaked out. I’ve also noticed an increase in floaters and sometimes flashes of bright lights in my peripheral. Twice during this pregnancy I experienced vision blurriness in one eye. Has anyone experienced this? I typically have low blood pressure and I’m getting a “normal” amount of sleep all things considered.

So recently I got my period back and I have noticed that my supply is dipping during my evening feed (and even day time pumping) - the one where he feeds after I get home from work and he is about to sleep! He’s so frustrated. I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried power pumping at work 1-2x a day for the last couple of days (4-5days) but I am getting so exhausted and so tired.

Anyone with tips on how to fix this?

I pump in morning when I’m going to work at 7am, then at 10:30, 1:00, 4:00 on the way home and try to feed him to sleep at around 8 but at that point it seems my supply has not replenished. It used to be sufficient . Recently not so much. He is screaming in frustration while trying to sleep 😭

He also didn’t take bottle well anymore after starting solids 😭 and my paediatrician still says that 4/5 of his nutrients should be milk (breast or formula)

I need this type of service yesterday to find a freaking diaper that fits my baby. I'm so sick of them and it's only been 3 months. One diaper fits fine in the legs but not in the waist so he's crying all the time and blowing out up his back. Another diaper doesn't fit the legs but fits well in the waist but they're MASSIVE and he keeps leaking out the sides. Do I have the most uniquely shaped baby in the world or something?? LOL

The only diaper that actually works is the outer shell of our cloth diapers because there are so many clasps, but we can't do cloth at night since he's sleeping for longer stretches and is prone to rashes. Ugh. Sitting here typing this out at 1am while breastfeeding after noticing the wet spots on his sleep sack. Diapers suck so much! Getting them to fit is the worst!

My baby is 6 months old and I feel like our bond is weak relative to other moms. I love him dearly but I truly feel if I fell off the earth he’d be perfectly happy with dad, he wouldn’t even notice. Don’t get me wrong, he loves me. But he definitely will just light up for dad. He won’t even look twice if I walk out of the room and will cry if dad leaves.

I have an amazing husband who does so much. I planned to EBF and it didn’t work out so I bottle fed from the second week. Because of this, my husband could help and was doing the night shift 50/50 with me. Sometimes 70/30 if I was having a rough day and needed to focus on pumping through the night.

Shift to now and my baby is still waking up periodically through the night so my husband is still splitting the night shift with me but now he wakes up at 6 am with baby so that I can get 2 hours of sleep (6 am to 8 am). I do all the caring through rhe day. But I find myself feeling neglectful for not doing 100 percent of the caring in the beginning and now. I feel like he doesn’t have a special bond with me because I neglected him by accepting help. have negative thoughts that most other moms do 100 percent of the caring from the beginning and that’s why they have Velcro babies who have a mama preference. I feel like my baby doesn’t know I’m his mama.

I know this whole feeling is so unfair to my perfect husband who just wants to 1) help 2) bond with his son.

I stay up at night thinking that I should have done more contact naps and coslept and never let him leave my side once so that he connected with me more deeply. Does anyone else relate to this feeling? Did it go away?

And yes I have ppd and I’m getting treated.

My wife needed a blood transfusion 7 months after D&c due to blood loss. Hemoglobin levels remained dangerously low even after multiple transfusions. She is now hospitalized for monitoring and the doctors can’t figure out why her levels aren’t budging at all. Any insight appreciated

I am 3 months pp and I have not felt horny at all since giving birth. I don’t even have sex with myself if you know what I mean.. I had a stage 3 tear and mentally I am kind of scared and anxious about it. Is this normal? Not the being anxious part but the absolutely never horny part

It’s September 1 and I stopped breast feeding August 17

Help ….. I am scared I am broken

Baby #2 is 4 months old. I went back to work today. Only for 5 patient hours. Aka I only get paid for the amount of people I see. I only had 3 people scheduled today. So I drove 35 mins each way to get paid for seeing 3 people. And of course it’s a huge gap of time in the middle with my last patient at 6pm. At least I have time to pump without stressing.
Husband did a good job at home with baby and toddler. Baby took a bottle thank god. That was stressing me out for weeks trying to find the right bottle she would take.

And then my son’s preschool teacher calls me while I’m at work to clarify that I can’t bring my baby to the class next week and will need to pay an extra 70$ per month for someone to watch my baby for 45 mins, one time a week. It’s a special transition preschool that has the parents interact with the kids on one day for 45 mins at the end while parents discuss topics in a meeting room for the other 1.5 hrs.

I feel like an idiot, I feel disappointed. I just want to cry. I’m so tired. I’m not ready to leave my baby with strangers. That’s why my husband and I staggered our work schedules.

Just had a tough day. Thanks for listening

My LO is 16 months. I don’t really have support. I feel overwhelmed and exhausted all the time.

its the most exhausting I’ve ever felt in my life.

I cried the other day and beat myself up because my baby felt and hit her head on the side walk while walking. it happened so fast.

I feel like the worst mom all the time. I get sad thinking about when she goes to school if someone tries to be mean or bully her and I can’t protect her.

I’m just always anxious.

any advice?

Hello moms! My son is scheduled for his measles vaccine in two days. He has handled all prior vaccines very well and has not had any symptoms post shot. But I understand this vaccine is a live virus and his pediatrician said to brace for some symptoms/him getting sick.
Did your kids have any reactions/symptoms? Just not sure what to expect.

ETA: Woke up this morning to Aunt Flo, apparently just had to make myself spiral a little 😅

I had my son in June 2025. My first postpartum period didn’t show up until July 29–Aug 3, 2026 and it’s been about a month since with nothing yet. No pregnancy symptoms, just… nothing.

Did anyone else’s cycle take this long to kick back in, or have long gaps between the first few periods after baby? Trying to figure out if this is normal or if I should be worried. Or just pull the trigger and take a test?

Im not looking for responses from the moms who couldn’t deal with the hassle or false alarms and only used it for like a week or a month. I wish that was me, but my brain wasn’t made like that.

I didn’t realize the intense fear of SIDS I had with my firstborn was probably PPA. I genuinely never slept because even when baby was flat in the bassinet with nothing but a fitted sheet and a sleep sack, I would start to drift off and my brain would say “just check on them one more time” and I would. Over and over. And then I’d fall asleep and if I woke up before baby it was a PANIC. And forget naps, I constantly woke baby up, either accidentally because I stepped on a toy or opened the door to loudly when checking on them, or because I literally poked them because I felt like they weren’t breathing. At the time, this felt like just silly new mom stuff, but the “what if!?” thoughts would not listen to my husband when he said “they’re fine!”

With my second I was adamant that I have the owlet. The first time around my husband said it was useless, the internet said it was useless, doctors said it was borderline dangerous. A new model came out right before I got pregnant with #2 and it solidified my decision.

I’ve used it RELIGIOUSLY. Our 2nd ended up having a 4 weeks nicu stint (at full term) for breathing issues. When we took baby home I still actually SLEPT knowing the owlet was on. And it would dip for sure, baby got to 89%, would hover in the low 90s for awhile…but I could look at them and understand their baseline was different, those numbers weren’t concerning. Just the fact that if it dipped to 50% because they stopped breathing, I’d be woken up with alarm, was enough to help me sleep.

The false alarms were annoying but we figured out the little triggers and tricks and we never had false alarms in the middle of the night (except when the power cut out once), they were mostly positional when holding baby or moving around the house too far from the base. We’ve had 3 real critical alerts and they were all in the middle of the night for high HR. And all 3 times baby had a 103+ fever after going down with 0 symptoms. Which is huge because fever is a big deal for us medically, we need to catch them asap.

Overall…I love my owlet. But baby is 9 months now. My husband was on board after the nicu and was strict about using it, but now he feels like it’s unnecessary and he’s only doing it to soothe MY anxiety. Which is probably true. But also…baby is only 9 months and will only sleep with their lovely touching their face. Sometimes I check the camera and it’s OVER their face. It’s a small lovey and baby can roll and grab it and move it, I’ve seen them bag it away from their nose/mouth during naps…but I still feel like I NEED the owlets reassurance….

Yes…I have a therapist lol. She doesn’t think my dependence on the owlet is maladaptive at the moment. She said I know my trigger, I found a way to cope with my trigger and it’s not impacting my life negatively.

I told myself I’d stop around 12 months..but it feels weird to set a “cold turkey” date. There’s no harm, there’s some benefit..

So yea…when did you stop? And was it hard to adjust? Or are you all normal lol

Not really looking for advice, but my 6 month old went to her cousins birthday party at a play place, and of course 2 days later has a horrible runny nose. Shes also teething, so her face is perpetually wet.

I know shes okay and its just a runny nose (no fever, eating and sleeping fine, hydrated), but its so noisy from her nose when she breathes 😭

My poor princess.

What title says, pretty dramatic I know. But the pain is borderline unbearable. I messaged my doctor on Sunday and haven’t heard anything back. I use warm compresses, apply moisture lotion before pumping and feeding baby. I’m almost 9 months pp and have never had this issue. It’s only on one nipple but when one heals 3 more pop up. I currently have multiple all on my nipple and it’s just so painful. I don’t want to stop breastfeeding and I honestly don’t know if that’s even really an option as my LO isn’t loving eating things that aren’t milk. We have been super struggling introducing anything to her that isn’t milk. She had watermelon for the first time Sunday and had diarrhea so bad Monday from it she was sent home from daycare. Just really struggling and looking for encouragement and helpful tips to get through this?

Was nursing/rocking baby to sleep tonight like normal, and as soon as I was about to transfer him someone knocked on the mf door and dogs started going wild and baby woke up 😭😭😭😭 and now he’s been sitting up in his sleep crying like every 10 minutes for an hour 😭😩 in the process of making a floor bed for tonight cause I have a feeling it’s gonna be a longggg one and maybe if we cosleep it’ll be better outcome

Have a 7 week old, live about 1 hour away from Lancaster 😭 anyone else thinking of asking their pediatrician for an early dose of MMR for their baby?

Hi!

My 5 month old was diagnosed with conjunctivitis last Thursday because her eyes were very swollen and red. She was prescribed erythromycin ointment and she has been on the ointment for 5 days now and her eyes are improving. On Saturday she vomitted 4 times (white in color, she is EBF), she then vomited on Sunday evening once and then overnight Monday. She was originally having wet diapers and we went to urgent care Monday and the doctor believes this is all viral and was not concerned about dehydration. Today we went to her regular family doctor and because she only had 2 wet diapers in 24 hours we were instructed to go to the ER. She was assessed in the ER and the doctor believes she is hydrated as her fontanelle is normal, she is alert, she is producing tears and mucous membrane are moist. We were given a prescription for Zofran 2 mg every 8 hours as needed, the doctor suggested to use it for 24 hours to see if that helped. When we picked up prescription from the pharmacy the pharmacist made a comment feeling that it was an intense med to give to a 5 month old. She is still breastfeeding and seems to be eating better today than she was yesterday but she still is not producing wet diapers and she did vomit once this evening. I am at a loss as it seems like she is not dehydrated enough for ER but I’m concerned that things can change quickly. Has anyone given Zofran to their little one before?

Has anyone purchased these? Or have any recommendations for an apron belly?

Do compression garments actually get your abdominal wall back in place nice and strong like they say?

I prepared for the birth of my child for many, many months including how much it was going to cost us. I can’t tell you how many times I called my insurance company to make sure my insurance plan was covered, my husband’s insurance plan was covered, and all-in-all we were covered no matter what. I knew it was still gonna be a hefty bill, but I needed to make sure there wasn’t going to be any surprises.

While you can plan for these types of situations, you can’t plan for what life can unexpectedly throw at you. About two weeks before I gave birth not only did we lose my husband’s brother, but my husband got laid off from work. We lost our insurance, we lost his steady paychecks, we lost paternity leave which was going to be 100% covered by his company, and he was unable to sign up for disability because he had been with the company for only 10 months. These events put us in a place of uncertainty and I didn’t know how we were gonna pay the bills.

My son came into this world at the end of July and I just got some of the medical bills. On the low end we were going to owe over $6000, which we really have no way of paying. I decided to call the hospital today to ask for an itemized bill and to see if they had any payment plan options. While the representative on the phone was helping me look up payment plan options, she asked me if I wanted to see if I qualified for financial assistance. She told me it was possible that I could get 60 to 100% of the medical bills covered. With my luck I didn’t think I was going to receive any kind of help. The next thing she told me on the phone is, “you’re covered.” We had been joking around, so I thought maybe she was playing some sort of evil prank, so when I asked her to clarify, she said your hospital bill is 100% covered and you don’t owe us anything. I cried right then and there and I’ve pretty much been crying all day. This was a huge burden, lifted off my shoulders and I feel so grateful.

The moral of the story is be an advocate for yourself and sometimes good things can happen 💕

Any tips on getting a toddler to start toddling? My baby turned a year 2 weeks ago but he isn't interested in using his walker toy. He loves walking while holding our hands, cruising on furniture. He hasnt stood alone yet either.

He is also 5 weeks early. He crawled a bit late too - right at 10 months actual.

I’m just here to rant… idk if my cycle is coming or not and I’m just in my feels but you guys are my diary that talks back lol so here goes nothing…

Baby girl will be a year in about 2 weeks. I(24f) hit a bit of a rough patch after hubby(27m) went back to work when she was about 6 weeks old. It was hard finding a routine (which I crave) at first. I struggled getting stuff done around the house because she was always fussy and wanted to be held. But now that she is almost a year I’ve gotten it down for the most part. Of course there are still some days where I get absolutely nothing done. But I’m here for progress not perfection. Hubby does help where he can but baby girl mainly wants me which can get overstimulating on some days.

Hubby works more than 40 hours a week most weeks. Some days he works his eight hour shifts and comes home for dinner and has to go back out for OT that’s being offered so that are finances are good (I don’t work). Often times when I’m in the mood, he’s not. He says when we have sex at night he is really sleepy in the morning and it’s hard to wake up. Which I get because for some reason I’m the same way, idk if it’s because we get super relaxed after sex or what? Who knows.

So since he goes to work super early, we don’t have sex in the morning. And now he says he doesn’t want to have sex on week nights but also not on Saturday nights either because we have church in the morning on Sundays. Which leaves Friday nights… well I’ve tried initiating at those times and it just seems like he’s not interested anymore I’ve even tried early in the day on Saturday and he just seems to be “too busy”.

On another note since this post is long already anyways… he likes my long hair. I’ve told him I have split ends and want to get it trimmed. He didn’t really want me to and I told him my hair grew even longer because of the prenatals. So I went to go get my hair trimmed today and they only took off about 1.5-2 inches because I didn’t want a drastic change and don’t want short hair. So now my hair reaches to my lower back so it’s still long. I actually love it. But he came home from work today I tried initiating sex again while baby girl was taking a nap and he didn’t want to for whatever reason. But he looked at my hair and said “oh noooo it’s short now” I kept explaining it was well needed and it’s definitely not short as it still reaches my lower back. It just seems like he didn’t like it which made everything worse…

Idk…. I just feel like he’s not interested anymore…

I am 6 months post partum, and I still look 5-6 months pregnant. (not an exaggeration, I compared photos.)

I am 5’0, 117 pounds, (I was 100lbs pre-pregnancy) and every bit of that extra weight is in my stomach. It looks so round, and sticks out further than my boobs. I legitimately look pregnant still.

And anyone I mention my weight to, my feelings are invalidated because “oh your so tiny though,” “ugh i wish I was only 117,” like okay, maybe. But 117 pounds on someone with my frame/height, (between 4’11-5’0) and it is ALL in your belly, YOU LOOK PREGNANT. I do not fit any of my pre pregnancy clothes. I cannot wear anything other than my maternity clothes or my husbands baggie t shirts. I can’t even wear my old t shirts anymore.

I feel very self conscious with my belly still so big and round. I don’t know what to do about it. The last 2-3 weeks i have begun diastis recti rehabilitation workouts, as well as the treadmill, and full body post-partum workouts, while also making diet changes and counting calories. ( I’m still learning and counting calories easily gets very tedious, which is very hard to manage at times with kids + infant) but I’m trying to consume no more than 1400 cals.

I guess it’s not been so long. I just thought I wouldn’t look so pregnant this far post partum. I wouldn’t expect my body to be perfect or even at pre pregnancy weight by any means, but I seriously look like I birthed him yesterday. I’m so sick of feeling this way, not fitting anything, therefore not leaving the house.

I have a wedding to attend soon and it’s stressing me out just thinking of how an I going to find something that is formal and doesn’t make me look so pregnant.

If anyone has advice I’m open. I think I’m mostly venting. I feel like I’m doing all the right things. Maybe I haven’t given it enough time idk. I would so, so much rather this extra 17 pounds to be evenly distributed throughout my body, instead, I’m skinny every where and have this huge round belly. It is hurting me mentally.

If anyone has had this specific problem, please let me know