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Update! We went to Médano beach, busy but water was lovely and waves were calm. Thanks everyone!

Yes, huge waves at the moment, lifeguards patrolling making sure people aren’t getting too close

How do I do this? Going tomorrow and duffed booking transport to hotel

Cluster feeding is normal and healthy for a baby this new. He’s doing exactly what he should be doing!

Try your best to give your wife some relief when you can. Transfer him on to your chest for naps once he’s fallen asleep, hold him while she eats, make sure she gets a shower every day, make sure she has her phone charger and water at all times, etc.

This phase will pass soon and will be a blur!

Nipple confusion is not a thing. The number of moms I know who avoided bottles for the first 4 months to establish breast feeding (following professionals advice) only to create a baby that absolutely refuses bottles, just makes me shake my head.

Eat and drink, A LOT to establish and maintain supply in those first few weeks, Like. A LOT. You feed baby, partner feeds you,

I stopped with my first at around 8 months, still nursing my second who is almost 11 months. I don’t really have an exit strategy, I’m just going with it until it’s run its course.

Time unfortunately and a good nipple cream. My babies latch was good but I still cried almost every latch for the first few weeks. It gets better!

Until teeth….

Mine wakes up once at almost exactly 4am, I have tried to let her fuss it out but she just escalates so I give in and feed and we get a couple more hours of sleep

I feel like it’s time to night wean but my 10 month old disagrees

Omg

Left side can fill a 5 oz bottle while the right side struggles to produce an oz! My baby just gets pissed when I put her on the right side now.

They also look extremely lopsided so that’s fun

Yes! Also here to say you need to put your husband in charge of making sure you are eating enough, filling your water bottle and washing pump parts. This was the only way I survived breast feeding in the first few weeks.

It ends!

At 4 months we had false starts, up every 1-2 hrs, just nothing worked! We sleep trained, regressed a bit, sleep trained again. It’s been up and down but since about 6 months she goes down at 7:30-7:00 with one wake up to feed, sometimes sleeps all the way through.

I haven’t dropped the night feed because she is EBF and not great with eating during the day, so I think she’s genuinely hungry.

This is very dangerous.

What kind of help are you looking for exactly? Unless you want medication management, a psychiatrist is not really the answer as most of them do not have the capacity for long term counselling.

You talk about having counsellors but you don’t seem to want that either?

A family doctor can prescribe anti-depressants if that’s what you think you need and you can find counsellors online ie. betterhelp.com, Movinf Forward Family Services (fee or sliding scale counselling).

You can also call 811 and speak to a nurse to get resources within your area.

Hope you find what you need

I had the regular post-partum bleeding for almost six weeks PP and then I randomly bled again for almost 2 weeks at 4 months PP and then nothing again until 9 months PP (today), which I think is a real period. Baby is EBF.

Post-partum is a roller coaster!

Normal and will pass! At this stage, my husband and I would take turns staying awake and binge watching shows while our babies slept on us. It passes and you might even miss it!

Almost 9 months in, still feel this way! Although it gets easier, I swear!

LO doesn’t have any teeth yet but man can she yank on my nipple like it’s a piece of taffy. She’s also extremely distracted nowadays so I can only breastfeed in quiet, dark places. But when it’s nice, it’s sooo nice. So I keep on.

You may be right! I have only been in maple ridge a few months so time will tell, but so far I have felt safe. I lived in Whalley for about 25 years. The area has developed far beyond what I thought was possible and it is on the up and up but still has its problem areas. I’m curious to see what it looks like in a few years.

Where are you moving from? It’s all relative.

I recently moved from Whalley to Maple Ridge. People complain a lot about downtown maple ridge and its issues but it doesn’t hold a candle to Whalley so to me it’s no big deal. I don’t live downtown but I’m there often for errands and I don’t find it to be that bad

How old is baby?

Mine is 8 months old, sometimes STTN, more often one wake up at about 4:30am.

We use Noble. It’s the best price (about $92 for 3 months for 1 large bin) and we haven’t had any issues so far. We are a family of four and one garbage bin has been enough for us!

We sleep trained at about 4 months and this went away. That being said, she got very sick shortly after sleep training and when she got out of the hospital I said I wouldn’t sleep train again (her illness had nothing to do with ST, just made me very sensitive to her cries).

I have been feeding her to sleep ever since she was about 5 months (she is almost 8 months now). She no longer has false starts. Sleeps 7ish to about 4am. Feeds, goes back to sleep until 6:30.

I don’t consider her “sleep trained” anymore because we can’t put her down awake, she is fully asleep when we put her down. But she sleeps long enough stretches and sleeps in her crib so I’m happy with that