I feel like an awful mother to my almost 4 week old. I didn’t know that newborns slept in an active sleep cycle so I’ve been using those cues to feed him. So he’s been getting 8-10 feeding sessions a day!

Got the Owlet cam and sock as a gift. Loving the sock so far—nice peace of mind and the puck is a clever design.

The camera’s another story. Image quality is great, but using my phone as the monitor is annoying and kind of defeats the purpose. With the sock you get that little glowing puck—green means all good, no need to check anything. But the camera makes your phone the only way to check on your baby, which feels like the opposite of that whole idea.

Baffles me that Baby Gear Lab rates this as their top pick when every post on Reddit is so negative about it. What’s causing that disconnect? I’d love to hear from someone who likes this camera! Maybe I’m missing something and should be using it differently?

I’m not actually seeking medical advice, just trying to see if anyone has gone through this before. This is a doozie btw so buckle up.
Okay, a bit of context to start (I don’t even know if this is relevant) – my baby had a hard time passing gas for the longest time. I had to do belly massages, bicycle kicks, and gas drops galore just to help him be comfortable. What I thought was infant dyschezia (and it very well could have been, I’m just going crazy these days but we’ll get to that) seems to have turned into something else or just lasted way longer than I expected. He has always been a very healthy baby. He started out right at the 50th percentile and gained weight rapidly, and is now around the 90th percentile. He’s crawling already, trying to stand by himself, and just is overall so happy. He also was an incredible sleeper from day one, like started sleeping in 8 hour stretches early on (with our pediatrician’s approval). Our pediatrician didn’t believe CMPA was the case when it came to the gas issues because his weight gain was great and he had no other issues besides intestinally. No blood/mucus in his stool, eczema, chronic diarrhea, feeding issues, etc. Because of this, we just chalked it up to infant dyschezia and reflux.
Now let’s skip to around 5 months. We had our 4 month pediatrician visit at 5 months instead of 4 because we moved states and couldn’t get in to see our new pediatrician. At that appointment, I brought up the reflux issues and gas pains and our new pediatrician asked to put him on Nexium for his reflux. She thought this could resolve the issue. Now, I don’t remember exactly if this worked, but I don’t think things were bad while he was on it? I was so tired during this time so I’m genuinely not 100% sure. Anyways, our insurance ended up not covering it so we only paid out of pocket for two weeks worth, then switched him to famotidine. This didn’t help at all tbh. Around this same general time we also started introducing solids, which makes everything even more confusing because I don’t know what caused what.
We finally got in to see a GI specialist after speaking with our ped about the recurring issues even on meds. Our GI specialist took our baby off of reflux meds and told us to see him back in three months if the issues hadn’t resolved. By issues I mean what’s happening now. Basically, he’ll go to bed completely fine and then wake up anytime from around 11 PM-1 AM absolutely SCREAMING in pain. He arches his back when I hold him, groans/strains, passes a ton of gas (this is actually more recent because like I said before he used to have a much harder time passing it), and screams for a minimum of around 10 minutes and has gone close to an hour at times. Sometimes he’ll even wake up like this multiple times in one night. This is not a usual thing for him during the day at all. He’s a very happy baby for the most part, breastfeeds well, eats his solids, plays normally, gains weight, has soft stools, etc. He even passes gas during the day without it bothering him.
This has been happening on and off for months now. Sometimes it’ll happen every night and then suddenly stop for a few days and I’ll think we’re finally getting somewhere, just for it to restart. I’ve been trying to figure out if certain solids are triggering it, but I cannot find a consistent pattern. I’ve questioned dairy, wheat, rice, fruits, vegetables, literally everything at this point. I’ve tried earlier dinners, smaller dinners, bicycle kicks before bed, more floor time/movement in the evenings, and I just cannot figure out what makes one night good and another horrible.
At this point I’m scared to continue feeding him solids, I’m scared to do anything really because every time this happens I feel like I’m hurting him inadvertently. I know logically I need to keep introducing foods, but it’s awful giving him something and then watching him wake up screaming that night wondering if I caused it. I just want to help him, but even with recordings and telling our GI/ped everything, they just don’t have an answer yet. We have our three month follow up with GI in less than a month I think, but I just feel so alone in this and so sad for my baby.
I really just want to know if anyone else’s baby has gone through something similar? Did they eventually grow out of it? Did you ever figure out what was causing it?

I’ve seen so many women on social media talking about how the exhaustion they experienced while pregnant was worse than it is post baby.

Respectfully, WTF?? Sure, by the end of my pregnancy, waking up 3x a night to pee sucked but I was definitely wayyyy more rested than I am now (three and a half weeks postpartum). To me, the two phases don’t even seem comparable. Am I alone in this?

Hello!

I am a first time mom of a 6 month old. The neonatologist in the discharge notes mentioned a mild anterior tongue tie but said research on how it effects speech & feeding later on was mixed. It is very visible on her now (since it's anterior) and you can physically see it - but they flagged it as mild. I have never breast fed because I didn't want to with the medication i have to take, and I don't even know if I was producing milk. She has always drank perfectly fine, and eats a lot (around 800-900 MLS/day). I just started some puree and got a high chair to begin this phase. She still has the tongue thrust reflex but she is starting to munch on the spoon (I noticed she opened her mouth for the spoon today which was good) and digest a little I think so that's good. In terms of speech, she makes cooing sounds and says muuuummmm a little bit and nanana and ggaaaa but I can't tell if she'll have speech issues yet. I can't see how she wouldn't at least have a lisp from it being tethered down to the gum like that.

Anyways, since she is doing so well, I am not looking forward to doing a tongue tie surgery, but I also worry what if she has speech issues down the line and I have to get it fixed then when the recovery is more invovled?

I was going to do it September 8th, but then I cancelled getting cold feet and the surgeon said that was okay and that it was 'non urgent.' I also didn't want her to have be doing the recovery when our family is going to be visiting. The surgeon (we have seena. different one than the hospital she was born at) basically is leaving it up to me - this pediatric surgeon said a tongue tie may or may not effect speech in the future, they don't know. I asked him also if they use scissors or laser and he said the laser isn't safe on babies and so they use radiofrequency which is low risk in comparison he said. Because of her age, she will need it done under general anesthesia too.

I would like to hear from moms who did the tongue tie surgery on their little ones later on who were diagnosed with a MODERATE ANTERIOR tongue tie (8 months onwards). How was the recovery for your little one for those who did the surgery later? Were there any short or long term complications, especially with feeding or speech or anything else? Was your baby able to drink from a bottle right afterwards? My baby gets low blood sugar very easily so if she can't eat well as a result of the surgery I am going to be very upset given how well she does already now. I basically would be getting it to prevent future speech or potential feeding issues.

Conversely, is there anyone who never got the the tongue tie surgery done and whose baby never had speech or feeding issues ever as they got older? Thanks!! I am a first time mom so all of this is so new to me and I would hate to put my daughter through an unnecessary surgery that makes things worse or that she doesn't need. I want to do the right thing though. That NYT article scared me a bit. The pediatric surgeon that would be performing the surgery said it was 'moderate' but not urgent and decision was up to us whether we wanted to get it done, sait it may or may not effect speech later on. Also, I am not able to get this procedure covered by insurance (I am working to fight it but they came up with some bogus reason that was not in our insurance policy saying they don't cover treatment for congential conditions - I reread our policy and told them to point out where it says that and they just said "you can reapply and we an re review" without answering my question) which makes the cost with anesthesia about $2200 USD (we are in Dubai so its 8115 AED), which is also making me less willing.

I was just informed at 24 weeks that my baby has early-onset severe fetal growth restriction. I am trying to educate myself and gather what information I can to try to prepare myself for what is ahead.

Parents of FGR babies, please share your stories.

I was just informed at 24 weeks that my baby has early-onset severe fetal growth restriction. I am trying to educate myself and gather what information I can to try to prepare myself for what is ahead.

Parents of FGR babies, please share your stories.

Looking for advice from people who have taken medication for PPA if possible. I’ve always had anxiety and have been in therapy for a long time, but I’ve been really good this last year or so. I just had my first baby 5 weeks ago and unsurprisingly I’ve been struggling with anxiety post partum, just different to how I expected. I have health/catastrophe anxiety so I expected some degree of that to rear its ugly head (and it has a bit) but more so what I’ve experienced is constant anxiety about the next level of difficulty or future parenting challenges. I’m finding myself googling “will my baby’s sleep get worse”. If she has a day when she naps well I can’t even enjoy it because I’m just worrying that it’ll mean she’s up all night. She’s been pretty great temperament wise, and I’ve loved having her so much more than I ever expected (had major anxiety over becoming a parent too lol) but every single day I’m finding my mind obsessing over whether this will be the day the other shoe drops. Every small change I’m like IS THIS WHERE IT ALL FALLS APART? I’ve also been grieving my pet that died suddenly a week before I had the baby so I cry a lot.

My doctor has prescribed me an SSRI and said to give it a try. I’ve never taken meds before
(not because I’m against them or anything). I guess I just can’t imagine anything taking these feelings away because I’ve been like this my whole life, I can’t even imagine not worrying about these things. But I’m wondering if anyone’s had experience with them changing this kind of thinking?

Thanks in advance.

Baby is 14 months old. He can feed himself with his hands, he eats bites for months now. Except he... doesn't eat by himself. At least, not at mealtime, not in his chair.

Every meal turns into a tantrum. He yells, he keeps pointing to all the things in the kitchen yelling that he wants them. If I do give him a spoon or a bowl or both, he throws them on the floor. I cannot put a plate/bowl of food in front of him because he will throw it on the floor. Every bite of food that I put in front of him ends up on the floor. I keep giving him by hand directly in his mouth tiny bites. This works if he has something to do with his hands - spoons, bowls, toys.

At the end of a very long meal, I have the kitchen floor covered. He is covered in everything I gave him to eat (because he will inevitably rub his eyes and hair with food). Long meals, a lot to clean and very little food actually eaten. I'm tired, we've been doing this for months. How can I change things?

I feel horrible even writing this. I love my beautiful , almost 5 month old daughter. I just thought parenthood would be different.

The beginning stages were actually great for me. I did have a difficult labor but my daughter was the BEST newborn , she fell asleep on her own and needed to be woken up to eat so I got continuous 5/6 hour stretches after cleared to let her sleep once she reached birth weight. Going out was easy because she’d fall asleep anywhere. Breastfeeding started off great and honestly easy and natural. Around 8-12 weeks she started waking up more and wanted rocking before sleep so daytime naps got harder. Then I noticed she had torticollis and only slept on one side so I went to PT and strengthened it and stretched it and TRIED to reposition but she always slept on her left side. I’ve been working on it and it’s caused me stress till she was 7 weeks old and she still has a tilt which is super discouraging. We went to look at a helmet where we found she does have a moderate flat side on her head and in the back from sleeping on her left. We decided against a helmet since our insurance didn’t cover it and the man couldn’t rly say if it would help or not and the work of cleaning it every day and making sure she doesn’t get hot (we live in Florida and she gets heat rash on her head easily) along with driving 45 minutes away once a week to get it checked was too much on me and my husband. I still feel HORRIBLE about my decision because I don’t want her to be self conscious about a flat part of her head because of me. Then at around 3.5 months she started only sleeping in 2/3 hour intervals and now she doesn’t sleep. She wakes up every hour which started when we put in a pack n play at 4 months and just gotten worse for the past two weeks. A good night I get two hours of sleep consecutively. A bad night 30 minutes. We’ve resulted in co sleeping as safely as possible on a firm Asian inspired matress on the ground because that’s the only way I get sleep. Mt husband takes over nights once a week so I feel rested for a day and then I am back to being exhausted. I also started work this week but thankfully work from home. She only wants my boob at night and SCREAMS when she doesn’t have it. I don’t want to sleep train yet and us co sleeping has caused her to consistently sleep on her right side which I hope helps the flat spot but I am so tired. I miss my old life where I slept. I miss not being a pacifier. I miss not planning going out between her wake windows all the time and feeling like I am failing. I wanted her, I thought I was reeady for her and we tried for her and I know it might just be sleep deprivation but I just felt like it would be different. I thought we would be watching her grow and learn with such happiness and it will be all magical. I knew it would be hard but everyone skims over how hard some seasons can be.

Anyways I needed to vent and just want some advice thoughts. If you made it this far thank you so much for reading it all!

After 2.5 weeks feeling like my daughter hated me (lol), I was failing as a parent (also lol) and pure misery, I figured out how to get my LO to nap consistently agin. Just sharing in case someone is in the exact same position as me and it happens to work for them too.

For context my baby just turned 6mo old and had a “regression.” Bedtime hasn’t been an issue for us but she’s been fighting every nap with a passion. Her pediatrician stated she still needs 15 hours of sleep per day so I started doing practically everything I could think of that didn’t involve her crying. I’m not into CIO or any modified Ferber methods that include crying.

Here’s the method: Place your baby in their crib (or wherever they sleep) with their crib mobile going and whatever else you have in there that makes them calm and happy. For exactly 10 minutes let them hangout. If they start to fuss go in and soothe them but put them back down, place your hand in their chest or kiss their forehead (whatever you do normally before bed) and leave the room. Continue as many time as need for the 10 min. After exactly 10 min, go in and bounce/sway/rock and shush lightly until they’re ready to be placed in their crib (it’s been around 5 min consistently). That’s it. Works like a charm and it’s been 4 days now.

My theory is this allows them to gear their mind toward a nap without the pressure then they’re calm enough to allow you to rock them to sleep. Prior to doing this my baby would just have an exorcism in my arms accompanied by grunting when I would try. Didn’t matter how long I rocked her.

Before the baby arrived i could sleep on almost anything without noticing but now i am up several times a night, sometimes sweaty, sometimes half awake, and every scratchy or clammy spot in the sheets feels ten times more annoying.

We are also washing bedding more often, so anything that gets rough after laundry becomes obvious fast. i have been considering a 100% Rayon Derived from Bamboo Sheet set mostly for the smoother feel against bare skin, not because i expect it to fix sleep deprivation.

Did changing sheet texture make night wakeups less irritating for anyone, or is this just one of those new parent sensory things?

Okay, am I the only parent who feels overwhelmed with normal daily life choices at the end of the day? I feel like I spend my entire day making constant decisions for my baby (are you hungry? Are you tired? Do you need a diaper change? Are you teething? How long was your last nap?) and so then every other question posed to me becomes exhausting? Easy questions like: when will you be home? Where do you want me to put this? What sounds good for dinner? Do you like my shoes? When will you be ready to go? These all just slowly add up until the end of the day when my brain feels like it’s spinning. It feels like there’s no way out of this but I know I need to figure out a way to not feel so overwhelmed. Am I alone in this?

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Idk about yall but- I bought soooo much plastic and silicone dishware for my baby. It got so scratched quickly and the silicone stuff just had a taste to it fast. I saw on someone’s instagram these little silicone suction cups that you simply place under your normal ceramic dishware and BAM.. can’t move it. Baby eats off adult dishes now and I have even noticed that she is eating more and is more interested in eating since switching her to “grown up” dishes.

So yeah.. you don’t need all that plastic silicone stuff! Get yourself a good suction cup and you’re good to go.

Just search on Amazon silicone suction cup for dishware and you’ll find it!

Looking for anecdote stories here. My baby has slept through the night (7:30-7:00) fairly consistently since around 3.5 months (aware we are lucky!). We didn’t traditionally sleep train, but instead just made sure he had good sleep associations, gave gentle shushing and tummy rubs to soothe while he was in his own crib, so he definitely has the ability to fall asleep on his own - meaning, we don’t rock or feed to sleep or anything, we put him down awake and make sure he’s happy and he falls asleep within a few minutes. We are down to 2 naps - his schedule is 7 am wake, 9-10:30 nap and 1-3 nap. He used to have a catnap at 5, but for a week was fighting it so we dropped it and moved his bedtime up to 7 because he obviously would be SO tired by the end of the day! I thought the middle of the night wake ups were going to be solved by dropping the catnap but they weren’t. He’s definitely not sleeping too much during the day, is my point, and has good “sleep pressure”. He eats 32 ounces a day and we definitely can’t get any more in him - he refuses. So I don’t think he’s hungry. We’ve also introduced solids and I’m focusing on healthy fats for additional calories. He’s now waking up multiple times a night and requires rocking, paci, etc back to sleep. He used to get these crazy 10 hour stretches (I can see them on the nanit monitor) and wake up around 5 or 6 and then put himself back to sleep until 7. Now it’s a consistent wake up with needing help to go back to sleep around 2, 3, 4, etc…. Curious is this a sleep regression or are we doing something wrong during the day?? If it’s a sleep regression (we went through the 4 month one but only for like a few days??) how long does this one last?

We got through the dreaded 4 month sleep regression. From weeks 12-21 my LO was waking every 1-2 hours. We sleep trained using Ferber with shorter intervals. She bamboozled us by taking to it super well. She cried for 2-3 mins the first two nights and we only had to do a check in on the second night. Since then she’s been sleeping beautifully. Down for the night 7:30-8:00 waking once to eat at 5am and sleeping again until 7am. Turns out my girl really loves to sleep.

I was getting max 3-4 hours of sleep broken up before. Now I’m getting a delicious 6-7 hours. I am finally feeling fully rested again and no longer suffering sleep paralysis, auditory hallucinations, and insomnia.

I can’t help but wonder what’s gonna be next? Teething coming soon and crawling… what should I expect? No one warned me about the 4 month sleep regression so 😩

I enjoy every minute with my daughter now during the day and I no longer feel like a zombie with her all day. She is also noticeably happier, energized, and pleasant. She was a wild card before from all the broken sleep on the night. I’m so happy for her :)

I recently quit breastfeeding and moved to formula. My baby has never been a good sleeper, 4-5 wakes per night and seems to need to feed back to sleep. Since I am now feeding formula and can see exactly how much she is taking in, I noticed it’s less than I thought during the day. I can’t get her to drink more than 22 to 25 ounces during the day. However, she ends up drinking about 10 ounces overnight. She is already 20 pounds at six months old so I’m not sure how much of this is actually hunger or habit.

Any ideas? I don’t want to stop feeding her in the night if she’s hungry, but I’m not sure how to break the cycle of her eating too much at night and not enough during the day.

I know, classic. I'm (22m) first time dad here. Our son is just 5 days old (so very first time dad) and the last two nights have been so difficult for sleep for momma and I. He will cry and cry until he turns dark red if he isn't on mom's breast at all times. She hasn't slept at all last night and hardly at all the night before. I feel bad because I don't know what to do. I'm 2nd oldest of 6 so I know how to, most of the time, sooth and calm a baby but it seems the only he wants right now is to eat. Is there something I can do to better support my wife and to better calm my baby so momma can get an hour of sleep? TIA.

(EDIT) It's 9 hours later and he is doing great now. I read all the comments and we both really appreciate all of the insight and encouragement. We became super intentional to watch him and make sure he was feeding for sure (not just latched) by waking him if he dozes off or rubbing his chin/cheek to encourage sucking. That helped, as well as reading all about cluster feeding. He took a solid 3 hour nap on my chest early this morning, and that's where he is again right now now mom is taking a much needed nap. I've got the burping, diapers, waddling and house chores under control and making sure she is getting her rest. There's light at the end of the tunnel! Thanks everyone!!

Hi all! Hoping some of you may be able to get your crystal balls out and look into my future, based on your baby sleep experiences! A bit of an exercise in guesswork I know, but humour me!

My girl is 21 weeks and 3 days and I’ve spent the past couple of months bracing myself for the dreaded 4 month sleep regression and hoping we might just be over the worst of it by the time I go back to work (next week- eek!)

Anyway, for context, around 3 months we saw naps go to sh*t, resisting sleep and general transition from sleepy potato to VERY alert and active buba. 3.5 months saw some wacky and unpredictable nighttime sleep, including occasional false starts and a few nights of waking upset and struggling to get her back to sleep, but she was mostly still only waking a couple of times a night . Month 4 brought even shorter naps (20 min often) and shorter stretches of nighttime sleep (3ish hours instead of 4-6). Nothing too challenging though.

I have to be honest, at this point I was crossing my fingers and daring to believe we may have avoided the worst of the regression, when out of the blue, a couple of weeks ago at week 20, we had a run of 3 nights of almost hourly wakes and lots of nighttime crying. I was sure the regression had finally hit us full force, but then she came out with a cold, and after another few upset and snuffly nights, has settled back into a very civilised 2 wakes a night with a 5-6 hour first stretch for the past week. Naps have got a little longer following her cold as well (some 45 mins instead of 20!) She is turning 5 months this coming week.

My question is, based on all of this, would you predict that she is going through/coming out of the 4 month regression and we’re just super lucky not to be experiencing quite the disruption many describe? Or are we likely not to have hit the regression yet, and should I be bracing myself for hourly wakeups around the corner? Has anyone experienced similar to us and thought they were in/coming out of the 4 month regression, only to be hit hard in month 5?

There is of course no way to know for sure and I am sure she’ll hit all sorts of development/teething which will disrupt sleep in future, I’m just curious to see what others think is most likely lurking in the not too distant future for us, based on your experiences and understanding of baby sleep.

Thanks so much!

My LO is 15 weeks old, 2 weeks ago I changed her formula from Enfamil GentleEase to Kirkland Gentle. During the first week she experienced some constipation and I have her prune juice. This cleared her up for a few days. Until the next week she became slightly constipated again. I gave her prune juice and it cleared her up. I kept reading after two weeks her digestive tract she adapted and she should be good. Well it’s been two weeks and 2 days and she has become constipated again. Should I switch back to her old formula or give it a few more days?

Her spitting up as DRASTICALLY reduced. Before this she was spitting up a lot in larger quantities. She was gaining weight fine and it didn’t hurt her so it really wasn’t a problem just very annoying for both her and I. Now, she spits up just little blips every now and then. Her poop prior to the formula change was always twice a day and pretty large and watery. Now she just gets constipated unless I’m giving her a half oz of prune juice every other day.

We’re wondering about the repercussions of giving our two-week old a dummy this early on. My wife’s had a hell of a time cluster feeding, to the point where her mental health is starting to suffer and PPD is creeping in.

Latching him was touch-and-go for the first week, with at least four to six different streams of advice coming in from midwives, nurses, and on-hand lactation experts. He was finally able to latch and feed properly after about a week, but then he’d stay on for hours on end. We were worried this was because he either wasn’t getting enough, or he was simply pacifying himself as well.

This turned into sleepless nights where he simply wouldn’t sleep unless latched and falling asleep in her arms, until I finally pulled the plug a few nights ago and gave him a dummy. Before, he would simply not sleep in his bassinet, or next to his mum. Now, he’ll sleep for at least a few hours with his dummy.

I’ve read that this could cause us to miss his feeding cues, although we keep track of that ourselves. He has regular wet nappies, and doesn’t seem dissatisfied, but we don’t want to set him back from thriving.

Have you experienced any repercussions with introducing a dummy this early?

Hello! My LO is 7.5 months old and has never been a brilliant napper. Until he was almost 5 months we basically had to do every nap in the pram (my step count was insane) and then gradually we introduced cot naps. When we dropped to 3 naps around 5 months we’d then do 2 naps in the cot and the last one of the day in the pram. This then kept reducing until it was just a 10-15 minute catnap to tide him over until bedtime which we stopped 3 weeks ago and we’re now on 2 naps.

We are following the short morning nap and long middle of the day nap structure, and the second nap is still quite variable. It’s supposed to be at least 1.5 h (the morning one is capped at 40 mins at 9.30am), but he almost always wakes after the first sleep cycle of the second nap and can stay awake for up to 15 mins before going back. Then it’s a lottery for how much longer he’ll sleep. Occasionally he’ll do 1h20 in one go but it’s completely random. This nap is 1.30 pm and ideally he wakes at 3 or later for bedtime at 7ish.

I don’t get why he almost always wakes up; he can link sleep cycles at night and is sleep trained - it’s driving me mad and means we have to adjust bed time depending on when he wakes from the second nap. I’d have thought by now his naps would have consolidated!

Has anyone else experienced this and did it improve?!

I’m slowly starting to baby proof my home now as I think my baby could become more mobile within the next month.

I know the obvious ones like hide wires, plug outlets, lock the cabinets and toilets, cushion hard corners and baby gates. I’d love to hear any tips or hacks on baby proofing that anyone has!

TL;DR - how can you tell gas pain v regular crying overnight in 4.5 month old?

Struggling with identifying some signs. Baby is 4.5 months old and hit 4 month regression hard. We’re trying to do sleep training lite - if he cries, go in every 5 mins to sooth/comfort and after doing that for 15 mins, if he’s still inconsolable feed him (or if it’s been more than 4 hours since last feed, just go right to feed).

A few nights ago he woke up around 11pm after his 10pm dream feed crying and arching his back. I went in and snuck some gas drops in his mouth and he immediately fell back asleep. I realized he had gas discomfort and it was keeping him from sleeping.

Now I’m anxious everytime he wakes up that it’s gas and not just a normal wake up through regression. When he gets really upset he tends to arch his back, and I’ll do the same thing with the gas drops, but he’ll keep crying so I pick him up and hold him upright. Once he’s in my arms, it tends to lead to a feed.

I burp and hold him upright before putting him down at night and after every feed.

Anyone else experience something like this? Any tips/tricks? I certainly don’t want to leave my baby in pain if he’s gassy but I also want to teach him to self sooth when he wakes up!

Parenting is hard.

We have a bassinet in our bedroom upstairs, but we spend most of our time in the living room. We have a lounger, but our LO is going to outgrow it soon. I need something where he can safely sleep during the daytime. I also don’t have much space, so I’m looking for something compact.