I went in with the intention of going med-free if possible but open to the idea of meds. I ended up having the IV pain meds and no epi. I am happy with how it turned out and would want to have a similar mindset if we decided to have more kids.
We did a childbirth class through the hospital and had signed up for a breastfeeding class. My son was born early, before we were supposed to go to the breastfeeding class so we missed that one. The childbirth class was great and we learned so much that came in handy during the birth process. My husband came with and was going to come with to the BF class. Everyone else had their spouse with them as well. The class encouraged bringing your support person.
We have the Baby Einstein one with an under the sea theme. I put him in it starting around 5 months with a blanket behind his back to help him stay upright. He was too short to have his feet touch the bottom of it so I put a pillow under his feet so he was kneeling on it until he was a little taller. He really seems to like it.
I think we are still going through it, or at least we didn't do a good job of correcting bad habits or something. When he turned 3 months he would STTN 3-4 times a week, but then at 4 months that changed to 3-4 wake ups per night and currently at almost 6 months we are normally at 5-8 wake ups per night. I don't really know what we could have done differently or could be doing differently now. I hope it works out better for your family!
We had our home tested before we bought it. The tests came back high and we had the sellers install a mitigation system. If we would have had it tested with positive results and then ended up walking away from the house the sellers would have had to disclose the positive tests to other potential buyers.
We use Pampers Swaddlers for our boy and they seem to work for days and nights. We were leaking almost every diaper but when we went up a size that stopped. We received a pack of Huggies as a shower give and we did not like those at all.
I am sad the soozy thing seemed to be dismissed. I get why, but given that she still posts on MMM and used to post here, I need to know what her deal is.
That was dismissed because it wasn't true. I explained on MMM.
What do you do when they go to sleep just fine in the beginning of the night but then wake up 8 times in the middle of the night? Let them scream for an hour at 2 a.m.?
Try giving him Tylenol one night in case it's teething?
Are you still swaddling is arms? Maybe he's ready to have more freedom of movement.
We do swaddle his arms in. I tried keeping his arms free 2 nights ago and he screamed his head off when we put him down at 8:30 until I went back in and put them in.
I am not sure what the right solution is to this problem. Our five and half month old will go to sleep just fine, for the last 3 weeks or so there is no crying. We swaddle him, put his pacifier in, tell him goodnight and then leave the room. The pacifier falls out (almost right away) before he goes to sleep and then we will look on the monitor a few minutes later and he is out. Which is great. But then he has been waking up 6-8 times a night from 11:00-6:30 a.m. We had gotten to the point of no wake ups until 6:00 a.m. for a few nights. My H put him to bed last night and didn't put the pacifier in at all.
When he wakes up in the middle of the night we pretty much just go and put his pacifier back in. Which is probably bad but neither of us has the will to listen to him cry.
We have changed a few things in his routine - I have been nursing him much more than I used to - rather than 1-2 times per day and the rest of his food being pumped milk it is the other way around. He also now has a pretty set bedtime when we are home, before we were just putting him down when we went to bed around 10:00. We have also stopped feeding him in the middle of the night because he was STTN.
Any ideas to help him not wake up so many times every night? 1-2 would be fine, but this is just getting terrible.