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She signed Milk!

I was sitting in the kitchen with my 10.5mo old and she started crawling to me, fussing a bit saying “mom mom mom” She stood up at my leg and goes “Up!” which is her favorite word at the moment. I picked her up and asked what she wanted, to which she pointed at my breast. “Do you want milk?” More pointing, only more aggressively. So I get her attention and I sign “you want milk?” to her, to which she responds back in sign, not once, but three times with “Milk,” followed by more pointing. She knew what she wanted and she wanted it now. I’m so proud of her for communicating her needs so clearly! Raising this kid is wild and so rewarding ❤️

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I swear my 6wk old can tell when I leave the room

With dad, mom in room? Passed out. In crib, mom in room? Passed out. In the same room while we’re doing dnd? Passed out. Mom steps out to go to the bathroom or grab a snack because babies sleeping? No he is not, and now he will scream. How dare you abandon him mother. Jail for 1,000 years.

Sleep training sucks. And makes you just feel like you are torturing your child. I don’t know if we can do this!

The cries he does are the loudest, most intense cries he’s done since he was born. And you just have to sit there. We are trying the pick up out down method mainly. Patting and shushing along with it. But those 5 minutes he cries feels like an hour. Then he becomes over tired and the whole process is just worse and takes even longer. Even when picking him up he’s in such a frenzy at this point it feels impossible. They say babies need their sleep for brain development but at the same time you have to deprive him of it so he can learn. I’m just mixed about it. Like most things with babies everything’s just so contradicting. Fuck is this stressful. I’m sorry little man we have to put you through this.

This may sound weird, but does anyone else here love the smell of their baby's breath?

That milky baby breath 😍

A conversation about breastfeeding with my seven year old nephew:

Him: is the baby sleeping? Me: no actually I’m feeding her! Him: oh… I forgot that mums can feed their babies from their bodies… I find it a little bit creepy Me: oh why is that? Him: Well, human bodies just have blood on the inside, so why do babies drink blood? Me: well actually she’s drinking my milk, human bodies can make milk when they have a baby Him: OH! So like a cow! Me: yeah I guess, like a cow! Him: haha. You’re a cow. Daaaad (my name) is a cow!

Heard my teenager having sex?

My son (17m) got his first girlfriend about 4 months ago. They are super cute together and she’s a really nice girl. I know she has a pretty hard home life and both of them prefer to be at our house, which is fine. Usually we (my husband and I) don’t interact with her too much but we’ve talked to her a bit. However, recently, there’s been an issue. We can hear them having sex pretty often. They make no effort to hide it, really. Multiple days a week, sometimes more than once a day, we can hear moaning, bed creaking and sometimes dirty talk, which always makes me uncomfortable. She will walk out wearing no bra sometimes, and the other night he walked out wearing her sweatpants (which she was wearing when she came over). I don’t really know what to do- I am a really liberal parent, and want my son to be safe, but I don’t know if I’m comfortable with this. How in the world do I approach him about it?

Has the flame...burnt out?

I can't say I'm attracted to my husband. I love him, we've been married 12 years. 2 kids. He helps out a lot especially when I'm working nights. But I feel like it's just very lack-luster. To be clear we have never been that super hot passionate relationship. I have a very low sex drive, but it used to be better than this. I would describe us as best friends who really knew and were invested in each other and it turned romantic. And it was great. Honestly it's not that I want out, it's more like how do we get back a little of what's been lost? We have both changed a lot in 12 years but we are more like roommates I feel. I kind of just make it though sex by thinking "how long until this is over?" I want to be with him through our kids growing up, we have goals we are reaching towards retirement (even though it's like 30 years from now.) He's a great partner. But I don't feel anything physically anymore. Thanks for listening.

One of the best parts of the day

No matter how exhausted I am feeling and no matter how difficult the day has been, one of the absolute best parts of the day is greeting baby after her nap. She is always SO beyond happy to see me! She smiles and laughs and reaches for me and it melts my heart. All the struggles of the day seem to disappear in that moment. For those in the depths of the newborn stage and are struggling to hold on, you will get to this moment too! I struggled with post partum depression and I’m still dealing with it, but as her little personality starts to come out more and more the depressive fog continues to lift.

Breastfeeding is a full time job

And I am tired. Just so very tired

to wake or not to wake.. that is the question.

My 2 month old is a good sleeper, and I hate waking her during the day when it's been 3 hours since her last feeding. She has finally started to gain weight, so is it really that important at this stage to continue waking them up to nurse?? Wondering when you, kind reader, stopped waking up baby for a feeding.

My breast milk stash is ruined ☹️ advice for feeling better about this please

My partner left the garage freezer open during a very hot day and by the time I noticed, everything was defrosted and warm, including my breast milk stash. Baby is currently formula fed but I was going to start reincorporating my BM into her meals soon. Now I have no milk left and I feel like I’m grieving a loss. I’m not pumping anymore so I can’t make any more milk either. I know it wasn’t on purpose and he feels terrible, but it’s hard for me to stop thinking about this and feeling sad.

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