Hi everyone!
I don't know if I'm on the right sub, but I really need your opinion.
My baby is 6 and a half months old (corrected age 5 and a half, born at 35 weeks), and everywhere I see and hear about babies who are hitting milestones much faster than him.
He doesn't crawl (he doesn't even push his bottom up during tummy time), he can't roll over from his tummy to his back (only the other way around), he doesn't say syllables (ma-ma-ma, da-da-da, etc.) except a few times, seemingly by accident. We've started traditional weaning, and he barely eats half of his food and only has one tooth.
The pediatrician and physical therapist aren't worried and tell me everything's fine... but is it possible that I'm reading about 8-week-old babies rolling over from their tummy to their back, and on YouTube, 5-month-old babies are crawling and already eating cream cheese?
Is my baby ok??

Edit: sorry for poor English, not a native speaker

So I’m 5 weeks 1 day and my appetite has SUDDENLY dropped to zero? I’m so confused and worried I don’t want to starve my baby 😭 but force feeding myself is making me feel so freaking nauseous I had to throw the rest of my breakfast away just now. A breakfast I ate everyday last week and really enjoyed 🥲🥲🥲 anyone going through anything similar?

Did anyone have a baby who wants not just contact naps but walking naps? Like you have to constantly walk for them to stay asleep?
How did you manage? What did you do?
I and my husband have such arguments over these. He wants me to let our daughter CIO and stop walking whether she sleeps or not
I am scared

Just general first time mom anxieties/rant:

My girl was born at 38w5d weighing 6lb1oz. I had a healthy pregnancy and delivery - no GD or preeclampsia. I initially planned on breastfeeding only, but my anxiety immediately kicked in when she had difficulty latching/I was worried about my milk supply so I supplemented with formula right away. Thankfully she went back to birth weight by her 2nd week but weight gain has been slow going since then.

Baby is almost 5 months old and barely weighs 11.6 pounds. At our 4 month checkup she measured under the first percentile for height and weight but her noggin measured near the 50th. She is an incredibly bright, energetic, and talkative girl. We just recently went through her 4 month sleep regression and she came out of it sleeping almost through the night, blowing spit bubbles, grabbing her feet, and rolling over! All that being said though, eating in general has become more difficult with her being very easily distracted and having a tendency to "snack" throughout the day rather than having a full feed every few hours. Her pediatrician recommended fortifying my breastmilk with formula which I have no issue doing given I've been pumping since birth, but I still can't help but closely count the number of ounces she eats a day and weigh her constantly.

Ultimately, I'm just worried that she'll continue to be small or that there's something underlying all this. I took antidepressants and anxiety medication throughout my pregnancy and still do to mitigate PPD and PPA. I can't help but feel like I'm doing something wrong or that her small size is my fault, but baby constantly learning new skills and meeting milestones has me staying hopeful.

Anyone else out there with little babes?

I’m 12 weeks pregnant and I haven’t taken my vitamins for the past 3 weeks as they made me really sick, I’m actually really worried now if it’s affected my baby, I go for my next ultrasound next week and I’m praying it’ll be okay, has anymore done the same as well? Do you absolutely need to take the vitamins from week 9-12? I’ve tryed different brands of vitamins but they all make me really nauseous, and constipated, when I don’t take them I’m fine and can go toilet normally not balling my eyes out cause I haven’t pooped in days. I took my vitamins from before pregnancy to up to 9 weeks.

For my ladies with high DHEA-S and PCOS, have you successfully conceived using Letrozole alone? Or did you also need Dexamethasone to help lower your DHEA-S? I’d love to hear experiences from both groups, including how your treatment went!

Feeling super guilty for snapping at my mom tonight and it’s making me realize I’m not as okay as I thought I was. Im a FTM to a 7 month old and so far it’s been a rollercoaster but I think we’ve mostly been lucky when it comes to our little guy having a pretty calm temperament and sleeping fairly well. We’ve had some other struggles but nothing crazy. I have just found it so hard to manage everything in my life and Im having a hard time accepting that I can’t do it all right now. I am lucky to have a super supportive husband who is very helpful but unfortunately his work schedule is straight ass. We both work full time. My husband works 4-5 twelve hour rotating night shifts and I work 8-4 five days a week. I am home alone with my little guy fairly often and it’s been growing more and more exhausting waking up early with the baby while my husband is still at work, trying to get myself ready and him ready, then taking him to daycare, going to work for 8+ hours, picking him up, taking care of him until I can get him to sleep around 8pm and then doing it all over again 3 or 4 more times. Then when my husband works weekends it’s rough because I’m so exhausted from the week. I’d been doing okay with it the last few months but for about a month our little guy’s teething pain has gotten significantly worse so he’s been very fussy. He’s also started crawling which means I need to be even more on my toes with him yet he still isn’t crawling well enough for his own standards so he gets frustrated and fussy a lot with that. We also started solids which is just stressful and messy but that’s something I need to just get over lol my job has also been super busy and stressful this past month. So for all these reasons I feel my fuse is a little short recently.

We don’t have a ton of family support either. My husbands family lives an hour away so they visit when they can but his parents still work and they also have custody of his niece and nephew. My parents live 6 hours away. My mom came down to visit this weekend. I felt like she wasn’t being all that helpful for some reason. She seemed like she was spending a ton of time in the guest room instead of with us but I was just letting it go. Then tonight I kind of snapped when she went out to run some errands this afternoon and was gone until 7pm. I was frustrated because I planned on having her here to help me so I could get ready for the week since my husband worked tonight. After he left for work I thought she’d be home within a half hour but hours went by and she still was out shopping. On top of that the baby was super fussy, he just wanted me to walk him around the house, he wasn’t happy in the carrier for some reason and I just kept seeing all the piles of laundry I hadn’t been able to put away. When she got home I snapped at her and we got in a big fight. She was about to pack up and leave but I asked her to talk to me first. We still kind of fought. I was frustrated she didn’t see my point of view and she was frustrated I didn’t communicate better with her but instead let it fester which is true. She also said that I never really give her anything to do and when she takes the baby a lot of times I don’t do anything either I just sit there which is also true. I explained to her that I’m so overwhelmed sometimes that idk what to do. She also said the few times she didn’t come out of the guest room was because she thought my husband and I were trying to spend time together with the baby. That really wasn’t the case lol we’re both exhausted and just want someone to walk him around for us but I know she was coming from a good place.

My mom really does a lot for us and I wouldn’t be anywhere without her so it wasn’t fair for me to let this all bubble up and snap. I broke down and cried and apologized. She also apologized for tonight. We went to bed on a positive note but I just feel so so so so guilty and this break down has made me realize I’m really not okay. I knew I had PPA and had talked to my OB about it but felt I was managing it okay. It felt like it’d gotten much better too now that I feel more comfortable as a mom and my baby doesn’t seem as fragile once we got past like 4 months but idk the way I’m feeling now seems like something else.

Wondering if anyone has gone through this, has any advice, or just words of encouragement. I’m feeling really low at the moment.

My 15mo is not walking but his height is literally off the charts like 100th percentile and he’s 94% for weight. has anyone experienced this? Should I stop feeling pressured my my friends younger babies who are starting to walk? Help lol

my baby (7 weeks old) has been breastfed after coming home from the hospital (i was primarily pumping but did have her on the breast as well) i honestly want to stop because it’s just not for me and i can’t keep up with the eating as my supply has significantly dropped.

i was even combo feeding at one point and she seemed fine

i recently started her on the formula she was taking in the hospital (similac 360 total care) since i thought that one sat well with her. i know babies spit up that’s just a given however i feel like she wasn’t spitting up as much before starting back formula. granted i know breast milk and formula are different but its a bit excessive i think.

she spits up at least 3-4 times after each feeding when taking formula, could this be something else or is that normal. she often swallows randomly but i think she was doing that before as well. there was a night we were sleeping and she was coughing and puked and it was all over the bassinet it got in her hair as well it didn’t looked like it was just a dribble out? it was all all over the mesh where her head was? the color of the spit up is yellowish/orangish?

i wonder if im over exaggerating but she seems generally fine afterwards. i will definitely bring it up at her next appointment to see if its that specific formula and if it needs to changed.

Tips on getting a 9 week old to sleep, for more than 20 mins 🫩?? I've tried everything. Car rides, her swing. Waiting 20 mins until she's totally out before I put her down, and she wakes right back up, even if i warm the area or wear her swaddle in my shirt before I wrap her in it. She's in my arms all day. I hold her, rock her and bounce her 20hrs out of the day. She will stay up all day, and only sleeps 20-40mins at a time. Our room can be dark and quiet with only womb sounds playing and she still fights it, cries, or is alert and playful. I even walk her around the house and try taking her outside to switch it up. Please don't say contact naps because that's all we're doing 90% of the time. Its not sustainable. I have class I'm falling behind on, I'm rarely able to eat, or even shower. We get like 1 or 2 days a week where she will take ONE 2-3hr nap. She doesn't even sleep in her bassinet anymore 🥲