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    Is it sensible going back to part time work 2 weeks after a C-Section

    @pattimayo I didn’t have a c-section for either of my births and this sounds like a complete nightmare to me. I would never go back to work after 2 weeks in any circumstances. Even being a STM and knowing what I was doing this time, it’s still so hard the first few weeks and even months, and...
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    7 weeks and all I want is a McDonald’s hashbrown

    @happilyretired Trader Joe’s frozen hash browns are really good whenever you can’t get them from McDonald’s
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    Tricks for longer night stretches?

    @greg32 Mine never really napped longer than 2 or maybe 2.5 hours once he was a month old, so I didn’t really have to. I would wake personally if it had been 3.5 hours since last feed.
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    Tricks for longer night stretches?

    @gym_class_hero The first thing that’s going to consolidate night sleep is shifting calories to daytime. Both my kids were eating about 24 oz a day in the 12-13 daytime hours after 2 months and naturally started sleeping through the night at 10 weeks. Once they started consistently sleeping a...
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    Ideas for longer sleep stretch, or is this it? (11week old)

    @christbearer95 Shift calories to daytime as much as you can. Make sure baby is having a full feed and not a snack at least every 3 hours. Once you know they’re eating enough during the daytime hours, respond to overnight wakeups by trying to soothe in other ways instead of immediately offering...
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    Have we majorly messed up?

    @rabidrant Bedtime is too late. And yes, personally I would tend to say doing things like letting the child fall asleep first with you then be transferred creates that expectation for them and does not foster independent sleep. For a child that old I would do straight up CIO because check ins...
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