Community Posts, Tips & Support on Baby Care

My LG is 6 weeks old today. Apart from one occasion she’s always pooped a couple of times a day. It’s now been almost 72 hours since she last had a poo. Lots of wet nappies, feeding as usual and not in any pain or discomfort. We had some weight gain issues when she was firstborn so ended up on a feeding plan. She’...

What was everyone’s babies like after the second lot my girl is late with her 12 week ones because she was really unwell so had to push them back .

How many times a day should a 4 month old be pooping? It's not even 1pm an we have had 4 poops today. Yesterday he had 5 all together.

My EBF 15 week old has started getting upset whilst feeding in the last week. Mainly with the before bed feed. Just now she got really upset whilst yrying to feed. Arched back, stiff legd, hysterical crying with tears, wanted to be held only. Then threw up a lot of milk (about 20 mins after last feed), cried a bit m...

Hi my baby is 9 months old, and i’m thinking to start to give my baby BLW method but when i give him blw food he gag and vomit 😭 I’m stressed out. Is this normal?

Anyone else’s baby not bothered/interested in playing?

Has anyone read about the court cases with neocate causing bone problems a few years ago, I’m just wondering if it’s ok to use now and if it’s been resolved I’m struggling to find info on them fixing it

So my partner has a cell in his blood call "KELL". At my first midwife appointment they did my bloods and results came back that my body was producing "anti k" which fights against the KELL gene. It's really rare and I'm hoping someone on here has been through or is going through the same thing.

Can I give Calpol before vaccines? So worried about going in an hour…. Google says not recommended, but why..

My LB is 13 weeks, and the last few nights he has been really hard to settle and shows signs of colic. I suspect it originally started a week or so ago, but now it's really coming out and he cries for a few hours in pain and is hard to comfort. Has anyone experienced this happening at 12/13 weeks? He was ebf until a...

How often are you bathing newborn baby ??

My baby is 4 weeks old, and I have families coming in to spend a few days with us. Meanwhile, my brother has a cough, and I have told him to treat himself before coming. But i am concerned as my 3 year old and 4 year old neice has cough too and I don't want my baby to be infected. How do I go about it? I can't just ...

Hello! My newborn is 6 days old and he has been very windy baby. Im breastfeeding and after each feed he is struggling. I burp him and bend his legs to try to help with this. Started giving infacol and it helps a bit. I’ll stop having dairy/gluten for a while and see if it helps. Any other suggestions or experience ...

How did your LO cope with the 8 week jabs?

My baby is about 7.5 months old and I swear he purposely gags or makes the noise for my attention. He knows how to make himself cough, whenever I fake cough he will fake cough back and he thinks its so funny which it is 😂 But now he will gag and gag to the point where he will throw up whenever my husband is trying…

My baby does not intake a lot of water and it has cause severe Constipation to a point he will cry so much when pooping!! I have tried everything from adding flour to a bit of juice to coconut water but he just doesn’t drink enough. I had to finally give him a prescribed laxative but even still his poop is more on t...

Has anyone seen a specialist about a lip tie before?

Hey mummas, Anyone know any good remedies, be it exercise, compress, medication, that'll help with pain following a spinal? All of a sudden I'm in absolute agony. I can't sleep, I can't lay down, sitting is quite painful & I'm feeling really nauseous with the pain. Any advice would be appreciated

Our lo is nearly 9 months, started weaning her at just over 6 months, she has bit of solids at breakfast and then lunch or early evening, she also has up to 100ml formula a day sometimes much less or none, she still also has 700-900ml breast milk. her poops started to change to bit thicker and less frequent few week...

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone knows how long after a referral to sick kids should an appointment date be? My son was referred to the nephrology department at sick kids and we are waiting on them for an appointment but dont know how long the wait time will be