MOTN Ponderings

[flyinghorses6]

1. Is everyone swaddling their babes? What kind of swaddle?

2. Does your child/children take a pacifier?

3. How often are you bathing baby/babies?

4. What's your favorite baby product so far?

[littleredfish]

1. Nope. All of my kids hated being swaddled beyond the hospital. They cry like they're being tortured.

2. Nope. Again, all of my kids hated them. They've all made faces like I'm trying to poison them, spat them out or gag on them and eventually turn into thumb/finger suckers.

3. DS has had one actual bath since birth. A few soaks in water for gas, but just the one actual bath so far because on of the girls got PB in his hair. I use cloth wipes with water and baby wash at changes so the important bits are wiped multiple times daily as needed anyway.

4. Hmmm...Probably our Earth Mama Angel Baby Balm. I use it for both babies bums, DD1s cuts and scrapes, my nipples, my dry skin spots, everything.

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1. Is everyone swaddling their babes? What kind of swaddle? Absolutely. We are team swaddle for life, we swaddled our older kid for FAR longer than you are supposed to, lol. I like the halo swaddles.
2. Does your child/children take a pacifier? Yes, not 100% at keeping it in her mouth yet though.
3. How often are you bathing baby/babies? Every other day usually.
4. What's your favorite baby product so far? I really love my solly wrap. I had one with DD1 but use it so much more now. It lets me have two hands with my 17mo old which is so nice.

[nomnom]

1. Nope. Kids aren't stuck on it and MH and I are afraid we'll squish them trying to swaddle them tight enough that their arms won't come out.

2. No pacifiers. I'm not putting it back in their mouths evrry 5 minutes as they fall asleep.

3. Nightly rinse. Light soap weekly or as needed.

4. Still FP infant-to-toddler rocker wth the orange and green plastic frame and lizard on the back. Or triple paste for bad diaper rash, but it's expensive.

[pivot]

1. DD had to be swaddled but this one hates it. He has to sleep with his arms by his face. I actually just ordered the below sleep sack so we'll see if it works.

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0081GJ038/ref=mp_s_a_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1488799130&sr=8-3&keywords=love+to+dream+swaddle

2. He loves it and I love that he loves it.

3. Once/maybe twice a week right now.

4. Honestly my milk snob & dockatot are a tie. Both money well spent.

[shellbell]

1. Swaddling, right now with a fleece SwaddleMe. We also have Halo swaddles.
2. Yes, kind of? She's just started being able to keep it in her mouth. It's not effective for nighttime sleeping yet.
3. Every other day or so.
4. Thank god for PnPs with newborn mappers.

[loves2shop4shoes]

1. Is everyone swaddling their babes? What kind of swaddle?

We swaddle DD mostly at night. She sleeps for longer stretches at night and we're trying to signal "it's bedtime" with the swaddles. We've used SwaddleMes and the Halo Sleepsack Swaddle. I prefer the Halo. Also her resemblance to a burrito in the SwaddleMe is uncanny.

2. Does your child/children take a pacifier?

RARELY. She almost always spits them out instantly. Occasionally if we're in the car and she's screaming, she'll take one.

3. How often are you bathing baby/babies?

We give her a full sponge bath about twice a week. Haven't ventured into soaking baths yet.

4. What's your favorite baby product so far?

Probably the RnP. It's all she sleeps in at night and during the day, we occasionally use it for naps/a second set of hands. It's super portable. It's a godsend.

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1. Is everyone swaddling their babes? What kind of swaddle? Yes, we use the halo swaddle sacks so arms can be free.

2. Does your child/children take a pacifier? O does sometimes it G not so much.

3. How often are you bathing baby/babies? Once a week if not needed sooner.

4. What's your favorite baby product so far? ??

[shellbell]

The SwaddleMe changed in the last 3 years, and I am not impressed. Incidentally, we call it the baby burrito!

[flyinghorses6]

pivot I LOVEEEE my dockatot so so happy I bought it. Haven't used my milk snob yet; because I haven't left the house much

[flyinghorses6]

1. We are swaddling at bedtime only. Aden & Anais blankets are the only one she tolerates. Sometimes she fights it; but her stretches of sleep are so much longer if we do it. Especially if she's flat in the bassinet; which we have been using consistently about a week. We didn't ever swaddle K but she was much more snug because she was sleeping in the RNP until 3 months old.

2. No; but I wish she did. K didn't take one for months and then all of a sudden she did! So I'm hopeful.

3. Every 2-3 days. Not necessarily for cleaning but to help soothe her as well.

4. Dockatot for the win. We love it! We also love our swing- it's the mommaroo (4moms); we got it for K who didn't love it...

Basically I have opposite kids ha ha

[dancerspose]

Yes we swaddle. We use a fleece Halo one now but have some cotton swaddle me ones if we're still swaddling when it's warmer. Like loves2shop4shoes we only swaddle at night as the "bedtime" signal.

Yes do pacifiers also. Since we were using bottles from early on we weren't too confused about confusion. I think we started when she was about 3 weeks old.

About once a week up until now, but we just got a small sink tub that seems to make it less traumatic so we may go up to twice a week.

I'll agree with shoes again that our RnP has been a lifesaver. It was something I'd never even heard of pre-birth but it's the only thing she'll sleep in at night so it's been a lifesaver.

[ls2012]

1) Yes to swaddling, but arms only. We use A&A blankets.

2) We're working on the pacifier. Sometimes she takes it, but there's still a lot of spitting it out.

3) About every 3 days. We can't do baths because of the harness, so she gets wiped down for now.

4) Dang, this is a toss up. Love our cloth diapers, k-tan, and the A&A blankets.

[shawnabm1320]

1. Yes - just with flannel or muslin blankets right now, but when she's a little bigger we'll use the swaddleme swaddles.

2. She does! I try to only use it when I know she's just fed well, and not a lot. My first didn't take one this early, so it makes me a little nervous to use it all the time.

3. We'll probably do once a week for now unless she starts to become a spitter.

4. That's tough. I do love the rnp. And white noise. And swaddles. Basically anything that gets me sleep

[zcookiemonster]

pivot that's the swaddle we've been using and she loves it!

[pivot]

Mar 6, 2017 23:36:49 GMT -5 zcookiemonster said:

pivot that's the swaddle we've been using and she loves it!

Yay!! This gives me hope! Mine will be here Wednesday!

[staz]

We have a bunch of different swaddles. She hates the swaddleme ones but does good with the others.

Sometimes. She's getting better. I was a tumbsucker and I don't want her to be one so I'm trying hard to get her to like the paci.

Once a week with daily cleaning of the dirty areas. We're still only doing sponge baths and she hates them.

The RnP. We just got the automatic one and so far it seems she really likes it.

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