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@cake2017: Gobble was good. Munchery I sent as a PP gift to a friend and she said was good. Have not tried Freshly.

@CC Mommy: hi! So sorry I somehow didn’t get a notice that you tagged me.
Max awake times vary slightly from kid to kid, but they say the range is 45 mins to maybe 1.5 hours for a long time. My son was in the 45 min range until like 3 months? Then he couldn’t do more than 1hr-1h15 for a lonnnnng time after that. Maybe till 8 months? He was just very sensitive to being over tired and that was just the max he could do before we hit cranky, tired but wired. I just found a couple of great info graphics about wake times since I’m prepping for baby 2 and baby sleep is the “thing” I care about most. Makes everyone happy so why not focus on it

Major mistake I made was thinking in the beginning that he was sleeping too much and I “should be” interacting and stimulating him more. So I didn’t pay attention to sleep cues and he’d be tired and here I’d be shaking toys in his face and making faces and then when I’d be like “ok time to nap” he’d be a mess and I went through the first 3-4 weeks like that and convinced myself there was something wrong with him. Nope, just overtired. Once my ped told me to stop whatever I was doing and put him down for a nap as soon as I saw cues, his sleep got wayyyy better and I was way happier. Cues btw are yawning, glazing over/zoning out, avoiding eye contact, sometimes ear grabbing and eye rubbing but I’ve also read those two are almost too far past the ideal sleepy window.
Once you notice those cues, you’ll start to notice a pattern of how soon they happen after waking and then I was able to watch the clock more than look for signs. Once I realized he always started zoning out around the 45 min mark, I just made sure I was changing and swaddling him in his room with sound machine by 40 mins and he always went down drowsy but awake pretty easily.

@SweetiePie: Great suggestion! I just put in a munchery order. We've been using a local meal delivery service to order 2-3 pre-made meals a week for awhile - it's very affordable but we are so sick of all the options. In our area munchery only lets you do a weekly subscription service - where you choose four or six servings each week - but I figure it's worth a try with the subscription. My MS is mostly gone, but not to the point where making freezer meals for once the baby gets here has any appeal.

The baby sleep infographic is also awesome!

1) Babies be babies. There doesn't always have to be a reason for everything/anything -- it's just a baby being his or her own self -- and you don't have to try to "solve" everything.

2) Everything's a phase. Bad phases, good phases, short phases, long phases. It will all just be constantly changing...even if it seems interminable at the moment.

3) Do what works for you/your baby/your family. Until it doesn't; then do something else. Applies to: feeding, sleeping, diapering/potty training, discipline, etc etc etc.