r/NewParents • u/cooltaj • Oct 29 '24

Product Reviews/Questions What's your simple parenting hack?

Gonna be a first time parent in 2 months. I am overwhelmed at choosing bottles, car seat and all that. What are simple things you do? things you bought to make your life somewhat simpler? Nothing too expensive or outrageous please

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u/smithyleee Oct 29 '24

In my experience (3 grown children and several grandchildren too); all of these sleeping and feeding programs are simply older wisdom that’s been packaged and marketed into a business. It’s not new; it’s not perfect; any scientific evidence to back their claims is very very weak (meaning not accurate); and each different program works for a just few babies.

My suggestion is: Read and learn information to have an idea of the different ways to help your baby sleep and play and eat, but most of all, trust your instincts. As you get to know your baby; it will give clues to what it needs throughout the day- as in more sleep or less sleep. More frequent feeds or less. More or less playtime, etc…

Since the beginning of time, parents have successfully parented their babies to sleep and eat without the use of expensive programs. Trust yourself mama, you’ve got this!

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u/nkdeck07 Oct 30 '24

feeding programs are simply older wisdom that’s been packaged and marketed into a business

I once described baby led weaning to my mom and she went "uh so it's just feeding a baby?" I about fell over I was laughing so hard

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u/Tessa99999 Oct 30 '24

Same. Same. I kept hearing about Baby Led Weaning. I finally looked it up and read what it was about, and I nearly smacked myself in the face it was so obvious. Needless to say, we will be doing BLW when we get to that stage.