u/cadetcomet

I wanna be cool and fun and just enjoy life right now and randomly realize that we're gonna have another baby! But in reality the control freak and planning monster crawls out from the back of the bathroom closet with a LH test strip telling me that tracking one cycle won't hurt just to have a better idea of when I'm ovulating now that my cycle has changed PP! Then just like an addict, I'm huddled in the bathroom checking my pee every morning trying to play chill when my husband randomly walks in. I'm now full blown tracking and obsessing and we didn't even pull the goalie for a whole month before my TTC gremlin came out. I imagine my gremlin is like those things in Bigmouth. Anyone else?

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I finally got asked if I would consider occasionally watching a friend's baby till it turns 4months. Maximum of 3x a week. I'm tempted to say yes just because I love her squishy baby, and she's a very reliable and layed back person. I'm a FTM and my baby is 8 months and hers is 2 months. I do want 2U2 of my own kids and so this could be a crash course to see how I actually like it! Am I crazy? She also mentioned that they would definitely pay me but to be fully honest, I don't know what to ask for pay especially since I'm a SAHM because my husband makes very good money and we can live upper middle class easily on his salary whereas her family I'm certain doesn't make as much as we do.

Anyways any advice for pitfalls to avoid or best practices would be helpful!

My ped (in industry for 40 years and I do like a lot) has mentioned that she has plenty of breastfed babies (under 1 year old) that sleep through the night. I know ALLL the subs officially recommended against it. But I want to hear from real people. Has it been done and youve still been able to maintain a good supply? Im getting to the point we're after 2am I'm done and I don't want to BF. I'm touched out, and Baby isn't coherent enough to not bite me. I just wanna know if other people are quitting the nightshift early too and not talking about it.