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how did human babies survive in the wild anyways? weak, slow, noisy, curious, and delicious. and they stay that way for a long while too. just how?
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Workaday Wizard posted:how did human babies survive in the wild anyways? weak, slow, noisy, curious, and delicious. and they stay that way for a long while too. just how? got some bad news about infant mortality rates in the olden days
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Jun 27, 2021 17:13
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my wife received a reverse headbutt like three days ago and her face still hurts.
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Jun 27, 2021 17:29
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kitten emergency posted:got some bad news about infant mortality rates in the olden days one big thing anti-vaxxers never consider.
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Jun 27, 2021 17:30
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kitten emergency posted:got some bad news about infant mortality rates in the olden days
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Jun 27, 2021 17:34
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tbf it’s pretty shocking how good neonatal medicine is these days, given how many babies I’ve seen go through the NICU over the past few weeks. even 40, 50 years ago a lot of these kids would just not make it at all (or their mothers)
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Jun 27, 2021 17:58
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my son spent 6 months in hospital with disseminated hsv1, (100% fatal without intervention). When he goes back to see the doctor for his yearly checkup she's always insanely happy as he's the only one she ever treated that survived without serious complications.
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Jun 27, 2021 18:04
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kitten emergency posted:tbf it’s pretty shocking how good neonatal medicine is these days, given how many babies I’ve seen go through the NICU over the past few weeks. even 40, 50 years ago a lot of these kids would just not make it at all (or their mothers) when my wife started in the nicu in 2008 they pretty much considered 24 weeks gestation and older as viable. 23 weeks occasionally. now it’s solidly 22 weeks.
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Jun 27, 2021 18:19
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I sure am looking forward to when weekends are relaxing again
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Jun 27, 2021 18:37
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So I'm curious, what specifically is it about weekends that are non-relaxing after having a kid? My boss had mentioned that as well with his kids (ranged like 9-12 iirc), like he said he just has no weekends now. Is it just that they need your undivided attention? Catching up on household chores? All of the above?
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Jun 27, 2021 18:40
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shoeberto posted:So I'm curious, what specifically is it about weekends that are non-relaxing after having a kid? My boss had mentioned that as well with his kids (ranged like 9-12 iirc), like he said he just has no weekends now. Is it just that they need your undivided attention? Catching up on household chores? All of the above? for us it’s having a toddler (meltdowns, needs constant supervision) and an energetic 8 year old who sometimes gets annoyed with/likes to provoke his little brother. perfectly normal stuff but it’s also draining.
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Jun 27, 2021 18:45
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small children need 99% undivided parental attention, partly for safety (they are kinda like lemmings) and partly as you are the most exciting and wonderful thing they know about. you can distract them for small periods with things, but the moment you attempt to do anything else then they will demand your attention again. soon work becomes sweet relief from terrible cartoons and that sodding shark song.
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Jun 27, 2021 19:23
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how much envelope paper is too much to eat at 6 months? Asking for a friendPresident Beep posted:my wife received a reverse headbutt like three days ago and her face still hurts. ours axe kicked me in the kidney this morning while in bed. I thought I'd been punched by my wife to wake me up. she's got a mean kick for something so small
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Jun 27, 2021 21:14
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when i was putting mini logins into her crib (just before we switched to daybed mode) she jumped as I was lowering her and uppercutted me with her entire body also if kids developed even further in the womb then maternal mortality rates would be "xenomorph"
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Jun 27, 2021 23:55
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Kenny Logins posted:when i was putting mini logins into her crib (just before we switched to daybed mode) she jumped as I was lowering her and uppercutted me with her entire body
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Jun 28, 2021 00:06
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gotta say that the best sound to hear while being a parent is someone else’s kid throwing a fit and knowing for certain that it’s not yours.
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Jun 28, 2021 00:59
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MrQueasy posted:gotta say that the best sound to hear while being a parent is someone else’s kid throwing a fit and knowing for certain that it’s not yours. https://twitter.com/kennethlogins/status/1400175765992443907?s=21
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Jun 28, 2021 01:11
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evil_bunnY posted:A classic move
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Jun 29, 2021 04:56
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Workaday Wizard posted:how did human babies survive in the wild anyways? weak, slow, noisy, curious, and delicious. and they stay that way for a long while too. just how? in 1800s london or something like that only 1/5 babies got to the age of five thats grim. god death was just more normal than not
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Jun 29, 2021 22:40
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Jun 29, 2021 22:47
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lmao
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MrQueasy posted:Why?
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Jun 29, 2021 23:20
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should’ve gone the calvin’s dad route
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Jun 30, 2021 02:21
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despite having read the words “human milk” like a billion times over the past month it still sounds weird I wonder what would happen if you put it in a carbonater
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Jun 30, 2021 04:40
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it's got lots more fats and sugars in it than cow milk so i'm guessing it would clog something and be difficult to clean i heard about people making cheese from it, but the really gross thing is that people will sell their surplus to athletes and bodybuilders
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Jun 30, 2021 05:12
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OzyMandrill posted:small children need 99% undivided parental attention, partly for safety (they are kinda like lemmings) and partly as you are the most exciting and wonderful thing they know about. you can distract them for small periods with things, but the moment you attempt to do anything else then they will demand your attention again. soon work becomes sweet relief from terrible cartoons and that sodding shark song.
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Jun 30, 2021 06:54
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:but the really gross thing is that people will sell their surplus to athletes and bodybuilders
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Jun 30, 2021 11:38
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gotta say it was kinda funny to watch the kid vomit up a fountain of milk on my wife yesterday. I assume it'll be less funny when it happens to me.
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Jun 30, 2021 13:23
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kitten emergency posted:gotta say it was kinda funny to watch the kid vomit up a fountain of milk on my wife yesterday. I assume it'll be less funny when it happens to me.
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Jun 30, 2021 14:03
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Kenny Logins posted:it's funny if it happens in a way that's relatively easy to clean up yeah I think my tolerance for bodily fluid explosions is gonna go way down when they're happening to my nice new carpets and walls rather than the hospitals. kid update: seems likely that she'll be coming home this week on a bit of oxygen. idk if she actually needs it that much but it seems to help. the NICU doctors are kind of just going in circles at this point, but a developmental pediatrician came by yesterday and said she looks great given the hypothyroidism and is making a lot of progress, so I think the kid is just a couple weeks behind where she "should" be and it'll all come out in the wash over the next month or two. best thing we can do now is get her home because it'll be a lot more restful here (for her, at least, our long national nightmare will just be beginning)
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Jun 30, 2021 14:08
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glad to hear the baby will be coming home.
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Jun 30, 2021 14:14
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when our youngest son came home he was off oxygen but still had to wear a monitor for a few weeks. after that came off we were still paranoid so we got one of those little oxygen monitoring socks for him. beware: in our experience it didn’t fit the best on tiny premature baby feet. had a number of false alarms.
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Jun 30, 2021 14:17
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President Beep posted:glad to hear the baby will be coming home.
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kitten emergency posted:yeah I think my tolerance for bodily fluid explosions is gonna go way down when they're happening to my nice new carpets and walls rather than the hospitals. lol who's gonna tell em?
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Jun 30, 2021 14:24
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rip your nice new carpets and walls
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Jun 30, 2021 14:24
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kitten emergency posted:kid update: seems likely that she'll be coming home this week on a bit of oxygen. idk if she actually needs it that much but it seems to help. the NICU doctors are kind of just going in circles at this point, but a developmental pediatrician came by yesterday and said she looks great given the hypothyroidism and is making a lot of progress, so I think the kid is just a couple weeks behind where she "should" be and it'll all come out in the wash over the next month or two. best thing we can do now is get her home because it'll be a lot more restful here (for her, at least, our long national nightmare will just be beginning)
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Jun 30, 2021 14:25
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hobbesmaster posted:rip your nice new carpets and walls there’s a reason we haven’t painted yet
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President Beep posted:when our youngest son came home he was off oxygen but still had to wear a monitor for a few weeks. after that came off we were still paranoid so we got one of those little oxygen monitoring socks for him. beware: in our experience it didn’t fit the best on tiny premature baby feet. had a number of false alarms. yeah we got one of the monitoring socks too. idk if it’ll have fit problems, kid is getting bigger - 7lb4oz now! she’s really putting away the milk
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also it seems like she did indeed pass her car seat challenge so kiddo should be comin home once we sort out some logistics 
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