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Had one of those solo parenting excursions today that made me deeply regret leaving the house. Kids slightly too cold, baby cranky, toddler offended, morning nap ruined. Cool cool cool. Currently patching things up through the strategic use of hot cocoa and mr rogers but I’m ready for my own nap and snack.
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Nov 27, 2021 17:05
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My non verbal child, please tell me what you want at 4 am,we have guests in the house. No, please don’t shout. I wish you could understand that there are guests and you can’t sleep in the room you are used to but don’t you want to cuddle with mom or dad? Please for the love of, let me sleep
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Nov 27, 2021 17:09
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TV Zombie posted:My non verbal child, please tell me what you want at 4 am,we have guests in the house. No, please don’t shout. I wish you could understand that there are guests and you can’t sleep in the room you are used to but don’t you want to cuddle with mom or dad? nah
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Nov 27, 2021 17:15
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TV Zombie posted:My non verbal child, please tell me what you want at 4 am,we have guests in the house. No, please don’t shout. I wish you could understand that there are guests and you can’t sleep in the room you are used to but don’t you want to cuddle with mom or dad? Maybe because I hate my sister in law whom always invites herself over, but I actually embrace my kids screaming at all hours of the night when she’s over. It sucks for me, but they were going to do it regardless. Unfortunately she always claims she sleeps through it.
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Nov 27, 2021 17:18
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TV Zombie posted:My non verbal child, please tell me what you want at 4 am,we have guests in the house. No, please don’t shout. I wish you could understand that there are guests and you can’t sleep in the room you are used to but don’t you want to cuddle with mom or dad? On the other hand your guests knowingly displaced a child out of their regular bedroom so gently caress them they deserve everything that happens
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Nov 27, 2021 17:38
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Family is invited for birthday so the house had to be crowded. Little guy tries to drag me around for what he wants but it was a mystery last night. I carried him as we walked up and downstairs, passing rooms with him being a slippery as a fish just wriggling in my arms until a tablet and some milk calmed him down and he went back to sleep at 6. Then the older kids had a pretend tea party in the room and wanted me to participate, a couple of hours later. Please bother the other adults in your life , children.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:05
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Jesus gently caress I genuinely cannot tell if I have always been this clumsy, or if having a kid granted me the ability to make loud noises at the most inopportune times. Bump into every door frame, leave phone lying on the counter in such a way that it immediately crashes to the floor, step on the exact right creaky floorboard, etc.
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Nov 27, 2021 18:14
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It's amazing what a hair-triggered extremely barky dog will do for a kid's ability to sleep through things. I still remember the week my son developed hearing in utero because he flailed wildly in shock at hearing our dog go off for the first time, but by the time he was born and slightly afterwards - used to it. We've never tried to be quiet around him when he was sleeping either. He slept blissfully through the idiots across the road letting off fireworks last night and it was great.
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Nov 27, 2021 20:51
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Tamarillo posted:It's amazing what a hair-triggered extremely barky dog will do for a kid's ability to sleep through things. I still remember the week my son developed hearing in utero because he flailed wildly in shock at hearing our dog go off for the first time, but by the time he was born and slightly afterwards - used to it. We've never tried to be quiet around him when he was sleeping either. He slept blissfully through the idiots across the road letting off fireworks last night and it was great. I have video of my baby (age 7 months) sleeping through the finale of the 1812 Ouverture. Yes, that is the one with the cannons. Yes, they used real cannons. Regrettably I must inform you that this ability does not continue indefinitely.
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Nov 27, 2021 23:11
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We live in a hella old building on the top floor so the wooden floor is creaky as gently caress. If I check on my kid at night, leaving the room is like walking through a minefield. And it's made worse because some creaks will wake him up and some he will sleep through. I feel like a sleep deprived Indiana Jones at night
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Nov 27, 2021 23:57
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Can you put some carpeting down on the floor to possibly muffle sounds?
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Nov 28, 2021 00:29
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Having siblings helped my kids learn to sleep through loud noises, so that's one way to get them that skill.
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Nov 28, 2021 00:38
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Our cats run around with the zoomies right at the kids’ bedtime. From downstairs it sounds like bowling balls and they skitter their polydactyl feet around each corner. It has never been a problem. Kid sleep is really weird.
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Nov 28, 2021 00:47
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Regrettably I must inform you that this ability does not continue indefinitely.
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Nov 28, 2021 02:05
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We live in an NYC apartment that faces a busy street. Nothing wakes up our 16-month-old. Tonight she slept through the smoke alarm going off four times. I'm going to enjoy every minute of this superpower.
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Nov 28, 2021 03:52
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I know in the future I will look back and miss these times, but I’m really looking forward to bedtime not taking two hours every night. I want to say “goodnight” to my kids and they can put themselves to bed. Instead my toddler is screaming about not wanting and then needing a blanket, which is waking up the baby, who decides he needs to scream too… MAMA I DON’T NEED SLEEP!!!! It’s the one and only thing I need right now.
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Nov 28, 2021 04:45
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Spoggerific posted:My daughter, our first, is going to turn 5 months old in about a week. Things over here have finally settled down enough that I've found some time to post about it here. Re: food, my (not a physician) understanding is that the rationale for 6-7 months is that it's a sweet spot between the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding and the point where the baby starts needing dietary iron because their reserves from birth are running out. Note that this doesn't apply to formula-feed babies. But more recent research has been showing that 4-7 months is the best window to be exposing kids to as many foods as possible so as to reduce their chances of developing allergies. So really there are good arguments either way and you're not likely to go wrong. (Obviously follow the advice of your kid's doctor too.) And for what it's worth we offered our kid solids at 4.5 months. He ate them, but pooped them out undigested. So we only really made it more of a thing around 5.5 months.
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Nov 28, 2021 06:58
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Spoggerific posted:First, in regards to bedding and sleeping arrangements. Nearly every English source I've read has said something to the effect of "IF YOU DARE TO USE A BLANKET AND OR PILLOW YOUR BABY WILL SUFFOCATE AND IT WILL BE YOUR FAULT". Meanwhile, Japanese sources have very little to say about SIDS or suffocation risk with blankets or sleeping arrangements; most cribs available at baby stores are still side-drop cribs, baby mattress sets usually come with a (relatively) heavy blanket and pillow, and I haven't seen anything suggesting only firm mattresses should be used. Because of this, my wife wants to cover our daughter with blankets while she's sleeping at night, taking a nap, or just awake and playing on her back. This wasn't so much of a problem when my daughter was born since it was summer, but now that it's getting cold my wife is wanting to use more blankets or heavier ones, and it's starting to scare me a little bit. Formally yeah, nobody wants to be the guy to be like "actually, it's fine, you can use blankets" and then THAT ONE TIME, the baby suffocates So like, I don't advise you to put blankets in the crib, but I definitely wouldn't give you poo poo for it if you did THAT SAID if you dig into the research, something like every single suffocation blanket statistic came from a cold weather location like Wisconsin, and happened during the winter, except one, out of hundreds of days points, so, Definitely do not take my advice, but light thin breathable half blankets, probably a low to moderate risk; thick heavy "I live in northern Japan and holy poo poo it's cold AF here, load up the crib with blankets": probably a really bad idea They make impressively warm onesies/sleepers/sleep sacks, I'd look into that. If you lived in Florida and felt guilty about not providing a flimsy sheet, that's another thing. As for starting on solid foods, don't even think about it until they can sit up unassisted. If they can't even process the world upright yet, solid foods is going to be an unmitigated disaster. We started (  "started") solids when ours was 5 or 6 months and crawling and that felt about right, maybe even early.I was really concerned about transitioning my child from formula to solids, since I mostly think eating is a waste of time and boring, but it turns out the reason why restaurants bars etc are really popular is that humans really really like eating, they're hard wired for it, don't worry about it, it'll happen on its own
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Nov 28, 2021 07:28
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Here’s a new milestone for us tonight. Our three year old got offered the customary two options for winding down before bedtime, both leading to the inevitable bath and sleep. The response was a system breaking “I want a third option”
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Nov 28, 2021 09:29
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My son, who has always been small (he's been at the bottom of the growth curve his whole life if he wasn't actually below it) has his fourth ear infection and it's making him vomit every day and not want to eat anything. I'm keeping a careful eye on his hydration status, making sure he's putting out wet diapers but man this is awful. I just want to keep him out of the hospital. We gave him oral rehydration solution with electrolytes this morning after he puked up water twice. But he kept down the rehydration solution and then weirdly wanted to eat some fish. I wanted his solids to be something bland like a rice cake or a bagel but he adamantly refused all carby options and desperately wanted the fish his dad was eating. We gave him a small amount, waited a few minutes to make sure he didn't immediately puke it up, gave him a little more. Fish in vinegar, who knew. Now he's taking a nap. This is exhausting, I hate having a sick kid. The ENT we saw last week didn't want to talk about putting tubes in his ears until he's at least two (he's 22 months now) but my god his little body can't handle these bouts of not eating for days. If he had more meat on his bones he'd have some wiggle room but he's a scrawny little dude. Also we are in Spain and from what I've been able to tell from our last few years dealing with the healthcare system here, there is no way to call the pediatrician just to ask a question especially if it's during off-hours. The system is "come in when we're open or go to the ER." It's the worst when I just want to ask hey my kid vomited 25 minutes after his antibiotic, should we give him another dose? I'm really tired.
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Nov 28, 2021 10:53
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Hadlock posted:They make impressively warm onesies/sleepers/sleep sacks, I'd look into that. If you lived in Florida and felt guilty about not providing a flimsy sheet, that's another thing. Just mentioning that I’m a convert to the merino Woolino sleep sacks. They’re cozy, fit a big range of sizes, and regulate temperature really well. I’d 100% recommend them or give as a nice shower gift if you live in an area with different seasons/house with uneven heating.
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Nov 28, 2021 13:24
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BadSamaritan posted:Just mentioning that I’m a convert to the merino Woolino sleep sacks. They’re cozy, fit a big range of sizes, and regulate temperature really well. I’d 100% recommend them or give as a nice shower gift if you live in an area with different seasons/house with uneven heating. Seconding these, they are expensive but excellent. Speaking from experience, buy two (or three) in case your kid pukes or has a blowout at night.
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Nov 28, 2021 13:55
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My kid wakes up at 4:30: I wake up tired af wishing I could go back to sleep My kid wakes up at 7: I wake up at 4:30 refreshed and wide awake TV Zombie posted:Can you put some carpeting down on the floor to possibly muffle sounds? We have a rug with padding under it to dampen the noise for the downstairs neighbors. The buildings just really old and kinda lovely.
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Nov 28, 2021 14:06
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nachos posted:Seconding these, they are expensive but excellent. Speaking from experience, buy two (or three) in case your kid pukes or has a blowout at night. Yeah we had one and it was great, used it for a long time even when blankets were OK
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Nov 28, 2021 15:05
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I love the Merlin sleep suit. It made both our babies sleep really well and it’s super cute, it makes them look like Michelin men
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Nov 28, 2021 15:25
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Tom Smykowski posted:My kid wakes up at 4:30: I wake up tired af wishing I could go back to sleep This is me to a T
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Nov 28, 2021 15:28
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boquiabierta posted:The ENT we saw last week didn't want to talk about putting tubes in his ears until he's at least two (he's 22 months now) We had tubes placed in my son at 13 months after he had something like five ear infections in the first year. I think the criteria is three infections in six months or four in one year. Either way, that was a common age to have them placed. If your kiddo is getting hospitalized over ear infections I'd be demanding them at this point. Tubes are like a five minute procedure to place--an hour total for anesthesia. Treating ear infections becomes using a few antibiotic "eye" drops whenever you see discharge. They usually fall out on their own after a couple of years.
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Nov 28, 2021 16:04
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It’s funny how after two kids I have such deep, intense opinions about baby gear. I also have deep, intense loathing of the gear research process and the marketing for all that stuff.
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Nov 28, 2021 16:21
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iv46vi posted:Here’s a new milestone for us tonight. Our three year old got offered the customary two options for winding down before bedtime, both leading to the inevitable bath and sleep. The response was a system breaking “I want a third option” Good luck goon, sounds like this motherfucker has been doing a renegade playthrough of mass effect 
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Nov 28, 2021 16:50
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My family left yesterday. Coincidentally the baby slept in til 8am today because he wasn't woken up by loud crashing noises. 8am is an amazing time.
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Nov 28, 2021 16:51
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iv46vi posted:Here’s a new milestone for us tonight. Our three year old got offered the customary two options for winding down before bedtime, both leading to the inevitable bath and sleep. The response was a system breaking “I want a third option” Third option: sitting there doing nothing, then bath and sleep.
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Nov 28, 2021 17:43
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Shifty Pony posted:Third option: sitting there doing nothing, then bath and sleep. The tiny tyrant does *not* react well when she's informed that's the option she's chosen by not picking one of the other two so your mileage may vary.
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Nov 28, 2021 22:42
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It's hard to be concerned about my son's 8th hour of screen time right now while my wife works a 12 hour shift on a Sunday and I'm cleaning puppy dookie out of the carpet for the third time today. I thought I could handle the puppy rearing I just wasn't expecting the endless diarrhea for two days straight. Edit: Dinner was the winning combo of gold fish, potato chips, and apple sauce. I won't say who's dinner that was.
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Nov 28, 2021 23:48
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Somehow the baby got poo in his armpit 
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Nov 28, 2021 23:49
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In a little less than twelve hours I'm going to be booting the ogre toddler off at daycare for the first time in a week. My pity for the nice people that look after him is only surpassed by my desire to not have to deal with the hellion for a bit.
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Nov 29, 2021 02:25
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remigious posted:Somehow the baby got poo in his armpit We had a blowout in the car seat on the way to Thanksgiving that made it to his hair. Nothing on the car seat, but everywhere else. Nothing like showing up at family's house and going "hi, can we use your tub for a few minutes?"
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Nov 29, 2021 03:30
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My three year old does preschool MWF for three hours a day. After having Wednesday and Friday off from school for vacation and me working from home, I completely loving get why parents hate Christmas break so much.
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Nov 29, 2021 03:33
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Starting to get a little freaked out about daycare. Two kids in different classes have popped positive in the past month. They were asymptomatic. One was tested prior to medical procedure. Other no idea why they tested; but, lines up with Thanksgiving. So my theory is a guest had symptoms later. It's the asymptomatic thing that scares me. The daycare is very diligent about temperature checks and symptoms. I'm just rambling here. I wish the only concern I had was if my kid was doing well in school and not this unseen COVID. I wonder if we should keep the kid out of daycare the week following any major holidays.
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Nov 29, 2021 03:49
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On day 9 of RSV symptoms I think it’s finally calming down. Glad he will go back to daycare this week and pick up whatever poo poo all the other kids picked up over thanksgiving!!!
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Nov 29, 2021 03:57
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Why? Yeah we had tubes put in our oldest kid at about that age, it went great and no more horrible ear infections. None of the other kids needed it, but when you need it you need it.
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Nov 29, 2021 04:10
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