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My daughter is about 8 1/2 months right now and we've been trying to get her to eat solids since 6 months, twice a day. She is pretty much completely uninterested in allowing anything in her mouth. We've tried purees (carrot, sweet potato, apple, avocado), mashed up bananas and avocado, big pieces of banana/avocado/scrambled egg/butternut a la baby-led-weaning, rice cereal, oat cereal, and all sorts of combinations of the above. She loves picking up food, smashing it up in her hands, and painting it everywhere, but has never once put it in her own mouth. In the last 2 1/2 months, she's only had like two days where she ate more than a bite or two. It's super frustrating because we were so excited about feeding her real food and helping her learn about flavors and textures and building her palate. Reeeeaaalllly hoping we turn a corner on this sometime soon.
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I had a meltdown this morning. My girl just turned a year a few weeks ago and my wife and I are both working from home. Kiddo has never been a very good napper, but she's always been a pretty good nightime sleeper - down at 7, usually up at 4 for a feed, then down until 6:30 or so... Some kind of regression happening right now though. Naps are down to 35 minutes, like clockwork. She's waking up for her nighttime feed and then getting back up at like 5, before I've even fallen back asleep. I'm losing it. Getting nothing done at work, awake at 4 almost every day for weeks. Someone reassure me that I will survive this.
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Feb 23, 2021 19:42
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nachos posted:I can’t speak to the naps but we stopped the night feeds at around 7-8 months and let our daughter cry however long she needed to before she put herself back to sleep. Sometimes it took an hour but she eventually figured it out. I never took her out of bed until the proper awake time, somewhere around 6-7am. life is killing me posted:You’ll survive it. Currently having sleep issues with my almost 3 year-old who had a 4mo sleep regression with a vengeance. We got through it and will get through the current sleep issues. It sucks because it’s hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel there especially when you’re so sleep-deprived. But at a year old, your kid may not need a nighttime feeding? We were happy to go to solids when ours was an infant because we thought it helped with his wake ups having a full belly and not getting hungry in the night. You could also try a dream feed by waking the kiddo up before going to bed yourself, feeding, putting back down (the idea is that they are kind of half-awake during the feeding and maybe not as hard to put down) and going to bed. Could buy you an hour or two? We're still doing a night feed because she is a skinny little thing and it has been a constant battle to keep her gaining weight. Every time we think we've hit a groove and take our eyes off the ball for like a week she just stops gaining or even loses a little. It was a big relief when she finally started eating solid foods because she actually pushed up above her percentile a little bit, but that's since leveled off. When she just gets up for a half hour to feed and goes right back down until morning it's not a big deal - figure it's a good chance to get a few extra calories in her. in_cahoots posted:Is she down to one nap a day? When we moved from 2-1 it helped nighttime sleep as well. She's doing 2/day. There was a good couple months where she was getting 2x consistent 1:10 naps, but it's really gone to hell in the last couple weeks. She finally had a good night's sleep last night though and I feel like a different person.
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Feb 24, 2021 17:33
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truavatar posted:
Well, whatever was going on seems to be over after almost 3 weeks of hell. She's finally sleeping until around 6:45 again and her naps have recovered to being around 1:10... even had a couple record-setting 1:45 naps. I've slept better the last two nights than I have in a month. She just had to watch me break I guess.
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Feb 28, 2021 00:01
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Sending vibes. We just went though that and came out the other side after three lovely weeks. From what I read it doesn’t usually last that long though. Hang in there.
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Feb 28, 2021 16:11
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Kid woke up at 11:15 and didn’t go back down until 2:30. She’s up again at 4:30 an I’m losing my god drat mind.
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Mar 10, 2021 11:06
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Sarah posted:Sleep training Was there a particular method that you used?
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Mar 24, 2021 15:48
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Hadlock posted:At what point should baby be eating solid food without it being a massive struggle We started trying solids at 6 months and couldn’t get her to eat more than a bite or two at a time until 9 months. We tried everything... finger foods, purée, etc... was incredibly frustrating. One day she just started going for it though.  E: best advice I heard was that it’s not your job to make them eat... it’s your job to offer a variety of good healthy food... it’s their job to do the eating. truavatar fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Apr 20, 2021 15:30
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life is killing me posted:Any tips on waking/keeping awake a 2.5wk old infant while they feed? This girl is waking up every 45 minutes to eat because she’s ravenous but she’s hungry because she can’t stop falling asleep on her mom’s boob and it’s very difficult to rouse her. We patted the feet and belly and head with a cool damp washcloth. Seemed to work for a few minutes of awake time usually.
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May 5, 2021 14:09
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I'm losin' it again. My girl is just past 18 months and started daycare for the first time about a month and a half ago. Around the same time she finally dropped her middle-of-the-night wakeups/feeds and for awhile was doing well with 7:30 bedtime, 6:00-6:30 wakeup. But over the last few weeks she's just been consistently waking up between 4:30 and 5:15 am. Won't go back down for anything.. just screams. We've tried earlier bedtime, later bedtime, letting her cry it out, sleepwave/sleep training (checking in on her every 5-10 minutes), nightlight, no nightlight, and everything else we can think of. Nothing is working and I'm gonna lose my marbles soon. Has anyone else had this happen... a just, all of a sudden, 4:45am wakeups, every day!! What do I doooooooo....
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Aug 16, 2021 15:23
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Yeah, she's definitely had a few new teeth coming in... she goes down fine, and naps fine though... just wakes up super early. I've started going to bed at 9:00pm just so I can handle the day if I'm up at 4:30..
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Aug 16, 2021 15:36
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Dobbs_Head posted:This is our household rhythm. Our 2 year old is asleep by 8:30, up at 5:30. It’s totally doable. The flip side is that she take 3 hour naps during the day. Just dehumanize yourself and face the morning. Thanks, I hate it!
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Aug 16, 2021 18:44
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External Organs posted:The toddler has been in a crib in her own room for the whole weekend. lmao this is amazing Also, this: truavatar posted:I'm losin' it again. My girl is just past 18 months and started daycare for the first time about a month and a half ago. Around the same time she finally dropped her middle-of-the-night wakeups/feeds and for awhile was doing well with 7:30 bedtime, 6:00-6:30 wakeup. But over the last few weeks she's just been consistently waking up between 4:30 and 5:15 am. Won't go back down for anything.. just screams. We've tried earlier bedtime, later bedtime, letting her cry it out, sleepwave/sleep training (checking in on her every 5-10 minutes), nightlight, no nightlight, and everything else we can think of. Nothing is working and I'm gonna lose my marbles soon. Seems to finally be running its course after like 2 months. She slept til 5:30 the last two nights and this morning she actually fell back asleep until 6:00. Wonder if it had to do with forgetting to turn her monitor on last Thursday night - I woke up naturally at 6 and was shocked I hadn't heard her - turns out she'd been screaming her poor little head off from whenever she woke up until then. Maybe for the best though??? Anyway, just glad to be seeing a light at the end of this particular tunnel.
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Aug 30, 2021 15:18
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My 19 month old just started daycare 2 months ago and has had a cold on and off for pretty much the entire time. Just got denied on her 18 month well visit because of the cold and rescheduled for two weeks when she will, inevitably, have another cold. How do I ever get her seen?!
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Sep 16, 2021 16:27
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BadSamaritan posted:If I put enough sour cream on her food, my toddler will accidentally eat at least a little of whatever else is on her plate through her quest for sour cream. 
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Sep 16, 2021 16:44
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truavatar posted:My 19 month old just started daycare 2 months ago and has had a cold on and off for pretty much the entire time. Just got denied on her 18 month well visit because of the cold and rescheduled for two weeks when she will, inevitably, have another cold. How do I ever get her seen?! took her in for a sick visit - ear infection... bleh... hopefully the antibiotics clear things up by her well visit in two weeks
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Sep 16, 2021 21:11
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I'm afraid to google wtf cartoon dog and cartoon cat are...
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Sep 21, 2021 20:08
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Tom Smykowski posted:My kid has been waking up extra early for the past week like he's anticipating making daylight savings even worse
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Nov 8, 2021 15:16
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We've had a lot of luck with this: https://www.babybjorn.com/bathroom/potty-chair/
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Nov 22, 2021 18:25
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obi_ant posted:My kid 2 1/2 has decided she is scared of the dark now. Any suggestions for a nice night light? We currently just use a lamp. We use the Hatch Rest (1st gen). You can set it to any color, any brightness. Has a built in white noise generator, and you can program it. So we do a soft purple light with white noise during sleep time and then switch to a brighter orange light with very little noise when it's time to wake up. Really helped when the kiddo was waking up at like 5am every morning to teach her that it was still sleep time. https://www.hatch.co/rest?gclid=Cj0KCQiAweaNBhDEARIsAJ5hwbf72ZeIOngFpcRf2yJC2h3DSJ6tlrwkbnxmnDqmNdBSAUgaIvavKLoaAqCQEALw_wcB I think first gen better than second gen because it's controlled via bluetooth by your phone, not wifi, so still works if your internet goes out.
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Dec 15, 2021 15:46
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extravadanza posted:Are you sure it doesn't work when the internet goes down? Generally Wifi based devices that connect to phone apps will still work as long as they are both connected to the same network. extravadanza posted:I actually prefer the 2nd gen over the 1st because my Wifi network reaches well into my backyard so I can do yardwork with my phone listening for the kid, but bluetooth doesn't reach quite as far.
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Dec 15, 2021 16:05
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Quarterroys posted:I am hearing the Encanto soundtrack in my sleep at this point. You and me both.
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Feb 4, 2022 15:36
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Silent Linguist posted:Does anyone have any tips for a 1-year-old who flips out when he’s hungry? It’s especially bad after we get back from daycare—as soon as we walk in the door, he’s standing by his high chair crying. I feel like I have to rush to throw something in the microwave and feed him immediately. I always brought a sippy cup of milk with me for her to drink on the ride home. Usually made the gap between getting home and having dinner a little smoother.
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Mar 14, 2022 14:27
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Hadlock posted:So I guess, how much of an impact do you think that kids bad behavior at their parent's house is going to impact your kid? I mean maybe I'm reading the wrong stuff into it but if it's just bad behavior at his mom's house, it's entirely possible that his behavior isn't going to rub off on your kid. Does he act out when playing at your house Maneki Neko posted:We later found out he set up something similar with our youngest daughter that he called the "naked game" and was deceitful about it to his mom.
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Just Offscreen posted:I often feel like I am a poo poo parent. Parenting Megathread: I often feel like I am a poo poo parent.
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King Hong Kong posted:... They work infrequently enough in the show that I have no clue what, if anything, they do... Rufio posted:I read an article criticizing Bluey for setting high expectations for parenting but I seriously thought it was some kind of joke or troll. But here we are and goons think they need to live up to the standards of cartoon dogs. 
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Jan 16, 2024 16:56
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Nybble posted:Hi Parenting thread! Just found this thread, and perfect timing with a 2.2 year old and another on the way.... I’m a bit worried about what it’s gonna be like when our attention is split with the second one around. quote:- how do we react? quote:- Will she be able to calm her self down without hurting herself? quote:- Maybe this is something that she eventually grows out of?
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Jan 18, 2024 15:55
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Kolodny posted:I think that’s entirely developmentally appropriate. It’s part of the transition from being an infant with effectively binary feelings to a toddler with a whole menu to pick from. Right now she’s struggling with identifying what she’s feeling and how to react. To drag out the analogy, part of what you can do is help her to recognize what her menu of feelings is, and understand when she needs to take a break.  This is a better answer than mine.
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Jan 18, 2024 16:14
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Pham Nuwen posted:hi and welcome to kid book reviews, here are some books that we've been given which i loving hate and cannot wait to donate to goodwill (or the garbage can) Ohhhh comeon, it's cute. Edit for content: I fuckin hate all of those 150-page compendiums of "5-minute Whatever Stories". Just... why. Yeah, we all love Bluey. But I sure as hell don't want to have to read a lovely knockoff of the episode I just watched. Half the pleasure is the 7 minutes of peace. truavatar fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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Jan 24, 2024 23:03
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gbut posted:Same. Though if I had any size concerns I'd probably get something like this We have one of these. Looks like an owl. We use it all the time and it's held up very well.
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Jan 31, 2024 20:06
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I'm traveling for work in a few weeks (Sun-Thurs) and I need some ideas on how to ease the pain for my wife. She's a stay-at-home parent for our 1.5yo and 4yo and it's gonna be rough. 4yo goes to preschool MWF in the afternoon, but the little one is still all hands on deck. My folks are in the area and can help out a bit here and there, but can't stay the whole time or anything like that. Just looking for some ideas!
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Feb 8, 2024 17:39
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truavatar posted:I'm traveling for work in a few weeks (Sun-Thurs) and I need some ideas on how to ease the pain for my wife. She's a stay-at-home parent for our 1.5yo and 4yo and it's gonna be rough. 4yo goes to preschool MWF in the afternoon, but the little one is still all hands on deck. My folks are in the area and can help out a bit here and there, but can't stay the whole time or anything like that. Thanks for all the thoughtful replies to this post of mine from a few days ago! devmd01 posted:Make it clear that she is not a bad mom if she throws them in front of a screen more than usual. You use every available tool to survive in that scenario. Good-Natured Filth posted:I've traveled regularly for work the entirety of my kids' lives. As others have mentioned, try to help prep things as much as possible for your wife. Do not put any expectations on your wife while you're gone. Make sure that she knows it's totally okay if you come home to a house that looks like a tornado hit it. Shower her praises when you get back and take care of the kids for the majority of the weekend or whatever to make it up to her. bolind posted:Can you prep some meals or green light a bunch of Uber Eats or something like that? Make sure the laundry is somewhat done before you head out? Gas up the car? Make sure consumables are stocked up? Anything that can be done preemptively. On babysitters - our preschool is at a university and the early-childhood education students work in the classrooms as aides - they gave out a list of them at the beginning of the year so parents can also hire them as babysitters. I'll be making some calls. Rooster Brooster posted:I'm sure you thought of it, but: does your preschool allow drop-ins on non-standard days for a fee? Adding a couple extra days that week might be worth it.
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We've got a flight coming up with the kiddos and are planning to have the younger in our lap in a front facing Ergo360 carrier. Snug enough to keep him secure if there's turbulence, but loose enough to wiggle around a bit, have snacks, and watch cartoons on the iPad.
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