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Good-Natured Filth posted:I went from no beard to beard and back to no beard over the course of 4 months. The no beard to beard was gradual and not really mentioned. 2DEG posted:I dyed my hair green and my then-6 month old didn't give a poo poo. The Fool posted:I gave my son (3) the clippers and let him go to town then finished up when he got bored. He had fun and it was less of a surprise for him than me coming home from the barber or something. I guess one thing I have going for me is that I wear a baseball cap a lot? My son is used to it and always tries to play with my baseball caps when I hold him, he loves them. He also tries to put them on his head. Maybe a baseball cap will ease the transition? I’m nervous I’ll look hideous anyway with a red scalp, so will probably wear a baseball cap either way. Otherwise I have peace about the decision to go smooth bald rather than try to hold onto hair that’s on its way out, besides being worried my son will cry every time he sees me for a bit.
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“My wife insists on sleeping on the floor next to the crib now, however.”
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Jul 23, 2019 17:43
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1up posted:We made a "monster spray" that was basically watered down frebreeze and sprayed all the scary things away before bed. Only needed it for a couple of months and she never mentioned it again. 🤷 We told our son that monsters and ghosts can't get him at night because he farts in his sleep and they hate farts. He laughed and only occasionally has any issues with the dark since.
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Jul 23, 2019 18:32
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It's not as dumb as it sounds. The Rock n' Play we (used to) have (before it got recalled) had a vibration feature that worked really well. Plus since they plug there's no batteries to worry about. It's also not $1300, which apparently is what people are willing to pay for a glorified bassinet. Not to mention you'll actually have a use for the Magic Wand later on.
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Jul 23, 2019 19:35
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Random question: anyone know of places to get cheap baby clothes in Northern Virginia? When we lived up in Boston my wife had a coworker with a baby a few months ahead of us, so we got plenty of hand me downs. That well has dried up since we moved though.
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Jul 24, 2019 00:47
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nwin posted:Random question: anyone know of places to get cheap baby clothes in Northern Virginia? How old? Once Upon a Child is a pretty inexpensive consignment store.
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Jul 24, 2019 01:09
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:How old? 9 months
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Jul 24, 2019 01:17
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nwin posted:Random question: anyone know of places to get cheap baby clothes in Northern Virginia? Little Lords and Ladies and Kid to Kid are a couple kid consignment shops in Fairfax County. Hope that's close enough to where you are. I work in Fairfax and would gladly pass on what we have but we also have a nine month old so not much use.
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Jul 24, 2019 01:50
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a friendly penguin posted:Little Lords and Ladies and Kid to Kid are a couple kid consignment shops in Fairfax County. Hope that's close enough to where you are. We’re in Alexandria so that doesn’t seem to bad of a drive-thanks!
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Jul 24, 2019 01:55
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We told our 6 year old that our dog that died is now the house guardian that keeps the ghosts and monsters away. He also has a stuffed animal that's the same type the dog was and we put his old collar on it. It works well.
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Jul 24, 2019 03:45
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Honestly I've had pretty good luck hanging around on the Facebook marketplace...it's certainly not the most elegant tool, but I recently got 8 sleepers for $5 and a $300 baby Bjorn high chair for $40. It's hit or miss but worth a look. It helps if you make sure your search radius includes your local bougie neighborhoods.
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Jul 24, 2019 05:02
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Where can I find sleep sacks with long sleeves for tall babies? My 3 month old is a giant and is 26” long and close to 16 lb and is too tall for her sleep bags that are supposed to be good for up to 9 months. Amazon doesn’t have bigger ones with long sleeves and Carter’s only has mediums which are good for 25”.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:12
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Koivunen posted:Where can I find sleep sacks with long sleeves for tall babies? My 3 month old is a giant and is 26” long and close to 16 lb and is too tall for her sleep bags that are supposed to be good for up to 9 months. Amazon doesn’t have bigger ones with long sleeves and Carter’s only has mediums which are good for 25”. My baby is similarly tall. All our sleep sacks were hand-me-downs but when I get home I can take a look at the brands and recommend them. Oh wait, you need sleeves. What we've been doing is putting her in a long-sleeved onesie and sleeveless sacks.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:18
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I appreciate the sleeveless just so it's easier to put a sleeping baby in one without waking him up. We got our dtap yesterday and, holy gently caress I'm so tired. Our baby spent the entire night screaming, and has been fussy all day. We're drugging him up with all the Tylenol allowed and it's just not enough.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:23
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wizzardstaff posted:
Yeah, the only long-sleeved ones I remember were Carters, so we also used long-sleeved pajamas or onesies under the sleeveless sacks when he outgrew the Carters.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:23
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Renegret posted:I appreciate the sleeveless just so it's easier to put a sleeping baby in one without waking him up. have you tried bolting a dildo to the bottom of the crib?
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Jul 24, 2019 17:28
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:have you tried bolting a dildo to the bottom of the crib? I already share my time, soon I'll be sharing my pizza crust. This baby can have my vibrator when he pries it from my cold, dead rear end.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:35
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We have a couple sleeveless ones and we put her in a long sleeved onesie, but her hands get cold and it seems like she sleeps better when her arms are warm and cozy.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:37
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Koivunen posted:Where can I find sleep sacks with long sleeves for tall babies? My 3 month old is a giant and is 26” long and close to 16 lb and is too tall for her sleep bags that are supposed to be good for up to 9 months. Amazon doesn’t have bigger ones with long sleeves and Carter’s only has mediums which are good for 25”. My son is around 26" long and weighs about 14 pounds at 4 months. My wife sews her own sleep sacks for him.
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Jul 24, 2019 18:03
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We always just went with socks on the hands.
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Jul 24, 2019 18:07
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Our son is 24" and 15lbs at 3.5 months. We switched to sleeveless sleep sacks and that seems to have worked so far On a related but different topic: we've been having troubles with daytime naps. Before he would sleep ~1-2 hours when he went down for a nap. Now he's only sleeping 15-30 minutes. He's obviously getting tired throughout the day and starts to become crankier as it progresses until 6-7pm; where he just passes out for most of the night. We're using a sound machine and blackout curtains but so far no luck. Iassume this is related to sleep regression but is there anything we can do besides ride it out?
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Jul 24, 2019 18:21
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Koivunen posted:Where can I find sleep sacks with long sleeves for tall babies? My 3 month old is a giant and is 26” long and close to 16 lb and is too tall for her sleep bags that are supposed to be good for up to 9 months. Amazon doesn’t have bigger ones with long sleeves and Carter’s only has mediums which are good for 25”. zipadeezips all the way, yo. They are pretty forgiving size wise.
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Jul 24, 2019 22:09
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Koivunen posted:Where can I find sleep sacks with long sleeves for tall babies? My 3 month old is a giant and is 26” long and close to 16 lb and is too tall for her sleep bags that are supposed to be good for up to 9 months. Amazon doesn’t have bigger ones with long sleeves and Carter’s only has mediums which are good for 25”. Ergopouch has arm warmers designed to be layered over any sleeping bag or sleep sack here: https://www.ergopouch.com.au/ergoarms-natural.html?___store=au&nosto=nosto-page-search1
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Jul 24, 2019 22:30
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:On a related but different topic: we've been having troubles with daytime naps. Before he would sleep ~1-2 hours when he went down for a nap. Now he's only sleeping 15-30 minutes. He's obviously getting tired throughout the day and starts to become crankier as it progresses until 6-7pm; where he just passes out for most of the night. We're using a sound machine and blackout curtains but so far no luck. Nope.
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Jul 24, 2019 23:39
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Crossposting from the deals thread. Picked up one of the doggy backpacks for my little goob. Seems like a solid deal. https://amzn.to/2LDck9J
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:On a related but different topic: we've been having troubles with daytime naps. Before he would sleep ~1-2 hours when he went down for a nap. Now he's only sleeping 15-30 minutes. He's obviously getting tired throughout the day and starts to become crankier as it progresses until 6-7pm; where he just passes out for most of the night. We're using a sound machine and blackout curtains but so far no luck. Play with awake windows - are you keeping him up too long/not long enough? I think around that age we were awake for 1.5hr at a time. And make sure to maintain the wake window even if he takes a short nap, if you put them down too early you get stuck in vicious cycle. Ultimately do what you gotta do to continue the nap - babywear or hold him and see if he’ll go back to sleep. My kid would sleep for 30 mins on his own and then 2 hours on me. Now at 9 months he’s back to taking lovely short naps and won’t even go back to sleep on me. Shoot me.
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yeah we're trying to keep him up 1.5 - 2 hours and make sure to get some physical activity each wake period. I think we'll trying wrapping him next but the fear was he becomes dependent on that and then we're stuck in that cycle anyway thanks for the advice and let's see what happens
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Renegret posted:We got our dtap yesterday and, holy gently caress I'm so tired. Our baby spent the entire night screaming, and has been fussy all day. We're drugging him up with all the Tylenol allowed and it's just not enough. I finally got him to take his first full bottle today at 6pm. Then we gave him Tylenol for his fever and he immediately projectile vomited his entire stomach contents all over me. This is the second time he's done that today. We're 99% sure it's the flavor of the Tylenol. He was happy with the grape, then he very visibly hated the dye free cherry flavor. I ran to CVS, got some more grape, and he gobbled it down like it was a treat with no problems. I swear this baby needs the most inconvenient, specific, and expensive things in this life. Needs alimemtum liquid formula (the powder makes him vomit), can only use Pampers, everything else leaves marks on his rear end, we switched to water wipes because even the normal sensitive Pampers wipes made him break out in a rash. We have a prescription ointment for his dry, red, cracking ankles because lotion isn't enough. Now I can't even buy whatever Tylenol is on sale anymore. The easiest thing to deal with is the bog standard acid reflux.
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Renegret posted:I finally got him to take his first full bottle today at 6pm. Then we gave him Tylenol for his fever and he immediately projectile vomited his entire stomach contents all over me. This is the second time he's done that today. Sensitive pampers wipes are the worst, and were the cause of all of my girl's rashes for the first 5 months. We wouldn't have known except we were visiting family and ran out, and my aunt handed us their huggies naturals to use gor the rest of the trip, and all rashes went away. We had most of a club pack of Pampers wipes left and we couldn't give them away because the other parents we knew who were still using wipes had the same experience. I should have picked it up earlier because my skin is very sensitive and my hands were constantly chapping and cracking that first 5 mos as well, just from handling the wipes (even though I was washing and moisturizing after every bum change).
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Thanks for the sleep sack stuff! I have become a Huggies convert. Pampers swaddlers were okay, and would only leak on occasion, but the baby dry were awful. Her poop would shoot straight up the back every time. We got some Huggies snug and dry on a whim and it was like the heavens parted. There was a night where I forgot to do a middle of the night change, and when I changed her the next time that diaper was heavy AF but didn’t leak at all and her skin seemed pretty dry. The Huggies natural care wipes are by far my favorite. Update on the sleep routine stuff: We are waiting until she is tired and hungry, then doing a bath or warm water tub, followed by lavender lotion, sleep sack, and a feed. Two nights were really successful, she slept for five hours straight after putting her down. The other nights were a little tougher but it hasn’t been that long. I’m enjoying the routine too, it’s a nice way to wind down.
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Ha I love pampers sensitive wipes and have been using them for 3.5 years with no issues. Hate Huggies wipes - they tear super easily! Amazon’s wipes are actually great too.
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Jul 25, 2019 11:47
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Seventh Generation wipes are in high regard (for poo poo wipes) here. I'll pick out a nice spike for my head at the le Place de la Révolution.
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1up posted:We made a "monster spray" that was basically watered down frebreeze and sprayed all the scary things away before bed. Only needed it for a couple of months and she never mentioned it again. 🤷 My 3 year old has been having bad dreams about bugs, so I suggested big spray on her bed. "That won't work because the bugs are imaginary." Well, you got me there, kid. 
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PerniciousKnid posted:My 3 year old has been having bad dreams about bugs, so I suggested big spray on her bed. Tell her to use imaginary bug spray then.
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PerniciousKnid posted:My 3 year old has been having bad dreams about bugs, so I suggested big spray on her bed. yeah how feasible is it to train my offspring to vaporize their fears with like, brain lazers or some poo poo. how young is too young to teach them to kamehameha.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Tell her to use imaginary bug spray then. It didn't work, she put me in a rhetorical chokehold and I passed out. PHIZ KALIFA posted:yeah how feasible is it to train my offspring to vaporize their fears with like, brain lazers or some poo poo. how young is too young to teach them to kamehameha. Couldn't hurt to try, probably! I imagine it varies widely by kid. Edit: There's also this game: Go Away Monster
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Has anyone gotten their child through surrogacy? I'm wondering if you've noticed any lingering affects. My wife has MS and her sister volunteered.
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Our 15 month old is likely ready for some very basic potty introduction. While we don't plan on getting the actual practice down I do want to procure a potty for her now so she can get used to seeing it and such. Done a bit of digging on the subject but I'm not seeing any standout picks. Have any of you had a particularly good experience with one?
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Chili posted:Our 15 month old is likely ready for some very basic potty introduction. While we don't plan on getting the actual practice down I do want to procure a potty for her now so she can get used to seeing it and such. Done a bit of digging on the subject but I'm not seeing any standout picks. Have any of you had a particularly good experience with one? Oh Crap! Potty Training is all we used to get our daughter to be potty trained. It worked really well. In terms of pottys we just got some cheap ones from a consignment sale. Beer4TheBeerGod fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Jul 27, 2019 |
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