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AlistairCookie posted:/\/\ We're all home. For now it is just pushing fluids and oxycodone, and hoping he'll pee it all out. If that doesn't resolve directly then I dunno. Got consults with nephrology and urology both coming up in the next week or so. But yeah, consistently impressed with Childrens, both their specialist departments and the folks in the ER. Pro as hell.
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As a followup to my spoon post, I ended up finding these on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Boon-Count-Feeding-Spoon-Orange/dp/B005VLX5RS They're not the cheapest, but they are the greatest baby spoons ever. I've been using an assortment of hand-me-down baby spoons, both plastic and metal with silicone coating, and these are better than all of them, even with the issue of me wanting to use only metal being taken out of the equation. Something about the weird way they're angled and the narrowness makes it much easier to get all the food in his mouth, even when he's squirmy and distracted. Extra bonus is that the spoon bowl is smaller than most, which means that my husband can't put enormous mounds of food on it the way he does with the other spoons. I never thought a spoon would make such a difference, but they totally do.
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:My one-year-old threw up once on Friday morning, once on Friday late night (all over me), and once on Saturday night. He had diarrhea once yesterday, once today. Other than those symptoms he's perfectly normal - he had regular poops, he's acting happy, no fever, he's eating (BRAT diet obvi), talking etc. Anyway my wife thinks it's a brain tumor, how can I convince her it's nothing? Rotovirus is making the rounds where I am. Both kids have had it in the last week and my wife has it bad right now. I'm hoping to escape it. In my experience it takes 24-48 hours of puking and another 48 to 72 of diarrhea for it to run its course.
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I babysit my 15-month old goddaughter alot while I search for a job. She's started the "mine" stage. God help us all. But I loves her.  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Potty Training. Connor has just turned two so I thought I'd try potty training him, but I have completely forgotten how it goes at all since potty training the older boys. At the moment he'll pee in the potty if he is sitting on it but I'm not 100% sure he gets the connection. If he's up and playing and starts peeing he'll shout 'need to sit on potty' but obviously by that time it's a bit too late. Also he does this thing when he poos where he runs away and hides while he does it. I can generally tell that thats what he's up to but if I try and get him to sit on the potty instead of running away he'll just not go. Also we are moving house in 7 weeks and having a baby in 12 weeks so I'm not sure if all the upset caused by that will make him regress and it would be better to wait until after - is 7 weeks long enough to get it to sink in enough? And how old on average were kids when you started potty training?
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Feb 27, 2013 10:35
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We started potty training our son at Christmas (when we were both off work for a couple of weeks and could focus on 'cracking it') He did the same hiding when he needed a poo thing, and actually stood in a corner when he needed a wee. Doing both these things are tell tale signs that they know when they're about to go. You just need to transfer it to 'using the potty' rather than 'run away and hide'. We were really surprised how quickly it clicks in place. We did 3 or 4 days of putting him on the potty ALL THE TIME! Then there was a week or so of hits and misses and then he just got it one day :-) I personally wouldn't change any plans to fit in around the potty training. You could maybe even play it in a way that he'll be a big boy, using the potty, when you do move house. Good luck!
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Ok, so when I saw my daughter's pediatrician on the 15th for her six month shots, she told me that it would be fine to start sleep training and cutting down in night time bottles. Kiddo was flipping her poo poo throughout that entire conversation because needles, so I didn't stick around to ask a ton of questions. Flash forwards a few weeks and I'm kicking myself for not asking a bunch of stuff. First off, the ideas of sleep training and cutting down on night time bottles SOUND great in theory, but the kid has always relied on food for sleep. If she wakes up during the night, she will not go to back to sleep until she's downed about four ounces, which would be fine except she wakes up 4+ times a night, which adds up to two large 8oz bottles and most of a smaller 6oz bottle. Before anyone suggests that she might not be getting enough food during the day, she will generally go through two 8oz bottles and one or two 6oz bottles, as well as half a cup of fruit flavored cereal and about as much fruit or veggie purée. She's a big kid at 6.5 months; 22lbs, 28 inches long with a long torso, so we have her wearing mostly 12-18 month clothes and she's wearing size five diapers currently, but as soon as the box we have is gone we're moving up to size six. So I guess my issue is that it seems like the only option here is to just refuse to feed her as much at night. The problem is that, if she wakes up, she immediately cries. No amount of back rubbing or singing to her or white noise helps, she will not take a pacifier, and she doesn't suck her thumb. It is the same when she is napping during the afternoon--no food? No sleep. I've tried getting her to eat more during the day, but if she doesn't want food, she will not eat it. Her crib is in our room, and we're finding that, if we don't feed her immediately after she wakes up and starts crying, we don't get to sleep. That's fine for me, but my husband needs to be up at 5:30am to get ready for work every day. If we wait even a few minutes and try to get her to calm down or change her diaper, she'll eat that same four ounces and then stay awake for three hours, shouting and kicking her crib and groaning and growling with annoyance at us (it is like sharing a room with Marge Simpson), ensuring that we dot get more than a minute of sleep at a time for the rest of the night. So, the second solution is to just keep doing what we're ding and feeding her, but the problem with that is that she drinks so much that she is pretty much guaranteed to have a diaper blow out. I have 4 sleep sacs and there have been weeks where I have had to wash every single one of them by Wednesday. I'm kind of at a loss here. The monster in question with her biggest fan: 
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Has she been consistently eating this much at night, or is it a recent (growth-spurt-related) thing? Sleeping through the night is such a back and forth process. It changes with growth spurts and teeth and developmental milestones. 6 months is when I started introducing a lovey--a small, firmly-stuffed stuffed animal. He couldn't care less about it at first, but I had him hold it every time I nursed, and tucked it in my shirt for a while so it smelled like me. We also had a few noise-making toys--the sleep sheep and the Fisher-Price seahorse--playing every time we fed before naps or bedtime. We wanted him to get the idea that you hold this soft thing and hear this music and then it's time to sleep. The seahorse is nice because gradually, you can get them to turn it on to soothe themselves back to sleep without you getting up. Of course, not all kids care about it. That much food during the night really does make it sound like she's not getting enough during the day (or not accepting it because she's used to getting it at night). We're also a nurse before-and-after nap family, but I don't think we were getting up every two hours at night at 6 months. I'll be honest, that sounds like hell! I know people with more experience will chime in about changing feeding schedules, but I'd advise your husband just go sleep in a different room for a few nights. It's nice to be with family, but there's really no point if he's just lying there awake, not able to do anything.
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raaaan posted:Before anyone suggests that she might not be getting enough food during the day, she will generally go through two 8oz bottles and one or two 6oz bottles, as well as half a cup of fruit flavored cereal and about as much fruit or veggie purée. She's a big kid at 6.5 months; 22lbs, 28 inches long with a long torso, so we have her wearing mostly 12-18 month clothes and she's wearing size five diapers currently, but as soon as the box we have is gone we're moving up to size six. We're having this same issue, too. Even down to the large baby (21lbs, 29" at 7 months). Except along with the bottle feedings during the night he also cannot sleep unless he is swaddled. As soon as he wakes up he screams bloody murder for food - it's never gradual. It's been worse recently but I suspect it's due more to a growth spurt and not something that'll keep on occurring. My son's also getting more mobile and big milestones also contribute to things like this. It may be something that you'll just have to wait out. What time does she go to bed? Also, how is your kid in size 5 diapers? My 3.5 year old (who won't potty train, god dammit) is in size 6 diapers and weighs 40lbs and is around 40" tall. My son is in size 3 diapers comfortably O_o Does Canada have different diaper sizes? The largest size down here is size 6. :O bamzilla fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Feb 27, 2013 |
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Our pediatrician suggested decreasing each night bottle by 1 oz. and increasing each day bottle by the same. She said to do that every week or so and then, once we were down to 1 oz. per bottle in the middle of the night, to switch to water instead in case he was thirsty. We didn't end up trying it but it seems like a reasonable plan.
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/\/\ I pretty much did this (it's in the No Cry book too!) with Tim, although I started at his first birthday. I just figured, the kid was one and didn't need that night bottle anymore. Surely by that point, it was just habit. I never did the switch to water part, I just gave the pacifier and shushed him once we had wound down the bottles that much. It totally worked. In a couple/few weeks, all was well. 12 uninterrupted hours of sleep, no tears required. YMMV however. Bamzilla, I had Liam up to a size 6 diaper shortly after his first birthday. Tim never moved past size 5 (even at three!). I think it has to do with how much they pee at once and how they're built (all tummy, all torso, all legs, etc.) as much as actual weight.
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Gilbert posted:We started potty training our son at Christmas (when we were both off work for a couple of weeks and could focus on 'cracking it') He did the same hiding when he needed a poo thing, and actually stood in a corner when he needed a wee. Doing both these things are tell tale signs that they know when they're about to go. You just need to transfer it to 'using the potty' rather than 'run away and hide'. Thanks  I think he is getting it but because so far it's been hard to get a clear run of days where we don't have to be out and about I worry that it's confusing him using the potty sometimes and not others. I got some pull ups for him though rather than traditional disposable nappies so will see if they help.I just hate the fact that all the books and websites say "start when they show an interest" as I really don't think he gives a poo poo about where he goes to the toilet (especially as disposables are so absorbant so being wet doesn't bother him).
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With my daughter, we eventually hit a point where I knew that she knew how to do the potty/bathroom basics (with help, obviously) but the novelty had worn off and she really didn't care much. As you say, the disposables are absorbent so being wet didn't bother her. At that point I found a few days where I felt up to dealing with laundry and had increasingly-long spells of wearing underwear and not diapers. There were a few accidents, but with the underwear she was aware of not liking that sensation, and got motivated to use the potty instead. But again, this was after she really had the hang of doing the bathroom stuff (especially communicating the need verbally).
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Ok guys, my wife and I are having a baby girl in a few weeks, and I feel prepared for the most part (I know there will be a ton of challenges and surprises, but for the most part, I think I"m as prepared as I can be). There is one thing that I am completely confused about, and have been looking for information. When my girl is very young, I know that I can simply take her into public restrooms with me to change her, etc. What happens when she gets older and needs to go to the potty? Let's say for instance that she is 3 years old and I take her a baseball game. Do I just bring her into a large public restroom with me? Do I find a nice lady to take her into the ladies restroom? What do I do!?!
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Just take her in with you. No one will care except crazy people whose opinions don't matter.
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Chickalicious posted:Just take her in with you. No one will care except crazy people whose opinions don't matter. Absolutely. Don't hand her off to a stranger just because she's a woman. Take her in the bathroom with you. It will be okay.
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dreamcatcherkwe posted:Absolutely. I was joking about that part, but I really have been lost about how to handle that situation. I was mainly worried about Carolina Panthers games, where I'd like to take her occasionally. I did hear that they have unisex restrooms though, so I obviously would prefer that if I had the option.
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What do you think will happen? (Also, howdy, sort of neighbor)
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Chickalicious posted:What do you think will happen? I wasn't really worried about what would happen, as much as I was worried about what was acceptable in society. I started to think about it, and I don't recall ever seeing little girls in big public restrooms. Then again, I don't suppose I've ever paid that much attention. I'm in the Greensboro area, by the way.
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Acrolos posted:I started to think about it, and I don't recall ever seeing little girls in big public restrooms. Then again, I don't suppose I've ever paid that much attention. I've seen it before, and I'm pretty sure at a (baseball) Cardinals' game, at that. I think by and large, if the kid's still at the age where you obviously want a parent around, other people don't really care. Besides, at a sporting event in particular, they're probably more concerned with their own business to care, unless you're really using up a stall for a long time. Also, I have at least one memory of my mother taking me into the women's restroom when I was really young. Details are fuzzy to me, since it was so long ago. In short, don't sweat it. And other parents will likely understand.
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I've taken my boys into girl bathrooms loads and no one has ever said anything about it or looked bothered at all. A lot of places these days have unisex parent and child changing rooms with toilets in them too so remember to look out for them (the queues are usually shorter too which is handy). Edit: And like Iwik says below, disabled toilets are always an option. When the boys were at the stage of not wanting to go into the girls toilet but we were somewhere that I didn't feel comfortable sending them into the mens bathroom alone they would use the disabled toilet. hookerbot 5000 fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Mar 1, 2013 |
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Acrolos posted:Ok guys, my wife and I are having a baby girl in a few weeks, and I feel prepared for the most part (I know there will be a ton of challenges and surprises, but for the most part, I think I"m as prepared as I can be). There is one thing that I am completely confused about, and have been looking for information. Do you guys have the parent rooms over there? Here almost every shopping centre and most big venues have at least one which has a sofa/couple of comfy chairs for breastfeeding, microwave & sink for food/formula heating, change stations (with sink), nappy disposal bins etc. They also tend to have a toilet with either a place to put the baby (a fold down highchair type contraption) or a large enough space for you and the kid and the pram - these ones tend to have 2 toilets in them, regular size and those teensy little ones. Otherwise, if there isn't a parent room, the disabled toilets tend to have the change tables in them so I suppose you could always use those if they have the same system. The sign on the door has both the disabled and baby logo.
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iwik posted:Do you guys have the parent rooms over there? Here almost every shopping centre and most big venues have at least one which has a sofa/couple of comfy chairs for breastfeeding, microwave & sink for food/formula heating, change stations (with sink), nappy disposal bins etc. They also tend to have a toilet with either a place to put the baby (a fold down highchair type contraption) or a large enough space for you and the kid and the pram - these ones tend to have 2 toilets in them, regular size and those teensy little ones. Wow that sounds awesome. I've never seen a parent room here except in baby stores. And never with a microwave.
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Ikea has the best family restrooms. Too bad they're almost always occupied. All 2 of them  . But yea, I don't see them very often around here.
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I've seen little boys go into women's rooms with their moms or sisters or whatever all the time. I assume it's the same with men's rooms, if less common because patri y. A lot of places now have a 1-holer marked 'family restroom' or something, too. It's no big deal. Only real lunatics don't understand that little kids need bathroom assistance.
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No it's not the same at all for little girls. The quandary of what I should do with my 4 year old daughter is mindboggling. It's going to be worse now that I have 2 of them to take care of. What happens when my little one is 2 and still needs help but my other one is 6? 6 seems too old for me to drag into a men's room but I'm not going to just leave her in a hallway. Yeah this is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night.
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Acrolos posted:Do I just bring her into a large public restroom with me? Yeah, do this. I work in a kindergarten and have to do this all the time, so far no one has said anything.
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Is the Ocean Wonders Soothe and Glow the Official Goon Approved seahorse? Its up as an Amazon lightning deal this evening. Naptime(s) are a complete struggle and everything that I've tried will work for a day or two and then it just ... stops and we're back at square one. So maybe the seahorse will help? I feel as though I may be fighting a uphill battle since she routinely gets at least 13 hours at night and I was very anti-nap according to my mom. She might just be an outlier.  Music together went pretty well! She seemed overwhelmed at some points but I'm chalking it up to it just being a completely new experience.
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That's the one Edit: It's not like it's magic, it's just that since the part that lights up is the part you push, it's a little easier for babies to understand than the traditional glow worm.
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There was a really overprotective mom at my old job who forced (as in, against his will) her ten year old son to use the women's room at the office. It took several people assuring the both of them that it was okay to go into the men's bathroom and that we would watch the door so he would be alone. Poor kid. TEN. He was so embarrassed. So yeah, maybe stop doing that before age ten. Also hello again parenting thread, my daughter is a teenager now and it's terrifying and I just had to file a police report against a 14 year old kid in her math class for grabbing her breast. I miss the toddler days.
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FishBulb posted:No it's not the same at all for little girls. The quandary of what I should do with my 4 year old daughter is mindboggling. It's going to be worse now that I have 2 of them to take care of. What happens when my little one is 2 and still needs help but my other one is 6? 6 seems too old for me to drag into a men's room but I'm not going to just leave her in a hallway. I feel you. My wife hasn't even delivered yet, and these kind of questions are driving me insane. Nearly all of the infants/toddlers I've been around in my adulthood have been boys, and I'm completely lost on how to handle little girls. I guess you just figure it out as you go!
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ghost story posted:Is the Ocean Wonders Soothe and Glow the Official Goon Approved seahorse? Its up as an Amazon lightning deal this evening. drat, looks like I bought mine a day too early. It came in today (gotta love amazon prime), and I really like the way it looks and sounds. I can see why they work well. It's really a great concept.
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ghost story posted:Naptime(s) are a complete struggle and everything that I've tried will work for a day or two and then it just ... stops and we're back at square one. So maybe the seahorse will help? I feel as though I may be fighting a uphill battle since she routinely gets at least 13 hours at night and I was very anti-nap according to my mom. She might just be an outlier. Music definitely helps send the "it's sleep time!" cue. I had some VTech bunny that played lullabies and I'd be sitting there pressing the buttons continually until Chris finally drifted off. Then it broke but he was definitely in the habit by then.
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RE: Daddy bathroom questions. My sister and I were raised solely by her father starting at age 7 for me and 5 for her. For a little while, he would walk us to the men's room and go in before us, explaining to anyone at the urinal that he was bringing his daughters in, hide yo junk. Then we would walk briskly to the handicapped stall, and he would usher us both in and close the stall behind us. He would wait outside the stall until we were done, and then we'd wash our hands and leave, eyes always on the ground directly ahead of us. He would even use this tactic at his work which had a men's bathroom ONLY, and you had to walk through the locker room to get there. He worked in a machine shop, so everyone would change/shower to keep cutting oil and metal particles out of their cars/homes. Because of all the naked men, he would have us hold our jackets over our faces on the way there. No one ever said anything, he was a large biker guy so I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it. Once we were a bit older, he would send us into the ladie's room as a team, but he would be DIRECTLY outside the main door so he would see if we were leaving without him. He one time sent in a woman with kids to check on us, because we had been too long.
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I'm just starting to potty train my daughter, so I haven't had to deal with her using public restrooms yet. I have still never seen (other than myself) a baby being changed in a male bathroom though I know it must happen. It's not a big deal but I'm still paranoid about creepsters because I'm easily influenced by pedophilia scare tactics. Taking her when I have to pee is annoying too because she's still in the take off running or rolling on the floor if I set her down so I have to hold her and try not to spray all over while she squirms and fights to get loose.
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ghost story posted:Is the Ocean Wonders Soothe and Glow the Official Goon Approved seahorse? Its up as an Amazon lightning deal this evening. Seahorse is awesome. I trained both my boys from birth, like Pavlov's dogs, to associate that thing with sleep. I turned it on every single time they went down to sleep, from day one. By 6 months, they could turn it on and off themselves and used it to self soothe. Occasionally I'd hear it and go in to turn it off, assuming they'd rolled over on it, but no. Staring up at me like, "WTF Mom", they had woken up and done it themselves. The sound of it provokes yawns from them. Tim still has his, and he'll be 5 in May. Liam will be 2 Monday, and "seeherse" is critical to him as well. Just get it and start turning it on at every single sleepy time, and soon the subconscious association will be there. As for public restrooms, we only have the super-pimp family restrooms at the mall--exactly like the one iwik talked about. It's awesome. Otherwise, I take the boys with me to the ladies room. We either pile into a handicapped stall together, or I take Tim in and let him go into a stall alone (if I don't have to go.) He uses the little boys room at school, of course. Fathers of the world, take your tiny girls into the men's room with you. It's okay. And if anyone in there has a problem with it, it's their problem.  gently caress 'em.Also, holy poo poo appleskates, that's scary. The skeleton in my closet is I'm irrationally afraid one of my kids will be bullied (I know your story has more of a sexual harassment flavor, but related.) Hearing about that sort of thing turns my stomach, and heaven help those families whose kids take their own lives. Frightening!
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ghost story posted:Is the Ocean Wonders Soothe and Glow the Official Goon Approved seahorse? Its up as an Amazon lightning deal this evening. She might be ready to quit napping. How old is she? Whenever my son has been resisting a nap for an extended period of time, we're tried dropping that nap. He went from two to one naps at a year. At 2 years he stopped napping at home, but he still naps at daycare. He sleeps well and long at night though.
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rectal cushion posted:She might be ready to quit napping. How old is she? Whenever my son has been resisting a nap for an extended period of time, we're tried dropping that nap. He went from two to one naps at a year. At 2 years he stopped napping at home, but he still naps at daycare. He sleeps well and long at night though. She's only 7 months. She *should* still need naps (at least 2) but she is being very unreasonable. She has been "over" taking multiple naps since 3 months. Prior to that, napping champ. If she does nap, its generally after lunch, ranging from 30-90 minutes depending on what is going on. When I try in the morning, she either plays (laying down with her nursing) or screams (moving her to her bed when drowsy). The real puzzling bit is that she rarely acts overtired. She should be melting down everyday because of the nap situation but she doesn't. She's happy reading/chewing books, playing on her mat, tummy time until she scoots and gets herself stuck, and other baby things. It doesn't make any sense.
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