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greatn posted:I kind of never want to feed my kid meat. I'm not even a vegetarian so I have no idea why I feel this way. He's eight months now and has had bananas, pears, apples, squash, chick peas, peas, green beans, prunes, sweet potato, cantaloupe, spinach, cauliflower, carrots, grits, Gerber puffs, no salt ritz, and broccoli. He's probably more than ready for little bits of meat. For some reason I just feel like he shouldn't. At one year you'll get a blood test to check for iron levels. That made me wish we had paid more attention to how much red meat he was getting, if only to avoid having to go in for the follow up test (taking several vials of blood from an infant is not a fun experience).
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greatn posted:Was yours getting too much or too little? Red meat is among the best sources of iron, so I'd guess too little. If you eat meat and have no moral obligation to it, there's no reason not to give it to your kid. Curious what your objection to it is?
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Kalenn Istarion posted:Red meat is among the best sources of iron, so I'd guess too little. If you eat meat and have no moral obligation to it, there's no reason not to give it to your kid. Curious what your objection to it is? Yeah too little. Like all of his levels (red blood cell, hematocrit, hemaglobin, etc) was below the low range of normal, so we had to get a follow up. They basically make you act as a strait jacket for the baby while they take the blood, it sucks. In the couple weeks between first and second tests, we were pumping him full of iron-fortified foods and vitamin C. We just got the results back and haven't heard from the doctor yet, so I don't know what's next, but some of his levels had moved up into the low level of normal while some were still outside the norm.
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Kalenn Istarion posted:Red meat is among the best sources of iron, so I'd guess too little. If you eat meat and have no moral obligation to it, there's no reason not to give it to your kid. Curious what your objection to it is? I'm developing moral objections and eating less and less. If I give Arthur red meat I just want to find some free of the moral weight of factory farming.
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greatn posted:I'm developing moral objections and eating less and less. If I give Arthur red meat I just want to find some free of the moral weight of factory farming. Can you find a local farmer's market or a farm where you can buy shares of a cow (or goat or sheep)? This way you could know where your meat was coming from, how the animals are raised, etc.
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Fish is so healthy and full of important nutrients that yeah, don't avoid all fish just because some fish have higher levels of bad stuff. Feeding our kid meat for the first time was pretty hilarious. Her eyes widened in amazement and she was all "ALL OF IT! IN MY MOUTH! NOW!" But yeah, I get the weirdness. Liver pate is one thing, but feeding my baby a baby from another species is going to be a bit of a hurdle. On the flip side, it's going to be a while before I can eat suckling pig again - it smells like delicious milkscented baby-head 
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Papercut posted:They basically make you act as a strait jacket for the baby while they take the blood, it sucks. I had to take my two-year-old to get blood drawn for allergy testing last week. He was whimpering, so the tech suggested I start singing to him while she got his arm ready. As a result, he started screaming before the needle got within a foot of his arm  (Seriously, though, it really does suck to have your arms and a leg wrapped around a kid who is sitting on your remaining leg, flailing with all his strength, and screaming at the top of his lungs.  )
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zonohedron posted:I had to take my two-year-old to get blood drawn for allergy testing last week. He was whimpering, so the tech suggested I start singing to him while she got his arm ready. As a result, he started screaming before the needle got within a foot of his arm We had to take Alexandra into the hospital to get a few stitches on her chin when she was 19 months (2 months ago), and she was having a great time until we got to the part of her actually getting the stitches. She got strapped into a papoose so that she couldn't move, and was very hot, while a doctor tried to stitch her chin. Not a fun experience, but I got her to stop screaming for a precious few seconds by asking what the sheep says. "AAAAAAAAAA-.... BAAAAAAH!?" Sadly, she caught on quick and screamed through the rest.
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zonohedron posted:I had to take my two-year-old to get blood drawn for allergy testing last week. He was whimpering, so the tech suggested I start singing to him while she got his arm ready. As a result, he started screaming before the needle got within a foot of his arm I had to take my 2 year old in for the blood work a few months ago. She and I walk into the collection room and there is a kid screaming his head off. "Great" I think, "now the herd is going to be spooked". We sit down and I plop her on my lap. The tech comes over and tells me to get her ready, so i wrap my arms around her, ready to wrestle her to the ground if need be (She's a bit high strung sometimes). So the tech gets ready, plops the needle into her vein and starts to draw the blood. Not a wimper out of her. She actualkly looked in wide eyed amazement at all the red stuff coming out of her arm into the tubes. So when we get done she gets a dora bandaid, then gives the tech a huge hug and says "Thank you!" What a champ.
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Anyone have any opinions on the Diono Radian RXT carseats? Our kids are getting a bit big for their infant carriers.
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orinth posted:Anyone have any opinions on the Diono Radian RXT carseats? Our kids are getting a bit big for their infant carriers. We have one in a smallish 4 door sedan. With the angle adjuster the front seat is tight but usable, without the angle adjuster the front seat is useless. Other than that I really like it. It should last the entire time he needs to be in a 5 point harness. Plus if you're thinking of three kids in seats and you only have one back seat you're supposed to be able to do three across.
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orinth posted:Anyone have any opinions on the Diono Radian RXT carseats? Our kids are getting a bit big for their infant carriers. We love ours - even without the angle adjuster the front passenger seat in my Subaru Forester is still kind of usable, and with it we could probably have it behind the driver's seat with no trouble. I like that it tethers to the floor when rear-facing, too. It was pretty terrible trying to fly with it, though - getting it buckled into the seat wasn't too bad, but wrestling it down the aisle was awful, and lugging it between connections was ghastly. So if we have to fly with our son again before he's big enough for the airplane seatbelt, we're definitely buying a different seat for the plane and the trip.
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My son just erased my long post on the radian. So short post. Pros: it's narrow and I like the buckles and straps. Easy to adjust day to day. (Rethread harness though when they grow) Easy enough to install. Cons: It is very heavy. I bought the backpack bag for travel and it's OK to roll around in the stroller but I wouldn't want to carry it very far. Takes up a lot of front to back room. Angle adjuster is a necessity in my Prius. Headwings are annoying if your baby isn't tall enough to use them they have to be all the way up.
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My oldest had a few random words but didn't really start talking until 2 1/2, but after that his words were very clear and he picked up words at a quick rate. I was actually advised by a friend to see a specialist around 2 1/2, which must have ticked my kid off because he started talking much more after that. If your kid is communicative and responsive there shouldn't be a problem. Some of the kids we know who were early talkers are now having speech issues where their clarity of words is not improving and their preschools are sending them to speech therapists. Every kid is different.
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So many doctors appointments, fortunately they all scheduled them to the 25th, we'll also get a take home EKG machine then which has to be hooked up to David for 24 hours, they'll use the results to see if he needs to continue on his heart medication (Syprol, helps against arrythmia, which he got after his heart surgery, which is a normal side effect for a few months the doctor said). And on the 5th this month we drove down to Tampere and visited a hand surgeon, looks like Davids right thumb is developed enough that it's useful and can be made more so with some surgery, but both the boys left hands will need pollizication procedures (turns index finger into thumb), the way it looks now Daniel might need it for both his hands as his right thumb was not as well developed. We'll see again in november but I do hope they can give them one hand each with five fingers. At least they'll have thumbs one way or another, easier to live with one finger less than without a thumb, and being twins sorta makes it easier I imagine, as they're not alone in this and will always have each other (and to be honest before davids surgery I wasnt even sure of that). I keep telling myself that medical technology is making breakthroughs in prosthetics and stem cell/scaffolding research is looking real promising so I keep telling myself that by the time they're teenagers/adults they can hopefully have other options (extra prosthetic finger perhaps, or maybe it'll be possible to grow new hands or fingers). Speaking of languages, IIRC kids who learn multiple languages take longer to begin talking? Our kids are hearing mainly swedish at home, then vietnamese a close second, I also speak english to them a lot, and a bit of finnish when I can. We want them to learn these four languages well so I'm trying to start them early.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Speaking of languages, IIRC kids who learn multiple languages take longer to begin talking? Our kids are hearing mainly swedish at home, then vietnamese a close second, I also speak english to them a lot, and a bit of finnish when I can. We want them to learn these four languages well so I'm trying to start them early. Unless the reason you're speaking English to them is that you have an English-speaking background, I wouldn't worry too much about that. They'll get so much exposure to English, both at school and through various media, that they'll pick that up soon enough. But yeah, kids who learn several languages simultaneously often begin speaking later, but they do better at a host of other subjects, so you're doing them a great service. My husband and his family speak Hungarian to our kid so that she'll learn it before she has any idea what cases and word stems are, because holy crap that language is insane. Also I'm hoping to use her as my tiny interpreter when we go there for holidays 
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My kid hears English and Russian at home and while he said his first word at an average age, he's been behind ever since. Our pediatrician picked up on it and the reason why without us even having to bring it up at around 15 months or so. In his case, it affects both what he says and how much he understands, though I don't know if that's typically the case. He'll be two in a few days and has several words, occasionally misses simple things we try to communicate but then will understand something surprisingly complex, and mostly babbles otherwise. We're about to see a new pediatrician so we'll find out if they still think he's progressing normally, but kids develop at such different rates anyway that "normally" is a very wide range whether monolingual or not. The benefits of multilingualism are so worth it, though.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Speaking of languages, IIRC kids who learn multiple languages take longer to begin talking? Our kids are hearing mainly swedish at home, then vietnamese a close second, I also speak english to them a lot, and a bit of finnish when I can. We want them to learn these four languages well so I'm trying to start them early. I've seen several sources saying that the speech delay is a myth (based on research studies). For example, from a quick search: http://www.babycenter.com/0_raising-a-bilingual-child-the-top-five-myths_10340869.bc#articlesection2 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/child-myths/200908/bilingual-babies-another-myth-busted I don't know how you are introducing the languages. Some people advocate a strict "one parent, one language" approach where each parent only speaks a specific language. There are quite a few other approaches (with older kids I've heard of parents having a different weekend on the language, and the kids get on board with it). I would chalk up any delay to the natural delay and variation of any kid's language acquisition. We're speaking two languages and are having great success so far with our two-year old. I'm a bit shocked since the second language is me speaking French, and I'm not a native speaker (or even a super high level). So far, she can make sentences and really enjoys the books we read in French as well. I still don't know how long it will last, though.
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Let's talk potty training. I'm really frustrated and thinking that maybe my son is just not ready. He's 2.5 yrs old, will tell you if he's peed or pooped (as he's going), and will pee happily if you set him on the potty. But he won't tell you if he has to go or if you leave him bare-bummed, he will go where ever he is--even if the potty is right there--and doesn't seemed bothered by it. He's mad he doesn't get a sticker, but that doesn't translate into him trying to make it to the potty. He doesn't want to wear diapers, but again, will pee in his pull-ups or big boy underwear. I set up a sticker chart with a sticker for every time he peed or pooped in the potty; 5 stickers=happy meal, 10=toy car, 15=new book, a whole day=going to the Lego movie. He was enthusiastic for the first hour and loved getting his stickers, but after ninety minutes, he stopped even trying to go and started asking for stickers whenever he went, regardless of whether it was in the potty. Ugh, sorry for the wall of text, I'm just so sick of having to do combat to put a diaper on him AND having to clean up puddles of pee constantly.
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I have only potty trained dogs, and this is coming entirely from a dog-training perspective. If you are positively-reinforcing a behavior and the trainee succeeds at first but then loses interest, it means you're asking too much of them; you need to pare back the demands and slowly build upon success. If he was interested and successful for an hour, make that the initial goal, then if that's successful try for 2 hours the next day, slowly building up to a whole day. If the rewards being offered are no longer sufficient incentive, switch them for a different reward.
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My eldest potty trained late, but I don't mind. When he's ready, he's ready. Ours showed it when he was more aware of his body and would start to hide when he had to go #2. Once he was ready, it took all of a weekend. Bad part was once he could use the potty, he demanded to go wherever we were. Every single store, every bush. He even snuck out and dropped a deuce on the sidewalk outside. Good times...
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Brennanite posted:Ugh, sorry for the wall of text, I'm just so sick of having to do combat to put a diaper on him AND having to clean up puddles of pee constantly. So don't. Really!  Honestly, I would just let it go. He's not ready. Leave him in pull ups and ask him a few times a day if he wants to pee in the potty. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. Just roll with it. I also think, and this is just my opinion, that 2.5 is too young for a complex sticker-reward system like that anyway. I don't think they're capable of that much goal setting and delayed gratification. Make the sticker the reward in itself, and if he has a good stretch of effort, surprise him with a Happy Meal or something and tell him it's for being such a big boy on the potty. There is no set age that is normal, or that they have to be potty trained by anyway. Tim was well past three, but he was ready and (like Ron said above me) he was daytime pee-trained over a couple days. Save yourself the fighting and headaches and just wait longer. Liam will be three in a couple weeks, and aside from asking if he wants to pee before bath and while we're getting dressed, I'm not potty training him with any real effort yet. He's not ready. Sometimes he'll go before bath (Great job, big boy!) and sometimes not. Whatever. I imagine by the end of the summer he'll be daytime pee-trained, and that's cool.
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What do you do when they're too big for the changing table? My eight month old already is almost the whole length.
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greatn posted:What do you do when they're too big for the changing table? My eight month old already is almost the whole length. Put the pad on a dresser or the floor.
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Yeah, my oldest is coming on 3 1/2 years and still isn't potty trained. I haven't pushed it, but we put him on the big toilet in the morning and at night and give him a little treat when he pees. It's more to get him used to the toilet, to not be scared of it, and to hold his pee until he's on a toilet so he gets the treat. But that's really all we've done. When we hear him grunting we ask if he wants to poop on the potty his response is always "I don't have to!" My only pressing concern is he can't go to the local preschool until he's potty-trained. But it's really awesome to not have to worry about rushing to a toilet at his every whim. Diapers are expensive and gross, but very convenient! Our youngest is a girl (14-months) and it will be interesting to see if they potty train at the same time.
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Re: potty training, we tried having pull-ups and catching our oldest to go to the potty, but it didn't really work. We might grab him before he went but he would just hold it and then go in the diaper. We finally sat him down, and spent some time telling him that we were taking his diaper off and if he pee'd or poo'd he'd get wet / dirty. There were a few accidents, but he really disliked being wet and so very quickly just started going in the toilet. Agree with the comments that they need to be ready, but if you're willing to leave them uncomfortable in soggy / smelly pants for a bit they'll hopefully realize they don't like it and eventually change their behaviour.
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AlistairCookie posted:So don't. Really! After I posted, he peed straight into his hands and told me he wasn't peeing. That felt like a big, flashing "Not Ready" sign, so I stuck him back in the pullups and we ran some errands. His interest returned after lunch, so maybe I was pushing too hard/much? I think we'll go back to asking him a lot and sitting him on the potty a couple times a day for practice. Also, I like your modified reward plan. I wondered if it was too developmentally advanced, but I have no experience with trying to motivate kids that young. Kalenn Istarion posted:Re: potty training, we tried having pull-ups and catching our oldest to go to the potty, but it didn't really work. We might grab him before he went but he would just hold it and then go in the diaper. We finally sat him down, and spent some time telling him that we were taking his diaper off and if he pee'd or poo'd he'd get wet / dirty. There were a few accidents, but he really disliked being wet and so very quickly just started going in the toilet. We tried that, but it only lasted for a morning because he'd just come up and ask to be changed. Underwear feels just like a diaper to him, I guess. Edit: grammar gud
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Brennanite posted:We tried that, but it only lasted for a morning because he'd just come up and ask to be changed. Underwear feels just like a diaper to him, I guess. Yeah, who knows. Our guy almost instantly stopped wetting himself so maybe we were just lucky.
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How long can I blame snotty nose/goopy eyes/general fussiness on post-vac crud? Mini Meltdown got his 4 month shots on Monday and he's been feeling bad since. Today he's gone from his normal self to a fussy, sleepy, pukey baby, and I just don't know when I should assume it's something more and maybe start asking the doc if something's up. Since midday he's slept more or less for 6 hours straight, with breaks to eat and cry. He's exclusively breastfed. Also, dude is all about sticking his tongue out now. Dad hates it, it's awesome. 
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/\/\That's adorable. How can you hate such a cute little tongue? Sounds like he's sick, and the vaccine is just a coincidence. (Vaccs can cause a mild fever that day, or a bit of crankiness that day, but not actual sickness.) I'd call your Ped and get him back in for a check up, in case it's his ears or something. For us, goopy eyes always meant ear/sinus infections. Kalenn Istarion posted:Agree with the comments that they need to be ready, but if you're willing to leave them uncomfortable in soggy / smelly pants for a bit they'll hopefully realize they don't like it and eventually change their behaviour. My kids didn't/don't care one whit about being wet or messy. I envy people who's kids actually mind full diapers, because it probably is a good motivator to go on the potty.
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AlistairCookie posted:/\/\That's adorable. How can you hate such a cute little tongue? Some vaccines can very rarely cause stronger reactions (make sure to notify VAERS if there is ever actually a strong adverse vaccine reaction!) , but I'll second the suggestion to call the pediatrician and that it's probably a coincidence.
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Tourette Meltdown posted:How long can I blame snotty nose/goopy eyes/general fussiness on post-vac crud? Mini Meltdown got his 4 month shots on Monday and he's been feeling bad since. Today he's gone from his normal self to a fussy, sleepy, pukey baby, and I just don't know when I should assume it's something more and maybe start asking the doc if something's up. Since midday he's slept more or less for 6 hours straight, with breaks to eat and cry. He's exclusively breastfed. With my son's 4 month shots he got sick the day afterward. High fever, snotty nose, etc. Doc said getting the vaccinations just helped the virus take foot. It lowers their immune system a bit since they're working with all of what was just injected. He recovered relatively quickly and was his normal self.
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lady flash posted:We have one in a smallish 4 door sedan. With the angle adjuster the front seat is tight but usable, without the angle adjuster the front seat is useless. Other than that I really like it. It should last the entire time he needs to be in a 5 point harness. Plus if you're thinking of three kids in seats and you only have one back seat you're supposed to be able to do three across. zonohedron posted:We love ours - even without the angle adjuster the front passenger seat in my Subaru Forester is still kind of usable, and with it we could probably have it behind the driver's seat with no trouble. I like that it tethers to the floor when rear-facing, too. Hdip posted:My son just erased my long post on the radian. So short post. Thanks for the advice. I'm hoping that we won't have the need to take them out of the van. We have a Toyota Sienna with two carseats in the back and one in one of the captains chairs in the middle row. I've been waiting for the price with coupons to drop on Kohls. They've had them around $200 each a few times. They currently have one color for $299.99 plus a 30% off coupon although the coupon does require a Kohls card.
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Brennanite posted:Let's talk potty training. I'm really frustrated and thinking that maybe my son is just not ready. He's 2.5 yrs old, will tell you if he's peed or pooped (as he's going), and will pee happily if you set him on the potty. But he won't tell you if he has to go or if you leave him bare-bummed, he will go where ever he is--even if the potty is right there--and doesn't seemed bothered by it. He's mad he doesn't get a sticker, but that doesn't translate into him trying to make it to the potty. He doesn't want to wear diapers, but again, will pee in his pull-ups or big boy underwear. I set up a sticker chart with a sticker for every time he peed or pooped in the potty; 5 stickers=happy meal, 10=toy car, 15=new book, a whole day=going to the Lego movie. He was enthusiastic for the first hour and loved getting his stickers, but after ninety minutes, he stopped even trying to go and started asking for stickers whenever he went, regardless of whether it was in the potty. We had a couple of false starts potty training Connor before he got it, then when we tried he just got it and that was that. On the false starts he would pee in his potty a couple of times (usually because I'd parked him on it for just the right time) but most of the time he would just pee wherever he was and being wet/dirty didn't bother him. The time that it stuck he was just ready for it but I don't think there were any particular signs beforehand so we just had to give him go and see whether he could cope or not. Even though he's been potty trained for a good few months now he'll still regress occasionally and have entire days where he pees in his pants all the time but it's getting fewer and futrther between (the last time was about a month ago now).
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orinth posted:Thanks for the advice. I'm hoping that we won't have the need to take them out of the van. We have a Toyota Sienna with two carseats in the back and one in one of the captains chairs in the middle row. I've been waiting for the price with coupons to drop on Kohls. They've had them around $200 each a few times. They currently have one color for $299.99 plus a 30% off coupon although the coupon does require a Kohls card. How many kids do you have, if you don't mind me asking? (edit - I checked back in the thread and saw you have 4. How old are they?) We're about to have 4 toddlers total and I am looking at the Sienna, but having 4 carseats in that minivan seems kind of impossible. Do you rear face the carseats in back? We rented one recently and I realized I can't have two rearfacing carseats in the middle captain chairs because then I couldn't reach the backseat. Do they make vans with three doors on each side, so you can reach the third row without having to climb through the second row? VorpalBunny fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Feb 14, 2014 |
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VorpalBunny posted:How many kids do you have, if you don't mind me asking? (edit - I checked back in the thread and saw you have 4. How old are they?) We're about to have 4 toddlers total and I am looking at the Sienna, but having 4 carseats in that minivan seems kind of impossible. Do you rear face the carseats in back? We rented one recently and I realized I can't have two rearfacing carseats in the middle captain chairs because then I couldn't reach the backseat. We have 18 month old triplets and a 12 year old. So we don't run into the 4 carseats issue. The toddlers currently have Graco Snugride 35 carseats that are all rear facing, two in the rear and one in the middle. We will probably be getting Diono Radian RXTs sometime in the near future, so I'm hoping we don't run into any issues with them rear facing. Are all four of yours rear facing?
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orinth posted:We have 18 month old triplets and a 12 year old. So we don't run into the 4 carseats issue. The toddlers currently have Graco Snugride 35 carseats that are all rear facing, two in the rear and one in the middle. We will probably be getting Diono Radian RXTs sometime in the near future, so I'm hoping we don't run into any issues with them rear facing. Sorry, I don't mean to hijack this thread with minivan chat, so I'll keep this brief. I have a 3-year old and a 1-year old, and we're going to be fostering 2 siblings of similar ages (as soon as we figure out this minivan situation). So everyone will be in carseats, and hopefully everyone will be rear facing. But I can't seem to find a minivan where that is even possible, so at least one of them will have to be front-facing (likely the oldest one) in one of the center seats. These minivans aren't cheap, either!
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Any tips on dealing with babies and eczema? My almost 4 month old was just diagnosed with it. The doctor suggested Aveeno lotion and gave us a mild steroid cream. The poor thing is constantly whining and trying to scratch at her legs. Anything else I can do to help?
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Chicken Biscuits posted:Any tips on dealing with babies and eczema? My almost 4 month old was just diagnosed with it. The doctor suggested Aveeno lotion and gave us a mild steroid cream. The poor thing is constantly whining and trying to scratch at her legs. Anything else I can do to help? Our youngest has exactly the same issue - it was quite bad for a while so we ended up with some pretty heavy duty meds. One thing that helped for us was to stop using soap at bathtime other than once a week or so. We tried a mild aveeno oatmeal bath mix for a bit but even that didn't seem to work. We also got a couple different ointments from a pediatric dermatologist that our doc recommended us to. A low-level steroid cream for every day use, a higher concentration one for any particularly bad spots, and a different, more creamy one for use on his scalp and face (it also had a different compound as you can't use steroids near eyes). He's much better now, but every once in a while it flares up again and we need to start gooping him up again.
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Feb 14, 2014 22:41
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