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PerniciousKnid posted:I just carried mine back to bed until she gave up. Oh god when we get to that stage I'm not sure I can outlast her
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Sarah posted:Oh god when we get to that stage I'm not sure I can outlast her You just gotta be prepared for a few nights of sleep training, and you can do it. Ideally you can time it to favor your schedule (maybe switch beds Thursday or Friday night if you work weekdays, or before a holiday). Not unlike potty training or anything else. Edit: I'm going to be moving toddler 2 into the eldest's room to make room for baby three, that will be an interesting transition.
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PerniciousKnid posted:I just carried mine back to bed until she gave up. I’ve been doing this at least twice a week for over a year now, when will it stop?
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Sarah posted:I know! Thanks guys. It’s making me tear up because I’ve had nothing but bad experiences talking to my irl friends who have kids. I went to sleep advice once to a friend that has four total (last two are twins 3 months older than my kid) and my daughter was 6 months at the time and her only question was “is she still wetting herself?” Uh yeah, what planet are you living on that an 6 month old is potty trained?? I think her MiL does all the parenting. She clearly has no clue what’s going on. I don’t ask her any questions anymore. I get the feeling that it's easier to be honest on a forum. In both real life and social media, it can feel like more of a competition. We all want to think our kids are wondrous miracles, and we should sell everyone on that, too - but that's not always the case.
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The Fool posted:I’ve been doing this at least twice a week for over a year now, when will it stop? Well, one thing that helped for me was not talking; I just wordlessly pick her up and put her back in bed. But that's assuming it's just curiosity or sleep aversion. If they're getting woken up by nightmares you're just hosed. (That was a rough month!)
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So I need a sanity check to see if Im just being a dumb grumpy dad. My one year old has this double ear infection so gets put on Amoxicillin on Friday. Today when I get home from work he has a rash on his face and torso. Now last year my older one also got a rash from Amoxicillin, so I got to learn all about non-allergenic rashes. So I figure its no big deal, but not gonna take any chances and call in to the Ped to get a professional opinion. So i take him to get seen, and when I get the PA she says that the rash doesn’t look allergenic. To which I respond. “Yeah thats what I guessed, just wanted to make sure”. Figure we are all done, but nope the PA wants me to stop the Amox and start fresh on a new antibiotic for 10 days. Everything I see online makes it clear that switching antibiotics isn’t only not necessary, but that it wont help the rash go away any faster either. Of course I’m not going to take any chances and go against medical advice, but I just feel like I got a inconsistent answer to the problem.
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Jan 21, 2020 03:59
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Sarah posted:As far as the cruising: she’s cruising at home (she loves to cruise up and down the futon in her room) and daycare is set up for maximum cruising (lots of bookshelves and play kitchen). She has 2 walkers and a Little Baby Bum bus that she is addicted to, but she learned how to get on the riding part and all she’s been doing for hours on end is getting on and off it. No desire for anything else. I had to put it up Sunday because I was exhausted from it. I didn’t have to work today and I took her to daycare and I’m so glad I haven’t heard wheels on the bus 60 times today. Hopefully she gets over that soon and is back to wanting to move around. There's already been a heap of stuff said, but another voice to the choir - my 14 month old cruises happily and crawls like some kind of speed demon but yeah no interest in unassisted walking yet. We know he'll get there, he won't be the teenager who still crawls and can't walk unassisted. Currently he enjoys standing, putting objects on tables, then carefully taking that object and crouching to put it back on the floor. My nephew didn't walk until he was 18.5 months and I honestly think he would have gone even longer than that if he hadn't been enraged with jealousy when anyone paid attention to his newborn cousin. As soon as he realised he could wrest back the enthusiastic attention of a room full of people when he stood unaided, it took him about a week to master walking. Unfortunately still acts like a total brat around my son though, and my mum always gives in and showers him with attention in response which is a bigger issue...
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I've got the same stories for myself (as in actually me, not my kid) and my kid. In the latter case we were changed to Azithromycin. Worked well and was one dose a day vs 3. As for the inconsistency, yep I hear you. We've locked horns with our GP with a qualified paediatrician and several pharmacists on our side... She still thinks she's right.
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The Fool posted:I’ve been doing this at least twice a week for over a year now, when will it stop? We put a toddler cot in our room and told or kid "If you want to come in, fine, but unless you are having a problem, just go to sleep on the cot." He eventually outgrew it.
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Sarah posted:I really appreciate the words. Parenting is so hard. It’s nice to get support and hear that it’s all OK. Of course there is a lot of advice out there but not everything is going to apply to your kid, and if so you just do whatever works for you and kiddo if it keeps them healthy/happy. It's always funny (ok it really isn't) when family try to think they're helping when we already know what makes our kids tick and how to manage them, I mean we're around them all the time (It's always fun saying every time to the MiL that no we're not going to do the old school way of making formula bottles, we have a Tommy Tippy Perfect Prep machine and a loving dishwasher). As for being frustrated our first I don't remember actually learning to crawl, it took him ages to figure out rolling and once that clicked he'd just roll over and stretch to grab what we wanted then laze about. The only way we got him to finally walk was to get him used to cruising on our sofa, and we bought him a little plastic chair/thone of sorts to practice standing up. Then after tons of practice one day I sat in front of him, he decides to get up off the chair and take a couple steps, then a few more steps, then a few more and I catch him before he falls.
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Online reviews/research for baby stuff is The Worst. I’m looking for a very sturdy lightweight/travel stroller to take on public transit for day outings and errands and at this point I’m just going to put the purchase off until my baby can just walk the whole day 
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BadSamaritan posted:Online reviews/research for baby stuff is The Worst. I’m looking for a very sturdy lightweight/travel stroller to take on public transit for day outings and errands and at this point I’m just going to put the purchase off until my baby can just walk the whole day Feel you. Was looking for a travel stroller for a (quasi-work) trip to Europe last year and agonizing over a bunch of options, but ended up just getting the Chicco mini bravo because it was on clearance at Target. My review is: haven't broken it yet.
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When did your babies start talking? My 21 month old has some sounds, both mom and dad are dada, and says uhoh appropriately. The pediatrician didn’t think it was a problem at 18 months and that we shouldn’t think anything of it until the 24 month appt. The Dr did say we could seek early intervention if we felt like it. We made an appt for next month. I’m sure it’s fine but it’s hard to not compare her to her 20 month old cousin who is talking.
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Bill Brasky posted:When did your babies start talking? Some kids are late bloomers, some early. I was talking in relatively complete sentences before I was a year old, the older of my younger brothers was right on pace, and the youngest was pretty much silent (except babbling to himself in private) until he busted out with complete sentences around two years old. My general advice for these things is if you're even slightly worried about milestone development (which are really just guidelines), there is nothing wrong with getting an opinion from a specialist. You'll either get told everything seems fine and they're just a late bloomer. Or you find out there is a problem, and get put on the path to a solution. Receptive speech is also generally slightly faster in development than expressive speech, so she probably understands more than she's producing.
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Anecdotally, my baby is only 14 months old so too soon to say, but my wife's cousin started talking at 3 years old and she's completely normally developed otherwise. I've heard this about other babies, too, but perhaps especially younger siblings where the older sibling is constantly helping them fetch things so they don't actually have to ask... Nothing wrong with asking your pediatrician about it but I wouldn't worry overmuch.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Anecdotally, my baby is only 14 months old so too soon to say, but my wife's cousin started talking at 3 years old and she's completely normally developed otherwise. Yeah, on this, my son was speech delayed, and wasn't speaking by 3. He started early intervention, and special ed preschool (he was delayed in faaaar more areas than just speech), and while he did start talking, it was pretty much entirely echolalia even by five. He was in speech therapy up until just about high school. He's 15 now, and talks endlessly about everything.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:He's 15 now, and talks endlessly about everything. Making up for lost time
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Bill Brasky posted:When did your babies start talking? My 20mo old son has quite a few words, says them without prompting, but not really sentences yet. He says “oh no” and “uh oh” a lot, “all done”, “bye bye” and things like “shoe”. He babbles the rest of the time but is totally serious about it, like, HE is saying something important but we don’t know what it is. But I don’t know where he’s supposed to be on that so just taking it as it comes. He won’t say a lot of his most-often-used words when he’s mad to indicate anything, and we still have trouble figuring out what he wants, but he understands almost everything we say and we can have pretty rudimentary conversations with him by asking him questions. Weirdly he doesn’t have “yes” yet, he just grunts in the affirmative. What I’m saying is, mine seems the same and it’s not a big deal. It sounds like he’s not late to me but I’m no expert. Every kid is different, same as walking and potty. It’ll be okay
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Super Slash posted:The one thing I impart to any new parent is that most advice out there is not gospel, and peoples opinion's even more so. Here's how I dealt with that wave of advice you get: I sort of logged it all away in my brain as something I might use if in my opinion it applied. All that was left was to weed out arseholes (fortunately, I've only got one instance of that, and it was recent) and ensure I understood some of the context of the advice. The point is here, this left me with an arsenal of ideas on how to solve a problem. If one method didn't work or stopped working, I'd move to the next. Generally, arseholes aside, most people do mean well and your peer-parents these days want the best for their kids and all others. You're not walking on a minefield of child-destroying poo poo. I'm speaking to the parental-anxiety here if you're wondering. Yes, do use good judgement, but likely you have this. Regrettably (and this is said to the poster earlier who got the arsehole text), arsehole advice or comments will stand out. I had one recently from a friend trying for his own kid. Yes it was offensive, but (after a bit of "what a dick" chat with my other half) I stepped back and disregarded it (or at least the arsehole bit), knowing life was about to give him much harder a slap than his naive comment deserved from me. When that day comes, I might get to say "seems I was right" just once. The reason this story stands out is that this guy otherwise is a decent friend, and I'd rather have this story to tell, but if I am going to tell it the point is that it was a dick-move, not that the comment was entirely and completely correct.
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Most people just want to help, and they help in the only way they know how. Overzealous use of their mouth, and not enough use of their ears.
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SpaceCadetBob posted:Amox rash I wouldn’t switch antibiotics, but I also didn’t even bring my kid in when he got a rash bc it didn’t seem to itch/bother him and google said it was common. I wouldn’t want to subject his gut to another beating.
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Bill Brasky posted:When did your babies start talking? When my boy was 24 months, he would say maybe 10 words. Took him to a speech therapist, got his hearing tested. Nothing wrong with him, just delayed. Of course it's even tougher when you compare to all your other friends with kids (also applies to walking in this thread). By 27 months, he was speaking sentences, now at almost 3 his speech is way better then alllll of my friends kids.
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2DEG posted:Feel you. Was looking for a travel stroller for a (quasi-work) trip to Europe last year and agonizing over a bunch of options, but ended up just getting the Chicco mini bravo because it was on clearance at Target. My review is: haven't broken it yet. the first person to setup an airport stroller renter kiosk will make enough money to buy G-d and all the angels new harps and trumpets. fuckin, come the gently caress on Enterprise. A fleet of strollers are NOT more work to upkeep than a fleet of cars.
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Just popping into the thread to say that I'm starting to hate daycare - 3rd cold in 2 months coming on for my kid, and the rest of my house this week.
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Speaking of airport travel, anyone caught on to a good method yet? We got a roller thing for the car seat (this thing, though I seem to recall it was way cheaper when we bought it). Get to the airport, pop the car seat on to the roller, and now we have 1) a car seat for the plane 2) a car seat for the destination and 3) a wheeled containment device for our toddler so we can haul rear end through the airport. Folds up real fairly flat and fits under the seat or in the overhead fairly easily. Downside is our carseat is massive. Been toying with the idea of getting a small/cheap one strictly for travel, just haven't done it yet. Also getting the car seat in the plane is a bitch, but doable and technically safer. That said, we haven't done the stroller option. Anyone done both and have any strong feelings one way or the other? diapermeat posted:Just popping into the thread to say that I'm starting to hate daycare - 3rd cold in 2 months coming on for my kid, and the rest of my house this week. Bah, colds are nothing. Wait until the stomach bugs go around. Or hand, foot, and mouth. Or RSV. I swear daycares are secret CDC research facilities.
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Last time we travelled we spoke with a car seat tech (admittedly our daughter was on our laps). She was in fact a trainer of car seat techs. Her advice was that the safest place for a car seat on a plane is in a box (not necessarily the box it came in), after all, this is how they come to the stores. You can add reasonable padding (but don't take the piss and throw an entire suitcase of clothes in with it, the airline can check, will apply common sense and domain-specific knowledge if they see something like that). For the first trip, I used a double walled UHaul electronics box which underwent 6 flights and 3 folding ups no problem. For the second trip, I tried the specific box for the car seat... it was mangled at the entrance to the first xray machine as I dropped it off. If I ever transport a car seat again, it will be in the sturdy UHaul box. Secondly, despite well meaning but over-amplified advice, carseats are not necessarily precious jewels that are worthless and useless at the slightest tap. I would personally take a single one of the car seats you already have to do all of these duties. Perhaps, if it makes your life significantly easier, purchase a lighter one. However, you do not require more than one. Maybe, if your destination has two vehicles you'll be regularly using for significant time, take two for convience sake only. Stroller + airport experience was initially taking an enormous Uppababy Cruz through the airport, with it's travel bag. Took 5 annoying long minutes to pack it near the gate so it could go in the hold (btw, that was significantly before actually getting on the plane). Second time was with a much lighter Uppababy Mini. Better than the first. However, both times, a smaller chest carrier was easier than both. You could wear it anywhere you liked etc, no nonsense with folding it up to be xrayed etc. I would personally take a light stroller if you use it regularly, but check it in as normal with your other luggage and use the light carrier again. Final tip: Look at what the specific airports offer for kids (e.g. luggage trollies with seats for kids or perhaps even ones where you can put your car seat). You'll have to go to the actual airport websites for this. Don't think you have to solve every issue with a child before approaching it. Perhaps they in particular have something you can use. Also, do remember that airport staff see small children flying all the time. You're going to a place staffed with experienced people, not ones who've never seen kids before. As I said above, flying creates apprehension in some people anyway, and then when they add their baby into it, this gets added to the nerves and caution which is then presented as "survival" advice. You do not wish to just survive flying, you want to enjoy it and often that means not encumbering yourself with bulky solutions to any hypothetical problem. My most annoyed when travelling was loading/moving/unloading several luggage trollies worth of stuff in various places on my trip. This is perhaps why I advise taking less and calmly thinking of solutions to actual problems if they really happen. All that said, you do you. I personally think you'll enjoy leaner solutions but this thread is perfectly clear that there are multiple right ways to do things, and I happily refer you to my position about advice above.
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DaveSauce posted:Speaking of airport travel, anyone caught on to a good method yet? Last time we flew we brought the stroller and gate checked it. You can also buy a giant bag to stuff the stroller in so it doesn't get scratched up when it gets checked. Baby went our lap so no car seat. Car seat stayed at home because we didn't need it on that trip. We're flying again on Saturday for a funeral and we're going to do the same thing, except we got the baby a seat this time. Our regular car seat is rated to strap into the airplane seat so the car seat's going into his seat, and the stroller's getting gate checked again.
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From everything I've read on the internet, we are literal monsters because we rented a car seat from the car rental place last time we went flying with a kid (2.5 at the time). The car seat was a little messy with goldfish crumbs from previous renter, but otherwise fine. It was a nice convenience to not have to worry about transporting our own car seat. We traveled with our normal stroller (Graco something or other) and put it in a bag for gate check - no problems there. The biggest problem was that we flew very early morning, and I stupidly let my daughter drink a lot of apple juice on an empty stomach during take off. She threw it all up in the air because that much sweetness on an empty stomach is not a good thing. In other advice corners, how do you teach a preschooler to take off a long-sleeve shirt? My 4yo can dress / undress anything except long-sleeve shirts. We have to help her get one arm out, but she can do the rest herself. Any tips on teaching her how to do it herself? I've showed her several methods, but none of them stick. I'm thinking her arms might be physically too short or she's not coordinated enough yet to be able to do it at this stage, but anecdotes are appreciated.
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We have gotten a car seat from car rental agencies twice, both times they were supposed to be in the car already and both times they were not in the car already. That's the worst I can say about them. They do the job for the short time you need them. Not sure exactly who would say anyone who has gotten a car seat from a car rental agency is a monster for doing so, but I feel almost certain they either aren't parents, or are parents who can't accept anything less than the absolute best for their own child, who incidentally doesn't give a poo poo whether he or she is sitting in a crappy car seat or their really nice one at home. It sucks checking car seats, and it sucks being outside the plane door in the gate, watching people go past and into the terminal while you stand there waiting like twenty minutes (that was me, twenty minutes) for them to finally bring it up and you've got to piss so bad and your toddler is having a poo poo fit because you won't let them leave an imaginary three-foot circle around your person. It sucks wayyyyy more than using a slightly more cheaply-made car seat than the one you own for a few days.
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life is killing me posted:We have gotten a car seat from car rental agencies twice, both ti Not sure exactly who would say anyone who has gotten a car seat from a car rental agency is a monster for doing so, but I feel almost certain they either aren't parents, or are parents who can't accept anything less than the absolute best for their own child, who incidentally doesn't give a poo poo whether he or she is sitting in a crappy car seat or their really nice one at home. the logic is that car seats are a lot like helmets, where a single accident, too much sun exposure, or old age can compromise it and make it not effective in a crash. And coming from a car rental place, you don't know it's history or if it's been properly taken care of. There's no chance in hell the car rental place cares about that car seat and as long as it's still in one piece they'll give you any old piece of poo poo. I think the fear is way overblown but I understand the logic. If I wasn't planning to do a lot of driving at the destination then I'd make a determination if it's worth the risk or not.
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I guess I should clarify that we've done the car seat/wheel adapter method for several trips already (being far from family sucks). Except for the first trip (where we did infant-in-arms and had a soft sided carrier), we've never done anything else. And I should clarify that we don't check the car seat, we install it in the plane. Again, huge PITA, but we have it and it's better than gate checking it without any sort of protective box/whatever. The reason I ask about this is that I typically see people with strollers instead of our setup, and I occasionally wonder if that's a better option, but we've never tried it. I figure it's a choice between stroller or car seat, but not both. On that, has anyone used one of those CARES harnesses? I'm not 100% sold on using just the default lap belt, so if we switched to stroller we'd need something. Seems like a nap wouldn't be in the cards for that, but with our current car seat it doesn't recline enough to afford a nap anyhow. We have our second on the way, so it's time to re-evaluate. We can get away with the carrier option near term for #2, but in not long we'll have to ditch that and deal with 2 increasingly heavy kids whose willingness to cooperate is unreliable at best. Really more concerned about logistics and ease of getting through airports. edit: should also clarify that typically we travel for family, so it wouldn't be a big deal for us to buy a car seat to give my parents to hang on to. But we most likely wouldn't be renting one anywhere. DaveSauce fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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I have a CARES harness. My daughter tolerated it for the small window that she had a seat but we didn’t bring the car seat (which I do for long-haul flights because comfort+containment=happy kid). My son DESPISES it at 2 years old and twists and screams like we’ve wrapped him with razor wire. We have an light weight FF-only travel car seat that weighs like 10 pounds. When I’m traveling solo with both kids, I use that plus the stroller which is purely for carting around junk like backpacks etc. The 2.5 year old goes in a soft carrier and the 5 year old walks. I don’t actually use strollers EXCEPT for traveling, but I 100% need it when I’m on my own. We never did anything special but gate-check the strollers and honestly it’s fine. I have a Britax B-Agile double and it’s a little dirty but given it’s three years old and has gone all over the country it was worth it. If I’m NOT traveling by myself, I’ll bring one of the heavier car seats with the above rig and still put it in the stroller to schlep. It’s just too much for me to handle a heavy car seat up and down the plane aisles while also wrangling kids. At home my 5 year old is still in a harness booster, but for travel we just bring a low-back booster because we usually don’t go far by car.
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Bill Brasky posted:When did your babies start talking? 13 months, almost on the dot. She said “Up? Up?” from her pack and play to us on vacation. You can absolutely coach your kids by stating everything you do out loud. I said my daughter’s name and “Up” every time I picked her up, and she caught on. Do the same for objects, people, etc.
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Red posted:You can absolutely coach your kids by stating everything you do out loud. I said my daughter’s name and “Up” every time I picked her up, and she caught on. Do the same for objects, people, etc. As my guy (2y4n old) was learning to speak, I would narrate everything I said as the speech therapist I went to said this would help him learn. Well this bit me the rear end when I was out shopping. I had my little guy walking beside me and we were at a health food store to find some vitamins. A lady came over to us that looked very much like a guy, very short hair, deeper voice, dressed like a guy as well - but was definitely female. She said to follow her to the right vitamins so I said outloud to my little guy "Ok, lets go follow the lady to the vitamins!" and then my brain stopped me, maybe she wanted to be called a man, so my dumb brain so "oh wait, no lets follow the man!" .. followed by her saying "no I'm a lady" 
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DaveSauce posted:Bah, colds are nothing. Wait until the stomach bugs go around. Or hand, foot, and mouth. Or RSV. Pretty sure my mom caught pneumonia secondary to my daughter’s RSV bug. This is a woman with an iron immune system who worked as a nurse for 40 years. Daycare germs take no prisoners. Also now me and my partner’s work schedules are turboboned for the week 
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RSV definitely murders work schedules. Though I did find that a week later as I was emerging from plague hell, telling all my clients that I spent the week with a one year old with a 104 fever was pretty much a get out of jail free card.
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cailleask posted:I have a CARES harness. My daughter tolerated it for the small window that she had a seat but we didn’t bring the car seat (which I do for long-haul flights because comfort+containment=happy kid). My son DESPISES it at 2 years old and twists and screams like we’ve wrapped him with razor wire. Good stuff to consider, thanks! Our car seats are Britax Advocates, which are behemoths. Starting to think the best course would be to get a small and cheap car seat and keep the remainder of the setup. We don't typically use strollers either, so hauling one around just to get through an airport is a bit much. We ditched our soft carrier a while ago. How well does that work with a 2.5 year old? Can't remember exactly when, but it seems like a 25+ lb toddler isn't a great fit. We were meaning to try back carry or get one of those big "toddler" carriers, but we've made do without so far. Was a life saver when she was younger, though. Not sure we could manage to convince her to get back in one since it's been so long.
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So my 15 month old had a pretty bad cold in October and it lasted 5-6 weeks with the coughing at night etc. I thought he went a week or two sleeping soundly through the night but my wife disagrees. In any case, I think he caught another cold sometime in the past and he’s back to coughing at night during his sleep. Still sounds congested when taking a bottle and can’t seem to have much luck producing phlegm to cough up. He sleeps on an incline but that doesn’t help, we’ve tried Benadryl, nada. We do a humidifier nightly and there’s nothing to suck out of his nose. It seems that it’s mainly in his chest. No fever or anything like that-he will just usually cough in his sleep for 5-10 minutes in the middle of the night, rarely waking himself up. He isn’t tugging his ears or anything to make it seem like an ear infection. We’ve got his 15 month appointment next week, so we’ll check with the doctor then, I’m just curious if you guys think it could be anything else I’m missing. When we brought him to the doctor in November he had an ear infection which was fixed but the doctor said his lungs sounded fine. I think it was shortly after the antibiotics where I thought he was sleeping soundly through the night. He’s teething non-stop as well, so my wife thinks that could be the cause of congestion too.
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I feel like this is some weird movie where you're my slightly alternate universe self. We went through the same thing late last year and are kind of going through the resurgences you mention as well. Doc isn't really concerned about stuff (although we have a urologist appointment for circumcision adhesion) with his congestion and lungs sound fine. He's teething as well (and sleeps like loving poo poo) so that's what we're chalking it up to.
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DaveSauce posted:Good stuff to consider, thanks! I have traveled recently with a Britax Marathon Clicktight so I feel you - it’s so heavy! But it has a nice narrow base that sits really well in the stroller especially when you put a heavy backpack in it. I literally use the stroller as a luggage cart I can take to the gate. My 2.5 year old is 26lbs and he fits okay in the infant-sized carrier, and really well in the toddler-sized tula. He really only goes in it now for travel, and he hadn’t been in in a few months, but he got all excited about being uppies and feeling secure - ymmv. Ever since my daughter did a runner in TSA at age 2 - and went UNDER all the dividers, and then screamed like she was being murdered upon being caught, I wear toddlers in the airport.
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