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We had a paediatrician tell us to use restoralax on our then 3 year old because she was peeing herself a little out of diapers mostly because of pressure on the bladder from a full colon and that did the trick. We keep her regular with some benefiber in juice as a treat or milk. Both dissolve in pretty much whatever are very easy to give to them. The restoralax/PEG is very gentle too just eases things along instead of being a fierce laxative.
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L0cke17 posted:Also on a related issue the doctor said he needs to eat a full container of prunes (or as much of one as possible) as a single meal to help with his pooping issues and he really loving hates prunes so how can I get him more used to them so he'll stop being so constipated? Smoothie time? Maybe a strongly flavored element like frozen blackberries would help disguise the prunes.
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Pear juice is about as effective as prune juice and tastes MUCH nicer. I used it when I was pregnant and postnatally too and had no issues being regular. It was recommended by our paediatrician as a prune juice alternative. Stewed pears are good too.
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Kiwifruit is another MUCH tastier option with a similar effect.
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L0cke17 posted:Anyone have resources for teaching babby to spoon-feed himself? Look for pouches that have prunes mixed in with other fruits / veggies. He may be OK with that. Cow milk stops up my kid. Doctor had us giving her prunes to eat or juice but she didn’t like to drink prune juice and would eat some of a pouch but not enough. We ended up just switching to almond milk for breakfast and dinner and cow milk for lunch and snack.
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L0cke17 posted:Anyone have resources for teaching babby to spoon-feed himself? get yourself a bowl of yogurt or something and eat with babby so he can see how it works and copy you. babbies love copying.
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We found pears to be decent as an alternative to prunes if it's nothing too serious.
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I'm going to keep all these pooping tips in mind when we get around to that portion of potty training. Son does the same thing - waits till he's in a diaper at night/nap to poop, but overall pretty great on peeing aside from the occasional accident when out and about. Not pushing it now since the new baby is probably coming any day now, just hoping he doesn't regress too badly. In other news, last week we thought we'd dodged daycare COVID for the 3rd time when son tested negative at ~4-5 days post exposure. He'd been home all week, asymptomatic, driving me insane, while waiting for his classroom to reopen. This morning, he popped a fever. FML. Got him retested, just waiting for the results now. Last time we got results the next day since they seem to be prioritizing schools and daycares, but that's two more days at least I've got to try to wrangle him and scrounge together the hours to knock out this project before I go into labor, and I'm about to lose it. It's likely unrelated, but policy is 24 hours fever free and we're not about to be Those Parents.
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2DEG posted:I'm going to keep all these pooping tips in mind when we get around to that portion of potty training. Son does the same thing - waits till he's in a diaper at night/nap to poop, but overall pretty great on peeing aside from the occasional accident when out and about. Not pushing it now since the new baby is probably coming any day now, just hoping he doesn't regress too badly. COVID life with kids is hell and anxiety. Right there with you. Also my 6 year old face planted out of a swing at school and knocked out one front tooth and the other is hanging by a thread. Yay.
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2DEG posted:In other news, last week we thought we'd dodged daycare COVID for the 3rd time when son tested negative at ~4-5 days post exposure. He'd been home all week, asymptomatic, driving me insane, while waiting for his classroom to reopen. This morning, he popped a fever. FML. Got him retested, just waiting for the results now. Last time we got results the next day since they seem to be prioritizing schools and daycares, but that's two more days at least I've got to try to wrangle him and scrounge together the hours to knock out this project before I go into labor, and I'm about to lose it. It's likely unrelated, but policy is 24 hours fever free and we're not about to be Those Parents. 24 hours fever free? Here the policy is 48h since the last symptom. Including a runny nose. And 7 days since first onset. Yeah, we just spent 7 days at home with a toddler who was only sick on the Sunday and Monday. I'm not bitter. Soooo ... Count your blessings, I guess?
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:24 hours fever free? Here the policy is 48h since the last symptom. Including a runny nose. And 7 days since first onset. Wow, with that policy my son would have missed most of November. Ours is 48 hours with no fever or cough, and 10 calendar days if you get tested for COVID. Runny nose by itself isn’t a criterion.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:24 hours fever free? Here the policy is 48h since the last symptom. Including a runny nose. And 7 days since first onset. Our daycare had a positive child last Tuesday. Daycare closed until 12/1. Been home with daughter since then. We all got covid tested and are negative thankfully. My works employee health won’t clear me to return until 12/2. I feel like I’ve been home for months and it’s not even been a week.
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We’re about to spend the next 10 days straight at home with babby because my in laws who usually help with babysitting decided to invite relatives over for thanksgiving...from the other side of the country. So we’re staying the hell away from that whole mess and going back as late as we can after their potential exposure and not having our works suffer too much.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:24 hours fever free? Here the policy is 48h since the last symptom. Including a runny nose. And 7 days since first onset. drat, that's strict. My kid would basically never have been in daycare the first year of his life since he constantly had ear infections.
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2DEG posted:drat, that's strict. My kid would basically never have been in daycare the first year of his life since he constantly had ear infections. Well presumably ear infections wouldn't force you to fly the coronavirus plague flag...
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Well presumably ear infections wouldn't force you to fly the coronavirus plague flag... I mean, his infections always came with phlegm out of every orifice, fever, and a cough, so that would still be pretty concerning in these times. The 24 hour thing is for colds in general for us, so if we test negative for COVID, the standard rules apply. For the ear infections, our ped would clear us to go back 24 hours after starting Abx if we didn't need fever reducers. Does your place not let you come back with a negative test?
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2DEG posted:I'm going to keep all these pooping tips in mind when we get around to that portion of potty training. Son does the same thing - waits till he's in a diaper at night/nap to poop, but overall pretty great on peeing aside from the occasional accident when out and about. Not pushing it now since the new baby is probably coming any day now, just hoping he doesn't regress too badly. fwiw our 3 year old was (and is) in the exact same spot about peeing great and not pooping at all except in a diaper. and hasn't regressed at all now that her younger sister is 4 months old. she's still a champ at peeing and poop is nowhere on the radar, but we've 100% stopped pushing it (heh) since we went way too hard at the beginning of quarantine and gave her a head trip. she'll cheerfully go pee in a public store restroom but refuses at daycare. ("I don't like the potty!") any tips on 3 year old best friends having rage issues? we have a family we've podded up with that our older kid has been in daycare with since she was 3 months old, the two kids are practically cousins. the friend is honestly a really sweet kid 99% of the time, but they get really possessive of toys etc. and they've done some pretty, honestly violent things when they get upset. like, pushing, shoving kid chairs onto our daughter, and grabbing her fingers and squeezing really tight. last time our kid just yelled for mom (as we had prepped her to do, which is really telling) and then after we intervened, avoided the other kid for the rest of the time. the daycare coincidentally has them in separate rooms now and they've also reported a decrease in incidents since they were separated. they also told us outside of school that it wasn't our kid starting them. as far as I can see, there just isn't another option except keeping them apart. the other parents are telling us their kid is asking about playing together and so on and I'm just not sure what to say when they ask if she can come over again. they were a lot better during the summer since they could play outside, it seems to be inside toys that cause the jealousy. fuckin hell.
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2DEG posted:Does your place not let you come back with a negative test? They don't test kids under 6 in Sweden, unless they've been examined by a doctor who prescribes it. (And of course, only a severe case would be admitted to a doctor these days.) Apparently they say there is not enough testing capacity for it, and kids don't generally fall very ill, so a parent should just assume it's Covid and self-isolate. BTW the PCR tests aren't accurate until after you've had symptoms for over 24 hours, and the results arrive after 2-3 more days, so we'd be on day 5+ anyway. majestic12 posted:last time our kid just yelled for mom (as we had prepped her to do, which is really telling) and then after we intervened, avoided the other kid for the rest of the time. the daycare coincidentally has them in separate rooms now and they've also reported a decrease in incidents since they were separated. they also told us outside of school that it wasn't our kid starting them. as far as I can see, there just isn't another option except keeping them apart. the other parents are telling us their kid is asking about playing together and so on and I'm just not sure what to say when they ask if she can come over again. they were a lot better during the summer since they could play outside, it seems to be inside toys that cause the jealousy. fuckin hell. I know this isn't E/N but ... "sever" In all seriousness I don't know how I would act. How much energy I would put into getting the kids to work together would probably depend a lot on whether I myself enjoyed the company of the parents. Do they not, themselves, see any problem? Is their kid doing this to other kids than yours? Hippie Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Nov 24, 2020 |
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I would be kind but honest. Mention the behavior you've seen, that daycare separated them, and that it doesn't seem like their personalities are a good fit for being playmates right now.
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Has anyone had experience with a short tongue band? We went to a specialist yesterday who pretty much told us that he would advise cutting the frenulum lingue asap because in his opinion our little one will definitely have problems with speech, possibly breathing and solid foods down the line. We are just torn because literally every other doctor that had a look at it said it was probably not a big deal since we have not had any problems with breastfeeding or weight gain so far. And while the operation itself is pretty minuscule, what worries us are the four weeks of tongue stretching that we have to do several times a day so that the tongue band does not reattach short again.
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I had one until I was in my twenties, when a doctor cut it during an unrelated surgery, without serious issue. It depends on the severity.
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I must admit I don't know anything about that problem but wouldn't it be possible to delay surgery until any eventual speech impediments show up?
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Mistaken Identity posted:And while the operation itself is pretty minuscule, what worries us are the four weeks of tongue stretching that we have to do several times a day so that the tongue band does not reattach short again. We had a tongue tie release in our son but not the full frenulum; but I remember being worried about the stretching exercises and they said that it tends to not be recommended anymore - so we didn't do anything and it healed fine. Maybe its different if the whole frenulum has to go.
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Is it weird that I’m looking forward to potty training a girl simply because she won’t have a penis she has to remember to push down when she sits on the potty? Or is it weirder that I’m looking forward to potty training again at all because our daughter isn’t due until April? I’m really tired of cleaning up pee
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life is killing me posted:Is it weird that I’m looking forward to potty training a girl simply because she won’t have a penis she has to remember to push down when she sits on the potty? Or is it weirder that I’m looking forward to potty training again at all because our daughter isn’t due until April? My toddler is way headstrong now that she knows the signs she needs to go. Won’t go unless it’s imminent. Makes car trips interesting but for trips of more than 20 mins I pack a potty in the back.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:I must admit I don't know anything about that problem but wouldn't it be possible to delay surgery until any eventual speech impediments show up? We kind of wanted to wait until we started with solid food to see whether he had problems with that but the doctor advised that right now we could still do the operation without full anaesthesia, which is what I would prefer. In addition he warned us that there might also be problems with breathing and jaw/teeth formation since apparently the tongue plays a big role there as well. Tamarillo posted:We had a tongue tie release in our son but not the full frenulum; but I remember being worried about the stretching exercises and they said that it tends to not be recommended anymore - so we didn't do anything and it healed fine. Maybe its different if the whole frenulum has to go. I think both the visible anterior frenulum and the hidden posterior frenulum need to be cut, so that is probably why he recommended the stretching. I have done them in practice a couple of times now and while our little one is certainly not a fan at least they don’t seem to hurt him. In addition they will do the cut with a laser and 75% of children apparently don’t even have any discomfort or pain with their tongue afterwards.
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femcastra posted:My toddler is way headstrong now that she knows the signs she needs to go. Won’t go unless it’s imminent. Makes car trips interesting but for trips of more than 20 mins I pack a potty in the back. We have been doing this too. Our 2.5yo is potty-trained, he has accidents here and there and sometimes sits on the potty abs immediately declares he’s all done without going but he’s basically done except for night/nap training which we put off until closer to Christmas when my wife is off work for awhile and we can afford to be a little tired. Our son got REALLY pissed when we tried to night train him before and didn’t enjoy waking up at all. It’s just that he sometimes does a not awesome job of pushing down his penis and gets pee everywhere, sometimes all over his pants and underwear because he doesn’t take the time to push his pants all the way down. He’s got things to do you see, important things, and going potty is very low on this list. I feel like fewer steps for a girl who lacks the need to push down a genital organ or to be trained eventually to stand up and pee might be easier but this will be our first daughter so we have no idea
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We started to try to potty train our daughter. She just turned 2. We're trying to do the "Oh Crap!" method of taking off the diapers and letting her run around the house naked. The problem we have is that she doesn't like peeing or pooping without a diaper on and she's really good at holding it. So good that she'll hold it from when she wakes up at 7:00 to when she goes down for her nap at 12:30. Same thing from nap to bedtime. She's visibly uncomfortable when it gets close to nap or bed time (grabbing herself, doing the standard potty dance), but refuses to pee or poop. If we put pants on her she'll have accidents in them. But then if we try to take the pants off quick and get her to the potty she screams and cries and does her best to wrestle her way out of sitting on the potty. We've had the potty out for a while and she'll put her dolls on it (then flush the big toilet and wash their hands). And she sits on it with cloths on. So she doesn't seem to be scared of the potty itself, but she's definitely scared of peeing and pooping without a diaper, either on the potty or anywhere else. We tried for about a week and didn't see any progress so we're taking a break to regroup and plan our next attempt. Has anyone dealt with something similar or have tips on what we could try? Googling results in lots of tips for holding poop, but nothing about holding pee that long.
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anchorite posted:We started to try to potty train our daughter.... Your experience sounds very similar to ours, like line-by-line identical. (Look at my posts from about two months ago.) Unfortunately I have no good advice because we abandoned potty training and haven't picked it back up yet. Just...good luck. I feel your pain. One development we've had since then is that she has become more anti-diaper in general. She'll start taking her diaper off herself as soon as she's used it, and then runs around naked or commando for an hour or two until she requests a fresh one (or we suggest/enforce one). Sometimes I'll suggest that maybe she use the potty instead and she'll run to it, sit down for a few seconds, and then go back to what she was doing before. I count that as progress from when she would scream and rage at the mention of the thing.
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anchorite posted:We started to try to potty train our daughter. She just turned 2. We're trying to do the "Oh Crap!" method of taking off the diapers and letting her run around the house naked. The problem we have is that she doesn't like peeing or pooping without a diaper on and she's really good at holding it. So good that she'll hold it from when she wakes up at 7:00 to when she goes down for her nap at 12:30. Same thing from nap to bedtime. She's visibly uncomfortable when it gets close to nap or bed time (grabbing herself, doing the standard potty dance), but refuses to pee or poop. If we put pants on her she'll have accidents in them. But then if we try to take the pants off quick and get her to the potty she screams and cries and does her best to wrestle her way out of sitting on the potty. I took some playdough and squeezed it out of my hand and explained to our kid that that’s what happens when he poops. He seemed mildly amused by it. This was shortly after he’d had an accident and my wife took away one toy. I’m not sure which one of these things made it click. For us the peeing came first and the pooping took a couple weeks (we also did Oh Crap!). Once I stopped getting mad and fussing at him for pooping his pants that seemed to help too. So did walking away and “forgetting something from another room.”
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Mistaken Identity posted:Has anyone had experience with a short tongue band? We went to a specialist yesterday who pretty much told us that he would advise cutting the frenulum lingue asap because in his opinion our little one will definitely have problems with speech, possibly breathing and solid foods down the line. We are just torn because literally every other doctor that had a look at it said it was probably not a big deal since we have not had any problems with breastfeeding or weight gain so far. Anecdotally, my husband is tongue-tied and didn't have anything done as he latched normally for breastfeeding and has worked out alternative ways to make sounds (he uses the sides of his tongue to make T and L sounds, for example). He doesn't have any sort of speech impediment other than not being able to roll his Rs, which isn't an issue as he has English as a mother tongue. The front of his tongue is fully attached, he can't lift it at all. Again, this is anecdotal discussion and not my advising against listening to medical advice.
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My son definitely grew again in the last couple of days. We've been keeping his food containers in the same spot on his high chair's table out of his reach and last night his arms were long enough he just grabbed a whole container of carrots and poured them all over the table, himself, and the floor. Nowhere is safe now. He didn't look any bigger, but he used to strain against the straps to still be ~1/2" short of grabbing the foods, and he barely leaned forward at all to grab them last night.
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Bollock Monkey posted:I'm interested by the fact that several doctors have not been concerned but now this one is - though you do mention that he is a specialist? I have a tongue tie which, according to my sleep doctor, led to a narrow palate and sleep apnea. I've heard different things about tongue tie from different doctors though, some think it's not a big deal or overdiagnosed. Also does anyone have recommendations for indoor gym stuff for a 4yo? My kid is bouncing off the walls with the lack of his gym and playground and bike/scooter rides aren't cutting it any more.
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Tagichatn posted:I have a tongue tie which, according to my sleep doctor, led to a narrow palate and sleep apnea. I've heard different things about tongue tie from different doctors though, some think it's not a big deal or overdiagnosed. Trampoline Park. Can usually find pretty good deals on groupon or memberships. An hour of jumping around tuckers out any kid. Most are open by reservation as they're limiting the amount of people inside. The fun attractions are usually closed but the wide open jump spaces are good enough and they're cleaning everything. Combine that with the fact they're usually in open commercial warehouses with big fans to suck out the heat and its a safe bet.
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My goofy son has completely changed behaviors overnight. Up until yesterday for his whole 6 months of existence he has screamed bloody murder if he rolled over onto his belly ever. Now as of last night he screams UNTIL he rolls over, crawls around the crib for a while, and then passes out on his belly almost immediately after picking a spot. Last night's bedtime, 3 naps, and tonight's bedtime same thing: belly sleep time. I guess it's fine, it's just weird how it switched so suddenly. He's been able to roll over for quite a while he just never did when sleeping before now.
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I mean to be fair sleeping on your stomach is much more comfortable than sleeping on your back.
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L0cke17 posted:My goofy son has completely changed behaviors overnight. Up until yesterday for his whole 6 months of existence he has screamed bloody murder if he rolled over onto his belly ever. lol this rules
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Bollock Monkey posted:I'm interested by the fact that several doctors have not been concerned but now this one is - though you do mention that he is a specialist? The other doctors were general practitioners and in one case an ENT doctor. The specialist was a dentist/orthodontist who is more or less the leading authority on tongue bands in Germany apparently. Admittedly he does have some zeal for his specialty but from what I have read in articles and such the tongue band is actually not very well understood amongst most doctors since cases that actually need any kind of therapy are only a small percentage of kids. As another poster said, the specialist told us that in our son’s case problems with jaw/palate formation are probable and stuff like difficulty breathing through the nose and sleep apnea are possible.
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