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KirbyKhan posted:Hello thread. I have a baby now. It is day 5 and it is a glorious day. We went to the pediatrician for first appointment and we found out our son was starving and lost 14 oz. I am happy because as soon as we made the formula my little dude gulped down 4 oz, crushed the bottle against his skull, and pulled his arm out of his onsey to Popeyes flex. Then, finally, he went to sleep. My wife also was a good week or two until kiddo got all the milk he needed from her. Also, she too was induced and had painkillers, and benadryl for the itchiness symptoms from the painkillers. Benadryl negatively affects milk production, we learned a bit later. Did that happen to her too? It's apparently a fairly normal goof that happens in L&D wards, according to a Gyn friend of ours.
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truavatar posted:
Well, whatever was going on seems to be over after almost 3 weeks of hell. She's finally sleeping until around 6:45 again and her naps have recovered to being around 1:10... even had a couple record-setting 1:45 naps. I've slept better the last two nights than I have in a month. She just had to watch me break I guess.
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Feb 28, 2021 00:01
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This silly kid is learning so much. Literally overnight he learned like 3 things. He fed himself a whole bottle without us helping at all, he turned all the pages on his own during his bedtime story and he brushed his own (2) teeth.
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Feb 28, 2021 01:13
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BonoMan posted:Today is going to be fun for us. Our 6 year old has been having stomach pains for the better part of the last year. We can't tell what's real and what's not (a lot of times it's been around things that have made her anxious). We did the big tests a while back to make sure it's nothing serious (it wasn't). It went away for a while but started happening again. We went to a GI doc and turns out she has quite a lot of poop in her even though she poops once a day at least. I guess it's not enough. Oh man, I've been through that. My son had a rough time with a blockage at close to that age, and it was basically the "If this doesn't work, the next options are on the level of 'surgery'" treatment. The best advice I can give is you're not going anywhere for that day, and stick close to the bathrooms. And that, especially at that age, making it to the toilet every time is absolutely not guaranteed (it's not even fully guaranteed for adults, if you're getting your insides Draino-ed).
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Feb 28, 2021 05:18
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My 6 year old just finished an almost 3 week stint of viral diarrhea, so my advice is to soak the accidental shart or didnt make it in time undies in the oxiclean maxforce stain remover and wash twice. So much crying about poop stains in Elsa chonies.
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Feb 28, 2021 07:35
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Apparently baby software update that came with "self feeding" and "page turning" also came with "wake up at 4am and scream multiple days in a row" and "refuse_all_naps.exe" We're so tired.
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Feb 28, 2021 15:37
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Sending vibes. We just went though that and came out the other side after three lovely weeks. From what I read it doesn’t usually last that long though. Hang in there.
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Feb 28, 2021 16:11
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Hadlock posted:Besides less personal time, what are the downsides to letting our 4 month old stay up until 10pm? She usually starts getting fidgity around 8:30-9 and by 10 she's ready for milk and will sleep straight through until 5am to feed, and then down again until 8am or so Others already said, but I'll second "do whatever you think works". I promise you're not going to end up with a one-year-old who goes to bed at 10 PM just because you do that at 4 months.
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Feb 28, 2021 20:04
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L0cke17 posted:Apparently baby software update that came with "self feeding" and "page turning" also came with "wake up at 4am and scream multiple days in a row" and "refuse_all_naps.exe" You will get a break soon. Whenever my infant had a big leap in development, her sleep was completely messed up for a while. Then things would settle in for a bit, we would get a little more rest, only to get messed up again with the next set of skills. Also, routine at 4 months looks completely different than routine at even 8 or 10 months, and there’s no comparison to what a toddler routine is. The first year is about survival and doing what works for you. Expecting your baby to do things at certain times of the day will only lead to frustration. It takes a long time for a baby to even get a sense of what a routine is, or recognize that things happen in an order (dinner, then bath, then books, then bed for example). Of course it never hurts to start routine early in life, but you have to be super flexible and not let it get to you when your idea of routine gets disrupted, especially when it comes to the time of a clock. Babies don’t even know night and day, let alone that 10pm might be considered a later bedtime.
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Mar 1, 2021 04:59
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:you're not going to end up with a one-year-old who goes to bed at 10 PM just because you do that at 4 months. Yes, you can end up in that scenario even if your kid sleeps like a dream at 4 months! On a good day, he sleeps at 8.
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Mar 1, 2021 05:23
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Koivunen posted:You will get a break soon. Whenever my infant had a big leap in development, her sleep was completely messed up for a while. Then things would settle in for a bit, we would get a little more rest, only to get messed up again with the next set of skills. It's just so frustrating that for basically the last 4 months he's been on a routine to the minute practically and now he just isn't any more. I just want to sleep. My work performance is suffering, my everything performance is suffering. I have 0 energy even for things I want to do.
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Mar 1, 2021 17:26
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If you want to play a fun (read: depressing) game, enter "sleep regression at" in google and see what all it suggests.
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Mar 1, 2021 20:28
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Ben Nevis posted:If you want to play a fun (read: depressing) game, enter "sleep regression at" in google and see what all it suggests. What about “MY TODDLER WONT SLEEP EVER” or “WE HAVENT SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT IN YEARS”
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Mar 1, 2021 20:48
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life is killing me posted:What about “MY TODDLER WONT SLEEP EVER” or “WE HAVENT SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT IN YEARS” Yeah we're almost at 2 years with no sleeping through the night. At this point he sleeps in our bed and he wakes very often through the night. Often just screaming. Not like "I had a bad dream" scream but more of a "hey you two fucks... YOU AWAKE?!" And then he just kicks or punches us. Then flops over onto the boob.
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Mar 1, 2021 21:02
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Fuckin 2 month vaccination shots man. I was on speakerphone and you could hear the doctor baby talk to my baby, then pause and then the awful screams. And I had to take both bandaids off, which was more screaming. Poor girl has been wiped out all day.
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Mar 2, 2021 02:24
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as a tip for people that we definitely didn't do the first time we had baby shots, get no-stick or some other kind of easy take off bandaid and bring them with you. The medical person should have no problem with you slapping those on instead and it's wayyyy easier getting them off.
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Mar 2, 2021 03:19
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Benagain posted:as a tip for people that we definitely didn't do the first time we had baby shots, get no-stick or some other kind of easy take off bandaid and bring them with you. The medical person should have no problem with you slapping those on instead and it's wayyyy easier getting them off. https://www.saveritemedical.com/products/uni-solve-adhesive-remover-wipes These are handy too. We’re constantly taping medical devices to people here so we have a full box of them but if you have little kids with bandaids then it might be a smart buy. Our kid took 4 shots at the 2 month mark and cried surprisingly little, just passed out. Then I used that stuff to soften up all the bandaids and he didn’t mind that either. He did cry outrageously at me for feeding him formula instead of breast milk (ear drum vibrating) and then had two diaper blowouts to balance things out karmically.
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Mar 2, 2021 03:24
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The crying at shots only gets worse as they get older and stronger
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Mar 2, 2021 04:25
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Oh poo poo I’m taking my baby in for shots next week 
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Mar 2, 2021 04:28
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meanolmrcloud posted:Fuckin 2 month vaccination shots man. I was on speakerphone and you could hear the doctor baby talk to my baby, then pause and then the awful screams. And I had to take both bandaids off, which was more screaming. Poor girl has been wiped out all day. For my girl’s 2 month shots I had never seen her face get so red so fast. I was going to wait until her bath to take the bandaids off, but she got poop on it during a diaper change so it had to come off quickly and that was extremely unpleasant too.Her 4 month shots were a little better, though the rotavirus vaccine did make her throw up all over me. For some reason, the nurse didn’t give her any bandaids on her 3 shots. She just had me dab the blood with a cotton ball. I’m just glad she didn’t have any side effects and was just sleepy for the rest of the day.
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Mar 2, 2021 04:53
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Shifty Pony posted:5:45 pm at dinner: "oh wow what an appetite, he is so excited to be eating all of his eggs!" Is this his first time eating eggs? The timing (3 hr between eating and vomiting) is giving me PTSD when our guy had eggs. Turns out he has FPIES, basically a gastro allergic reaction to eggs that makes him vomit a lot almost exactly 3 hrs after he eats them! We are going to try again once he is closer to 2 y/o, as kids almost always grow out of it...
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Mar 2, 2021 05:26
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Crazyweasel posted:Is this his first time eating eggs? The timing (3 hr between eating and vomiting) is giving me PTSD when our guy had eggs. Turns out he has FPIES, basically a gastro allergic reaction to eggs that makes him vomit a lot almost exactly 3 hrs after he eats them! We are going to try again once he is closer to 2 y/o, as kids almost always grow out of it... No he's had them multiple times with no issues. He's just started being really loving excited about food and I think his digestive system hadn't caught up with how much he wants to eat. The day before for lunch he absolutely destroyed some beans and rice only to have some obvious discomfort two hours later when the reality of eating so many beans caught up to him. It seems to be getting better now, we are pacing him and putting our finger foods to make him work for it.
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Mar 2, 2021 05:44
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That kinda happened with our guy, he loved tangerines so much he’d mow down five or six of them as fast as he could. Next day his poops were laced with pulp and he’d be super rashy from the citric acid. We have to ration his citrus now.
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Mar 2, 2021 06:07
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Big Taint posted:That kinda happened with our guy, he loved tangerines so much he’d mow down five or six of them as fast as he could. Next day his poops were laced with pulp and he’d be super rashy from the citric acid. We have to ration his citrus now. We also have a tangerine loving baby, and ugh, the pulp pieces get absolutely everywhere during diaper changes. What are some good toy recommendations for 10-month-olds? Everything I look at seems to be for 6-months or 12-months or made of PVC or something else you shouldn't let teething babies inevitably gnaw on.
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Mar 2, 2021 06:28
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nachos posted:The crying at shots only gets worse as they get older and stronger My son just stares at the doctor during shots. Completely unfazed by them so far.
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Mar 2, 2021 07:31
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L0cke17 posted:My son just stares at the doctor during shots. Completely unfazed by them so far. Yeah my kids all like to watch it even the 2 yo, just fascinated by it. I only had to hold them tight the first time then they are like "eh this is nbd" and we go to the same location every time so they're very familiar with the process and get a gummy bear when they are done.
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Mar 2, 2021 07:39
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Squats posted:We also have a tangerine loving baby, and ugh, the pulp pieces get absolutely everywhere during diaper changes. I might be missing something but what kind of toy is appropriate at 12 months old but not 10 months? If you see something you like, I say get it. At that age though, my kid was really into disposable coffee cups so maybe I’m not the best one to be giving advice. Maybe something tactile and fun, like a cloth book?
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Mar 2, 2021 07:46
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I think around 10 months my son loved tissue boxes. Empty (drop a ball or scarf inside) and full.
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Mar 2, 2021 08:16
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At around 12 months our daughter got really into containers and stacking toys. She thought they were cool at 10 months but around 1 year is when her motor skills started getting good enough to successfully put things in boxes, stack cups on each other, and clap profusely after doing so.
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Mar 2, 2021 10:57
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BonoMan posted:Yeah we're almost at 2 years with no sleeping through the night. I wish I could say I can only imagine But unfortunately I can do more than imagine some of that In other news for the first time in two and a half weeks ours didn’t get out of bed! Unfortunately he still woke up three times screaming for no reason. But he didn’t get out of bed! Progress!
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Mar 2, 2021 14:21
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My son’s favorite toy is crinkly wrappers for food. He will literally butt-scoot across the room and climb on you and steal them right out of your hands. He’s also learned where his toy boxes are and his new thing is crawling to them, pulling them over on their side and rooting around til he finds the 1 toy he wants then taking it back to the big blue puzzle mat on the floor to rub it on the interesting texture there.
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Mar 2, 2021 16:54
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10 months for my kid was all about putting objects into containers and pulling them out. Actually an empty wine bottle box from Costco ended up being his favorite toy as he could stuff all the rest of his toys in it and push it around. Since he was cruising a lot and pushing our dining room chairs all over the house we also got him a push cart but it was a tough one to turn and so he’d get super frustrated when he ran into an obstacle and it was kind of a bust.
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My kid (13) is now fully self-aware. This morning, rather than eat something small before starting homeschool lessons he he started in the usual spiel of 'I give up! I'm just going back to sleep.' I checked in with him a minute later to let him know that I was going to go get a shower and get started with work and he replied 'I didn't mean I was really going back to bed; I was just going to sulk in here for a few minutes.' School proceeded per the usual plan with minimal interruption.
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Mar 2, 2021 18:56
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I'm proud of my 2-year-old for developing an embryonic sense of humor. When we're playing a matching game or putting together a puzzle, she'll put things out of place and go "naaahhhhhh" with a huge smile. I feel like messing with expectations is fundamental ur-humor so I'm looking forward to seeing her evolve into the pinnacle (forums posting) from first principles.
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Engineer Lenk posted:My kid (13) is now fully self-aware. This morning, rather than eat something small before starting homeschool lessons he he started in the usual spiel of 'I give up! I'm just going back to sleep.' I checked in with him a minute later to let him know that I was going to go get a shower and get started with work and he replied 'I didn't mean I was really going back to bed; I was just going to sulk in here for a few minutes.' School proceeded per the usual plan with minimal interruption. Sounds a lot like my 13-year-old
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All you folks with recent babbies, do consider data tracking. Yes, pain In the rear end recording stuff, but I used a data app to track my youngest (6 now), from newborn to 2.5 years and it was awesome to have all the data. New Foods, diapers, bottles, fevers, it’s pretty cool to tell the doctor, we ate new food on X day, fever started on X day, she usually takes naps from a-b. Watching the nap envelope shrink (and disappear!) when she was 2 was pretty neat. We never really wondered about anything she was doing, we had a record and could gauge against it. I’ll be a grandfather in next week or two! Dang.
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Mar 4, 2021 06:18
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Yup. I’ve got Huckleberry and it’s really useful. I took my baby out to the mall to check out a closing sale and it looks like she’s aftraid of the elevators at the train stations. 3 times in a row she whimpered and cried as soon as we stepped into them. They’re completely lined with metal sheets on the inside, so they’re a scary metal box.
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Mar 4, 2021 18:48
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I had big plans to track everything about my kid's data as soon as she was born but the first few weeks made me realized I was too fatigued to add another task to my list of responsibilities. I picked it back up when we started sleep training though and I'm glad we did. Now it's really interesting to see the trends in Huckleberry playing out over weeks and months. I use the "pumping" tracker to indicate when we put her down in the crib so we can visualize the gap between that and when we notice her fall asleep on the monitor. Relevant: https://twitter.com/AnnaSchapiro/status/1367196566549901322?s=20
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We kept feeding/diaper changing logs for the first six weeks, and as new parents that was really helpful to know what the hell was going on, how much we were feeding her, if we were feeding her enough, rate of intake was increasing etc The paper log we had went to 90 days but we completely stopped by 8 weeks (56 days) I think for kid #2 we might only do it for 4 weeks About twice a week we sync on formula intake and make sure she's been drinking about 2-3oz/lb bodyweight If you have any complications/risk of complications, the extra data is probably extremely useful when talking with your doctor
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Babies make no drat sense. Mine is easily overtired. Like, too tired so he can’t sleep! I know it’s a stress response now, but at first I was like wtf just go to sleep.
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