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Mustached Demon posted:toddlers are really weird about food it's ok rn our 5 year old has to be negotiated into wearing basically anything but the 18 month old has developed a taste a spicy peanut noodles and stuff very interesting
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Cabbages and Kings posted:rn our 5 year old has to be negotiated into wearing basically anything but the 18 month old has developed a taste a spicy peanut noodles and stuff ok I'm certainly not a nutritionist but your five your old may be eating incorrectly.
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Cabbages and Kings posted:rn our 5 year old has to be negotiated into wearing basically anything but the 18 month old has developed a taste a spicy peanut noodles and stuff when my daughter was about a year old we took her to a Greek restaurant and I got her to happily consume octopus It remains my proudest moment in parenting history, I had no idea what was to come
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unlimited shrimp posted:I kind of envy my daughter's ability to be contented with plain noodles or steamed broccoli. Our dinners are like a grand tour of the globe every week and, while I'm happy we're exposing the kids to more variety and novelty than we had growing up, I'm also worried we're promoting an unhealthy view of food as more about novelty or pleasure and less about nutrition and sustenance. Food as entertainment is kind of fraught, sure. But better to seek novelty and pleasure there than booze and drugs I guess? Kind of feel like those are the options for adults. Our three-month-old preemie is still on the fancy $50/can super sensitive formula bullshit that gives her painful gas and reflux, so even steamed broccoli and chicken nugz sounds like an impossible dream right now.
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My kiddo loves carrots, so the other day I gave her some carrot slices she ate half, then started chewing up another, stood up, looked me dead in the eye and said "I don't like carrots" and spit everything in her mouth onto the floor then tried to run off. Lord help me
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MacheteZombie posted:My kiddo loves carrots, so the other day I gave her some carrot slices she ate half, then started chewing up another, stood up, looked me dead in the eye and said "I don't like carrots" and spit everything in her mouth onto the floor then tried to run off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncBcJ8RFteg
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On taco night my 4yo refuses to enter the dining room. He runs away anytime we eat anything new.
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We got our almost 3 year old to eat just about everything, by agreeing to write words on a magnadoodle for him in exchange for eating. "Okay, I'll write twelve down for you if you eat 6 carrots" was way way way way more effective than other bribery. And he acts like he's the world's best negotiator if he talks us into two words for the same amount of vegetables.
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PerniciousKnid posted:On taco night my 4yo refuses to enter the dining room. He runs away anytime we eat anything new. When we first stated taco nights we would make her tacos for her and she hated it, so now we put everything on the table and let her choose her taco ingredients and now it works! she eats the tortilla by itself and everything else in their own separate portions Mustached Demon posted:toddlers are really weird about food it's ok To tack on to thus, their taste buds also change like every for months!
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my kid is picky and he also like never wants to eat, he is way more interested in playing. it's really hard to get him to sit down and eat something, and especially at dinner i end up chasing him all over the house and putting food in front of his face so he takes a bite. very annoying lol. at least his language skills are really developing on track!
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I've found with my daughter who isn't quite a toddler yet that for every new thing you have to just keep trying and after 4-5 times she'll start enjoying it. Early on it seems more about textures. Although fish was definitely not her favourite. Sorry kid, gotta test those allergens. Also we found out a little while ago that she has a milk protein allergy and so many things about her newborn and early days make sense now. From wanting to sleep while being held old, to the incredible amounts of spit up to the constipation, it's insane. Kind of frustrating since so many people said "hey that's how babies are sometimes" but it's not like it would have been easy to guess that that's what the issue was. As soon as she had a reaction we cut out dairy anyway before she got tested, but once we learned my wife had to cut dairy too she's been doing really well. It's a relief.
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ikanreed posted:We got our almost 3 year old to eat just about everything, by agreeing to write words on a magnadoodle for him in exchange for eating. Lol kid brains own
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Yeah we managed to get our older kid to eat early on by promising to read, so we'd read a page, and stop, and tell him "want me to read more? eat a bite" The younger one we *cannot* get to eat consistently, with anything, ever. He just doesn't want to. No fuckin clue why!
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Our youngest isn't a picky eater, it's more like he gets bored with eating and stops. We are seeing a specialist soon, but he's been eating more lately and I am grateful. Today I got him to eat pickles and apples. Baby steps, I know, but food issues like this are exhausting.
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We had another kid last week, and honestly I'm having a lot of fun not telling anyone the sex until they specifically ask about the genitalia. It's gonna be harder when we figure out a name, but for now, I'm going all in on "the baby" and "it" even referring to it.
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Okay it's weird to have a crib full of unnamed meat
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ikanreed posted:Okay it's weird to have a crib full of unnamed meat Costco is a beautiful name
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I apparently didn't have a name for a month because my parents were so indecisive.
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aaron paul just sought a legal name change for his 9 month old lol
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two foods my 22 mo old loved were ramen noodles and paneer tiki masala. with no spice, the Indian food was basically rich tomato soup with hunks of cheese, and we have pictures of her entire face and hair being a bright red smiling orb from her eating it by the handful. she’d also slurp down ramen noodles by handfuls so big, we would get concerned. this week, we had both of these back to back and she cried at the Indian food, and shoved the noodles off her tray, but ate the backup microwaved hotdog in less than a minute. more Indian food for me I guess.
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we couldn’t leave the hospital without registering a name. thankfully it only took us 3 days..
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Dreylad posted:I apparently didn't have a name for a month because my parents were so indecisive. Huh. We weren't allowed to leave the hospital without a name.
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unlimited shrimp posted:Huh. We weren't allowed to leave the hospital without a name. They say things like this because it creates a ton of paperwork for them if you refuse, but you can actually refuse.
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ikanreed posted:They say things like this because it creates a ton of paperwork for them if you refuse, but you can actually refuse. yes but then you mess up you insurance coverage. they bill a bunch to the baby. because insurance in the US is terrible. a product originally created for cargo on ships shouldn’t be part of health care.
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What if we made the mere process of birthing a child an implicit threat to the financial stability of the entire rest of your life? Why aren't people having kids anymore?
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If you didn't have insurance in the US, roughly how much would you expect to pay to give birth?
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Not being able to afford another mat leave without employer top-up is one of the reasons we're stopping at 3 and we're in relatively socialized Canada. We don't understand how you afford having any kids at all in the States.
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Elissimpark posted:If you didn't have insurance in the US, roughly how much would you expect to pay to give birth? really just depends on the hospital, they all have different completely made up prices. when my kid was born we paid 4 or 5 thousand out of pocket and insurance paid like 80 thousand. the amount billed was probably even more than that.
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the hospital paid us. sounds like you guys need a new doctor.
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Dreylad posted:I apparently didn't have a name for a month because my parents were so indecisive. It took us 3 months for our youngest.
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unlimited shrimp posted:We don't understand how you afford having any kids at all in the States. Save money by avoiding unnecessary expenses like doctor's appointments, shots, food and diapers.
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For names, I'm in socialist Denmark, which means that the moment the baby is born, the midwife (or possibly doctor if applicable) asks if there's a name and then prints a literal label with the social security number and name of the kid. If it doesn't have a name, it's just called "infant boy/girl [mother's last name]", which is what my baby is legally called right now. Then you get to report to the local (state) church when you have a name and they'll fix a birth certificate and stuff. The church has kept records of births and deaths and names for centuries, so they get to be in charge of names for everyone still, except in the part that was occupied by Germany until WWI. Calling it Babby or little brother works pretty well though. And we're not getting any bills for the birth. In fact, I got a notification that I'm getting a (rather small) quarterly government payout for having another kid.
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It's 2327 DKK (around 300 USD) quarterly, and my wife gets the same (until last year or so, the mother got it all). It's a remnant of our actual socialist past where someone recognized that having kids is in fact expensive in terms of especially clothes but also gear and childcare and maybe food. I think the monthly fee for kindergarden for the 5 year old is a bit higher though, it's pretty hollowed out (which is fine for me, I don't deserve even more income).
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my wife gets a bunch of Trudeau bucks every month for our kids lol. I think like $500 CAD for both right now or something like that. BonHair posted:For names, I'm in socialist Denmark, which means that the moment the baby is born, the midwife (or possibly doctor if applicable) asks if there's a name and then prints a literal label with the social security number and name of the kid. If it doesn't have a name, it's just called "infant boy/girl [mother's last name]", which is what my baby is legally called right now. Then you get to report to the local (state) church when you have a name and they'll fix a birth certificate and stuff. The church has kept records of births and deaths and names for centuries, so they get to be in charge of names for everyone still, except in the part that was occupied by Germany until WWI. this is similar here. you just leave the hospital with Baby <Mother's Maiden Name> and you're required to register your baby with the province in 30 days.
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lobster shirt posted:really just depends on the hospital, they all have different completely made up prices. when my kid was born we paid 4 or 5 thousand out of pocket and insurance paid like 80 thousand. the amount billed was probably even more than that. Good lord. Our first was a hospital birth, which was public, so other than the cost of the useless doula (like $800 AUD) it was free. The second and third were homebirths, which we paid the two midwives about $3k each time, which included a whole bunch of pre- and post-natal care. They go above and beyond constantly with their clients so I have no idea how they haven't exploded from stress yet. Even paying that much would probably be viewed as a bougie middle-class thing here.
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in America before they let you leave the maternity ward you have to spin this giant wheel and half the slots just say "kill your baby". and you just gotta do what the wheel says.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:in America before they let you leave the maternity ward you have to spin this giant wheel and half the slots just say "kill your baby". It's in the Bible, gotta do it!
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:in America before they let you leave the maternity ward you have to spin this giant wheel and half the slots just say "kill your baby". Ugh, the worst but about the home birth was having to make the wheel ourselves.
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Elissimpark posted:Ugh, the worst but about the home birth was having to make the wheel ourselves. 
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