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Thanks, everybody! Kid was just born and is doing great, already had his first good meal too
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loquacius posted:Thanks, everybody! Kid was just born and is doing great, already had his first good meal too 
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May 8, 2023 20:33
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loquacius posted:Thanks, everybody! Kid was just born and is doing great, already had his first good meal too Yay!
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May 8, 2023 20:54
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loquacius posted:Thanks, everybody! Kid was just born and is doing great, already had his first good meal too gently caress yeah!
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May 8, 2023 21:53
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loquacius posted:Thanks, everybody! Kid was just born and is doing great, already had his first good meal too awesome, congratulations
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May 8, 2023 22:03
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good job baby goon!
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May 8, 2023 22:10
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Congratulations! Also I'm sorry
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May 9, 2023 00:37
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Swaddle that fucker up and enjoy
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May 9, 2023 00:40
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Woke Mind Virus posted:Swaddle that fucker up and enjoy also prepare to learn 85 different ways to swaddle your kid. all the nurses at our hospital were teaching me the BEST way which was completely different from the last
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loquacius posted:Thanks, everybody! Kid was just born and is doing great, already had his first good meal too Congrats!
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May 9, 2023 00:54
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Get one swaddle with the velcro, not for regular use, but sometimes it's just fun to turn your infant into lil worm with no arms. On good days I called him my lil inch worm, on bad days I called him my lil grub.
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May 9, 2023 01:03
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little girl burst out of every swaddle like the hulk because she hated having her arms restricted. still does. wont hold my hand ever.
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May 9, 2023 01:06
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we never could get the hang of swaddling and just did the velcro wrap stuff
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Yeah they blanket-swaddled him for us once but this hospital does "rooming in", unlike the one where our first was born, so we just put him in a velcro swaddle next time he needed it because it was easier than calling a nurse
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May 9, 2023 01:21
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Oh right, this ain't your first rodeo. You got it
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KirbyKhan posted:Get one swaddle with the velcro, not for regular use, but sometimes it's just fun to turn your infant into lil worm with no arms. My lil glow worm
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May 9, 2023 03:27
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loquacius posted:Thanks, everybody! Kid was just born and is doing great, already had his first good meal too congrats mate
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May 9, 2023 10:18
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Thanks again everyone God I loving hate meconium
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May 9, 2023 13:41
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loquacius posted:Thanks again everyone just keep wiping
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Pet peeve: Parenting advice can often be really polarizing in either direction and it can be frustrating, particularly online. I think there's actually a large subset of parents that have parenting challenges with their kids(s) and every piece of advice is some variant of these extremes: "It's because you don't spank them enough! You spoiled them and now they walk all over you!" "Have you tried just sitting down and talking to them?" While on the surface the latter example seems reasonable I think it can often be just as unhelpful as the first. If you as an adult have a hard time managing boundaries then some kids will use that to work things to their advantage. Now they aren't doing it out of malice per se but it is the child keying into adults hesitant to be "too mean" or "too permissive". Some kids are more defiant than others, some more impulsive and there's no one size fits all unfortunately. Not to mention the fact that people tend to grossly self report success to others and not failures.
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May 9, 2023 14:08
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loquacius posted:Thanks again everyone its so loving gross
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Panfilo posted:Not to mention the fact that people tend to grossly self report success to others and not failures. I'm still really new at the parenting thing, but even with an infant I have to constantly steel myself against this. Our former preemie still isn't sitting up by herself or crawling at 8 months adjusted and that is fine. But woe should I happen to search for advice about how to help her learn. All these babies running around and dunking on regulation sized hoops at 6 months!
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Chad Sexington posted:I'm still really new at the parenting thing, but even with an infant I have to constantly steel myself against this. milestones are just guides, your kid will get there, and the pediatrician will guide you if they think it's necessary gently caress the parent bloggers they love to just smugly judge other parents through humble brags and editing
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May 9, 2023 14:30
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My daughter didn't start crawling by herself until around 8 or 9 months either I don't think, but she was talking super early. A friend of ours' kid still doesn't talk much at 2 but can climb all over poo poo and solves puzzles way faster than my kid does. There are tons of different ways kids can develop and they all go at different speeds per kid per skill.
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May 9, 2023 14:36
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progress is also not linear, my 3 year old was speech delayed, i took him to speech therapy for a few months a while back, now he is saying 10+ word sentences which is way ahead of where most kids are at that age. most important thing when they're little is to keep them happy and healthy.
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Confession: I really enjoy toddler style run-on sentences
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Yeah, don't worry about milestones. Not really the same thing, but my brother in law didn't get teeth before he was a year. When my in laws went to the doctor, he calmly told them that he'd never heard of kids not getting teeth, so don't worry. Basically same thing with walking and talking in my experience (barring actual physical or mental problems).
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May 9, 2023 14:59
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Yeah it's a good idea to keep that in mind with a lot of early childhood stuff. "She's not gonna be calling us up to demand we drive in to feed her her school lunch off her fork when she's twelve" and so forth
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ikanreed posted:Confession: I really enjoy toddler style run-on sentences yeah it can be hard to follow sometimes but usually its funny
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loquacius posted:Yeah it's a good idea to keep that in mind with a lot of early childhood stuff. "She's not gonna be calling us up to demand we drive in to feed her her school lunch off her fork when she's twelve" and so forth They might not call, but by God it will be funny when I do just that.
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if you need evidence that every kid is wildly different, just go ahead and have two kids and be loving amazed at the spectrum of wild rear end humans you're able to produce.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:if you need evidence that every kid is wildly different, just go ahead and have two kids and be loving amazed at the spectrum of wild rear end humans you're able to produce. I cannot and will not get over how vastly different my two are.
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Mustached Demon posted:milestones are just guides, your kid will get there, and the pediatrician will guide you if they think it's necessary Mommyblogs are some of the most vicious and ruthless posting battlegrounds I've witnessed. Wife is on the mommyandme forums and the psychic warfare these cohort moms engage in are intense for every milestone.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:if you need evidence that every kid is wildly different, just go ahead and have two kids and be loving amazed at the spectrum of wild rear end humans you're able to produce. First kid was extremely chill and ez baby. Second kid is (rightfully) demanding and vocal. If we had second baby first there would not be a second baby.
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Looking forward to the baby being old enough for that kind of personality... Although I have a feeling I will miss the overly cautious big brother's personality when he begins running around
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yesterday my son kept talking about how his sister was a bad guy who was going to steal his hair ??????????
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KirbyKhan posted:First kid was extremely chill and ez baby. Second kid is (rightfully) demanding and vocal. If we had second baby first there would not be a second baby. i only have the one but i always feel kinda guilty when i read about early parenting stories because she was so drat easy. slept great, ate great, mild fussiness. and i know i would never get that lucky again.
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I don’t have time or energy to worry about milestones with the second like I did with the first.
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KirbyKhan posted:First kid was extremely chill and ez baby. Second kid is (rightfully) demanding and vocal. If we had second baby first there would not be a second baby. my mom told me that god always makes the first baby easy to trick you into having another one
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although actually my younger daughter is actually much easier so far. she always smiles and is never fussy except when hungry or tired. i have all these bad memories from when my son was that age of having to spend ages rocking him to sleep in his chair but then waking up the instant i tried to move him into his bassinet or crib. and then basically being unable to make any noise at all while he was sleeping - one time he was napping and i was playing x-com, i threw a grenade and the sound of the blast (through my freakin headphones!!!!!!!) woke him up. meanwhile with my daughter when it's naptime you can just put her in the crib and she'll suck her thumb until she falls asleep, and she can easily nap through the sounds of a rambunctious toddler running around and yelling. i hope she stays this chill forever lol.
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