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Democratic Pirate posted:The nurses got my girl an Elsa doll since it’s her birthday weekend. Very sweet gesture, but now we have to figure out what to do with the exact same doll sitting in our Christmas hiding closet at home. Really thought we were avoiding the holiday shopping crowds this year. Rotate out every so often so both wear at the same rate and last longer/have a backup for a lost doll without the problem of "the wrong Elsa"? Today was a no nap day for the 21 month old and we're all suffering.
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"What happens if you draw on the piano with a sharpie? You get a SHARP E!" Love it
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Sounds like he’s in control of his bowel movements and he is within the age bracket. Time for potty training? Yeah, we thought so too, but I posted last week about how it didn't take so we'll try again later. He led an attempt again this weekend but was still resistant to trying to poop in the toilet. Baby steps!
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Dec 18, 2023 15:32
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Mom: is WFH on an important conference call Kiddo: I want to see Mommy I WANT TO SEE MOMMY *SCREAMS* Mommy: ok I stepped away from my call hello, hugs Kiddo: *SCREAMS* Kiddo: *SCREAMS in the car with Daddy all the way to daycare*    Great way to start my morning Like literally just 0-60 calm child to SCREAM this morning. loving goddamn.
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Dec 18, 2023 18:56
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My 4 year old, the master of bizarre phases, is currently refusing to allow us to throw anything in the garbage. String cheese wrappers, random bits of fuzz, whatever he comes across must be saved. Somewhere in the house I have a pair of spent AA batteries just floating around and I have no doubt that's going to bite me in the rear end. I'm sure we've all hidden something in the garbage at some point in our lives but hiding cellophane in the garbage from a child is a new one to me. Grandma bought him a few toys, and the boxes and wrappers ended up in a pile near the kitchen table. I went to throw them out he freaked the gently caress out. Since we're in baby survival mode, we just kind of left the boxes there for a bit. Wife rage cleaned the house today so I'm interested to see what happens when he finds out his precious pile of garbage gone.
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Dec 18, 2023 19:33
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Yeah my son was insistent that an empty tissue box was a required part of his naptime object collection. I did not give in, so he went to sleep pissed off
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Dec 18, 2023 19:37
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I currently have half of a dried up, shriveled string cheese in my fridge that he insisted we not throw out and I'm debating how much of a teachable moment I want this to be.
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Dec 18, 2023 20:59
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My 7 year old had a complete meltdown last night when I without really thinking about it broke down a big box we’d received. She had already concocted in her head that she was going to make a fairy house out of it which would live in our livingroom. We already have a fairy house that lives in our livingroom that she made out of a big box several months ago. This wouldn’t have replaced that one; she wanted them to be neighbors.
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Dec 18, 2023 22:13
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A troublesome development.
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Dec 18, 2023 22:24
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We’re on day 4 of a bandaid for his Covid vaccine. He has refused to let me remove it. He wants his 3 year old friend to take it off. I told him I doubt that kid is willing or capable of removing it. He promised he would let me take it off today. I don’t want daycare to see it two days in a row and question why we’re not bathing the child or changing his bandages.
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Dec 18, 2023 22:34
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space uncle posted:We’re on day 4 of a bandaid for his Covid vaccine. He has refused to let me remove it. He wants his 3 year old friend to take it off. I told him I doubt that kid is willing or capable of removing it. Believe me, they have encountered kids before with the TERROR of removing a Band-Aid. Ever since we told our son that he didn't have to have a Band-Aid, getting him his shots has been soooo much easier. It turns out he's way more afraid of that, than getting stabbed with a needle.
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Dec 18, 2023 22:37
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:We already have a fairy house that lives in our livingroom that she made out of a big box several months ago. This wouldn’t have replaced that one; she wanted them to be neighbors.  there goes the fairyhood
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Farquar posted:Believe me, they have encountered kids before with the TERROR of removing a Band-Aid. Mine has all the shots and boosters and she never even once winced while getting them. She also loves to put on band-aids for play, and regularly re-applies them because they are slightly crooked. But god-forbid it was a band-aid she got after getting a shot. She's taking that one to her grave because she's in terror about getting it pulled off and wants it to fall off by itself.
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Dec 18, 2023 23:10
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Hadlock posted:
Parenting megathread: there goes the fairyhood
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Dec 19, 2023 03:17
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Renegret posted:The first few weeks we primarily put them to work by doing laundry, dishes, cleaning, washing bottles, handling our older kid, basically all the non baby related things that need to get done. It was really nice. My mum did this for us when I was incapacitated after my poo poo c-section and it was amazing, especially because my husband was being a moron about recovery and getting annoyed that I wasn't fully fighting fit to take on equal chores/parenting the day I got home from hospital. When mum had to go on a trip for a few days about 3 weeks in and worried about leaving me knowing I wasn't having a smooth recovery, my father chimes in with "well it's been three weeks so she's healed, she just needs to learn the hard way that this is what 2 kids is like" Honestly I could have drop kicked the adult males of my life into the sun during those particular weeks.
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Dec 19, 2023 03:57
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“Daddy why does baby cry so much today?” *looking straight at grandma* “he ate too much and now he needs to toot but it wont come out”
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Dec 19, 2023 04:07
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One of these days, my daughter is going to realize that there is nothing standing between her and the downstairs but her own two legs and a willingness to get out of bed. There hasn't been a baby gate for like two months now. She can open doors. She can move her kitchen stool. She can open refrigerators. Somehow, she's never put two and two together to realize that 2+2=Snacks in the middle of the night, because Daddy saying it's bedtime still counts for something I guess? It'll be a sad day when she realizes the power & freedom she's been ignoring. 
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Dec 19, 2023 05:31
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Tamarillo posted:My mum did this for us when I was incapacitated after my poo poo c-section and it was amazing, especially because my husband was being a moron about recovery and getting annoyed that I wasn't fully fighting fit to take on equal chores/parenting the day I got home from hospital. When mum had to go on a trip for a few days about 3 weeks in and worried about leaving me knowing I wasn't having a smooth recovery, my father chimes in with "well it's been three weeks so she's healed, she just needs to learn the hard way that this is what 2 kids is like" I know you've shared things before, but what the actual everliving gently caress.
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Dec 19, 2023 06:13
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Alarbus posted:I know you've shared things before, but what the actual everliving gently caress. If its any consolation my husband pulled his head in in fairly short order and aside from a few notable wtf periods on the whole he is actually a very involved and attentive father and supportive partner. Which made the wtf periods even more wtf. My father alas still has no real clues about parenting e: I was being a little hyperbolic about expectations the day I got home from hospital but it was 2 weeks in and wondering why I was not doing lots of chores in between trying to manage our daughter
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Dec 19, 2023 07:10
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My son likes to call any split, scratch or seam "a river" which is intriguing to me, etymologically.
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Dec 19, 2023 16:02
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Late on shot talk but my three year old has lately wanted to play a game where all of her stuffed animals are sick and need to go to the doctor (me) to have me listen to their heart, give them a flu shot, and put a bandaid on the shot (I have to say what’s on the bandaid)  early imagination games are so fun
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Dec 19, 2023 17:14
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Tamarillo posted:If its any consolation my husband pulled his head in in fairly short order and aside from a few notable wtf periods on the whole he is actually a very involved and attentive father and supportive partner. Which made the wtf periods even more wtf. Thankfully wasn't that moronic about it, but having been blindsided a bit by my wife's c-section recovery, I think it's a combo of two things: 1. The labor/newborn thing where everybody you talk to has largely blotted it out of their memory due to sleep dep. Once we knew the baby was breech, one of her friends was going on and on about how c-section was so much better recovery-wise than vaginal. It was only after extensive WTF questioning afterwards that she revealed she had been in bed on twice-daily heavy-duty opiates for three week straight afterwards. 2. The constant minimization of it by all related health-care professionals, from the postpartum nurses who got huffy about coming in to help with the baby while I was off dealing with our two-year-old (see incompetent-but-well-meaning grandparent chat) to the pediatrician's office asking why the mom isn't at the first appointment so she can answer the postpartum depression screening (yeah, I think you can put down that it's not going great right now, folks).
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Having been through 2 c-sections now, the partner is in for a rude awakening if they don't think there's an actual recovery process. Mom can't drive, can't really go up/down stairs, can't carry things, and potentially on bed rest. The partner is needed more than ever in that first 2-4 weeks.
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Dec 19, 2023 20:06
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Yeah - one additional thing that wasn't apparent going in is that there's a lot of variability in recovery timeline, both person-to-person and based on the circumstances of the c-section (e.g. much longer recovery for an emergency c-section after extended labor vs. scheduled with no labor).
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Dec 19, 2023 20:36
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My wife's guidelines post scheduled C-section were "no heavy lifting for 6 weeks" I can't imagine how anyone can look at that and say "yeah equal chore load at any point within that time, for sure" also asking a breastfeeding mother to take an equal house chore load should be punishable by hot irons applied to the taint 3 weeks vacation didn't feel like remotely enough and I am eternally thankful I was working from home at a job I've been at long enough to have the proverbial "I do what I want" license so I could rip out to help with the kiddo at every opportunity (obviously i'm exaggerating, newborn sleep exhaustion makes you think silly selfish things but still drat)
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Dec 19, 2023 22:58
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Post c section, wife had her mom there for a week post birth and then her sister was also at the house for week 2. They mostly hung out on the couch with the baby and helped the new mom with stuff like cooking food, answering the door for food delivery, random stuff and then I picked up all the extra chores. Having family around helps tremendously Recovery times vary wildly yeah. We had an extremely smooth c section so wife was up and walking around mostly normal within a week and by week 3 I was trying to slow her down so she didn't pop a stitch or whatever. Dad definitely needs to do triple duty those first six weeks
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Dec 19, 2023 23:12
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My wife's c-section recovery wasn't too bad, but I think a lot of that was that our baby was in the NICU for a month and she had to stay in the hospital for more than a week because of high blood pressure. So being on bed rest for that time and not having to do any heavy lifting, plus me taking care of her once we were back home probably helped a lot. She did have hypertension for like several months afterwards though, which was pretty annoying.
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Just a reminder, there's a parent gaming thread now https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4031577 I pretty much only play roguelikes now, as on the rare occasion I have uninterrupted free time it's usually only an hour or so
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My oldest wants to fly her get well soon hot air balloon to the “hospital” and has fun giving her stuffed animals a checkup, so hopefully we avoided any fallout for future doctors visits. I got my wife a nice comfy shirt to wear, per her request, as an anniversary present a few weeks back. Cream colored. Today was her first time to wear it. The shirt lasted all of 5 minutes before the baby smashed her face into a bar of her crib and left a sneaky schmear of blood on it.
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Does anyone have any experience with suppositories for getting medicine into a 1 year old who just hates the syringe? She screams and violently twists around when I get it to her mouth. I have to hold her mouth open and squeeze her cheeks to make sure she doesn’t just spit the medicine all out. Overall it sucks and breaks my heart
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I had even less luck with suppositories. They're hard to do right when the child is wrestling you and most of my attempts ended in failure. I also don't have much confidence in administering them and wasn't very comfortable to begin with. With the capsule he just cried nonstop before pushing the whole thing out, and with the liquid he clenched so hard that it pinched the tube and I couldn't squeeze the liquid into his butt. It also caused trust issues because kiddo no longer wanted me near him with the diaper open. Under our pediatricians guidance we switched to 1/4 to 1/2 cap of mirilax per day mixed into his nighttime milk and had significant success with it.
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3 year old is on cefdinir for a chest infection. His cough is clearing up great, but the pediatrician and pharmacist forgot to warn us that it might make his poop red which caused a minor panic when daycare told us his poop looked weirdly bloody
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Sweeper posted:getting medicine into a 1 year old who just hates the syringe? Medicine sucks. Our oldest had frequent ear infections during his first year so he got pretty used to taking it. Our second didn't, so the couple of times she did need an antibiotic course at that age were dreadful. But by around two years I convinced her the syringe was "like a straw" and she could suck on the end of it and we had a breakthrough moment. Pilling the dog was the hardest.
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I think I overreacted tonight and took the 3 year old to the Emergency Room. He's fine. I didn't notice he had his fingers in the doorjamb (hinge side) and I shut the door on them. The little bounce it made (fortunately I didn't slam it all the way shut and latched) was horrible. Mostly caught the last joint of his ring finger. I tried to stay calm and see if he would recover, after 45 minutes of non-stop crying and holding his hand perfectly still I started to worry I broke it. Packed him up and took him in for an X-Ray. X-Ray was fine but that finger is absolutely bright red now. I feel awful. The nurse was really nice and he told me he's done it to all of his kids and that I will probably do it again. Hopefully next time I can calm the gently caress down and not spend hundreds of dollars on a hospital visit for no reason, but I just keep thinking what if it was broken. Here's the punchline: while waiting in the ER we got a text from our neighbor. They had stopped by to drop off a christmas cookie package and had just missed us. Neighbor's profession? Pediatric emergency room doctor
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Someone else in our family needs to make some freaking kids. Mine are currently the only ones on both sides and the amount of presents they get is absurd. I totally get not wanting to have kids or not get in that stage of life, but drat I’m running out of floor space here.
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Democratic Pirate posted:Someone else in our family needs to make some freaking kids. Mine are currently the only ones on both sides and the amount of presents they get is absurd. But my parents have to get us something tangible for the kids to open in front of them, which turns into ten things, at least one of which is this year's VTech plastic techtoy that our kids literally give no shits about since they have iPads. And then I get uncomfortable at the obvious display of privilege regarding everything I just wrote.
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I can't put enough attention into my son. He always wants more! I am finite, please
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The worst is when you're like okay, I need a break, time for a snack and a show And then BOTH the snack AND the show turn into a huge meltdown tantrum flash point. NO NOT THAAT OOOOONEEEEE
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The last two weeks my kiddos favorite hobby has been having meltdowns over mundane poo poo "Grandma is coming for Christmas? I DON'T WANT GRAMMA COMING FOR CHRISTMAS  "loving goddamn child not every word that comes out of my mouth is grounds for a meltdown. On the plus side it has steeled me against any kind of mild annoyances in my life right now; "at least it isn't my 3yo having a god-damned melt down over the wrong kind of chocolate candy for 45 minutes" Had to push the kid home from daycare in the stroller last night, it's about a 20 minute walk uphill. We got to the last 250ft from the house before she ran out of steam "I want to go back to school" child the school is closed everyone went home already
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Democratic Pirate posted:Someone else in our family needs to make some freaking kids. Mine are currently the only ones on both sides and the amount of presents they get is absurd. Same. My only sibling isn’t having kids and my wife is an only child so our kids get all the grandparent attention. My wife’s grandmother is still around and our kids are the only ones she’s a great grandmother to as well, since my wife’s cousins haven’t had kids and don’t really seem like they will any time soon, if ever. It’s a lot of attention and toys.
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