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Sockmuppet posted:My 7 week old baby has started playing with a spinning thing on her baby gym. Well, I say play, she'll hit it and make it spin, look at it with fascination and hit it again and again and again, getting more and more agitated until she's screaming furiously at it and I have to move her away so she'll calm down. My son did something similar. He'd kick at the toys hanging down from his baby gym until he apparently got tired, but didn't understand why he was feeling uncomfortable, so he just kept going and going, getting angrier and angrier. 
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We had names picked out for both kids before they were born. We definitely spent many weeks considering different names. I think around week 30-something we were decided. With our son, we thought of the name because we know someone with the same name and for some reason we were talking about him and one of us went wait a minute! How about that name? And it didn't click immediately, but it grew on us a lot. Now I couldn't be happier with it, I love his name and it suits him  With our daughter, we had trouble finding a name, so my husband decided to go through the alphabet and try to think of at least one name we liked for every letter. When we reached F, he suddenly said OMG how did we never think of Frøydis?? He was decided then and there, I took a while longer, but she ended up a Frøydis and I think it suits her. Of course, it's an old lady name but I like that.
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Aug 25, 2013 07:56
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Hahahaha asking permission to breastfeed. Yeah no.
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Aug 27, 2013 18:10
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DwemerCog posted:I was trying to encourage someone who seemed to be reluctant to go out due to thinking you needed to get the baby to take a bottle, and I was saying there's no need to do so because you could breastfeed in public. No need to take it the wrong way. If you were talking to Sockmuppet, she meant she wanted to have the baby take a bottle because she wants to leave her for a couple of hours with a sitter, not because she didn't know it's possible to breastfeed in a restaurant. I realize you couldn't know, but Sockmuppet, like me, is from Norway and no one would ever think of asking permission to breastfeed here. edit: I didn't mean to be crass DwemerDog!
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Aug 27, 2013 18:36
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I take being able to nurse in public for granted, but I would feel really upset and uncomfortable if someone asked me to stop or to cover up, because I have a big problem being confrontational with anyone. So I understand being apprehensive about it! It's not a situation I've ever been in or even thought about being in until I started reading this thread, but I see how that would suck. Edit: agree with hookerbot, I was trying to say something similar.
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Aug 27, 2013 20:52
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Yeah I don't think there's any "in your face" about feeding a baby.
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Aug 28, 2013 07:06
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Seven for a Secret posted:I had no idea the Chicco KeyFit was so popular! That's what I have, too (the KeyFit 30), and I'm very happy with it. Super easy to snap into and out of the car and the stroller base. It does annoy my husband that the only way to put the baby in involves laying her on top of the straps, then pulling them out and adjusting them. The baby is more efficient at getting milk out than a pump. Also some women respond better to pumping than others. With my first kid I pumped for donating milk. At first I didn't get much, but I kept doing it at the same time every night (in the evening after he went to bed, because he usually slept for a longish stretch then). After a week the pumping output had increased A LOT.
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Sep 3, 2013 08:47
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Sockmuppet posted:Mine did that this morning! It was the cutest thing I've seen since I put her in her little bear suit and just about fell over with the wibbles That reminded me of the bear suit we had for my son when he was a tiny baby  
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Sep 3, 2013 21:00
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Soulex posted:Its a benzo with sleep inducing qualities but its not a full blown sleep aid. Yeah, the cervix is extra sensitive and bleeds easily. I bled a tiny bit after sex. If it bleeds more, it's a good idea to call your doctor or midwife.
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Sep 11, 2013 16:21
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ghost story posted:I can't imagine walking a 5k at 8 months. Being awake was exhausting, not to mention uncomfortable. Have you run this by your OB? I would think it should be fine as long as you have plenty of water (and depending on how you carry, plenty of bathroom stops). Meh, I don't think walking 5k is a big deal at all. She can just stop if it's getting too much.
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Sep 13, 2013 07:30
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Congratulations! Glad they are doing well :3
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Sep 13, 2013 11:13
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Congratulations!! What a scary experience, so glad everything went OK in the end
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Sep 18, 2013 12:43
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Alterian posted:
Not only doctors, most airlines doesn't allow you to fly in late pregnancy either. I know this because when I was pregnant with our first, we were invited to a wedding on the other side of the country when I was 8 months along so I couldn't go. I was so happy because I hate weddings ;p my poor husband went alone, hahaha.
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Sep 19, 2013 21:51
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Chicken Biscuits posted:Man, I'm (un?)lucky enough that my midwives don't even check for dilation unless they feel something's wrong. I'm so low-risk that they don't even worry about it. I'm due in 3 weeks and just last week was able to tell what a Braxton Hicks felt like! She's also dropped, so now I get to finish my last week of work next week and just sit around waiting for something to happen. There's no point checking for dilation unless there's a problem. They told me they won't stick fingers in there for no reason because there's always a (albeit small) risk of infection. With my first I wasn't checked until I was in active labor, with my second I was checked the same day because I was almost two weeks overdue and they were considering induction.
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Sep 20, 2013 13:08
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They told me rule of thumb was to go in when the contractions were lasting around one minute each and "hurt A LOT" (with emphasis on A LOT, haha. Edit: Soulex, the nausea most often passes after the first trimester. It can help to snack during the day so her blood suger won't drop. Salty things, ginger, sour things are all stuff different women find help their nausea. For me it was sour things. I kept lemon juice at my desk at work. Are you sure she can't have fish at all? They told me to avoid like shark and swordfish and not completely overdo it on fatty fish, but that normal amounts of fish were fine. bilabial trill fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Sep 20, 2013 |
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Sep 20, 2013 14:08
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For those of you that aren't aware: There's a facebook group that sprung out of this thread and the parenting thread. The group is pretty active. HOWEVER after Facebook implemented the "suggested groups" feature, we've been swamped with spam accounts requesting to join, as well as clueless people who have no idea what Something Awful is  We made the group secret, but we still want goons to be able to find it! So we made this group that is easily findable. So if anyone wants in, just join that one, and we'll add you to the real group. Didn't want it to be so drat convoluted, but Facebook is ridiculous sometimes. Here's a picture of my daughter photobombing my son:  EDIT: You can also post your email-address here or pm it to me, and we'll add you directly! Thanks! bilabial trill fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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apathetic JAP posted:So jealous. 36+3 and nothing. Still high and closed Why even have them check dilation at that point? Seems like it would only be discouraging. You are still most likely a whole MONTH away from giving birth, sorry bro.
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