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Shifty Pony posted:FTFY lmao
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Brawnfire posted:There's something magical about holiday breaks. My wife got laryngitis and lost her voice THURSDAY NIGHT. I tested positive for COVID Christmas morning 2021. Was at my parents' and had been feeling a little rough all week but kept testing negative and then bam! Cue a special Christmas trip to get a PCR test for me and the evacuation of my brother and his severely asthmatic wife ASAP to travel three hours back to a home with nothing prepared for Christmas. Hope that everyone's Easter illnesses pass as quickly and easily as possible!
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Mar 30, 2024 22:19
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Shifty Pony posted:FTFY 
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Mar 30, 2024 22:33
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poo poo welp, my son fell asleep on the way home from the party and won't wake up. So RIP tonight's adult time after bedtime
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Mar 30, 2024 23:54
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I became a mommy this morning at 1:32 AM, and I couldn’t have had a better birth. I had a scheduled induction because of type 2 diabetes, and I was really expecting a long process with a worry that it wouldn’t work and end in a c-section. Instead, I only had to take 2 out of 3 doses of the misoprostol, skipped right past starting pitocin because my water broke as the nurse was going to turn it on, felt WONDERFUL once I got my epidural after going from 3 cm to 7 cm dilated in 2 hours, and only pushed for 12 minutes. From start to finish, it took 15 hours. Now we are struggling with both me and baby learning how to breastfeed, but he is so cute and I love him and I’m happy he’s finally on the outside. 
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Mar 31, 2024 03:07
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I wish I loved anything as much as my kid loves eating chapstick.
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Mar 31, 2024 03:44
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kazz posted:I became a mommy this morning at 1:32 AM, and I couldn’t have had a better birth. I had a scheduled induction because of type 2 diabetes, and I was really expecting a long process with a worry that it wouldn’t work and end in a c-section. Instead, I only had to take 2 out of 3 doses of the misoprostol, skipped right past starting pitocin because my water broke as the nurse was going to turn it on, felt WONDERFUL once I got my epidural after going from 3 cm to 7 cm dilated in 2 hours, and only pushed for 12 minutes. From start to finish, it took 15 hours. Congratulations! Welcome to the parenting world.
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Mar 31, 2024 04:53
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Brawnfire posted:poo poo welp, my son fell asleep on the way home from the party and won't wake up. So RIP tonight's adult time after bedtime Kid slept until four AM. Anyhow, we're now at the stage of Easter where the excitement has faltered and my daughter is casually disparaging the contents of her basket which had been amazing just an hour ago
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Mar 31, 2024 13:59
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Shifty Pony posted:FTFY lol
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Mar 31, 2024 15:12
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How do I get my kid to not feel like the big playpen and pack n play is a jail cell? We've had the PnP on the higher setting for a long rear end time (kid's 17 months now), but he's figured out how to sit and now likes to look over the ledge of the thing, so we're worried he's going to fall over. Kinda sucks but really now it's better for him because I figure he can transition to the big rear end playpen, and we can have half of it be a play area and the other half for naps or whatever. He doesn't see it that way all the time. Sometimes he's chill but after a while I feel like he gets a bit scared of it?
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Mar 31, 2024 15:23
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Snuck out the side door while "doing laundry" and hid eggs for a hunt. Give my wife a sly thumbs-up on the way back in. "Did you do it?" She says. "Do what!?" Says my daughter. So much for subtlety. "The laundry, of course" 
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Mar 31, 2024 15:51
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Kid was excited about getting peeps until he tasted one.
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Mar 31, 2024 17:21
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Had a huge Easter brunch with an egg hunt and a Bloody Mary (for the adults). Me and the toddler are sleepy so we all climb into his bed for nap time. I’ve got the dog, the kid, and I immediately crash. I’m so tired. All three of us are cuddled up and it’s so cozy. I keep thinking how nice this is as I drift off. He wakes me up ten minutes later from the deepest sleep of my life. I’m drooling. “Dad I pooped. Change me. I’m not gonna go back to sleep.”
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Mar 31, 2024 17:36
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Brawnfire posted:Snuck out the side door while "doing laundry" and hid eggs for a hunt. Give my wife a sly thumbs-up on the way back in. “I’m gonna go downstairs to do the EB stuff” kid: “What’s EB?” “It just means Extra Boring”
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Mar 31, 2024 17:53
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Shifty Pony posted:Kid was excited about getting peeps until he tasted one. Every generation has to learn this
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Mar 31, 2024 22:54
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I'm a grown rear end adult and I still learn that lesson the hard way every year. This time, it'll be different
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Mar 31, 2024 22:57
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The key to a happy life, especially as a parent, is to develop a taste for the things that other people hate. I love peeps, so everyone gives me theirs.
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Apr 1, 2024 00:00
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lifg posted:The key to a happy life, especially as a parent, is to develop a taste for the things that other people hate. I love peeps, so everyone gives me theirs. Corner brownie piece
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Apr 1, 2024 00:05
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Renegret posted:Corner brownie piece But that’s legit the best piece.
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Apr 1, 2024 01:17
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Dobbs_Head posted:But that’s legit the best piece. I mean, I know that. My whole family has terrible food opinions and I'm going to capitalize on it when I can.
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Apr 1, 2024 01:30
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Peeps has a variety of flavors now that can make them somewhat bearable. My wife loves all kinds of Peeps, and I question our marriage every Easter.
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Apr 1, 2024 01:31
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space uncle posted:“Dad I pooped. Change me. I’m not gonna go back to sleep.” Parenting Megathread: Dad I pooped. Change me. I’m not gonna go back to sleep. Maybe too long? I can't remember the max
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Apr 1, 2024 01:31
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On that note, we tried oatmeal with the baby today. He guzzled it down then yelled when we were all done and wouldn't give him more. So maybe, juuuuust maybe, I'll have at least one kid who eats. ...Then he broke out in a rash and we suspect he's allergic to oatmeal of all fuckin things.
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Apr 1, 2024 01:32
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hannibal posted:Parenting Megathread: Dad I pooped. Change me. I’m not gonna go back to sleep. Parenting Megathread: Change me. I’m not gonna go back to sleep.
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Apr 1, 2024 02:10
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Dear three year old, I know you now like opening your door to issue your demands but I insist that you (1) do not open the door in a way that makes it sound like a stereotypical spooky door creak sound effect (2) do this at 3 AM while I happen to be going to the bathroom.
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Apr 1, 2024 10:24
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Anybody have any good resources on sleep training our first baby? We hosed up our first kid real bad regarding sleep training. I don't want to repeat the same mistakes with #2 but I have no fuckin idea what I'm doing here. I really, really would prefer not to cry it out if it can be helped though.
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Apr 1, 2024 10:51
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Renegret posted:Anybody have any good resources on sleep training our first baby? I’m not going to say what anyone should or shouldn’t do, but in my experience cry it out is what works best—and avoiding that route at all costs can result in years of dreadful nighttime routine. Some kids don’t need much training, some kids need more, but CIO (or extinction/ferber for more gentle variants) generally just works if the parents can tolerate it. Not everyone can and I get that. My wife and I made a pact that we would run the household and any children we had wouldn’t. Of course this ended up being a huge LOL in practice, but I’ll be damned if we didn’t go hard on sleep training. As a result our kid is asleep every night from 7p to 7a and I think I’d pray for death if every night was World War 3. Edit: here’s a good article on Ferber, which might be a good compromise for parents who want to avoid strictly crying it out. https://www.parents.com/baby/sleep/basics/the-ferber-method-explained/ Chillmatic fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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Apr 1, 2024 11:54
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Renegret posted:Anybody have any good resources on sleep training our first baby? We did a Ferber method at age 6 months when kiddo was moved from bassinet in our room to crib in his own room: https://www.parents.com/baby/sleep/basics/the-ferber-method-explained/ The exact timings can vary but you’re just going back in at predetermined intervals to calm the kid down. This worked for us in 1-2 weeks and then the kid was a fantastic sleeper until about 2.5 years old where we had a big regression. Ultimately ended up using “cry it out” at age 3 because I was losing my poo poo and now he’s sleeping through the night again.
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I think one of the problems we're having is that he's so tiny, and he's not really feeding that well. So as a result, he's still getting up for bottles 2-3 times a night and only taking 3 oz of formula during a time when he should be approaching only waking once and sucking down 5oz. I've got this kid to the point where I can just lay him down and he'll go to sleep with just my hand on his chest, but there's no self soothing going on. So when he randomly wakes up in the night, I need to put my hand back on his chest. If this happens 3 times a night, along with another 3 times for actual feedings, I'm no longer sleeping. There was a time when he was around 3 months that things were on the up and up, we were only doing one nighttime feeding and he even slept the entire night two times. Then suddenly he started regressing a little bit, and when he got sick everything went in the dump. I'm mentally preparing myself to just let him cry it out but, ugh.
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Apr 1, 2024 12:11
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We did 12 hours by 12 weeks that some goon recommended ages ago. It focuses more in getting them on a feeding schedule and then working on weaning them off overnight to sleep. Overall it worked and we never had to make him cry it out but the book is criminally vague if you are breastfeeding, we ended up having to do lots of weighted feeds to figure out if we were getting him chonked up before bed. Also doing up the sleeping spaces with blackout curtains and noise machines made a huge difference. We'll probably do it again for kid #2 because we had him sleeping through the night by about 14 weeks.
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Apr 1, 2024 12:22
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Renegret posted:Anybody have any good resources on sleep training our first baby? My baby isn’t here for a few months but I really like this book and it’s written by a pediatrician with 7 kids: https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Good-Parents-Gregory-Gordon/dp/1936634287 It’s Q and A style with 1-4 paragraph answers organized by baby’s age. Easy to read five minutes at a time.
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Apr 1, 2024 12:48
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My experience with two kids who had drastically different sleeps as babies is sometimes, no matter what you do, your kids are going to do their thing with sleep and one method won't work on another. Nothing remotely close to CIO worked on our first (who ended up being AuADHD). Our second was and still is the best sleeper with minimal intervention to get them to sleep.
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Apr 1, 2024 12:55
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Yeah just have a baby that sleeps easy. I think we did like 2 nights of cry it out and he got it. For our son at least I think any of the more permissive methods would have been crueller. He would always flip his poo poo if we went back in to calm him and leave again. Like I think his impression was we were taunting him or something. For him it was just better to cut off contact. Like when he wakes up again after nap/sleep we can play, but when you’re in your crib it’s sleep time baby, and you’ve got to deal with that whether you like it or not. But I think some babies are the opposite so 
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Kiddo has surgery this week. Putting aside the dread of the procedure and recovery, which is going to suck even in the best case scenario since it’s a night+ in the hospital, what’s been hard is having to keep a 3yo healthy for a month because any sickness would delay our scheduled surgery date. It feels like 2020 in our house and everyone is going stir crazy.
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I think my main obstacle with cry it out is figuring out when he's pissed off vs. when he's hungry. He doesn't eat enough during the day so he still needs night feedings. However I did 3 night feedings with him last night at perfect 3 hour intervals, he's supposed to take 5oz in a feeding and he took 3, 4, and 3. So clearly he could've been more hungry? Probably not ready for a bottle? But I couldn't tell. He's also doing this grazing bullshit during the day too so we can't figure it out. I'm a heavy sleeper so there's a little accidental cry it out going on because I don't wake up until he gets really pissed off. Then he has to wait while the bottle warms, and I'm usually too cranky to bother picking him up so I do a quick diaper change and leave him there screaming until I'm ready. Democratic Pirate posted:Kiddo has surgery this week. Putting aside the dread of the procedure and recovery, which is going to suck even in the best case scenario since it’s a night+ in the hospital, what’s been hard is having to keep a 3yo healthy for a month because any sickness would delay our scheduled surgery date. It feels like 2020 in our house and everyone is going stir crazy. In the past two months, we haven't had someone not be sick for more than 3 days straight. I can't imagine. Good luck. We had kiddo's tonsil's out at 3 years old and I do have to say, it's not so bad. The anticipation was far worse than actually going through with it. You're usually focused in the moment and constantly pushing forward so there's little time to be worried. Then suddenly he's fine and back to normal. The recovery is only bad for the first 24 hours. The Motrin + Tylenol combo is incredible.
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Renegret posted:I think my main obstacle with cry it out is figuring out when he's pissed off vs. when he's hungry. He doesn't eat enough during the day so he still needs night feedings. However I did 3 night feedings with him last night at perfect 3 hour intervals, he's supposed to take 5oz in a feeding and he took 3, 4, and 3. So clearly he could've been more hungry? Probably not ready for a bottle? But I couldn't tell. He's also doing this grazing bullshit during the day too so we can't figure it out. Part of the sleep training will also train him to eat more during the day. Adding the baby cereal to the milk/formula to the final feeding of the night also helps a lot too. I think we started that at 4/5 months, whenever the pediatrician said it was OK. Keeps them full longer.
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Renegret posted:
I'm in a similar boat re: heavy sleeping and what really, really helped us was establishing a schedule. Feeding on a set schedule helped us a lot as far as making sure kiddo got all her milk, and it also helped with our sleep since we could just set an alarm for the middle of the night feedings.
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kazz posted:I became a mommy this morning at 1:32 AM, and I couldn’t have had a better birth. I had a scheduled induction because of type 2 diabetes, and I was really expecting a long process with a worry that it wouldn’t work and end in a c-section. Instead, I only had to take 2 out of 3 doses of the misoprostol, skipped right past starting pitocin because my water broke as the nurse was going to turn it on, felt WONDERFUL once I got my epidural after going from 3 cm to 7 cm dilated in 2 hours, and only pushed for 12 minutes. From start to finish, it took 15 hours. congratulations!
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Rasputin on the Ritz posted:I'm in a similar boat re: heavy sleeping and what really, really helped us was establishing a schedule. Feeding on a set schedule helped us a lot as far as making sure kiddo got all her milk, and it also helped with our sleep since we could just set an alarm for the middle of the night feedings. Oh, and if you have another adult in the picture absolutely tag team the nighttime feedings. If you're feeding every 3 hours there's a HUGE difference between waking up every three hours and getting a solid six because someone else picks up that middle feed. I can not emphasize enough just how much better my life got when I started getting six solid rather than 9 broken up into 2 hour chunks.
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kazz posted:I became a mommy this morning at 1:32 AM, and I couldn’t have had a better birth. I had a scheduled induction because of type 2 diabetes, and I was really expecting a long process with a worry that it wouldn’t work and end in a c-section. Instead, I only had to take 2 out of 3 doses of the misoprostol, skipped right past starting pitocin because my water broke as the nurse was going to turn it on, felt WONDERFUL once I got my epidural after going from 3 cm to 7 cm dilated in 2 hours, and only pushed for 12 minutes. From start to finish, it took 15 hours. Congrats! It is pretty hard at first but then it at least gets hard in new and different ways later. Still worth it!
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