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nachos posted:I forgot how brutal the first month of constant feed, burp, hold upright, change diaper cycles are. Especially when these little motherfuckers are sharting the entire day and getting hardcore diaper rashes on top of everything else. yup we are at the end of week 3 and boy it is a lot of fun, i just smear aquaphor baby all over his rear end after each changing and it made the rashes go away
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we skipped the snoo but really loved the swaddleme and a white noise machine for getting our 6wk old asleep, we use a bassinest we got for 10 dollars off of fb marketplace
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Jan 14, 2024 21:34
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we are 100% breast but transitioning to 1 bottle a day to start prepping for daycare, what worked for us was getting a lactation consultant covered through the lactation network - she literally came to our house and helped us through several feeds and did a weighted feeding (with her ghostbusters proton pack scale) to figure out how it went we are rounding on 7 weeks now and it's been fine but it just happened to work for us, my wife really wanted to do it because supposedly breastfeeding helps with postpartum recovery and she did recover super fast
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Jan 21, 2024 02:01
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nachos posted:Oh no today is one of those newborn days where it’s an endless short nap -> snack -> short nap cycle  at least he's cute
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Jan 23, 2024 21:52
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Blinkz0rz posted:An odd data point here: my first grader's school PTO funds all school supplies (kids and teachers) and field trips and MA provides free school lunches so we pay almost nothing outside of extra curriculars, camp, and an annual PTO donation. Iirc we donated around $300 for the 23-34 school year. I think it was about the same last year. fascinating - we are in MA too but our son is too young for school atm, what do you think about all of the different teacher strikes in MA? have you seen any issues with teachers getting the support they need in your neck of the woods?
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Jan 29, 2024 16:05
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:We'll be doing a short plane trip (just under 2 hour flight, nonstop) in a few months with little KG3 who will be four and a half months old at the time. We are visiting the inlaws. you can also check with the airline, some of them have bulkhead bassinets that can be attached and you can put the baby in assuming they are still small enough  i know this wasn't your original question but i am sort of raising awareness that this is an option, we've used it and liked it a lot
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Feb 20, 2024 01:46
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:How do you all make friends with other parents? My wife and I live in the SF Bay Area, and have for a decade. We have a 2.5 year old and she's fantastic. moved to the suburbs and were instantly surrounded by tons of ppl our age with kids more generally though my wife found a LOT of friends through our town's women's club, new mom groups, new mom community zooms, and the local JCC's (jewish ymca) welcome baby program - we went from basically knowing nobody to having a conga line of people giving us free stuff, dropping off food, going on stroller walks, it rules
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Feb 22, 2024 01:30
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ya that's every town we have a crank small business owner lady who runs every year and her brane jenious idea is to have the kids do their last year working for her biz for free because she is a proud mom and business is good for kids she usually gets 30% of the vote, in MA
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Mar 6, 2024 01:07
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Bi-la kaifa posted:Hey my kid is 2 months old and gnawing on my fingers like a puppy. This is bullshit. Teething was supposed to start after the big 4 month regression. Doesn't she know that? mine is 4 mos now but started doing that at 2 mos as well - it'll probably upgrade to sucking soon for self soothing, he also does it to pass gas/poop
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Mar 22, 2024 12:18
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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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BaseballPCHiker posted:I'll explain it as simply as I can for parents whose kids are about to start daycare. can confirm, child has attended three (3) days of daycare, entire house is sick
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Apr 8, 2024 01:11
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we also took the paid leave that  provides and took a short trip to a cheap country (portugal) and it worked out fine, my wife is the queen of getting free poo poo from other moms or via marketplace though so we didn't have to buy much
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Renegret posted:Me, a month ago: I'm so excited, the baby is finding his voice! ha this here as well, especially at 5am
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Apr 14, 2024 20:24
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is it tacky to say no gifts but if you want to gift something here's fidelity's gift portal for his 529?
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Apr 15, 2024 20:09
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Hadlock posted:Not if you lie and say you've limited gifts on the portal to a maximum of $20 so that you're setting reasonable expectations i like that idea!
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Apr 16, 2024 00:05
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we have the baby nail grinder too and do it daily, we have it toed to a specific feed to not forget, this led to him no longer freddie krugering himseld
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Blinkz0rz posted:when you realize that america actively hates kids and families it all makes sense can confirm, just had to go vote in my town meeting last night for a tax hike to keep our schools accredited, it passed but not until there were five+ hours of seniors and people "just asking questions" why we should keep basic education in our town
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