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Alterian posted:I haven't read this book yet, but it sounds interesting: I haven't read the new one yet (mostly just lurk in this thread and the pregnancy one since we're going to start trying later this year), but Expecting Better was pretty good and having the data helped with some of the anxieties that were getting through my current baby crazed state of mind. If you want to try before you buy, Slate last week was posting articles adapted from the book. Edit: Here's a link to her author page on Slate with the articles. Emily Spinach fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Apr 28, 2019 |
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Renegret posted:A bunch of good stuff. Not a guy, but seconding all of this. My hair is super fine but curly, so pretty different, and figuring out conditioner, not using shampoo all the time, product, etc has made a world of difference. You might also find the r/curlyhair subreddit useful; it's not all women, so he can see other dudes taking care of their curls, and has excellent advice. There's no one size fits all to it.
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Here's a link to the pregnancy thread. There used to also be a getting knocked up thread but it's not really active.
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Renegret posted:My 9 month loves to eat the dog and the TV remote. These are two of the most important food groups.
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What time does your partner get home on a normal day? Are they always home after the kid goes to bed or is it only on the nights they go out? Could you go out when they get home? Or could your kid stay later at daycare one day a week so your partner can do pickup, or is it not open/cost prohibitive?
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D34THROW posted:I'm not making GBS threads. Well good, if you're low on TP.
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Tom Smykowski posted:Survived the double grandparents visit for our kids first birthday Ha, I realized you post in the Chicago thread and had to double check if my friend whose baby just turned 1 was in fact a goon after all (but you're not him unless you're lying about being from California). Congrats on the survival and I hope you didn't get too many toys that make excessive noise.
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Tom Smykowski posted:Old folks came from far away so they couldn't bring too much besides clothes and blocks so it was a win, fellow Chicagoan-kid-having-goon Nice! I don't have a kid yet though (due in October), I just read this thread to know what
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Eggnogium posted:Our kid’s in a toddler room and gets a bite about once a month or maybe a little a less, so that does seem kinda high. I don’t know what they would do about it though, Hannibal Lecter masks don’t come in toddler sizes. So you're saying there's a market need that's not being met.
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life is killing me posted:I feel you but also a 7pm nap? Gotta get your energy up so you can go to bed.
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Jul 16, 2021 14:05
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I think the reality is that they never stop, you just stop being responsible for it when they hit 18.
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citybeatnik posted:My toddler is a maniac today and grabbed hold of a v e r y unfortunate place during his mad scramble up the couch. Why did nobody warn me that i need to start wearing a cup under my drat PJs? Ha, I got an ad the other day for a product for dudes from Frida Baby called FridaBalls, they're basically boxer briefs with a built in cup.
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Well now I'm glad we're not getting a video monitor.
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Yeah, Cribsheets had a good section on it, including a chart on the relative increases in SIDS risk for various factors (ranging from cosleeping with a sober nonsmoker and a baby who's EBF being the smallest increase in risk up to a drunk smoker on drugs and exclusive formula feeding being the highest increase). The teacher of the parenting workshop that we did with our childbirth class noted the same things, while pointing out that while you don't want a pillow or blankets near the baby, if it's a newborn who isn't mobile then a single pillow under your head or a blanket over your feet aren't "near" the baby who is presumably in tit range. I have no personal experience on this yet but we did get one of the arms reach bedside cosleepers for our room for those first few months.
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wizzardstaff posted:At least the playground game isn't "Elsa vaccinates pregnant Spider-Man" At least they’d be following current cdc recommendations for pregnant folks.
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Tom Smykowski posted:This kid owns Have met the kid in question, can confirm. My own little nugget is adjusting to life on the outside. She's really bummed we're using the foldover mittens on her shirt though, since her fingers are her favorite thing to suck right now.
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Our one week old likes to pee while we're changing a dirty diaper, especially after we've put down a new clean one. Earlier this morning, my husband was changing her, and she literally turned and peed on the changing table avoiding the new clean diaper entirely. If she was a boy I shudder to think about what pee hijinks she'd get up to.
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Shifty Pony posted:I've explained to daycare that I'm much easier to contact and can be there in 15 minutes not matter what since I WFH and have a job where I can take off at a moment's notice, unlike Mrs Pony who is probably seeing a patient at any particular moment. My name and number is first on the contact forms. The forms say to call me first. I drop him off, I pick him up, every single day and if something comes up. Ah, so this mcsweeney's article was about y'all.
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We went three times last week--first visit for the newborn then two jaundice follow ups. We also have her two week scheduled for tomorrow, and when my husband called to schedule the second jaundice follow up for last Thursday, the receptionist was so confused. She kept asking if he wanted to cancel tomorrow's appointment and didn't understand why we needed to come back when we were just in the day before (and the day before that).
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citybeatnik posted:Important reminder: ensure that your toddler is finished pooping before you change their diaper. Like they aren't just going to poop in the middle of a change anyway. Well, maybe by the toddler stage they stop that (she says hopefully). As far as tracking goes, I asked about apps in here (or maybe in the pregnancy thread?) before our daughter was born four weeks ago, but we actually just ended up using a Google spreadsheet to track feeds and wet/dirty diapers. It's been working well enough so far. Might switch to an app when she's old enough to start sleep training, we'll see.
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Hadlock posted:Only 17.5 years before they leave the house! If you're lucky.
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Our 7.5 week old is a little puke and spit up machine. She also hasn't been growing as much as we'd like (gone from 64th percentile at birth to 7th now) so we're having fun with adding extra formula to bottles of pumped milk (or formula when we run out of milk) to try and get more calories in her. I'm also cutting out dairy to see if that helps her, so we're using a soy formula and that stuff is so gross. She seems to like it ok though.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:One of my favorite things the first two week was having to console my wife, full of post-pregnancy hormones, as she wept and said she was an unfit mother because she wasn't producing enough to exclusively breastfeed. Treasured memories indeed. Mmm, gotta love that postpartum breastfeeding sparked meltdown. I think I had two? At least two anyway. Aside from the immunity benefits and bonding from breastfeeding (although when she's screaming because she's decided she doesn't want to stay latched who knows how much bonding is happening), there is something to be said for the convenience of just being able to pop out a boob most of the time. However, it's only convenient if I'm with her, which I only am most of the time right now since I'm on leave. I'm the one who does most of our errands though, since I like it (and getting out of the house) more, so my husband has to be able to feed her. She's also not getting enough calories just from breast milk or even normal formula feeds (thanks, reflux) so we're having to add a bit of (extra) formula to fortify her bottle feeds.
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Can the doctor order another test? Might be easier than trying to find one at a drugstore or w/e. My husband has a cold that our last home test was negative on, and since the baby and I both started showing symptoms yesterday I wanted to get myself tested just to be safe. All the local drugstores were booked up but my GP was able to put in the order after a MyChart message and I could use the hospital's drive through testing site. Thankfully, my test also came back negative, so we don't think we need to worry about our 3.5 month old having covid. Frankly she's the least fussy of the three of us with this cold. The gas she's had lately is far more concerning to her. Also her little baby coughs are so pathetic.
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I have to say I'm glad to read this thread to learn about fun diseases like HFM & RSV before our daughter inevitably brings them home from daycare. Which she starts in two and a half weeks.
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King Hong Kong posted:It’s a new single PCR test for Influenza A and B, COVID, and RSV. This is at a rural (but good) clinic so I’m surprised it isn’t more widely used. I think my pediatrician's office has the same thing, the nurse practitioner we saw last time when the baby was sick said something about that. A single test for flu and covid but the swab is one of the brain tickling ones.
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Our for four month old has a lip tie. Her ped said that they usually don't affect the feeding when it's just the lip tie with no tongue tie, so she didn't snip it since the baby's issues were staying awake and keeping food down (the latter is still an issue but she's up to 12.5 lbs  ). The dr said they'll snip it if it causes speech issues once that's a concern but obviously she's too young to worry about that right now.Also she had her first day of daycare today. They offered a half day trial to meet the teachers and introduce her to the concept of daycare. It seems to have gone well, so she starts for real on Tuesday.
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GoutPatrol posted:I felt very self conscious at the hospital when it seemed like every baby had a full head of hair and mine was as bald as me. Ha, my husband was feeling the same way after we took the baby to daycare for the first time, except he's not bald. She has some hair but it's light and a lot of her classmates in the infants class have full heads of hair.
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davebo posted:Edit: ^^ love Murderville He can just say it's retro. Pretty sure our four month old has a combo of elevated temp from teething (we think she's teething anyway) and an unrelated cold, but she's been popping above 100.4 just often enough that she gets to go to the doctor tomorrow.
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wizzardstaff posted:My 3 year old likes to play with my equipment, especially the brushes and blenders. If she wants to try wearing it someday that's cool, as soon as she can do it without smearing her face all over the furniture. Hell, I'm 34 and I can barely manage without smearing my face all over the furniture.
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No real advice on the sleep thing--our almost five month old is still sleeping in our room, like 90% cosleeping and 10% in her bedside bassinet. Honestly the cosleeping is more for me than for her, since we're breastfeeding at night it's just way easier for me to just put my boob in her mouth when she gets hungry at night. If she falls asleep during the day while playing on her little floor mat gym thing she'll usually take a crib transfer okish; if she falls asleep in my arms it's usually a no go. I'd say she apparently naps fine at daycare, but two of the 2.5 days she's been there over the past three weeks she turned out to be sick so who knows. Planning to start transitioning her out of our room at sixish months so we'll see how that goes. Poor thing has her first ear infection though. She's had a cold for the past few weeks that we know now is an adenovirus, and what was a mild ear infection the ped thought was probably just viral has changed into (or had added to it) a bacterial one from all the congestion. The smell of the fake bubble gum flavoring in the amoxicillin gave my husband & me both flashbacks.
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A few months back I bought my daughter a pair of space themed booties, but I thought one of them was lost to the dryer gods on its very first wash. Well, it just turned up in a sleep sack that we don't use often. So I've got that going for me.
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Funnily enough my French teacher in high school was planning on doing that with her kid. No idea how it worked out since that was like twenty years ago. I wish I spoke a second language fluently. I have an aunt from Ecuador, and they lived in La Paz and then Quito for a while, so a couple of my cousins grew up speaking Spanish and English natively.
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ChickenWing posted:Today was my first day flying properly solo on my half of parental leave (wife took first 6mo I'm taking the next 6mo). Training wheels were on (wife was only gone about 6 hours) but goddamn I did not realize how tiring entertaining a 6 month old all day was going to be. Don't underestimate the value of unstructured floor time with some toys. Something dangly and jangly is always a winner with our 6 month old. It's still tiring to watch her all day for sure, but it gives me time where she's basically entertaining herself and I'm just there. Also we gave her a bit of the hummus from my husband's plate tonight and I've never seen her so excited for a non bottle based food. Afterwards she would open her mouth for the spoon without me having to coax her, but she was always disappointed when it wasn't more hummus.
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I think "baby having a random day of fever" is just going to be our sign that she's caught something new from daycare and we should be prepared to get sick too, since she's been congested basically nonstop since she started there. At least she really loves the snot sucker. Also she finally tried to extend her new habit of biting bottle nipples to my nipples. Ow.
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I've done one public diaper change with our six month old, when she was like two months old. We were at a museum with my mom and I went to do the diaper change in the bathroom while mom was still in an exhibit. Mom found us from baby's crying. On a different note, what sort of swimsuit do you recommend for a baby? Rash guard + bottom to cover the swim diaper or a single piece? It seems to me that the best option is a zip up one piece suit, so we're not potentially trying to pull a wet rash guard over her head, but interested to hear the thoughts of folks who have dealt with this before.
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Alterian posted:I've always had boys, but having a long sleeve top and a separate bottom has always been nice. Their skin is so sensitive you really want the extra protection. Having a separate bottom means diapers are easier to handle. Oh, long sleeve for sure. There was a cute suit at Target earlier that was basically a long sleeved, shorts-length zip up romper style. Like I said, it just seemed like potentially trying to pull a wet, separate rash guard over her head would be a pain. Although most of the annoyance would probably be in the sleeves I guess, which are unavoidable. And yeah, she hasn't really been out much. We don't go to restaurants because covid. She does daycare and we were at my BIL's for Thanksgiving, but those don't count, and we go for walks but we're never out long enough for her to need a change. Maybe now that it's getting nicer and she's more interested in things, especially if the vaccine gets approved, we'll get out with her and have to change her in public more.
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davebo posted:We also watched that and it just made me feel bad about how far behind my kid must be only being exposed to me all day five days a week who does everything for him and is sitting here posting on something awful instead of teaching him to walk a mile alone to buy groceries. I mean if you can send him alone to get groceries that gives you more posting time.
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^^Edit: Yeah, we've basically been continuously congested since she started in February. Speaking of Jurassic Park, our daughter has always spit up like a dilophosaurus (as depicted in the movie, anyway), and part of me was worried I wouldn't be able to tell if she was actually vomiting unless it was full on projectile across the room vomit. After this morning, I guess I don't have that worry anymore. On the plus side, no fever, she's not acting sick, and daycare has a "no more than two vomits in a 24 hour period" unless they're otherwise acutely sick.
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I can't decide if watching my baby's reaction as she pets the cat for the first time while I try to nurse her back to sleep is worth having her be wide awake at 3am after waking up to change out her diaper, onesie, sleep sack, and crib sheet because gravity and stomach sleeping are stronger forces than the absorbency of her diaper. At least the cat tolerated her efforts in the process of achieving his goal of cuddles from me.
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