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About to have a newborn, any tips on apps for tracking things / thoughts on the value of tracking things? So far the simply named Baby Tracker on iOS looks good, I appreciate 'export to CSV' option, but not sure if there are others I should consider.
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World’s most generic new parent worry but my newborn eats too much. Cluster feeding, but every day and night for the past 7-10 days of his 14 day life. Eats steadily for 20-45 minutes, seems content, crying and rooting again in 20-60 minutes, repeat. Some breaks (3-4 hours of sleep sometimes, often less), but just eats so often. I don’t think it’s a medical issue, he’s gaining weight normally and his stool is fine. It’s just so frustrating, wearing out his mom and making her cranky, and I spend my nights and half the day with an infant screaming or rooting, and/or with a wife frustrated at her very sore nipples. Pediatrician says it’s too early for bottles but I may push back on that hard. There wouldn’t be a problem if I could satisfy him without waking my wife constantly but not much I can do without a bottle. This sucks.
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Nov 29, 2021 05:28
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Any good guides to hiring a nanny above the board? In MA if it particularly matters. It seems like a LOT.
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Feb 14, 2022 14:54
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Man this formula shortage is nervous-making. We have enough for a few weeks maybe, thanks to some stocking up a while back. Sure hope we can get some more within that time frame.
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May 12, 2022 16:29
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Welp, now reports are that the formula shortage will continue through next year. I resisted hoarding but I’m officially getting enough to last me through fall via my large extended family spread out across the country. If I get too much I’ll donate to a local shelter
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May 15, 2022 01:08
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My 1 year old for the past few days has been stopping while crawling around to purposely bang his forehead (once) on the floor. It’s a weird behavior and hard to Google because you get an the articles about head wounds. Anyone else seen this?
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Dec 11, 2022 12:49
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My 15 month old has decided that while Daddy generally just gets hugs and some experimental nostril grabbing, anytime he's within reach of Mommy or the nanny, he's going to gouge. Gouge eyes, grab handfuls of face and squeeze (which hurts), grab armfuls of leg and squeeze if he's on the ground, swipe those sharp little fingernails (even when trimmed/ground down) across cheeks. It's bad! He's kind of too young to understand any kind of disciplining, so it's just dealing with it, but it sucks. Everything online agrees it's normal, but I wish it weren't normal.
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Mar 13, 2023 14:27
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Poor snotty (literally) 16 month old baby. I wish I had something to help you sleep! I know your nose has snot and you're coughing. I have no more solutions for you! Please sleep
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Mar 18, 2023 01:32
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Trying to wean our 16 month old off of the newborn-sized pacifiers he's loved forever (and now only gets at naps and night anyway) by not having it at his nap, and he's VERY frustrated, confused, and upset. Poor baby! But it's bad for your teeth! At least consider the ones designed for your age!
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Mar 25, 2023 15:05
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lobster shirt posted:both of my kids hated pacifiers which makes me feel glad because getting them to stop using them sounds like a nightmare. on the other hand my son self-soothes by sucking on his forearm and we can't figure out a way out of that. Yeah initially our pediatrician said she was good with them, since often the alternative is thumb sucking and that's much harder to take away. I just figure at this stage it's never going to get easier on him or us to take them away, and it's only going to potentially mess with his teeth the longer he keeps it. I guess we'll have them around in case he's ever really in a stressful or bad situation, but no more otherwise. But it sucks! He loves them, and I want him to have things he loves.
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Mar 25, 2023 17:04
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Academician Nomad posted:Yeah initially our pediatrician said she was good with them, since often the alternative is thumb sucking and that's much harder to take away. Update: I folded like a beach chair. He was teething baby all day, very upset, kept trying the various teething things we have and throwing them away in frustration. Whatever, we'll try weaning again someday maybe
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Mar 26, 2023 15:40
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My baby was not sick for about 1.5 weeks, what a time to have lived in. Well, back to sick baby crying and awake reality
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Mar 31, 2023 01:13
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Any advice when it comes to public school (districts) (in the US) on how to evaluate them? The overwhelmingly most powerful influence on children's education is parental interest and encouragement. In terms of life outcomes, doing economically better than parents, etc., school quality and teacher quality are not very important. In terms of getting into a top school, being an elite student in a mediocre school is way better than being a mid-tier student at an elite prep.
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Apr 25, 2023 17:28
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Colonel Whitey posted:This is interesting, do you happen to have any additional reading on this topic, especially the part about school and teacher quality not being important? It would bring a lot of peace of mind about choosing a school if this is well known and established. I love public schooling in principle and want to avoid the private/charter school environment if possible but unfortunately I live in the U.S. and the public schools in our area are pretty low rated and seem woefully underfunded. They're not completely unimportant, I'm slightly exaggerating, but they're WAY overrated compared to their importance in children's success. This is one example: https://news.ncsu.edu/2012/10/wms-parcel-parents/ Similarly https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5115270/ Of course these things are all tightly correlated - parents who are involved obsess more about sending kids to the "best schools," and value education more themselves, and are typically wealthier and better educated, and have role models for parenting in an involved way, etc. But at the end of the day, it's not worth stressing over whether another school gets 10% better scores on average or whatever. Some schools are truly terrible, no question, but anything that seems at least decent is not going to seriously disadvantage your kid. There are also important advantages to growing up around people who aren't in the same narrow socioeconomic/racial background as you. On one extreme, homeschooled kids often do very well academically, at a high social cost. Academician Nomad fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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Apr 25, 2023 19:44
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Ugh 1.5 year old went from eating big healthy meals to a little bit of snacks here and there and very little else. It’s demoralizing! Plenty of energy etc so it’s not a real problem but still stressful
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May 27, 2023 22:29
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And above all, like you said - this changes fast. A day can seem super long in the trenches, but soon the baby will nap for substantial periods and you can even get stuff done. One day there will even be a bedtime and some reasonable expectation of sleeping through the night, and potentially trading off days waking up at 5-6am instead of all night with the other sleeping till 7:30 or 8. The luxury!
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Jun 6, 2023 19:15
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oh boy baby's first stomach bug ( I assume), vomiting all over his crib. What joy
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Jun 29, 2023 16:21
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moon demon posted:One of the hardest days of my parenting life was the day when I, my wife and both kids all got a stomach bug at the same time. Trying to function while dehydrated and basically 95% delirious is just not OK. It was borderline unsafe honestly. I almost called a relative for help but I didn’t want to give them the bug too. Well we just went in anyway, grandma came right on over to help out (since our nanny kind of bailed, not so cool). So far we're not sick, but time will tell! I certainly was sharing food and water with him this morning before the vomiting started, so.....
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Jun 29, 2023 18:01
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Well I got it and it’s every bit as strong as it could have been. I haven’t been sick like this in so long, it sucks. At least the baby recovered quickly
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Jul 1, 2023 00:18
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Preschool starts for the first time Tuesday, parents coming into town Monday to help with the transition, so of course today I start getting sick. Getting a jump on the start of preschool plague season! Really hoping my kid isn't one of the obvious initial plague-bearers.
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Aug 30, 2023 14:35
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Rounding out a nice long birthday week/weekend of whole-family Covid, meaning that not only is it just sick parenting the entire time the toddler is awake, when he finally goes down I then get the relaxation of immediately going to bed to get a crappy night's sleep and start again the next day. Wheeee
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Sep 4, 2023 01:48
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This is also why walkable cities have a huge advantage over suburban sprawl. Sure, a 5 year old still needs to be escorted around, but once he's 10 he can bike to his own practices/events.
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Sep 7, 2023 14:04
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killer crane posted:My wife wants to sign our kids up for jiu jitsu after listening to some podcast. I'm a little worried about injuries, but the risk is probably like any contact sport probably (unless they get into MMA or something). I also worry about getting my rear end kicked by my kids... maybe I should train too. I think any martial arts is way more likely to prevent injuries than cause them, on the whole. Flexibility, learning how to fall and roll, learning discipline and body awareness, are all great skills for preventing injuries day-to-day and a big part of most martial arts.
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Sep 7, 2023 15:09
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:All the kids at his home daycare are now 2-3 years younger than him so I really don't want to put him back there, even though he'd probably have fun. I'm going to try the public school since they have more resources to help him out, and probably will be more patient (Since they can't kick him out). Plus, all his home daycare friends are there now so that might help him transition better. Great, structure and boundaries are good, as you say, but too many old fashioned religious schools fetishize order and control for their own sake. Even sitting through Mass is a tall order at 4.5.
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Sep 19, 2023 15:52
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DaveSauce posted:The downside is that they have to actually, you know, teach the kids how to behave in a class. And that takes away from valuable instruction time. And if you really wanted The Best TM for your child, then you would have already done your job by sending them to a Top Rated Day CareTM you absolute monster. Without sufficient "instructional time" in kindergarten you might miss such key activities as making a turkey out of your handprint. Say goodbye to Harvard
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Sep 19, 2023 19:23
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:Thanks, I did get some books from the library on going to school, tried to find ones about kids actually in school, my kid really liked a Chloe Zoe one. Probably because it showed the kid being sometimes upset and sometimes happy and it resonated with him.
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Sep 19, 2023 19:46
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Well, here come the 2-year-old tantrums just 1.5 months ahead of schedule. Just 20-30 minutes of laying around, screaming, refusing everything (including treats), no suggestions for what he does want. Just unhappy.
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Oct 1, 2023 15:09
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Flying cross-country with a 2-year old in a few hours, pray for me.
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Oct 13, 2023 12:46
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We've done so much to embrace our almost-2-year-old son's relative disinterest in TV. But now he has a taste of watching videos of himself, and god help us. Videos videos videos! Hide and videos! Hide and videos!
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Oct 27, 2023 18:16
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Only a few days until these bullshit 5:15 wakeups become 4:15 wakeups, oh joy
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Nov 1, 2023 10:15
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Brawnfire posted:A sugar spike and crash is pretty insane from an outside perspective. Was I doing that poo poo as a kid? Just running until I fell asleep? I was moderating my kid's sugar intake fairly hard and my parents hardly did, I must have been more insulin than blood. Sugar highs aren't really a thing, your kid was just super excited about all the fun.
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Nov 1, 2023 13:47
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nachos posted:Oh god Sunday is 5am wake up day noooooooo 5am, I wish
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Nov 3, 2023 21:19
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My almost-2-year-old is being kind of an rear end in a top hat this morning, you'll be shocked to hear
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Nov 7, 2023 14:46
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2DEG posted:What's the going rate for milk teeth these days? Not doing Tooth Fairy, just straight cold cash from mom. Depends, are you kids in school with bougie peers who will be sharing stories of their $20 teeth?
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Nov 7, 2023 16:16
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:We're hoping to get him into one of the church-based ones because they all cost half as much as the regular daycares and are shorter days, which we think we'll be fine with as we both mostly WFH. quote:It seems like a lot of these daycares follow the regular school year and aren't open during the summer. Those of you all who don't have a year-round daycare, what do y'all do with your toddlers during the summers? I'm also debating enrolling him in one for the fall and finding a temporary daycare until the fall vs. only looking at year-round daycares. Man, we were worried we'd have no options, but there seem to be quite a few once you hit toddler age. Good-Natured Filth posted:What makes other parents turn into idiots at school pickup? Quit honking at me because I refuse to pull into an intersection until it's clear, so I don't block all ways of traffic.
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Nov 18, 2023 02:28
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Honestly diapers are so easy. Not looking forward to needing easy access to toilets forever.
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Nov 20, 2023 04:03
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nachos posted:The gently caress am I supposed to do with this 4 year old in my house for the next 5 full days? *Administrator at preschool, smirkingly* "Looking forward to the break? It's a nice long one"
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Nov 22, 2023 15:56
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My 2-year old is not the best sleeper ever, but boy he's so much better than he used to be. Sleeps 7:30 to mid 6am range, 90 minute nap at midday, rarely wakes and goes down again easily unless there's some real problem. Just taking a moment to appreciate the difference from early 5s wakeups + overnight waking.
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Dec 7, 2023 03:04
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It’s for real “bye bye binkies” night. Pray for us
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Mr. Freebus posted:best of luck! we ended up cutting them out last month (14 months old) because she kept losing them at night and waking up shrieking. the first two naps i probably cried as much as she did. it was heartbreaking. the next day she was over it! Wise. We’re a little over 2 years and he’s only gotten more attached to them, and so far tonight super sucks
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