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Slaan posted:Baby just discovered today that I have chest hair. I'm not sure what's more painful, the far too strong to be a baby pulling or the billion tiny cuts from razor sharp baby nails Ours is now 10 weeks old and my wife is teaching her to grab my beard
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Mar 3, 2022 13:21
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On multilingual kids, I recently came across this article which basically argues that learning extra languages also helps children in their general language skills development, which then helps them learn their area's native language. It also argues against strict separation of languages:quote:To prevent language mixing, parents have long been advised to use the strategy: one person, one language (OPOL). In a German-Kenyan family, for example, the mother might only speak German with the children, the father Swahili, and the parents speak English together. But today, language researchers don’t recommend such a strict separation. There is little evidence that it is beneficial for learning a language. And too strict a separation is even undesirable: the children either don’t know the words to talk about school at home, or have difficulty telling their mother about an outing with their father. “Multilingualism doesn’t mean that it’s chaos inside the children’s heads. They can separate their language systems from a very young age, and they know very well with whom they can speak which language,” explains Blom, who recently received a VICI grant for his research into language mixing. And it isn’t necessarily a problem if children do mix languages. “Sometimes children mix languages to fill gaps in one language with words from another. But it could also be a sign of creativity or a large vocabulary. Language mixing may be correlated with weak language skills, but it can also be an indication of a child’s power of expression.”
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Mar 14, 2022 16:44
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nesbit37 posted:She did eventually poop of course, and it was huge, and then she was fine. Same for our now-9 month old, after not pooping for 4+ days. Mashed prunes work wonders!
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Oct 7, 2022 15:54
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11mo kiddo has covid and it sucks 
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Nov 14, 2022 20:55
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lobster shirt posted:my mother in law has been staying with us and helping out with the newborn since late november, she just left. its going to be so much harder now lol Mine is now here looking after our 1-year old a few days a week now that my wife has gone back to work, I'm very grateful. By May we hope to have a place in the local daycare (he said naively).
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Jan 10, 2023 15:52
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harperdc posted:9-month-old now has a whacked-out sleep schedule, wakes up after 5 hours sleeping overnight, and won’t go back to bed in her crib. I’ve had the baby gently snoring in the baby carrier for almost two hours, but try and put her back to bed, and it’s a siren scream immediately. We went through something like that with our now-13 month old. Especially when we all had Covid (around 10 months) she slept on us a bunch (well, mostly my wife as I am, and I quote, "bony"). But even after she always wanted to sleep on us when she woke up in the night and would wake up when we tried to put her back in bed unless she was deeply asleep. Eventually we just left her in her bed crying until she eventually fell asleep an hour later. The next night it went much quicker and she started sleeping through the night (8pm to 7am give or take). SixFigureSandwich fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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Jan 18, 2023 12:58
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Shifty Pony posted:What's the strangest toddler food combo you've encountered? Alternating her kiwi with her chicken/pasta with bechamel sauce. For 'we'll never get that off the wall', I see the applesauce/yoghurt combo and raise with split pea soup.
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Jan 23, 2023 11:59
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space uncle posted:My toddler turned his stew and pepper and bread into a “truck” today. This was simply a mushy pile of food pushed across the table. I thought he was building his own Italian beef type sandwich but no. After he gave up and tossed it all to the ground he was rewarded with a Rice Krispie treat for dessert. That was deemed “a bus” and pushed around happily beeping in stew juices. He did eat most of that before inevitable hurling it a wall or floor. I was going to ask the thread for suggestions in stopping my 13m old from throwing food on the floor but I'm increasingly sure it's an impossibility
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Feb 12, 2023 16:17
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Has anyone else pretended to be sound asleep to get out of your turn for overnight feeding/changes? I think it's practically an instinct when you have a newborn and you're sleep deprived. Always better to talk to your partner and take turns or something though
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Feb 14, 2023 13:31
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dismas posted:Why won’t my kid poop gdi Give it a day or two and then you'll be asking yourself how you can make it stop. But anyway give them some mashed prunes or something. e: poopsnipe
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Feb 18, 2023 23:07
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carrionman posted:Yeah, the current thinking is that maybe something from my wife's diet is coming through and upsetting her stomach. So we're cutting different foods out to see. It's worth a try but from what I understand it takes a long time for allergens to properly leave your wife's body/breast milk. As in it takes weeks, so one day of only eating water/bread shouldn't have made a difference given a normal diet. It may be different if your wife scarfs down a bunch of hot peppers every day but I'm guessing she doesn't. (we looked into this when our baby (at 4-6 months or so) would occasionally be crying with pain randomly during the day, this stopped by itself after a while and was probably her developing digestive system acting up a bit)
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Mar 7, 2023 18:17
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Glad she's feeling better  last week ours threw up all her food during the night but as she didn't cry we didn't realise until morning.
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Apr 9, 2023 06:05
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"What did mama do in the bathroom?" "Poopoo!" I taught her well
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Apr 25, 2023 07:59
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Mind_Taker posted:Tomatoes were “tameys” Apple is apple Pear is apple Lemon is apple Tomato is apple E: applesnipe
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May 10, 2023 22:23
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chupacabraTERROR posted:I have this problem also. There was ONE picture in a book of a wolf in a window and now wolves in windows are an existential threat constantly looming over this house What about the chupacabras?
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May 12, 2023 14:33
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Apple is apple Update: watermelon is also apple
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May 14, 2023 11:20
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Sure, "the baby"
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May 21, 2023 19:08
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Eeyo posted:How long do your infants sleep? Kept a log today because I was curious and our 5 month old slept about 17 hours. Our 17-month old has consistently slept like 2 hours less than our guidebook says. She sleeps well at night, 7:30 to 7 usually. During the day she often only has a single 1-hour nap, or sometimes two 40-minute naps depending. She has never slept more than 1,5 hours during any nap, no idea why. At least in the evening she goes to sleep quickly and without any fusss and sleeps through the night.
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May 28, 2023 13:28
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Crazyweasel posted:Welp, wife is a week overdue so today we head in to begin prep for induction, with planned induction tomorrow! Good luck! Our little one did not want to come out despite increasingly powerful attempts to induce labour so in the end it had to be a caesarian instead. Born at 42+1 technically!
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May 29, 2023 22:03
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I feel like 4months is too early to sleep through the night as they'll need food. Maybe worth waking him at some point to put him on the breast? Could try doing a dreamfeed even.
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Jun 23, 2023 12:04
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sharkytm posted:Wrapped in an enigma, and smothered in special sauce. The special sauce is poop, ofcourse
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Jun 25, 2023 21:08
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hallo spacedog posted:Just left my kid off for 1 hr to visit the daycare she is starting 2x a week next week. Full of some crazy feelings right now. Hope they're ready for her honestly Good luck! It took ours about a month to stop crying when we dropped her off and picked her up, also going twice a week. But she was always fine right after we left and had plenty of fun there. It's been nearly two months now and I'm on my...third cold I think.
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Jul 7, 2023 21:59
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Ehud posted:That was a great phase for us too. I loved 12-24 months. This is us but at 18/19 months. Little one also doesn't let me stroke my wife when we all sit close together, I'd stroke her arm a bit and our daughter will toddle over and bat my hand away 
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Jul 13, 2023 17:12
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Toddler eats cereal, which have circle shapes. She gives me the ones that are broken, which are obviously not fit for human consumption.
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Jul 20, 2023 10:49
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whiskas posted:Parents without pets: am I alone in saying that a small fraction of my diet includes food that has been on the floor and/or spat out of baby's mouth? That and food baby didn't eat or is now too old to feed baby, yes
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Jul 21, 2023 13:21
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GoutPatrol posted:Oh God first day of daycare is tomorrow and I'm freaking out Enjoy your colds, its been two months for us and I've almost stopped coughing
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Jul 30, 2023 12:58
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hallo spacedog posted:How to stop a very determined to climb everything child? Please send help Friends of mine solved this by putting their bookcases in one corner of their living room and then blocking that whole area off with couches
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Aug 5, 2023 21:33
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The little one managed to count to three today  this is an improvement from when she was counting her fingers a few weeks ago going "one" "one" "one" etc
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Aug 6, 2023 21:31
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Goffer posted:I wish my baby cried herself to sleep instead of just continually crying with increasing enthusiasm They eventually go to sleep but it is heartbreaking getting to that point
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Aug 11, 2023 12:40
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I have never been more grateful to whoever invented paracetamol
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Aug 21, 2023 13:29
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SixFigureSandwich posted:I have never been more grateful to whoever invented paracetamol update: also antibiotics. The NHS is really good folks
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Aug 21, 2023 18:03
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I didn't have any homework in primary school at all, it ruled
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Aug 31, 2023 10:44
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C-Euro posted:I'm thinking about upgrading my dude (just shy of 18 months) from his infant car seat to something forward-facing, but while he's just about at the recommended height limit for the seat he has a ways to go for the weight limit, and he still seems comfortable in the seat. Maybe something to research at this point, but not actually buy until he's struggling to fit? Rear facing is recommended for quite a few years longer, as the previous poster already mentioned. Also keep in mind it may take some weeks for your new car seat to be delivered (keep in mind you may also need a new base). For us it took a month - we just upgraded our 20m old to the BeSafe iZi Modular RF X1 which we're happy with.
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Sep 4, 2023 15:45
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Kiddo is more interested in climbing up the slide than going down it
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Sep 10, 2023 21:45
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Skeezy posted:Son is now 11mo and at this stage where I guess he's more aware of his surroundings now and because of that he's aware when there's no one in the room. Can't leave him in the play pen to go to the bathroom or something because he'll just lose his poo poo. Yeah this is a stage they have to go through. At some point I noticed that our daughter wouldn't cry anymore when I briefly left her room to dump her nappy in the bin. Around 18 months maybe?
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Sep 24, 2023 09:51
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We bathe our daughter twice a week. She does have eczema from my poor genes but we managed to see a dermatologist again recently. The eczema presented as pink-brownish spots that is actually a bacterial infection, and scratching there, then somewhere else actually transfers the bacteria via the nails to other places on the body. He prescribed an expensive cream which includes steroids and an antibiotic and that is starting to do the trick.
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Oct 22, 2023 14:37
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22mo old learned a new word. Her: pita! (pizza) Me: we don't have any pizza Her: buy!
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Oct 22, 2023 22:28
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El Mero Mero posted:Yeah. The other day my so found 5 empty tuppers in the fridge, where I had put them rather than the cupboard. I do this even when not sleep deprived tbh. Earlier today I had a fork in one hand, opened the drawer to get a knife and picked up another fork instead. Also is anyone here keeping their toddler home from daycare when your new babies are born? We are leaning towards doing this to keep all the diseases away from newborn babby for at least a few weeks. I'd be interested to hear everyone's thoughts.
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Oct 30, 2023 22:37
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Koivunen posted:Good morning parents! What time were you woken up this morning? I’ll start! 7:15 and she always sleeps through the night  (Knocking on wood VERY HARD as I type this)
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Nov 5, 2023 16:13
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