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Ooh, tummy time. My little guy is just shy of 3 months, he can do a few minutes before he gets too tired/upset and starts crying and/or flops his head down on the mat. He's not doing bad at tracking objects, in particular he seems to like following himself the play mirror. I can get him to track that across his body. Sometimes he seems frustrated that he's unable to move himself around, though.
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citybeatnik posted:Gonna just poll folks here in this thread... "First full week of school"? Well, as to 1, if it didn't denote anything different, then the word "full" would be meaningless, wouldn't it?
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citybeatnik posted:Our son discovered Baby Shark's Big Show on Prime. And demands to watch it all. The. Time. We had a night nurse for a short period when our son was born, and when she was helping us set up a bath time routine she suggested we pick some fun bath time music to help make it an enjoyable part of our daily schedule. She specifically forbid Baby Shark.
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On sleep training, we're getting off pretty easy right now, our 4-month-old typically only wakes up once during the night when he gets hungry. But we are still working towards putting him down drowsy but awake, he still likes to fall asleep in our arms before being put down. We just got the Ferber book, so we'll be reading that soon to see whether or not we think we can give it a go.
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Sep 15, 2022 17:12
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My son started day care at the beginning of the month and, while I can't say I wasn't warned about the extremely high percentage of sick days to expect, it's a totally different thing living through it. He's been out about half the time so far, first with a stomach bug that knocked him out for a day and a half (and got me too), and this entire past week with what seems like a bad cold (thankfully tested negative for all the big stuff going around, but has a runny nose, irritable, and previously a fever). I avoided the cold, but my wife got hit bad. The good news is he's really enjoying day care when he's healthy, and I know this is just part of him getting out in the world, but it's grueling on everybody.
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Jan 22, 2023 14:44
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First case of pink eye. 
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Jan 31, 2023 12:58
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So kids can pretty much sense when you have a day off and make sure to develop enough symptoms to keep them out of day care, huh.
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Feb 13, 2023 17:58
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2DEG posted:Desondent 4 yo informed me on the drive back that he wasn't allowed to distribute the valentines goody bags he and I spent an evening putting together. There better be an amazing reason because I'm about ready to cut a bitch. What the hell? I am vicariously outraged!
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Feb 15, 2023 03:51
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Crescent Wrench posted:So kids can pretty much sense when you have a day off and make sure to develop enough symptoms to keep them out of day care, huh. But the future refused to change.
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Feb 20, 2023 17:57
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lobster shirt posted:i would like to give a big shoutout to my son for getting sick AFTER a us federal holiday, rather than, on one. No one likes a braggart.
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Feb 21, 2023 03:28
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Hadlock posted:Yeah I was a duplo/Lego household growing up. I think I had starter sets of Lincoln logs and ... Pinwheels? Round wooden circles with 8 holes Maybe Tinker Toys?
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Feb 23, 2023 06:17
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His Divine Shadow posted:This morning around 7:30 a kid starts screaming full blast from the kitchen. I run there and there's nobody there? Both kids who where asleep wake up too. Screaming returns, it's a phone... I love this.
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Feb 28, 2023 14:42
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lobster shirt posted:i don't think the baby will be able to escape Amy escape room that accepts infants is just trying to pad its stats.
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Mar 11, 2023 22:56
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Little guy's been sick and sleeping in anyway so I think we might have gotten a freebie on not preparing for daylight saving time.
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Mar 12, 2023 15:10
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How afraid should I be of HFM? The baby is 10 months old, and it's been going around daycare. He's showing no signs, but my wife wants to get coverage to keep him home this week to give it time to blow over. We have some good home care benefits, so that's not a problem, although I'm not keen on the disruption to my work schedule and him missing more time in the program. But if it's a trade-off to protect our health...
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Mar 20, 2023 22:23
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Thanks to everyone for the scoop on HFM, I think this has given me sufficient ammo to pump the brakes on any drastic action just yet.
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Mar 21, 2023 03:38
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Chernobyl Princess posted:Welp we've all got Covid. At least we're all vaxxed. Chrodyn posted:We all got COVID over easter. 18month old twins are going to be cooped up inside the house for at least another week and a bit. My future is grim... Checking in on the COVID club. (I guess the "C" usernames are at risk right now, huh...) I have it and my wife has it. The baby tested negative, although honestly it seems like it's most likely he brought it home with him and he's already over it. We had some cold-type symptoms over the weekend and into the start of the week, but nothing that stood out from the typical bugs the kid brings home. We also found out he had an ear infection during the week, so we were focused on that. We only did tests last night because my wife got pink eye and saw an article that said that can be involved with the current strains. So I guess the good news is health-wise it could have come and gone without us knowing it's COVID, we're all vaxxed and boosted and such so it was somewhat mild. But it's still frustrating, we're pretty careful. I guess it gets everyone eventually.
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Apr 15, 2023 15:29
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These are a couple of interesting topics even though my son's a little young for most of it to apply directly (turning 1 in about a week and a half). Re: schools, I have such a different perspective from my wife because of my background. I was a military brat, so I just went to whatever school was on base or in town. I had absolutely no clue about building up for college admissions or anything like that. My wife is from New York, so she was way more in tune with the competitive, cutthroat nature of getting your kid started off right as early as possible (to an extent that honestly sounded like it'd be too absurd for a parody when I was first hearing about it ). I don't know how I'll feel about it all when the time comes. Re: screentime/technology, we definitely gave up on any pretense of any formal system fairly quickly, but all he watches is Sesame Street (although we're trying to get Bluey to catch on too). It's on as white noise sometimes, but not constantly. He's got a favorite episode that works like gangbusters, and he'll always perk up for the Letter of the Day song, but sometimes it's just relaxing to help him out. He doesn't usually have the attention span to actually sit and watch it, but it can be part of keeping things fun and putting him in a good mood. I absolutely do want him to have a working knowledge of basic technology, though. I've been hearing more and more about the kids these days being clueless outside of their heavily curated smartphone apps and poo poo, and it's just so wild to me.
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Apr 27, 2023 01:18
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lobster shirt posted:a friend of mine really likes talking about poop and i always tell him that he would love being a parent because it's such a major topic of conversation lol Our little guy is transitioning over to solids enough that the texture of his poop is noticeably changing and we have discussions about this and that's my life now!
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May 16, 2023 02:03
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While this topic is floating around, at what age have people felt comfortable leaving their kid with a non-friend/family babysitter?
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May 20, 2023 00:27
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Pretty sure I was just treated to a 4:45 wake-up because my kid needed to scream and cry and be comforted because of... the hiccups?
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Jun 5, 2023 10:15
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Dazerbeams posted:Me, letting my son put a ball in my mouth so I can pop it out for his amusement. Belatedly I realize I’m going to have to do this over and over, feeling stupider each time while he cackles in delight. His food, his pacifier, his toothbrush, his toys, his fingers--forget it, man. It's going in my mouth whether I like it or not.
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Jun 17, 2023 01:02
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"Good morning, Crescent Wrench. Happy Father's Day! Breakfast is ready." "Aww, thank you. How's the baby?" *crashing sounds from living room* *beat* "He just wants you to know he's awake."
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Jun 18, 2023 15:18
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C-Euro posted:Am I a bad parent if, upon smelling a dirty diaper at home, I give my toddler a few minutes with it just to make sure everything's cleared ? Not at all. Our little guy has some semi-regular dirty diaper windows, so we know when to expect them and we give him a little extra time to percolate. Unrelated question--when did people feel ready to pull the trigger on the first haircut? I love our 14-month-old's rock star hair, but I can't deny he would benefit from a trim. I just don't know if he'd sit still for it.
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Jul 22, 2023 16:37
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I think we might be hitting our first real bout of separation anxiety. I guess he's always been a little needy in terms of always wanting our attention when we're actually at home together, but he's started crying a bit when we drop him off at daycare, which he didn't really do even when he started. And last night he decided he did NOT want to be left alone to go to sleep and ended up crashing at near 2 a.m. after tons of cuddles, Sesame Street, and playtime. (And we're all paying for that now. A late night for you is 8 p.m., buster.)
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Jul 23, 2023 14:00
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The start of daycare was rough for us in terms of the little guy getting sick a LOT, but it was also a joy to watch how being around other kids boosted his development. It's like the older kids took him aside and went "OK, pal, here's how this crawling poo poo works."
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Jul 30, 2023 20:49
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Well, we're pulling the trigger on the little guy's first haircut on Saturday. We made it a bit over 15 months. I definitely don't mind keeping it long, but I'm pretty sure the day care is conducting psychological warfare on me by putting hair ties on him to get it out of his eyes. No son of mine is going to have a man bun! But perhaps we can clean it up but retain the general shape and length. It DOES get in his eyes a lot.
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Aug 18, 2023 01:12
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:Kids just love to brush! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QMogM6TRIQ  to all of this, from Sesame Street being all we allow for TV at this age and having heard the bathtime album every night for months and months and months. This was actually my first favorite song, but I later really got into the reggae "do the rubber duck" song (lots of funny voices especially in the last verses) and the faux Beach Boys number (love those high notes).
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Shifty Pony posted:"You need to be in your room for quiet time" I'm so sorry, your child has learned how to rules lawyer.
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hallo spacedog posted:Not feeling very confident about the next year and a half now thanks to this page We just hit 16 months and I'm also taking a deep breath.
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Mind_Taker posted:For those of you with kids in daycare: have any of you ever used a daycare teacher as a babysitter? A few pages back, but we've actually got our first adventure in hiring a sitter tonight as well. We're having one of the little guy's former daycare teachers do the sitting tonight. He aged out of the infant class already (he's 16 months now), and she's actually not with the daycare anymore, so hopefully none of the potentially bad issues really apply. Not that we anticipate them, the teacher is great. But we'll see, I'm sure it will be odd for him not having mom and dad at home for the bedtime routine, even if it's with a familiar face. If he goes down at the usual time and sleeps OK it will be pretty low maintenance... but that's a big if...
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Sep 20, 2023 23:15
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My kid is still too young for candy (almost 1.5 years), but his still fit in his jack-o-lantern costume so we did take him out to a little Halloween block party to look at the costumes and he also had a Halloween party all day at day care. Plus I was really amused when we were watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and he went over to the edge of the playpen to watch it for a surprisingly long stretch of time. Something about the slow pace and jazz music must have intrigued him.
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Nov 2, 2023 01:41
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Emily Spinach posted:I thought we'd avoided cocomelon, but the toddler was playing with the remote while the tv was on the YouTube kids app, found one of their videos on a channel I hadn't managed to block, and she recognized it by name and got upset when I tried to change it. We had a similar experience. My wife put on Cocomelon in desperation when the little guy was sick for days and inconsolable, and as soon as he heard the opening music he lit up and got super excited. Come to find out he's heard the Cocomelon music at daycare.
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Nov 24, 2023 19:02
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meanolmrcloud posted:We’re also potty training this weekend. We (probably mistakenly) used an incentive where if she used the potty 5 times we’d go to the toy store and pick out something. She found a loophole about 35 minutes in, where she’d pee a frankly comically small amount into her potty, pull up her undies, do a victory lap, and then repeat this process. Qualifying the requirements did not seem to go smoothly, tho it really did get the potty party started as she was going all weekend after that.  As a lawyer myself, I am both excited for and terrified by the knowledge that my son, like all children, will eventually become a rules lawyer.
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Nov 27, 2023 19:36
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CuddleCryptid posted:It's partially to go "no way kid Santa isn't getting credit for your Playstation 6" but also there's a practical part of it since we make a lot more money than a lot of my family. Therefore it sidesteps "Santa gives more well off kids more presents" somewhat handily; Santa gives all kids roughly the same presents, you just received some fancier stuff from mom and dad on top of that. My wife wants to take this approach when the time comes as well, and I think it's pretty sensible.
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Nov 28, 2023 04:08
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I can't believe I'm participating in a "gorgeous eyelashes languishing on my male face" derail, but my wife has complimented my eyelashes many times. But she thinks the little guy is going to grow to defeat me in this arena.
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killer crane posted:I had a nightmare last night that one of my kids died. It's been a bad morning. Ugh. Dreams of your kids in peril or suffering actual harm are the absolute loving worst. I wake up in such a state when it happens.
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Dazerbeams posted:My 20 month old son was great about feeding himself until recently. Now everything is thrown onto the floor unless I put it directly into his mouth. He takes this as an opportunity to try and bite me. My son feeds himself pretty well, but he's also learned how to say "uh oh!" when he "drops" something. And by "drop" I mean "purposefully holds his hand out at a 90 degree angle from his body and drops food, repeatedly, over and over again, forever."
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Oh that too. He loves his bedtime story and turning the pages. But he's also figured out that instead of closing the book at the end, he can just start turning the pages backwards.
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space uncle posted:I tried Desitin but ultimately had better luck with A&D Ointment, which is petroleum jelly + lanolin. We used Desitin, but likewise. You're already in the poo poo, rubbing some butt cream on doesn't move the needle at all. We've largely avoided diaper rash through a combination of dry diaper changes and using Desitin after poops and before bedtime. P.S. Steadfast Butt Toucher is a username waiting to happen.
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