Ha I've a PlayStation aswell it's just upstairs in a room that'll eventually be his room. He must know his future ha
Thank you, everyone.
Of course, I stopped by the house to grab a few extra things for the hospital and discovered the house had been broken into. They left the presents under our little tree, but they took off with the PS4, PS4 Pro, and two 32" TVs we had in the living room. Oh well, all of it will be easily replaced once we make an insurance claim. Luckily none of us were home.
Welcome your son into the world by welcoming him into Flavortown.wife's epidural is in. the countdown begins
advice: should i put on food network in hopes that triple d is on and my son is brought into the world listening to guy fieri tell someone their food is off the hook?
i think the answer is yes
My son never crawled. He scooted around on his butt until he started walking at a year old last month.Any tips on how to better encourage crawling? Logan seems to be a little behind where he should be with crawling.
Your wife has likely been "eating" naught but ice all day. You sure she won't kill you?wife's epidural is in. the countdown begins
advice: should i put on food network in hopes that triple d is on and my son is brought into the world listening to guy fieri tell someone their food is off the hook?
i think the answer is yes
Yeah, my son pretty much skipped crawling, too. Like, he started to walk almost immediately after he learned to crawl.Any tips on how to better encourage crawling? Logan seems to be a little behind where he should be with crawling.
Welcome your son into the world by welcoming him into Flavortown.
My son loves watching Guy on TV.
Triple D or Triple G?Any tips on how to better encourage crawling? Logan seems to be a little behind where he should be with crawling.
Welcome your son into the world by welcoming him into Flavortown.
My son loves watching Guy on TV.
Banana, avocado, applesauce are what we started with. You can essentially puree anything if its been roasted/steamed/boiled for a bit.My little girl is six months as of Christmas. She's itching for solid food. Wife miraculously managed to exclusively breastfeed for the past 5 months (first month was a bit of formula here and there) but i can tell the squirt wants more.
We have a pediatrician visit tomorrow to get the green light. What i understand is that we should start her off just once a day.
What do you guys think on the variety? I figure mostly bland mushy stuff if she can keep it down but like maybe some nice fruity stuff so she can taste sweetness but not get totally accustomed that food = sweets.
Man i hope i dont fuck this up. This adulting thing... I though by 38 I'd have it figured out by now.
Banana, avocado, applesauce are what we started with. You can essentially puree anything if its been roasted/steamed/boiled for a bit.
My son never crawled. He scooted around on his butt until he started walking at a year old last month.
Yeah, my son pretty much skipped crawling, too. Like, he started to walk almost immediately after he learned to crawl.
He likes to grab phones, so I'll put it just out of reach and he'll try to get it but he gets frustrated very easily.As to your question, the thing that helped a little with Pete was to put his favorite toy just out of reaches while he was doing tummy time. He did more of an army crawl than a regular crawl for a long time though.
Seven letters. ...Jessica? She'll need to start with a high base salary, so no game industry for her.
That combination would surely lead to eviction. Probably be forced into comic book industry.
Thank you, everyone.
Of course, I stopped by the house to grab a few extra things for the hospital and discovered the house had been broken into. They left the presents under our little tree, but they took off with the PS4, PS4 Pro, and two 32" TVs we had in the living room. Oh well, all of it will be easily replaced once we make an insurance claim. Luckily none of us were home.
My little girl is six months as of Christmas. She's itching for solid food. Wife miraculously managed to exclusively breastfeed for the past 5 months (first month was a bit of formula here and there) but i can tell the squirt wants more.
We have a pediatrician visit tomorrow to get the green light. What i understand is that we should start her off just once a day.
What do you guys think on the variety? I figure mostly bland mushy stuff if she can keep it down but like maybe some nice fruity stuff so she can taste sweetness but not get totally accustomed that food = sweets.
Man i hope i dont fuck this up. This adulting thing... I though by 38 I'd have it figured out by now.
Quite an appropriate way though. Good luck!I need some good luck wishes for the misses and the me. A few more hours and labour is going to be induced. She's already staying at the hospital, but I had to spend the night at home.
Can't sleep at all, not the best way to get the party started..
I'm looking to buy a telescope for my son and I. I'm trying to keep the cost at $800 or below, hope to find something that can resolve planets fairly well. I would love to attach my DSLR and take photos, but I think the $800 limit prices those types of scopes out of range. The priorities are image resolution and ease of use—my boy is 2 1/2, so the easier the better. At the same time, I want something he can grow into, and would rather not spend $200 on a telescope or binoculars that can only show us the moon and a couple of planets. Does anyone have suggestions?
I treated my son like he was a bottle, pat his back and rocked him around trying to get the bubble of air to the top. Seemed to work.Any of ye having difficulty getting wind up? The wee man chugs his bottles but sometimes just doesn't get wind up
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll look into it. The telescope was his idea, he's been bugging me to get one for a few months. I've always wanted one myself, so I'm happy to get one. I hope it keeps his interest. At two years old, who knows.Hmmm, it's probably not powerful enough to do everything you want to do, but it's the only telescope I have any firsthand experience with (and still might work for you), but I got a National Geographic 76/350 Compact Telescope for my husband as an intro telescope. It's easy to operate, portable, and powerful for what it is (inexpensive). Might be a good starter one since your kiddo is still pretty young. You can always upgrade when/if he shows a greater interest. And if it gets busted it wont break the bank.
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll look into it. The telescope was his idea, he's been bugging me to get one for a few months. I've always wanted one myself, so I'm happy to get one. I hope it keeps his interest. At two years old, who knows.
My almost 11 month old son is putting my wife and I at our breaking points.
Until he was about 4 months old he slept like a champ through the night. Then he started teething and we got into some bad habits of holding him while he slept (sometimes you have to choose if you want to fight it all night to get him to stay down or actually have somewhat of an evening with relaxation and entertainment), my wife nursing him in bed and then eventually being in bed with us all night.
Fast forward 7 months and he hasn't slept on his own in his crib all night since. The longest has been from like 9-3am a couple of nights. It's constant wake ups every hour or so, hence why we just put him in bed with us.
We've tried sleep training with little success.
He's to the point where if he's tired enough he'll just roll over at bed time after we lay him down. He'll then sleep for anywhere from 2-5 hours. But once he wakes up, it's the same old cycle of rocking, attempting to lay down, wake up an hour later rinse and repeat.
I'm kind of rambling but if anyone has any advice on how to get him to go back down after waking up as well as he does initially at bed time I'm all ears. My wife obviously has the worse end of things being the one with the boob, but we're both so exhausted and just want him to sleep through the night if not consistently then at least a couple of times a week.
His sister was pretty much the exact opposite. She was problematic getting to sleep but once she was asleep she slept mostly through the night. We also started supplementing with formula before bed with her around this age but he has some food allergies that prohibit him from taking most formula. We should know more at his 1 year appointment with regards to that.
I'll look into the app. We've tried music because that worked for his sister really well, but he just kept screaming. Kind of funny, on a long drive back after visiting family for her first Christmas, she was screaming in the car for about two hours straight. The Beck album Sea Change came up on shuffle and she instantly calmed down. From that day forward for the next 6 months or so we played that album at bed time because it was so calming for her haha.Sounds pretty rough, peppermints. Sorry you guys are having such a time of it. Sleep deprivation is some next level torture for sure. I know it can get pretty dire when nothing seems to be working and you feel like it'll never end. We have friends in kind of the same sit. Kid slept beautifully for months and then stopped cold and they've been nursing her to sleep, through constant wake-ups, and bed sharing since (at 13 months now). One half of the couple isn't emotionally ready for sleep training, though. They've been sleeping in separate beds for months now and I think they're hitting a breaking point too.
Anyway, you're probably sick of people telling you it'll pass, but I don't know any 18 year-olds that still need to be rocked to sleep, so somewhere along the line it does end. Probably? :D Advice-wise, can I ask what kind of sleep training you did and how long you guys tried for? Since you guys are close to the weaning stage (1 year)(if that's your cut-off), this might actually be an opportune time to do a big overhaul. Establish a whole new routine and yank the sleeping thing back into a solo thing. I know you're asking for resettling techniques, but it sounds to me like the only way to break the cycle is to go whole hog. If you do just want to try resettling stuff, though, do you guys use a sleep app at all? We used that as a sleep association 'trigger', and kept it at half noise when ours went down, then slowly raised it to full if we had to resettle her. That plus a bit of pressure (hand laid on chest) seemed to do the trick sometimes. Maybe give that a go?
I'll look into the app. We've tried music because that worked for his sister really well, but he just kept screaming. Kind of funny, on a long drive back after visiting family for her first Christmas, she was screaming in the car for about two hours straight. The Beck album Sea Change came up on shuffle and she instantly calmed down. From that day forward for the next 6 months or so we played that album at bed time because it was so calming for her haha.
As far as sleep training, we've done Ferber and just general cry it out. Ferber is what's led to him rolling over and going to sleep at bed time initially. It's just the waking up that's the hard part. We're in a pretty good routine now that's working for bedtime - wife nurses him while I read his sister a story, then once he's done (she makes sure he doesn't fall asleep nursing) I take over and read him some stories and then lay him down.
I'll try and convince my wife to use the app tonight. Anything is worth a shot!
*edit* misread your post - thought you were saying the name of the app is trigger. Do you have any recommendations for an app (iOS)?
Yeah my 3 year-old could do the laundry by himself if he were tall enough. He can sort, load, and even measure the detergent by himself.Mine's been helping out with laundry since she was one and a half. I figure that by three she'll be tall enough to put the detergent in and do it all by herself. :D
My wife went nuts with the stroller accessories
It looks like a space ship. Also I think my first car was cheaper.
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I can't stop laughing at this thing. It's basically an escape pod
Pretty good. It actually has a decent suspension on it and the big soft wheels make it pretty usable on most surfaces.Haha yes that really looks like an espace pod, really awesome. How is the handling?
Yeah my 3 year-old could do the laundry by himself if he were tall enough. He can sort, load, and even measure the detergent by himself.
Of course. Welcome! It's amazing isn't it? Pete is almost 2.Hi guys just found you all, was in parent Gaf before, maybe some of you will remember me.
My son Leo will be 1 on Friday, I just can't believe how quickly it's gone.
3 days since we went cold turkey on our 2 year old son's pacifier.
We went to the pond and "gave it to the ducks" which worked well in that moment and he is fine during the day but bed time has become a bit horrible.
Gets really upset at bed time. We can eventually calm him by showing the pictures of the ducks but then he takes forever to go to sleep, just lying there with his eyes open looking miserable. It's horrible.
He has also woken up once each night since at around midnight and got real angry. Crying and kicking at us and yelling at us to go away which is so out of character for him... he is normally super sweet.
I knew it would be hard but this is heart wrenching. I feel real mean. Hoping he comes out the other side of it all very soon.
Any tips on how to better encourage crawling? Logan seems to be a little behind where he should be with crawling.
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No, he's really the only kid his age. I'll lie on the floor whenever I'm trying to get him to crawl. I can tell he's trying because he's pushing forward when he's on all fours, but he just doesn't have the motions down.Get on the floor with him, try to animate him to move (playing with toys etc.), crawl yourself to show him how to do it. But does he have other kids around? The fastest way for him is to learn from other kids. Since my wife is part of a group of moms with kids in the same age that meet once or twice a week, my daughter made progress really fast.
No, he's really the only kid his age. I'll lie on the floor whenever I'm trying to get him to crawl. I can tell he's trying because he's pushing forward when he's on all fours, but he just doesn't have the motions down.