My wife thought she might be pregnant when she missed her pill once, but fortunately the test was a negative. How the fuck she still misses her pill when I had her set an alarm to take it everyday, I don't know.
so the little dude is 5 days old now, and we cannot get him off the boob. he nurses until he's drunk, and if he stays near mama, he'll take a kick ass nap. take him away, he wakes up and starts screaming bloody murder. wasn't that way for the first few days, but has been that way for the past two. mama's milk just came in though, so i guess that could have something to do with the change in behavior. wondering if this is a growth spurt, or if this is the new normal.
Normal---but I highly encourage u to write down/keep a schedule. i would also suggest not letting him sleep right after eating. That way he doesn't need to nurse to fall asleep
I was an iud baby. They're supposed to be smaller birth weight. i was 9 lb 12 oz. IUD kept me from 12# IYAM.
in the first few weeks, he will pretty much only be awake to eat. If you are a reader, i would recommend "happiest baby on the block" it made a bunch of sense to me. Best advice our pediatrician gave us is whatever you do (rocking, singing, holding, etc) to get him to go to sleep, you will either have to do that forever or at some point break the habit.
Our son just got his 2nd tooth this morning/last night. Downside is he loves to try to bite/suck/kiss our nose when we hold him face to face. It was cute when he was toothless but he has a serious bite these days. He also started crawling in the last 2 weeks and holy hell can kids find or go straight to something they shouldn't. He has an entire living room of toys but he heads straight to the cords and outlets.
Yeah, I read 3-4 books and that was by far the best one I read in dealing with the first couple months of fatherhood.
Get used to that. Instinctually, when I walk in to a room with our son I will start scanning for the most dangerous things that I need to keep him away from. I think he does the same thing and then goes right for them. It never fails. He'll go right past books and toys on his way to a fireplace.
Its impressive and scary how fast they learn things. About 3 weeks ago, he barely could sit up without assistance. In a month, he learned how to sit up on his own -> spin in circles -> army crawling -> fast crawling and now pulling up on things like our coffee table or his crib.
As I was cleaning up the water that my 1 yr old spilled everywhere, he comes over with his sister's toy broom to help.
Wife left on a work trip yesterday morning. Gone till sunday. My 3 year olds are working on me already. This half way potty trained and having "little accidents" is getting really fucking old. But i guess it just comes with the territory. Tossing a lot of panties in the trashcan this week.
This is good advice. Until I got around to putting up even more gates and locks, my daughter would walk right up to the cabinet underneath the sink to get into cleaners. She had the living room filled with toys. There is no such thing as too much baby proofing.
My wife is on girls weekend till Sunday. 6 year old, 2 year old and 8 month old, all girls, all weekend, y'all pray I don't kill one
Anyone in here have a job that requires extensive travel? If so how does it work the wife and kids? Pretty sure I am going to be offered a big promotion in the next couple of weeks that will have me traveling 20+ days a month. Not sure how it will go over with an 18 month old
My daughter got asked to be on a competitive cheer team today. She's 5. This shit wasn't supposed to start this soon.
My wife's aunt and uncle have three little girls that all do competitive cheer. He works like 3 jobs to support it and he looks like a completely beaten down man. Ts & Ps my man.
Desperate to get this kid to sleep. Wife and MIL has rocked her to sleep since she was born. She is now 4 months, hard as hell to get to sleep, will sleep for a couple of hours and then has to be rocked back to sleep. How do we sleep train this kid? Like what are the steps?
Stop rocking her and Ear plugs? I know it's easier said than done. Nobody likes listening to their kid cry. Just wait till they can talk and they cry "daddy" or "mommy" and you have to ignore it. Maybe start on a friday night (or whenever you have a couple days off work) and stop rocking when she wakes. After a few nights it should get better.
Crying it out does work. I asked a similar question a few pages back and over a holiday weekend, we implemented sleep training. We turned the sound off monitor and set a rule we wouldn't go in there until he cried for 10 minutes. He still takes a bottle once over night (around 3AM) but we cut 4-5 night wake ups down to one after about 2 nights of sleep training. Now we walk into his room, hand him a bottle (he can now hold his own which helps) and leave. He'll eat it and pass back out.
Let her cry. Get a "cry it out" plan off the internet from a book, lock the wife in the bathroom, gets some earplugs and don't plan on getting much sleep for a couple days, but there is a very good chance you'll fix her in a long weekend. Also, try rubbing her chest instead of picking her up and rocking her as a shortterm fix.
Poorly IMO. I travel a lot for work, not that much, but a good bit. Our baby is due in September and I'll be gone all next week and my wife is already pissed
do any of ya'll have a tattoo in tribute to your kids? thinking about getting one for my two girls on me, but no clue on any ideas... been google imaging, but damn there are some terrible ideas.
Please tell me you are thinking their names and not faces,faces never seem to work out. Also you should get it on your lower back
Ok. My wife was totally against cry it out. I knew that I could sleep train him. I blew up an air mattress and slept in his room for two nights. I didn't sleep much, but it was so my wife wouldn't come in Bc she knew I would handle it. Cry it out works. 2-3 nights was all it took.
My buddy has two, one for each kid, and they are terrible. One on each Delt. His wife is kinda like whenever they come up. They are each round and super dark and just look like shit. I don't even know what they are because I zone out when he explains.
My oldest starts Kindergarten in less than a month. Can't believe it. I'm going to cry like a little girl her first day of school. I asked the principal a few weeks back during Kinder orientation for advice on how to handle day 1 as a parent and she said to give my daughter a hug and kiss after walking her to her class and then to walk away. Not a chance. I'm going to want to watch through the door, make sure nobody is being mean to her, protect her, etc. I'm going to be a mess.
Whenever my 3 year old is at a loss for what he wants to do, he reverts to playing cars and asks me, "want to play cars, dada?" It is the sweetest thing. It is awesome on the weekends, when I can say, "yes, there is nothing else I'd rather do." But it sucks on a Monday morning when I have to say, "I can't today, I have to go to work." His sad face breaks my heart. I need to get a recording of him asking so I can play it when he doesn't want to play cars with dada anymore.
I passed on a promotion because it would have me gone 10 days a month. I don't feel like being gone that much as it is but she was totally against it even if I was ok with it. She's an attorney and works her ass off. Not fair to her for me to be gone that much.
Son turn 6 months old this week. Still only sleeps in 2.5 - 4 hour shifts. Hungry boy. Goes back down easy after he is full again. Used to sleeping at 3-4 hour stretches at this point. He actually slept almost five hours last night from 11-4am and I felt like a million bucks. Most sleep I have gotten in a row in six months.
It's amazing how much my son (1 yr old) eats and is still so skinny. I just know he's going to double our grocery bill when he's a teenager. Who else has 2 kids within 2 years of each other? How do they get along and when did they stop liking each other (if ever)? Now that the boy is 1, my favorite thing is watching him and his 3 yr old sister play together. She is always watching over and concerned about him but she also likes to play rough. Thankfully he loves it.
Ask your pediatrician if you can stop feeding him at night. They'll probably say yes, that he doesn't need it. He'll wake up a couple times, be pissed that you don't feed him, then he'll stop waking up to be fed.
Our Pediatrician said if we want to let him cry it out she doesnt recommend it until the six month mark. We usually let him go ten minutes before we go in there. My wife isnt going to let him cry it out. I'm not too fond of that method either. Once he eats he goes back down easy. We're used to it at this point.
You mean dream feed? If so, no we're not. He's on a good schedule but we put him down at 7:30pm and he is usually is up around 1030-1100pm and hungry. Then usually up again at 230, 530 and then 830.