I feel like my 2 year old hardly ever eats. As long as you keep food in front of them and keep trying, they'll eat enough to survive.... Right?
Same here. We must be hitting a growth spurt though because the past week he's been eating and sleeping like crazy. Does she drink milk all day?
Can't remember if I posted but #2, a boy, is due near the end of March. We are excited/terrified at what having 2 will be like. Any tips? Dudette will only be 22 months when #2 is born so I'm kinda freaking out. Also, she is 18 months now and is on a constant warpath. My house looks like a bomb went off at all times. I can clean the house and 10 minutes later it's the same as before.
Best advice I received was have a present for the older kid from the baby. Can be something little, but it really works. Did it when #2 was born and then again when #3 was born.
Mine number 2 is due on the 6th. Starting to freak out a bit as my 3 year old has become a little terrorist. No reasoning with her at all. My sleep is goi5to be so fucked.
Not to scare you but when mine came we thought we broke #1. He loved his sibling but he was a complete and total shithead for like 2 months. He was ~2.5 so mid terrible twos as well. He got over it and things are great now. 2 really isn't that bad at all once things get settled in. Just know your kid might change for a little while but everything will turn out ok. Not sure how #3 will be in April
Mine are 29 months apart. Older son loves his brother but tries to smush him every now and then. Just can't be in the same room as his brother without an adult. The baby is now 5 months and things are pretty normal. First month was not as hard as I remembered it with the first one honestly.
Anyone have any experience with Graco furniture? Is it sturdy? Wanna get a dresser or two to match crib but the reviews aren't looking great on amazon. Looking for a taller 5 drawer dresser and a shorter wider dresser that we can put a changing kit on top of if anyone has any recommendations. Lookin for something white and not trying to drop a lot of money.
Got to spend 10 straight days with Half Knight leading up to Christmas. Had to give him back to his mom on Christmas Day as she has the second half of the school break this year. As we are driving back from the grandparent's house, he reaches up from the backseat, puts his hand on my shoulder and says "I'm going to miss you". Being an aspie, he's never been real forward with his emotions, and as he gets older its even more rare, so that gave me all the feels.
Kid's a machine. Since Sunday, he's built these Legos, in addition to the 860 piece Scooby Doo mystery mansion: (admittedly, the Wall-E was 60/40 he and his mom) Spoiler
7. He still has the Beatles Yellow Submarine (553 pieces) some Lego Chima set (603 pieces), and a Marvel Hydra submarine set (335 pieces)
nice, he's just about to the age to get into the really exciting sets. Half Knight was 7 or 8 when he built the Star Destroyer, 1359 pieces, that thing was a beast!
We took my 2-year old son to the Gophers bowl game in San Diego. We left Christmas night at 8 pm thinking that he would fall asleep on the flight and it would be easy. He didn't fall asleep until we were landing. In the meantime, my wife asked if we could drive home and declared we're never having another kid and we're never traveling with him again. I think this was after he bit her nipple (through her shirt) and slapped at her multiple times. He was only slightly better on the flight home.
what are you guys using for toy storage/other storage in the living room for the kids toys? looking for something decent looking and not shit quality. was thinking something along the lines of this with baskets in empty compartments
We went with the Ikea Hemnes 8 drawer dresser (which we put the changing pad on). I hate that store with a passion, but we've been happy with the piece. It was cheap enough that I don't care much about what abuse it takes, but looks nice and functions well. The only nursery furniture we spent money on was the crib.
Just built 4 snowmen with my daughter. One over 7 feet tall. It was like the strongman competition lifting the body and the head.
Last night my daughter said - 'NO DOUG, I want mommy. ' God damn - this is going to be a rough.... 20 more years or so.
3 weeks ago, my kid couldn't walk. 2 weeks ago, he couldn't walk more than 3-4 steps in a row. Now all he does is walk around from room to room. Part of it is great and makes parenting more fun but its also exhausting. I'm constantly chasing him and make sure he's not into something he's not supposed to. I look down for 20 seconds and he's in the bathroom trying to crawl in the tub or in the kitchen and pulling spices out.
Instagram foodie account I follow, the girl was pregnant and posted last week that her water broke at 23 weeks. They were doing everything they could to delay the birth, anything before 25 weeks is almost zero chance of survival. I just went to her account to see what was going on, baby was born NYE, died about 12 hours later. Absolutely heartbreaking pictures and comments from the parents. Hug your kids, tell them you love them, and be thankful, today and everyday.
That is terrible. The sister of one of my wife's co-workers had a similar situation. Twins. Water broke at 23 weeks. Fortunately, after months in the hospital, one survived but they have fears about developmental issues down the road (vision, brain function, etc). I was so paranoid during our pregnancy because this had happened very early on in our pregnancy. Our son shares the same name as the deceased baby. His name was toward the top of our list from early in the pregnancy and then we had to remove it until the month he was born because my wife was superstitious the same thing would happen to us if we planned to name him that. When we were at about 35 weeks my wife also had another co-worker who's sister-in-law died after giving birth to twins. Apparently she had an undiagnosed cancer and there was something with hemorrhaging related to that. The co-worker is very close to my wife and wouldn't talk to her for a week because she didn't want to let her know. There is a lot to fear during and a lot to be thankful for after pregnancy.
man.. stories like that kill me. my wife has a friend who has had 2 miscarriages. shortly after her second one her husband got got diagnosed with testicular cancer. they froze a bunch of his lil' swimmers before treatment and went through 5 cycles of IVF.... she was chemically pregnant on all 5, but none of them made it. after ~7 years of trying, her and her husband are now having a kid through a surrogate who is now 35+ weeks pregnant. my wife and I have known all of this for a while but they just announced it to the world on Facebook on Xmas day. I was in fucking tears reading her post. another friend of hers had a miscarriage at 28 weeks. then, she immediately got pregnant again and had a kid, but he was born with a hole in his heart and had to have emergency surgery. the little fella made it through, but damn, the whole community was standing with that family.
Prior to my wife and I having our son I used to kind of scoff at the child birth is a miracle thing. Then she was diagnosed as high risk and we were at the hospital every two weeks of her pregnancy getting ultra sounds to check for a hole in his heart. he came out fine but i finally got why they said it was a miracle. A lot can go wrong leading up to and on that day.
Damn you guys and your horror stories! Due date is tomorrow, and no arrival yet. Induction scheduled for Tuesday morning. We'll see how this goes.
I appreciate the kind words e-bro. I've been down this road before as this is our second and hell yes, the kid will be in the nursery.