I cringe thinking about myself wanting that shit back in the day. Really though Gap, Kohls, Macys have decent stuff and always running sales. I have to wear jeans every day so I bought some cheap ones from Target awhile back and they are my favorite "work" jeans. Super comfortable. If you guys or your wives aren't using ebates get on that asap. Gives you % cash back at most of the popular big stores. Pretty much every where my wife gets baby clothes (carters, old navy, gap, etc.) always has between 4-8% cash back. There's a plug in you download to your browser and will automatically tell you the cash back % and let you "activate" the savings. They also recently updated the plug in and will tell you if the store has any coupon codes when you check out and automatically apply them. Ebates then sends you a check quarterly with all your savings. Had my account for 2 years and have gotten almost $250.
How many weeks is she? Same thing happened to us at 36 weeks because my gf fell twice and her BP was through the roof , good luck man
I added daughter to insurance sitting in the hospital the night she was born, but they didn’t make it effective until my next pay period which was almost a week later. Insurance company kept trying to stick us with all of the check ups they didn’t on the baby while we were still in the hospital and the first pediatrician visit. Insurance company kept saying that it would be fine, but we kept getting bills. Finally called HR at my job and they said that they had to manually back date the enrollment to the pay period before she was born.
She was 38 weeks on Wednesday. We've been in since Thursday night and so far no baby. They told us it'll probably happen either over night or possibly the morning. Slowly progressing
Shelby Was induced at 7 pm on Wed, broke her water at 3am , started delivery at 2pm and Roo was born at 2:30 pm on Thursday.
Living that weekend breakfast dad life Edit: Had to improvise with the American cheese since there was no cheddar in the fridge
Wife asked me to rearrange all 4 car seats in the suburban because she didn’t “like the setup”. Those things are such a bitch.
So are they all in the same location just different kids now??? Moving those things are the main reason I love the odyssey. In the car and SUV we had it was a pain. Can’t wait til they grow out of them.
No. They are all in different places now. So for example, the 7 year old’s is where the 2 year old’s used to be. None of it should have mattered IMO.
That’s what I meant. Car seat placement is still the same just different seat with kid in that place. My thoughts are the same, why??? Just busy work to make the wife happy with hopes we get some in the future.
As of 12:54am this morning, I’m officially living the dad life. Little Miss Block came into the world weighing 8lbs 7.5oz. I’ve already seen her ooze a monster dose meconium during a changing and laughed at her hiccups. I preferred the hiccups, but am fully aware I’ll see more lady poo that I could ever imagine. Cheers!
We just got the one where you put the seat on the regular toilet and got a stool (ha!) for 1/3 to step on to get up onto it
Anyone have a baby that just seems to hate you? 10 week old screams bloody murder if I hold her. She's tough generally but I just feel like I haven't developed the same patience that my wife has. My daughter seems to cry non-stop unless she's in my wife's arms.
One of mine was like that, everytime I got home she'd start crying. Called it "daddy's home time". She grew out of it eventually.
No, sorry. I think with that one it lasted for a while. Our 10 month old is in a mommy only phase now, but it's not as bad as the first one.
Give it time. Not sure what reading you’ve done and google it if you haven’t but think of this time as the 4th trimester. Baby is used to Mom, knows her scent, heartbeat, voice, etc. and is just most comfortable with her. Power through, this age was some of my toughest times. Like billdozer mine would cry basically shortly after I got off work until he went down at night. It gets better.
My first son borderline rejected my wife and I was his primary attachment figure for the first 2.5 years. The pendulum swung back to mom over the next 6-12 months and has settled somewhere in the middle depending on the day/his attitude. My point being...you won’t believe it now, but that shit will change and you’ll get your time to shine.
My daughter had a serious Mom attachment. She is 13 months now and I would say it has gotten much better in the last 3 months or so.
My 18 month old son is and has been since birth a daddy’s boy. I get out of work early and am home with him by myself for 4 hours before the wife gets home. When she gets home he gets mad and tries to hit her. Obviously it’s not ideal. On days she’s home with him without me he’s perfectly fine with her until I get home. She gets frustrated with it obviously but I keep trying to tell her it’ll get better.
Try to have skin to skin contact with her. When she sleepy see if she will doze off on your chest without your shirt on. She needs to know your scent and your heart beat and if you do it while she falls asleep it will become a comfort for her. That is what we did with Roo. Sometimes we would have her fall asleep on mom then gently place her on my chest while relaxing in bed. Worked perfectly
I know it's been a while since I have shared much on here,not sur ehow much yall remember, since spilling my guts about my grandson situation on here But if you are so inclined, we need thoughts and prayers on Wednesday morning in the first hearing since then. We have a damn good lawyer helping us now (thank you anonymous TMB recommender) and the opposition has no lawyer any more, due to their own action/non action. So like I said, just thoughts if you will....
Took my wife's Sienna in for a recall this morning, gave me a brand new Sienna loaner (same model as hers), now I wanna buy it. Their sales tactics work.
Story time... Went to surprise my daughter at her elementary school for lunch on Monday with Chick-fil-a. There was a dad there that I’ve spoken with briefly a few times in the past, he’s not my favorite person in the world. He is a real life topssuite. Major douche. Let me know within 5 seconds he went to The University of Texas. UT this, UT that. Mentioned the word “upgrade” no less than 5 times within the first 30 minutes of meeting him, for example “I got an upgraded Volvo”. WTF. Right when I arrived in the cafeteria me and the Longhorn dad immediately saw each other. First thing I noticed was he had chick-fil-a as well. I sit down and he immediately tells me they messed up his order and gave him biscuits instead. I look at his bag and it looks hilarious, no nuggets, no fries, just a crap ton of buiscits. I mean come on, fast food 101, check the bag. His sons had the saddest look on their face so I had to at least offer some of our nuggets and fries. Not expecting him to accept I offered one of the two 12 pc nuggets with fries I had ordered for myself and daughter. With no hesitation he says “oh heck yeah!” So I give him and his sons one set of my nuggets and fries. My daughter and I ration and share the remaining set. No good deed goes unpunished.
You will be rewarded in the afterlife with an all you can eat buffet if chicken minis....those things crack to me.
My daughter is in kindergarten and our school district is taking a far reaching policy stance on stopping an active shooter by passing a policy that will allow certain trained teachers to carry guns. I just went to a special policy meeting that was 4 hours long. Absolutely crazy. I’m not trying to turn this in to a gun thread but has anyone ever heard of Buckeye Firearms association FASTER training.
Do y'all spank your kids? Local radio here just discussed a New York Times article on spanking based on a study that found spanking can inflict long-term psychological damage on the kid *but* sometimes it was better the kids than the alternative. Where a non-spanking parent may allow psychological tension to loom over the parent/child relationship for days or longer, a spanking absolves it quickly and everyone can move on. Personally, I have spanked in the past but I've tried to move away from it. I've started making my kids do wall sits on the (extremely rare) occasion where it gets to that point. I think it's important to them to understand some (mild) physical pain as accountability for bad behavior, but it's understandably confusing for them to be told "You shouldn't resort to violence to solve your conflicts but I, the person who's supposed to love and protect you more than anyone else in the world, am about to hit you." I think this accomplishes both objectives while also giving them the best quads on the playground.
I rarely get sick but now our daughter has been going to daycare twice a week and it seems like either myself, wife, son, and/or daughter has a cold at all times. That’s all.
Ohio can’t keep their shit in Ohio. They had the guys representing the company speak. Their whole pitch was fear based walking through the Sandy Hook timeline. Basically saying armed teachers would greatly reduce the response time. Our district is looking at 1 teacher per school. I wish I knew more about the group because it seems shady as hell and their agenda for pushing the program. Supposedly one school that has the program actually had an active shooter but there was only one newspaper article because they wanted to remain anonymous about the program. I can’t seem to find it.
Never really spanked; occasional swat on the butt as an attention getter but that's it. I yelled a lot between one and three which I totally don't still get guilt pangs about 5 to 7 years later.
I would put myself in this camp. I’ve never truly spanked my 4 year old but probably 2-3 times I’ve given somewhere between a forceful tap to light spank to more or less jolt him in to stopping his current behavior. It didn’t really happen until we had a ‘threenager’ but I’ve definitely yelled more than I prefer. It has gotten better as we focused on diffusing situations by things like pulling his sister away and showering her with attention (while ignoring him) instead of giving him negative attention for misbehaving or giving forced choices constantly instead of allowing him to negotiate and whine if he doesn’t get his way.
Most of the time its corner sits/time out. Spankings are reserved for more serious infractions. I do find myself yelling quite a bit though. My 5 year old daughter is very strong willed like me so we argue/yell occasionally. I've used dawn dish soap too. She was being very difficult one time and I explained to her that if I had acted like that with grandpa(my dad) at that age I would have gotten spanked with a belt. She was mortified and changed her attitude for quite a while after that.