Official Dads of TMB Thread

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  1. Tobias

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    everyone in my family is vaccinated including my fairly racist dad who mainlines fox news. my mom who has bad asthma refused. everyone in our family was begging her to get it and she just wouldnt. finally a month before our due date, i lied and told her the doctor told us everyone who would be around her for extended periods had to be vaccinated so it was out of our hands. she threw a fit and spouted off every excuse and reason in the book and claimed that she would just never get to see our daughter because she wasnt going to get it ever

    she set an appointment the next day and is fully vaxxed. it sucks and is shitty that she ever reacted like that but whatever. she got it and we are good to go
     
  2. CUgator

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    4,3,3
     
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  3. infected donkey

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    In some of my family it's 20 years of Fox news. The more intelligent ones who all work in healthcare have been vaxed for a while (except 2 and they just got covid in the past week). No sympathy on those two who have refused when they've been dealing with covid patients regularly.
     
  4. Dr. Mantis Toboggan

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    I’d tell whatever lie I needed to to make sure my mom was vaxed.
     
  5. Baron

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    Wife: Ask your manboard if anyone has used these bottles before
    Me: Why?
    Wife: Don't they review that stuff?
    Me: :facepalm:

    These are the bottles..
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  6. infected donkey

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    Bottles are going to be more up to the baby. We lucked out after trying two types and he’s stuck with the phillips avent natural. One of our friends tried everything and the baby settled on the dr. Browns.
     
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  7. Tobias

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    medela mafia
     
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  8. Baron

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    Yeah, we have used Tommy Tippee for all our kids, however we threw them all out as we thought we were done. But sex happened and here we are...
     
  9. El Tiburon

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    I’m sipping an old fashioned out of one of these as I type. Highly recommend.
     
  10. infected donkey

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    Congrats on the sex at least a second time!
     
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  11. Tobias

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    can't wait to get home and pour a cold coors light into one and suck it down
     
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  12. Baron

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    I love a good old fashioned.
     
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  13. stric006

    stric006 Recovering Butter Beer addict
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    We are a Dr Brown house all the way. My wife tried every fancy and blogger type bottle in the world.
     
  14. steamengine

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    Dr Brown at the recommendation of multiple health professionals
     
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  15. OhioHoo

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    Dr. Browns were a pain, we used MAM bottles and pacifiers.
     
  16. DetroitNole

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    We used Dr Brown as well. My son turned one today. Did you all transition your kids to milk from formula or just straight up switch? My son is eating a lot of solid foods now, but still loves a morning and a night time bottle. Drinking less and less during the day
     
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  17. Rabid

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    Back on the vaccine conversation…

    We have a 1 year old son on oxygen because he had to have a lobectomy (lung lobe removal) for a CPAM. He has Down syndrome that brought with it slower healing and complications of laryngomalacia and tracheomalacia (narrow floppy airway that makes it harder to breathe) and he is a on g-tube. He literally spent 10 days in a hospital for a common cold last year. His pulmonologist expressed concern about outcomes if he was to get COVID so we’ve been very conservative including pulling his sister from daycare last year to keep him healthy.

    Because of the combination of medical issues, he has in-home nurses for 8-hours every day. Every adult that comes in to our house is fully vaccinated except for one of his nurses :facepalm: We’ve talked to the agency about it but they’re afraid requiring it will cause staffing issues. We’ve requested other nurses but then shifts just remained unfilled which is incredibly difficult for us to maintain jobs.

    I’m just at a loss for why in the fuck a nurse that goes in to people’s homes and works with medically complex kids would not be vaccinated.
     
  18. buy_dont_lease

    buy_dont_lease Ha ha ha. What a story, Mark.
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    I guess you don’t have the luxury of telling the agency to go fuck themselves. That is unconscionably selfish of that nurse.
     
  19. Name P. Redacted

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    We did a transition over a couple of weeks.
     
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  20. Bruce Bowen

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    Can get a refund from Boppy.
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    We never use ours for sleep or walk away from him when he is on it. Usually just throw it on the couch next to us to hang.
     
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  21. buckwild

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    Agreed....always seemed like something to just let the baby chill/relax while you're around. Never took it as a device to make them sleep, so I could leave the room.
     
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  22. steamengine

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    We’re only a couple days older than you and did 1/3 formula 2/3 milk for like a week but quickly learned he really loves milk so that didn’t last long and he’s 100% now.
     
  23. Bruce Bowen

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    Yeah, the rock and play recall I understood. This one doesn't make a ton of sense to me.
     
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  24. killerwvu

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    Once our last can of formula ran out, switched to milk. No transition and he did fine
     
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  25. a.tramp

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    I spent a couple hours this afternoon building Levi his first playhouse (from a kit). It has a slide, rockwall, ropewall, and A-frame tent.

    And he hardly even looks at it and goes to his empty water table…

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  26. stric006

    stric006 Recovering Butter Beer addict
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    One thing about covid is the delivery game has been better. Our hospital allows zero visitors, so we have no family to bother us and also the hallways are silent. I’ve got the Ryder cup going, pounding coffee and champagne on ice for the arrival. Feeling good now. Will be a mental mess in a week with two kids under 2.
     
  27. Baron

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    The hospital my wife is delivering at allows 2 visitors, but have to be the same 2 visitors the entire time. She told her mom that only 1 visitor is allowed. :smug:
     
  28. zachary

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    starting to potty train the lil guy. he has his own little toilet and last night he attempted to use his toilet but somehow pooped on the ground then stood up to look at it and then pissed a lake all over. fun times
     
  29. Rabid

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    Knowing what I know now, I would tell people not to have visitors at the hospital. Our first was born on a weekend after being induced on a Friday night which had been planned days in advance. My mother-in-law showed up at the hospital while my wife was in labor and they let her in to see us (I can’t even recall if we were asked). It was just completely ridiculous. But then all the grandparents, aunts and uncles with cousins came through and you don’t say no to anybody because everybody is so excited. Our second was midweek and between #2 and weekday it was more modest and a better experience in the hospital. #3 was during COVID and despite having to spend time in the ICU it was by far the most relaxing hospital experience. There is so much going on with doctors and nurses coming through that visitors inevitably cause an inconvenience. There is plenty of time for meeting the baby at home.
     
  30. stric006

    stric006 Recovering Butter Beer addict
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    Yeah we had a throw down to meet the baby at our house and it was a blast. Doing the same thing this time.
     
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  31. Where Eagles Dare

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    We went straight to milk and he was fine. Even did some almond milk b/c I ran out of real milk.

    Getting off formula was nice b/c he's no longer taking horrendous shits
     
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  32. killerwvu

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    I'm just happy I don't have to wash 6 bottles every night
     
  33. Where Eagles Dare

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    Now it's only 2!!

    We pretty much do a bottle before bed and then send one in a sippy cup to daycare and that's really it. Everything else is water or solid food or fruit pouch things.
     
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  34. steamengine

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    #lifehack just refill the same bottle over and over
     
  35. Bruce Bowen

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    Team no one else in the delivery room. Actually we had a doula this time and she was fantastic. Highly recommend.
     
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  36. Where Eagles Dare

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    Def do that with water. Wash off the outside from their gross fucking hands.
     
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  37. infected donkey

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    We had to register our 2 guests and call down the time window that they could be allowed in. Sister in law and a friend. Used them to bring food because hospital was some gross ass food. Got red robin delivered and some Jason’s Deli one night. 10/10 recommend not having visitors, way less stress.
     
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  38. Where Eagles Dare

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    This little asshole has come into the habit of waking up at 630 each day.

    Not cool bro. I'd rather you wake up at 4am and I'd throw you a bottle just so you sleep until 745.

    I'm blaming day care. He moved to the 1 year old class and they only do a single nap and it's rarely 2 hours. He sleeps 3+ on the weekends (not complaining here), but I feel like I need to keep him up past 7pm so he can sleep later in the AM. But he's so exhausted when he gets home
     
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  39. stric006

    stric006 Recovering Butter Beer addict
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    Every time I keep my kid up later he wakes up earlier. Ours has started daycare and he is now waking up at 545 am.
     
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  40. Where Eagles Dare

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    I'm sorry

    Why did we do this to ourselves???
     
  41. The Blackfish

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    My son wakes up between 4:30 and 5:30 and has since he was 1. Prior to 1 he didn’t sleep. He just turned 5.
     
  42. The Blackfish

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    My daughter sleeps until 6:30 or 7 and has since she was born, though, so at least I got one that sleeps.
     
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  43. steamengine

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    My god
     
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  44. steamengine

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    A doctor told me that less napping or being sleep deprived doesn’t necessarily cause more night time sleep but could have misunderstood what he was saying.
     
  45. Marbles

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    My daughter is almost 10 months and still sleeps 12-13 hours a night. Asleep at 6 and wakes up at 6. On weekends, she’ll wake up at six. Play for an house then go back to sleep till 10.
     
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  46. The Blackfish

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    We’ve got him now where he knows to wait until his clock says 6:00 to come out.
     
  47. steamengine

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    That’s nice at least. I don’t know if I could handle it.
     
  48. Where Eagles Dare

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    Yeah that's why I blame daycare bc I think he needs a second nap
     
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  49. Carl Brutananadilewski

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    If you read around this is apparently true. Ours sleep ~12hrs over night and about 2-3 hours over 2 naps during the day (mostly). Sleep regressions are a bitch.
     
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  50. Name P. Redacted

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    Regretting not buying a two kid stroller from the start.