Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Baby Rattle Socks

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Baby Wrist Rattle Socks and Foot Finder Set, Perfect Baby Toys for 0-12 Months Newborn Boys and Girls As Baby Shower Gifts, Garden Bug Series

Little babies absolutely love their hands and feet — I have the cutest photos of my kids giggling and grabbing their feet when they were little.

These colorful garden bug rattles will encourage babies to grab and reach for their hands and feet. Each set includes two soft wrist rattles and two “foot finders.” Each rattle has adjustable straps to fit rapidly growing babies. Their small size is also great for on-the-go.

This set of rattles from Infinno is available at Amazon.

Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
  • Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
  • J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
  • J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
  • Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
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We’ve always had kid birthdays at lunch time and served pizza, but the venue where my kid is set on having her 6th birthday only does parties from 2-4 pm. Do you think it’s ok to do pizza and cake around 3:30? I feel stingy not serving “real” food, and it’s an active party so I don’t want to serve a big meal at the beginning, but I know some parents might frown upon their kids having pizza mid-afternoon.

Also the venue is kind of cramped for the number of people we’re inviting. Do you think many parents will drop off if given the option? Kids are in K and 1st, and it’s a place with staff who will lead activities, not something like a playground where parents are responsible for watching their own kids.

Following up on yesterday’s post about when whining and/or meltdowns taper off. I have twin 4.5 year olds, who have been home from school since last Thursday. They have wildly different personalities and likes/dislikes, so from my sample size of 2, here are my thoughts. If the twins have a perfect schedule, including enough sleep and food, and are not asked to do difficult for their aged tasks (ahem, wait in a long standing only line at the specialty grocery)….we actually can go a full day without whining or meltdowns. This was unheard of in their 3 year old year, and even right after they turned 4. Now, when we keep the schedule to our house or a park, with lots of food that they will happily eat, and they get enough sleep overnight, they are downright delightful. Once I introduce an X factor, I see a meltdown or whining. It makes me hopeful that around 5, their bodies will be stronger/better able to handle external variables, and while the whining may never fully taper off, I bet we will have fewer meltdowns. At least, I (and all of the other people at the fancy, tiny grocery store) freaking hope so.

I am looking for some other “mom gut/intuition” to weigh in on this and see if it’s worth of looking into more. I have a 4.5 year old son. He is an amazing sleeper, and has been since he was a newborn. I don’t know how to explain it other than he just intrinsically loves his bed and loves sleep. He currently sleeps from about 7:15-7:10 am. 7:10 is the latest we can get him up and get all three of us out the door at a reasonable hour. He no longer naps, but there’s still a hour of rest time at school when he lays on his nap mat.

The potential issue is that, about 8/10 times that I go in to get him in the morning, he is fast asleep and mumbles some version of “I’m tired I don’t want to get up.” After about 5-10 minute of silent cuddling in his chair he wakes up a bit and then is as happy as can be. He eats a huge variety of foods, including a good amount of protein(including red meat) and spinach.

A friend (who is way more into health things than I am) mentioned that they just learned one of her daughter’s is anemic, and that with the amount my son sleeps, that’s something I could look into. I’m not opposed to looking into this, but to diagnose this, there would have to be a blood draw, and I am not really jazzed about the idea of making my kid get stuck with a needle unnecessarily … he hates needles. He does seem to sleep a lot more than the other kids his age I know, but him sleeping a lot isn’t new. And for these other kids… per their parents, they’ve never been good sleepers.

Anyway, curious what the other “mom guts” think.

Slight variation on the sleep questions we often talk about.

I have a three year old who falls asleep beautifully – we have a routine, she falls asleep easily, etc. But. For the last month or so she’s been waking up early … VERY EARLY … like, two or three in the morning early. Sometimes, she wakes up to use the bathroom and just stays up. Other times, she doesn’t seem to have a reason to get up but refuses to go back to bed.

What do we do? She claims not to be tired. We took the babyproof handle off her door so she could get herself to the bathroom, so now she gets out and roams around. We got her one of those clocks that has a stoplight (And she can say, “Red, Stay in Bed!” but refuses to actually do it.)

DH and I have been taking turns getting up with her since otherwise she’ll wander around and wake up her sibling and/or us. She (and we) are obviously exhausted by the afternoon. We’ve tried moving her away from naps, since we assumed she would be more tired – but when she gets up at 2:30 or 3, she’s just a nightmare by 5 pm. We all are. Help!

I know this is not a special needs forum, but we have a dilemma and I wonder if anyone here has any advice. We have an autistic 4 year old who was asked to leave our regular daycare center because of hitting and meltdown incidents. We have had him home for over a month now, hanging out with mom or dad or a babysitter. We’d really like to get him back into a school setting because the only way to get better at peer interactions is practice, but we toured one yesterday and it hit me that it will probably be exactly the same as the last center. Unfortunately, all specialized autism preschools we’ve looked into are booked up right now, and the county did not find that he qualifies for their services (try again next year was the message). We’ve tried to find an aide that would go with him to daycare for one-on-one support, which is what our previous daycare center told us to do, but those are super hard to find outside of ABA, and our psychologist doesn’t recommend ABA for him right now. So probably what we should do is hire a nanny and enroll him in some classes that she can take him to so he at least gets some classroom experiences. But I’m feeling really resistant to that prospect, partially because it could be twice as expensive and partially because it feels like giving up on this year. Any suggestions?

We booked flights to Legoland Denmark… my kid is going to be so excited! Going to make a personalised ticket and a countdown calendar to go under the tree.

My husband meanwhile swings between excited and anxious, as his parents told them they were splitting the day after they returned from Legoland when he was 10, kicking off a mental health crisis. I’m hoping the context of a different trip, mode of transport, our son’s joy, will make it OK?