Weekend & Family Friday: Bed Bumpers
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My son is currently in a crib that we converted into a toddler bed. He’s doing really well in it but I know that we will need to upgrade to a “big boy bed” in the somewhat near future. In the beginning, I would like to outfit his bed with these bumpers that you place under the sheets to keep him from rolling out of the bed and onto the floor. They also sell them individually in case one of the sides of the bed is against the wall. I also would bring them on vacation (within driving distance) or for sleepovers at Grandma’s when he fully gives up the crib. A pair of bumpers are $39.99 at Amazon. Bed Bumpers
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Will be moving to a new city in about a week (~5 hour drive) and I’m wondering how to store my frozen breastmilk stash for the journey. Any advice or excellent ice pack recs? Thanks so much!
Looking for a baby gift for my primary contact at a vendor – first baby, unsure of gender, looking to spend roughly $50-$75 – physical gift, work won’t reimburse a gift card. I got SO MANY blankets/stuffed animals, so looking to avoid those. Any suggestions on what you might like?
My first was a pro at Falling Out Of Beds. There are some very funny photos of him half off his toddler bed, still asleep. We tried a similar foam bumper and he rolled out (over it!) anyway. But I’ve heard of people successfully using good old pool noodles for the same function.
If I tell my BigLaw partner bosses that I’ve gotten hit with a dreaded daycare cold and am staying home, will that come off poorly? Or will they understand that indeed, they do not want to catch a daycare cold? They are all men with kids in middle/high school.
Say you’re sick and staying home to protect the innocent – use the word “contagious” and do not use the word “daycare”
We used pool noodles for this. Much cheaper and now that toddler has adjusted to his big bed we can use them in the pool!
Y’all I hit the 10 week mark and the heartburn has attacked. Making things worse, everything acidic and citrusy tastes like the best thing ever.
That is all. Tums and I are about to become best friends.
We decided not to bother with bumpers when we transitioned our twins to toddler beds. They fell out a handful of times the first week, but haven’t since and it meant that when we traveled over Christmas we could just stick them in regular beds without worrying about it. (We did put a bunch of couch cushions on the floor at our first airbnb, but it turned out to not matter.)
My baby will turn 1 next month. (Where does the time go?!) I’m starting to taper off pumping at work, but I would like to keep nursing morning/evening for the next few months – ideally through the end of cold and flu season. Those of you who did this, how did you handle weekends after you were done pumping? Did you a) nurse during the day on weekends or b) somehow convince your kiddo that nursing is only for night/morning? I tend toward oversupply and my kid loves to nurse, so I worry that if I do a) my Mondays back at work will be uncomfortable, but if I do b) I’m not sure that my kid will really understand why I won’t let her nurse during the day on weekends? Curious about others’ experience.
Amazon used to sell an inflatable version of these – we have them and used them when we transitioned our toddler to her big girl bed. The inflatable ones are great for traveling as they can deflate & be thrown in a suitcase. Sadly I can’t find them on the site anymore but hopefully there’s a similar version out there somewhere!
Extended family vacation to Jamaica coming up! However, upon review of the pictures on the website, I’m thinking our royal suite isn’t actually a suite, just a large room. Our kids are pretty strict 7pm bedtime. Any thoughts on what we can do? I hate the idea of lying in the dark every night at 7pm. On previous vacations like this we had a screen, so we could still kind of slip around the room, sit on teh balcony, that kind of thing. Should I bother the resort to see how they could help us? It’s the Azul Beach Resort Negril by Karisma, if anyone is familiar.
Any other twin moms dealt with two radically different sized kids and car seat flipping? We got Diono Radians so that our twins could rear-face longer, and both are still comfortably doing so at three and a half. But boy twin is quite a lot bigger than girl twin (about 8 lbs ahead) and will hit the rear-facing limit well before she will. I’ll probably just wind up telling her that thems the breaks, and it may not be an issue, but anyone else rotated them at different times?
We are working with a landscape architect to fix several issues with our backyard. One thing we cannot decide upon is the play area for our son. He is about to turn 5. We are not inclined to spend the money on a fancy playset as we wonder if it will be used much as he gets older. Our thought was the open areas for playing sports would be more utilized than a playlet at this age. As it is impossible to predict, I thought I would ask the hive. If you are outside at home, what does your 5-10 year old enjoy the most? Is it sports, a swing set, or something else? Thank you!
Thank you again to everyone who took the time to give me such helpful feedback on the questions I had regarding my law school application. I haven’t spoken to anyone but my husband and boss about this IRL, so it was so nice to have a place to ask this question without getting “ARE YOU INSANE YOU HAVE KIDS” in return. Thanks to the advice here, I have a meeting scheduled in the next two weeks with the admissions office of the one school that fits into my schedule and budget, and fingers crossed on the rest!
Random, but does anyone have any fun Valentine’s Day traditions or things you do for/with your kids to celebrate? My almost 2 year old is a February baby and for some reason is absolutely *obsessed* with hearts so I want to do something special to celebrate the heart holiday but am not sure what! When I was a kid my mom would decorate that house for V Day and other minor holidays, but I don’t think I’m crafty enough for that.