Washable Workwear Wednesday: Fitted Mock-Neck T-Shirt

My 2.5 year old stayed with my mom this long weekend. Mom (who often watches all 3 of my kids for us) returned her and they both excitedly told me that daughter wore undies to bed and woke up dry all 3 nights. Apparently the first night they did diaper too. She arrived late Monday PM sound asleep, so I had her do a “dream pee” at 10 when I transferred her to bed and she again woke up dry.

So of course kiddo doesn’t want to wear a diaper to bed last night. I didn’t give her any liquids after 5:30 or so, and she peed as late as 8 when she was protesting bedtime.

At 3am, she woke up having had an accident, then would not go back to sleep until past 5am. This her deal, generally- she either sleeps trough the night or she has a nightmare/some issue and wakes up enough that she just cannot resettle. If we are *really* lucky, she screams so loud she wakes up my 5 year old and/or baby. Even though she’s been day trained for 6 months, we were holding off on nights until she woke up dry for like, a week straight. I told her after Valentine’s Day we’d try it.

But now grandma has her all hyped and I want to know if it’s just a power through and in a few days she’ll stop having 3am accidents or if we are doomed for weeks of this. My older daughter night trained around this age, and while not yet waking dry, she was waking up at 6 am then peeing—after 2 nights she just stopped.

I’m so tired. Toddler tantrumed all morning, even though I let her sleep almost 2 extra hours. Full on tantrum from wakeup to daycare dropoff. My 5 y/o commented “that’s the loudest she’s ever been mom!”

My 12 month old just had her well check and the ped said she should have 16-24 oz of cow milk daily. That seems like a ton to me. Right now, she is nursing several times a day and drinking 4-6 oz of formula (plus lots of finger food and a few ounces of water) during the workday. At dinner, she eats a lot of solids (what we’re eating, basically) and a couple more ounces of water. On weekends, she nurses more and doesn’t have any formula. Obviously we replace the formula with cow’s milk, but that’s still a lot of additional milk we need to add to her diet. I fear that if we try to get her to drink this much milk, it will replace finger food and water…is that ok? She’s very chunky and tall so no concerns about growth. She struggles with constipation already so I’m worried about what will happen if she drinks less water. What do your ~12 month olds diets look like as far as milk vs water vs food?

Just found out I’m a carrier for a rare disease I’d never heard of. We’re getting my husband tested (it’s slightly more common in our ethnic group), and will talk to the OB this week about whether to go ahead and do a CVS test for peace of mind. Anyone been through this?

Our recent family vacation was a total disaster. My husband spent the entire time griping about the cost of everything, despite the fact that we’d planned and budgeted for this trip. He refused to do any activities that weren’t free, except for one dumb activity that he insisted on that no one else wanted to do and that we could have done at home. He wanted to spend a lot of time sitting around in the hotel room, and at one point he stormed off by himself for a walk. I spent the entire time trying to insulate the rest of the family from his behavior and frantically attempting to change restaurant reservations to places that were cheaper. He has acted like this to some degree on other vacations, but never quite this bad. His vacation complaints aren’t always about money, either–a lot of the time he doesn’t even want to do free activities like hiking because they are too much effort. At this point, I never want to go on another family vacation again. Given the amount of complaining he did during this last trip, along with his constant fretting about money since we got home, I thought he’d hated the trip as much as I did. But now he is talking about planning a trip for spring break, on top of another vacation that’s already booked for the summer. He was genuinely surprised when I explained that the last trip hadn’t been at all enjoyable for me or the rest of the family, and that I thought a spring break trip wasn’t a good idea. I’m at a loss as to how to proceed here.

I am struggling with the Eat, Play, Sleep “schedule” of my 3 month old. I have been trying to feed every 3 hours (for about a month) but getting to that point involves a lot of fussing since he only naps for 30-40 minutes at a time and screws up the rest of the day. E.g. eats at 7am, naps until 830 and then acts very sleepy/hungry until 10. Later in the day he ends up conking out for 3 hours sometimes and I have to wake him up to eat. Should I continue to stick with this and assume at some point he will get onto schedule or just give in and go 2 hours b/w feeds (feed him at 7 and 9) in the morning and go 4 hours in the afternoon? Or does this defeat the purpose of this? Has anyone dealt with a similar baby? I’m going back to work soon and I am nervous about the lack of routine.

When does nap time actually start and end at certain times instead of just when sleepy?