Feeding Tuesday: Kids’ Stainless Steel Cups

Sleep question. When did your kids switch from two naps to one? Did kid just refuse to nap or you had to make the transition?
Baby AIMS is about 13 months now and still takes a short morning nap (10-1030/11) and longer afternoon nap(1/130-2:30/3). For the last week she has been having a very hard time going to sleep at night. We had a pretty good routine worked out where she went to bed between 6:30 and 7, after we read our books, all on her own. The last week though we haven’t been able to get her to sleep before 8 or 830 and each time had been a battle. One or two night she made it to 9/930. We’ve tried letting her stay up later but she is visibly tired/cranky at 7 and sometimes before. I’m happy to have a later bedtime but not with a cranky kid. And even when she stays up later she is still struggling to fall asleep on her own, which wasn’t an issue before. Putting her down at her regular time however doesn’t work either. And she is not sleeping in much later than she did with an earlier bedtime. Although – and this is kind of great – she is sleeping much better once she is asleep (a few nights she actually managed to sleep through the night entirely without any wake ups, other nights it’s been 1 very short wake up for a bottle and back to sleep). It seems drastic to me for a kid to suddenly go to sleep so much later than before.

I’m wondering if maybe she is just getting too much sleep in the day time? Other ideas welcome. Sort of at a loss but this is really starting to wear on me because battling an angry cranky kid immediately after work is just rough.

I got my son a mug like this at Yellowstone last summer, and he loves it. He calls it his “Junior Ranger” cup and he acts like he is seriously big time when he uses it. But I only trust him with it at the table – I don’t think he could handle walking around the house with it yet.

Just a quick update after yesterday’s hospital drama. Went in for my viability scan this am and they did the NT tests as well. Baby CB looks chubby and happy, even rolling over for us. I will be injecting myself with heparin for the next 8 months and need to see a haematologist and a geneticist but everyone seems optimistic that with a bit of management, everything will be okay. It appears that I should have gotten a call from my midwife telling me what they were concerned about and what the next steps were but didn’t, so that’s where the confusion emerged from.

Piggybacking off the divorce question above.

I think I have let my resentment build to the point where I’ve “lost that loving feeling”, as the song says. My immediate reaction to any small stupid thing is to blame my husband. Like there weren’t diapers stocked under the changing table and my initial reaction was to snap in my head at him. I am getting off the depo shot. So hopefully my hormone-induced rages will subside. But I need to break the resentment habit because it’s making me miserable. Any of you gotten to the point of extreme resentment and come back from it successfully?

Daycare decision question — I could use some input! I’m in NoVa (so traffic can be a huge issue) and we’re going with an in-home daycare center (up to 4 kids at a home).

Daycare provider A is a 12 minute drive from our house, but requires a busy road to get there so could be 15-20 mins depending on traffic. In the direction of me and DH’s work, but not as convenient. Provider is probably in her 40s, experienced, and would have 4 children in the home — including ours. Space for children is smaller but still OK. We would feel comfortable leaving baby with her.

Daycare Provider B is 8 minute drive from our house, no potential for traffic as its driving through a neighborhood. Dedicated entire basement with kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom with cribs for naptime. Also has a fenced-in backyard and screened in porch for children. Provider is older though, probably in her late 50s/early 60s (but clearly very very experienced). She would only have 2 children (including ours), the other is a toddler. She prefers infants to toddlers due to their schedules and energy level.

We are 90% sure we’ll go with Daycare Provider B because of the a) house set up including the backyard and b) proximity to our home. Should her older age be a concern at all in terms of energy level to play with children? Will she be more passive? And while its great that our baby will get so much individual attention, I also want her to be socialized so I’m concerned that have only one other toddler in the house isn’t enough socialization?