Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Life Aquatic Mobile
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For my youngest, we made a half-hearted attempt to do an ocean-themed nursery. This mobile would have fit right in.
This luxe Pehr mobile showcases adorable, handcrafted felt ocean animals. The calming colors will fit any decor and soothe your baby to sleep. If ocean animals aren’t your thing, check out these other options from Pehr, including a variety of animals and stars.
This mobile is $95 at Nordstrom.
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Vent. I’ve been posting and this community has been great.
My almost 3-year-old has a speech delay and is now in weekly ST – yay! Whenever I read something in their class group text about something another kid verbally told their parents (e.g. “Lucy told us that Jack loves cupcakes”) it makes me…irate, envious, and of course starts my anxiety spinning. Any mums of speech delayed or formerly speech delayed kids want to tell me what helped them?
It also probably doesn’t help that there’s a lot of weird parental humble bragging/faux modesty in this group generally.
I am usually NOT a comparer to other kids but this has got me going there.
Slightly different scenario here, but my parents moved across the country to spend more time with the grandkids … WITHOUT NOTIFYING US FIRST. They moved a block and a half away. They get along with the kids great, but I’ve felt pressure since they’ve moved here to incorporate them into our lives in a way that I don’t necessary love – I grew up with divorced parents, so I was familiar with the careful balancing act of spending relatively equal amounts of time with all branches of the family, and their move … disrupted that balance since the other grandparents aren’t local.
A frequent boundary-setting conversation we’ve had is that they made a choice to be ‘normal life’ grandparents rather than ‘vacation time’ grandparents when they moved here. We’re still going to leave town most holidays to see the family members that don’t live locally. We’re still going to go on vacations with the other grandparents who don’t live locally because I want my kids to have a relationship with them too.
I don’t think you’re being unreasonable with boundary setting if your kids want to spend time with friends during a long weekend. This is normal, healthy stuff .. and frankly, much needed after the years of Covid isolation.
I would appreciate any advice people have about boundary-setting with local, involved grandparents when no one is doing anything wrong. They’re wonderful grandparents and helpful caregivers who began gradually moving to an apartment in our city a few years back, and we’re trying to adjust to the switch from them being here one week a month (where we basically rearranged our lives to maximize time with them) to the current situation where they’re here ~60% of the time and doing nothing else when they’re here is not practical. Kid is also getting older and want more of a social life outside the home, which is completely normal, but the grandparents seem to be having a harder time adjusting to this than we are.
Also would appreciate a gut check that I’m not being unreasonable for accepting a friend’s invite to go out of town with her and our kids for one night on the Saturday-Sunday of Thanksgiving break. My parents are here for three weeks straight from this weekend to the end of November and we’ll be seeing them pretty much all day Wednesday/Thursday/Friday of Thanksgiving break. They’re pretty hurt, but as noted above, when they’re here this much it’s hard to avoid stuff like this coming up during a visit and I think these kind of opportunities are special and important for my kid. It was a different story when they were here a lot less.
Hi. Any moms use the Nike Fitness app? I’m intrugued since online reviews seems good, it’s free, and fits into my busy schedule. I’m ready to get back in shape!!
does anyone have a light up dance pad that their kids like? kind of like dance, dance revolution, but without the screen?
i posted yesterday that Twin A was upset about going to school without Twin B, well apparently Twin A liked it so much that this morning she was upset that Twin B was healthy enough to go to school and said (in front of Twin A) that she wished Twin B would die. They are in Kindergarten, in separate classes, only see each other at school at recess, and I get that it is hard to be a twin. DH is out of town, I am sick, and they have to be at school between 7:10-7:20am. Two questions:
(1) How do you reset for the day when you feel like you’ve negotiated world peace before your day even starts?
(2) from a sibling perspective, I always tell my kids that it is ok to have mixed feelings about having a sibling, but should I encourage them to discuss them not in front of their sibling? I have a sister who was VERY difficult to grow up with and I ended up resenting her and my parents a lot and I’m trying not to make the same mistakes and hopefully foster a better relationship
Going back to work after maternity leave (4 months) in less than two weeks. Baby will stay with dad for two months, then start daycare. I will work full time in the office, maybe 1 time per week from home.
What are your tips and tricks to make this work as smoothly as possible?
Currently still breastfeeding and planning to combo feed baby when working.
Welp, I didn’t get the job. I was one of two finalists. I’m still processing but weirdly OK for now? Just annoyed that I had to sink so much time and energy into something I ultimately didn’t get, but that’s the process, right?
I’m in a leadership role at my current org, with a great boss, and after a very toxic time with a former boss (who has left my current company) I have a lot of opportunity internally without the stress of figuring out a new organization. This is a good thing, right?
Holiday gift thread…..We’re considering a Yoto or Tonie for our newly 4yr old for x-mas. Would love any thoughts on this from people who own one.
My almost two year old has decided he does not like his dad. He gets mad when dad comes home from work, he squirms and runs away when dad tries to hug him and just generally avoids him a lot of the time. He is thrilled to see me when I get home from work. I do hear some sweet interactions every now and then, but the majority of the time he’s indifferent at best. His dad is very involved and continues to be patient, but I can see it’s starting to wear on him. Any tips on how to handle this or is this something that’ll just run its course? I’m also worried that maybe my continued legitimate frustration with my husband is a contributing factor that my kid is picking up on.
PT Help? Please be kind. :)
DS will be 3 next month. We practice sitting on the potty but haven’t gone yet. He lets me know when he’s gone in his diaper. We practiced with underwear on Sunday afternoon and went and sat on the potty every 15-30 minutes for a few hours. He had a few accidents but I expected that. He sits on the potty and reads his books every AM when we get ready for school and every PM before/after bath. Nothing produced, but he’s content sitting there for a bit “reading” his potty-related books.
I sent daycare a bunch of underwear and asked them to help with him sitting on the potty. When I picked him up, he was in a diaper and the teacher said “He didn’t want to sit today, but we’ll keep trying!”
What are my next steps? Do I push daycare to help more?
I trained my older kid around 3.25, and he NEVER was ok sitting on the potty or told me if he went in his diaper.
I feel like this kid actually has some interest so I want to take advantage.
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions on our 10-hour road trip with a 3 year old. A lot of people mentioned podcasts – would love suggestions for good podcasts for the preschool set!
Coffee is good in moderation, but you can definitely have too much. My MIL and SIL are like 6+ cups a day drinkers and have had a bunch of negative health impacts. To be fair, this (it’s good in moderation, bad in excess) is true of many things.