Weekend & Family Friday: Lightning Footie
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I recently passed along a big set of pajamas to a friend whose daughter is about two years younger than my son. Seeing her daughter wear the pajamas has brought back memories of my son wearing them. My absolute favorite brand was KicKee Pants — they’re incredibly soft (95% viscose from bamboo, 5% spandex), wash well, and come in adorable patterns. They are a little bit pricey — these are $34.99 at Buy Buy Baby — so they make an excellent registry item, shower gift, or newborn gift. Lightning Footie
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Hopefully it’s not too late to post this (this site is hard on us West Coasters)!
Any new moms out there with an online shopping problem? I’m on maternity leave and it is FAR to easy to scroll through shops with cute baby stuff on my phone while I hold a sleeping baby. And then Apple Pay means it’s one click to buy.
I’m not bankrupting us or buying anything that won’t be useful someday but I also feel like there’s a psychological thing going on where I subconsciously feel like if I buy the baby everything she could possibly want, everything will turn out ok . . .
Maybe a fun question. Do any of you have a kids “spring jacket” that you love? For winter, we use the Patagonia down hoodie, which is high-quality enough to pass down between kids, easy to get on and off, and carseat-safe. What’s the equivalent for a spring coat? Maybe something fleece-lined and water resistant? Location is upstate NY, for what it’s worth.
PSA: If any of you are buy-ahead types, there are a bunch of kids’ winter coats for 50% off at the Columbia website. I ordered my daughter a 3-in-1 coat for next winter for $60, originally $120.
So my German au pair is planning to take a trip to the Bahamas in mid-March for one of her vacation weeks. She is adamant that she wants to go/everything will be fine/etc. She has trip insurance so it’s not a $$ issue, she just wants to go with friends and they don’t want to find another place to vacation. We (and our au pair coordinator) have both told her we don’t think it’s a good idea, look into rescheduling, etc. (and we’re fine with giving her time off another time!). I’m not really worried about her getting sick, so much as I am about her not being able to get back into the country/getting stuck and not being able to afford to stay in the Bahamas.
What would you do? Quite frankly, I wouldn’t put it past Trump to close the borders if this gets worse. I can’t force her not to fly but I have advised her that we won’t be able to ‘bail her out’ financially, and we will need to count any days she takes off if something bad happens as at least partial vacation days (though if it’s a short delay we’ll work with her and we don’t plan to be punitive). Any other ideas/suggestions?
Is anyone on this board in a job where you have summers off? I feel like I really romanticize the idea of just having endless lazy days with my kids, basically having a “summer” of my own. I’m an attorney, so wondering if there’s any contract-attorney type job where I could in effect take summers off, or at least slow my workflow down to very very very part-time to have that “summer feel.”
But then again, my good friend is a teacher, so she has the summers off, but she is choosing to keep her kids in childcare and teach summer school for the extra income. Part of this is because they’re toddlers and she doesn’t want to lose her spot at the daycare, which wouldn’t be a consideration for me with school-age kids. But still, it makes me wonder, perhaps staying home with kids isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (obviously women on this board will skew to that POV).
Also, it kind of feels like cheating the system to have been a working mom during the super-tough toddler years, and then stepping way back once they are school age and more genuinely fun to be around (“Survive til five!”) What do you all think?
We got notice from our school district that children who stay home sick will still be eligible for “perfect attendance” starting now and going forward. Just highlights to me the ridiculousness of the normal “perfect attendance” policy, i.e. that it poses a public health hazard by pressuring students to come to school sick! This virus scare is awful, but hopefully it sparks some conversations and reevaluation around public health practices
I know it’s for the best, but all the travel restrictions from COVID-19 are really bumming me out. I have to miss a big conference next week that I was planning to network at, and our Paris trip will likely be postponed. Just needed to vent – again, I know it’s the right move from a public health perspective, but such frustrating personally.
Any advice on a grandma who smokes? A lot. Has for decades and is not interested in quitting. She’s not local and we only see her 1-2x per year at her home. But she now wants to visit us more frequently. Partner and I both hate the smoking. Brother in law, who is local to grandma, also smokes. Grandma has been super helpful and lovely with brother in law’s three kids. Should we just suck it up for the few times a year we see her? Avoid staying at her home (she smokes inside. A lot.)? Or is this something you take seriously and say no home visits? Baby is coming this summer, so also interested in your thoughts about infants v. Toddlers. Thanks!
First-time mom looking for advice. My six-week-old baby has been sleeping through the night this week, seven or eight hours at a time. The pediatrician has said we don’t need to wake her up to eat, given her normal weight gain and full diapers. The trade-off seems to be that she won’t sleep during the day — maybe two or three naps that last half an hour or so, but not the longer ones that other babies take. As a result, she’s sleeping about ten hours total every day, not the 14-18 that sound more typical/are recommended. She’s usually taking naps in her Snoo, occasionally on my chest or her dad’s.
Particularly this week, she’s spent almost every waking moment nursing, which I imagine is gearing up for a six-week growth spurt. We’re nursing on an almost hourly basis during the day, but not doing any nursing overnight.
I guess those may be two separate questions: should I be concerned that she isn’t napping during the day? And is there anything to worry about with a kid who eats so constantly during the day? I’m fine nursing her on demand while I’m on leave, but she’ll be in daycare starting in late May, and I don’t want that transition to be made more difficult if that schedule isn’t possible then. But surely this is growth-related and her bigger stomach will slow things down by then, right? Thanks so much for any wisdom.