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EB0220 says
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ANP says
YES. Thank you!!
CHJ says
Toddler biter crisis over here… On Friday, we found out that DS and his daycare buddy have started biting other kids. He’s 16 months old. Our daycare is very good and they have him on a whole No Biting program, where he and his buddy are being isolated from the other kids and have two teachers dedicated to spending the day with them and working on not biting. I feel terrible though. Both in terms of my sweet guy being the little thug in class, and feeling guilty that maybe the long days in daycare are overwhelming for him. Plus yesterday, when we went to pick him up, he and his biter-buddy were sitting on chairs, isolated from everyone else, while all the other kids played. I just feel awful today. Anyone been through something similar?
MomAnon4This says
NO no one else’s kid has ever bitten, haha. Our kid came home with a note from daycare… and then that night on Modern Family, Lily bit a kid on the playground and Cam played a song to her on his guitar. It still makes me laugh: “People aren’t food, people aren’t food, people aren’t food and PRIVATE PARTS ARE PRIVATE.”
What helped for us (our kid was ~18 months old) – books like TEETH ARE NOT FOR BITING. And giving something positive, We bite food, we do NOT bite our friends! AND our kid has always been good with role play with stuffed animals and dolls and stuff, so pretending to be a teacher and the toys are playing and then 1 doll attacks the other – you’re the teacher, kiddo! What do we say? We say to the dolls, “We bite food, we do NOT bite our friends!” And then you can make the doll sit out if that’s a thing at school, BUT I wonder… do you think your kid loves to sit on chairs and that is actually a motivator for him? Maybe ask the teachers if he can sit on the floor instead?
Withhold love & affection for a short time (2 minutes) or put him in his crib if he bites at home. (He probably doesn’t – no friends to bite there!) BUT role play with your partner or adult friends – do you bite them? NO because then we won’t be friends!
He’s learning from his biter buddy – make sure he learns the right thing from you.
This is NOT a failure of your parenting – this is a stage. Not reacting appropriately might be a failure, or a funny TV show, not sure yet….
mascot says
My child was usually the bitee, not the biter. But, he’s given us plenty of other fits with certain aspects of his behavior so I feel where you are coming from. I have to keep reminding myself that his behavior is developmentally normal, although completely frustrating. Kids bite (or take some other physical means) to express themselves when they don’t have the words/emotional skills to process it. I think it happens regardless of whether they are staying at home or in school. Don’t worry about your toddler being a thug. Sounds like the school is doing a good job working through this.
JJ says
Ha! I asked this forum about this exact issue a few months ago and people had great advice. Our son was the biter and I envisioned him going after kids in his class like a Hungry Hungry Hippo. It was literally almost every day, he was biting or trying to bite someone. And we used Teeth Are Not For Biting, which helped. But mostly – he grew out of it. He hasn’t bitten anyone at daycare or at home in several weeks. He doesn’t try to bite now.
Your school sounds like it did the same things ours did. And I was flipped out about the biting because my son is off the charts in size and weight. I refused to have a big bully in the class. Just be consistent about talking about biting, enforce a quiet time or time out if he does bite, and it will pass.
greenie says
I also have the “bitee” and 3+ months after being bitten a few different times by the same biter, they are now besties. I’m sure she’s called him a poopy-head or other potty word enough to get him back for the biting.
Maddie Ross says
I had the biter. She’s mostly grown out of it now, but it was especially bad right around 14-16 months, when she was old enough to be aware that she was the littlest ones in her class (at least size-wise). She didn’t do it maliciously (I don’t think any little kids really do). She did it to assert herself against her bigger friends. And then I think she continued doing it once she got a rise out of the teachers. I think it’s great that you have a daycare that’s paying super good attention to the biters, but I’m not sure I agree with their program of separation/isolation. With us, correction and short time outs worked better. Being treated wholly differently could exacerbate the problem, I would think. (Oh, and we totally used the Modern Family “friends aren’t food” bit too).
Anonyc says
Totally normal! My oldest was a bitee, and my next one was both a biter and a bitee–her class went through a several-months-long phase where everyone was biting everyone, constantly. I thought it was sort of hilarious (no serious, skin-breaking incidents ever occurred) and analogized it to a prisoner’s dilemma: for the biting to stop, they all had to stop together, otherwise they’d be the 15-month-old schmuck. Our teachers kept a close eye on the kids, intervened as much as possibly (lots of redirection or repositioning), and there was a lot of “teeth are for food, not friends.”
Really, it’s something normal that happens, and you work on it, and the kids grow out of it. The explanation for why that made the most sense to me is that for most kids, biting is their way of communicating–they don’t have the language skills to get the attention they want or to express their frustration/anger/etc. After they get more words it seems to naturally fade for most.
JJ says
This was very true in our case. As soon as my son learned how to say “no” and shake his head no, the biting stopped.
Of course, then the “no! no! no! no! no! no!” started…
RR says
My twins were biters and bitees, and my youngest has already been both. Honestly, don’t worry. He’s not a little thug. He’s a child. Most kids go through some kind of biting stage. The only time I every raised an eyebrow at another person’s child was when a little girl my twins’ age (so under 2 at the time) went through a face biting stage. She was like a tiny Hannibal Lecter. Her mom stopped me crying one morning to apologize. Even then, not really a big deal. She got kicked out of daycare after several weeks of non-stop daily 6-10 biting episodes (and even then, if I’d had a vote I wouldn’t have voted to kick her out).
If he’s still biting people at 5+, worry. Until then, don’t. You are doing everything right. He’s just a toddler.
Anonyc says
Tittering over the notion of a tiny Hannibal Lector. Also would not have voted her off the preschool island. Her poor parents!
RR says
I felt so bad for them. She was like 18 months old–what do you do? I’m sure she got over it. She did bite my daughter’s face though. Even at the time, it was funny (my daughter was going through her biting stage, and I still think getting bit shocked her out of it).
Beth says
ugh, I wish I had this top LAST thanksgiving, when I was nursing a 4 week old and had literally nothing to wear because my post-partum @ss was 3 sizes bigger than my regularly sizeable @ss and all my maternity clothes were summer :)
So glad the little nugget will be eating turkey and mashed potatoes with us this year instead!!!
JJ says
Are you me? I think I wore a long tank, black leggings, and a long cardigan last Thanksgiving because it was the only nursing-friendly outfit that fit my two-month postpartum body.
Beth says
I wore a non nursing friendly tunic dress and maternity leggings. And just took off my top to nurse. Yay for real clothes!! I was bummed for about a day when my baby and I mutually gave up on bre@stfeeding at 10 months…then I threw all my v-neck and buttondown shirts in the trash and had a party. And a beer.
Anon S says
Hi ladies, I’m currently pregnant with my first child and have been using Lucie’s List as a guide to register. It’s been really helpful but I was wondering if there was another similar registry guide that I could use to cross check?
KJ says
Pick up the Baby Bargains book.
RR says
Ditto. I can’t recommend this book enough. It was my bible for both pregnancies.
Anonyc says
Got any friends who have had kids? Pick their brains. I made my best friend an Amazon wish list when she was expecting with little comments on each item (like, you need one of these but I have no strong feelings on this brand, or this items was great for x, y, and z reasons, or it’s worth spending more on Pampers because they handle active kids better than other brands and less blowouts are better, or I learned that x thing is great for y situation that I had not previously anticipated). It was a lot of fun for me to make because it felt like all my hard-earned wisdom was helping someone else and not just occupying space in my head (right next to 80s pop song lyrics and instead of, oh, anything I learned in law school).
Also, general gripe–please don’t register at Buy Buy Baby! I get so angry at their exorbitant shipping fees and that everything is $5-10 more than on Amazon. They have good stuff but man, that really burns me. /end rant
pockets says
also you can’t use a buy buy baby gift card or store credit online. which blows my mind.
Anon S says
Wow that’s ridiculous! My husband and I went to our local BBB store last weekend to check it out and I do like their selection but we aren’t registering there for reasons that Anonyc mentioned. Don’t want to have to pay for shipping fees.
Msj says
If you call them and whine they’ll FedEx you a gift card that works online replacing the merchandise credit you can only use in store. I did that twice. Still an incredibly aggravating additional step
mascot says
Make your list and then have a few trusted parent friends vet it. I got a lot of good knowledge that way and it filled in gaps that the lists missed.
Beth says
Another thing to consider is what your post-baby setup will be. If you’ll be home with the baby for 8 weeks, then putting him/her into daycare, your list might look different than if you’ll be home with baby for 6 months and/or having an in-home nanny.
My baby went to daycare at three months, so a lot of the equipment I had for the 3-6 month range was not very used since she used daycare’s instead (door frame jumper, exersaucer, etc), and I got a TON of mileage out of bottles, bottle sterilizers, coolers etc.
POSITA says
Don’t forget that anything and everything can arrive in two days via Amazon prime. I put a lot of stuff and a maybe list on Amazon before the baby was born so I had the item picked out but not purchased. I could then easily hit purchase from my phone when nursing without having to go back and do research if I decided that I wanted something. This worked great for everything from highchairs to bottle warmers.
FWIW says
So I’m working on the whole ‘becoming a mom’ thing and just got my definite ‘nope. Not this month.’ We’ve only been actively ttc for two months so I realize that I shouldn’t even be considering stressing yet. It seems like everyone I know either got pregnant right away, wasn’t trying, or had to struggle for 5+ years.
Would anyone be willing to share how long it took for them? The other variable is that my husband travels extensively for work, so ‘1 year of trying’ would take us 2 years to accomplish.
POSITA says
Have you considered charting? I’m an impatient person and it really made me feel better about the process.
It took us three cycles, but had a very very early miscarriage in cycle 2. My cycles are long so it was about 4 months total.
CHJ says
I also felt like everyone I knew either got pregnant immediately or struggled, so I read so much into that first negative! But since then, many more friends have had children, and the range of normal is more like 5-12 months, with people getting pregnant the first month being a wild anomaly (especially if you were on the pill). For us, it took us 5 months for the first pregnancy (which ended in miscarriage) and then 1 more month to have a lasting pregnancy with DS, The Biting Toddler.
Pogo says
Ugh, I hear you. Husband was asking me about accompanying him on his sales conference in January (it’s been in fun locales before; this year it’s in Toronto). My response was “No way, Toronto in January? Unless I’m ovulating, then yes, I will be accompanying you.” I was kidding, but I feel you.
It would be nice if we all had all the time in the world and no external pressures of work, life, etc. That’s definitely what drives the stressing over ttc for me.
Newly pregnant says
About 8 months. I tracked periods using My Days, which would calculate ovulation windows. I tried temperature tracking for a little while but it was hard to maintain since the extended beeping would wake my husband up. I will say, My Days calculated something like a 6 day ovulation window, with the last day being the purported best day, and I think part of our challenge was that we were doing it too early in the ovulation cycle (per my doctor). When I did finally get pregnant it was a bit of a surprise because we had been sure that we had missed the window for that month given the aforementioned issues.
It was discouraging going through it (plus all of my friends announced pregnancies), but I tried to keep myself physically active and doing things that I otherwise would not have been able to do: drinking cava and eating unpasteurized cheeses. I miss cava and raw cheese.
Newly pregnant says
I should also add (since others have mentioned it), I’d been off birth control for about 3 years and my cycles were very regular. It just took us a while.
anon says
Three cycles, but let me put this in context, because I think it gives the right perspective. These were three medicated, monitored IUI cycles in which every possible aspect was optimized. I ovulated multiple eggs, we could time ovulation to a two-hour window and in$eminated in that window, we had several million more $perm than you “need.” And I was in my late 20’s and had fantastic test results, meaning I was really at the peak of my fertility. And even with everything being as perfect as it could be? Still took three. Life isn’t perfect, schedules are hard. And even when it all lines up perfectly, it still doesn’t work more times than not. But eventually, for almost everyone, it does.
anon says
5 cycles each time (and my cycles are 40ish days, so that’s a long time). This was with charting and ov. strips. A few cycles is totally normal!!
Pogo says
Glad to hear a few stories of marathon cyclers (40+ days) that made it work. My first was 36 days, and this one looks like it’ll be at least that long.
mss says
4 cycles the first two times, and then the 1 cycle the third. Was not expecting that.
Anon says
You should check out “Expecting Better” It’s a great book and she goes over the statistics. Like, if you were on hormonal birth control, it can take as long as nine months for your body to readjust. (By 9 months, 90% of women in a study were back to normal ovulation.) If you went to a doctor they would tell you to go home and not bother them until a year has gone by.
You might also want to get an app like Clue that tracks your period and basal body temp to help you figure out ovulation.
anon says
Note — if it does seem to be taking a long time for your cycles to resume, do go in to the doctor sooner rather than later. When mine didn’t come back within 3 months, I went in and we learned I had a benign pituitary tumor (pill had hid its effects for years, apparently). My doctor did NOT tell me to go home and come back when a year was up. These are pretty common, and you want to find out about them sooner rather than later to re-establish fertility.
Burgher says
It took us almost exactly a year after going off of birth control to get pregnant the first time. Unfortunately, I had an early miscarriage, but after that we got pregnant again in 2 cycles. It felt like it took forever to get that baby in our arms, even though it was “only” 2 years.
Now I’m expecting #2 in a few months, and this little guy only took 2 cycles to conceive after my fertility finally returned after 18+ months (due to lactational amenorrhea). We were not not trying, but I was stunned because I was convinced it would take me much longer after the difficulties the first time around.
ANP says
We conceived kid #1 in our first month of trying. TBH, it was a bit of a shock. Kid #2, however, took ten cycles (months) — also a shock, because it had happened so quickly the first time. Kid #3 (due next year) was a complete stunner, conceived even though we were actively preventing. All of this is to say that sometimes there’s no rhyme or reason — I’m a rational person, but this baby-making business can be a weird thing.
FWIW says
Thank you. Really, truly thank you. I knew I just needed some perspective. I am indeed charting (cm and opks) but not temping yet (irradic wakeup times bc sometimes I wake up at 4 am to exercise and other days I don’t).
Thank you so much for sharing your stories. Part of me is surprised at my reactions because I had a lot of worries going in (will I do a good job? Am I throwing my career away? How will I deal with spouse’s travel?) but they seem so little now as compared to my worry that it won’t happen…
Again, truly thank you.
Anonymous says
FYI – the wakeup TIME doesn’t matter for temping. It has to do with how many hours you’ve been asleep preceding the wake up time. If you consistently sleep more than 4 hours, your temp when you wake up will give you the info you want. #notadoctor
Katarina says
I had good luck temping whenever I was up for the day. I frequently get up during the night, too, but I had a pretty clear pattern, which confirmed that I was getting an accurate picture of ovulation from CM. If you do not get a clear temperature shift, you may need to be more rigorous to get an accurate picture.
Anon says
I was 29 when we started trying, adn have always been super healthy and had a super regular period. 2/3 of my mom’s sisters can’t have kids (for various reasons) but my mom had no issues. No fertility issues that we know of on DH’s side.
We decided to lay off birth control in September. After 2 months, I “got serious” and we made sure to have “$ex with purpose” (position to maximize conception) while I was ovulating. Didn’t get pregnant in Dec but got a positive in January. So….it took us 2-3 months of seriously trying plus 2 months of “hey, this might actually get me pregnant!”
As we start to consider timelines for #2, I’m factoring in a 6 month window (knowing full well it’s all a crap shoot…but I’d prefer not to deliver in the dead of winter if at all possible!).
Anon S says
We got pregnant on our first “try”, and I say that kind of loosely because I wasn’t really tracking when I was ovulating and we weren’t like, hey I’m fertile now so let’s have sex. I say “try” in that I got off birth control and we were like if it happens it happens! And then….it happened the first month! For what it’s worth, I am 31 and I was on birth control for 14 years.
Anonymous says
The first time around, it took six months. I gave up on opks and instead just relied on the “signs” – cm and temperature (even though temperture confirms ovulation after the fact). I resisted temping at first, but I really think it’s what did the trick. After temping for a few cycles, I learned I was ovulating late in my cycle, even though my cycle was a “normal” 30 days. I knew to keep trying until I saw the temp rise, which gave us a longer window than I otherwise would have thought.
I suggest avoiding online searches during the two week wait and testing too early- I found negative tests to be much more disappointing than learning naturally that it didn’t happen that month.
CPA lady says
I went off birth control in November and was pregnant in January. With my sister’s 1st it was first try. Her second took 5 months. My best friend took 6 months. It just varies widely and there’s a lot in between first try and fertility treatments.
Jen says
Took me eight months. I went off the pill a few months before we started trying, and my cycles were normal immediately. The whole time we were trying, I was charting and temping and checking my mucus, etc. It was really stressful, and it put a strain on my relationship with my husband because he didn’t understand the science / timing, and he wasn’t as worried that we would need medical assistance to conceive (until he started worrying toward the end that his sperm count was too low, and then he started to develop performance anxiety).
As it happened, the month I got pregnant was the month my temps and mucus were off (I probably ovulated a week late), and I basically bullied my husband into sleeping with me (or at least trying to, am and pm — at that point, he was having issues getting to completion due to sperm count anxiety) for several days in a row.
Not the most romantic story, and I wouldn’t advise getting as aggressive as I got or stressed out as either of us was, but it had a happy ending for us (and marriage is strong).
Burgher says
Once we started to get close to a year, and the doctors had ruled out anything obvious on my end, we ended up ordering a sperm test kit online that you can do at home. Just a PSA that such a thing exists, and might help if your guy isn’t thrilled to discuss it with his doctor.
In House Counsel says
With our first, it took us 5 months to get pregnant (temping didn’t work so well but OPK + cm checks did). when we were ready to try for #2, we got pregnant on the first try which then led to a miscarriage but then got pregnant 2 months after getting clearance from the doctor post miscarriage. Most friends also had a similar 4-7 month time window for getting pregnant the first time.
Anon says
It took us 7-8 mos. friends ranged but we seemed to hit around the middle for our age demographic (31-34)
Quailison says
It took us one cycle, but I had been charting for over a year to avoid pregnancy (with the understanding that if I got pregnant it wouldn’t be the end of the world, but it turned out to be quite effective to use barrier methods during the fertile period.) I was 30 when we conceived and I’m due in February.
I found charting to be reassuring, I liked knowing my ovulation/conception date pretty definitively so that I am fairly sure of my 40 week due date. My spouse and I felt like we had a three-month optimal window for birth – and I know this is the last thing I’ll be able to “control” with a kid! – because I’m in my last semester of law school and won’t have maternity leave for at least three years, so it was either now or years from now. We’re lucky it worked so well for us (so far, knock on wood!) and I wish I had done temping for longer because it was really satisfying to understand my body better.
New DC Mom says
Hi ladies! The husband and I will be flying home for Xmas with our 3 month old DS. I am pretty nervous about the whole flying experience – mostly about managing all of the gear – carseat, stroller, diaper bag, and luggage. Also, I am concerned about how we should get to the airport. Can I install our carseat in a cab for a 20 minute ride?
Anon says
You can do it! Infants are the easiest. For quick rides, we just buckled in the infant carrier (we had a britax that had a base….but you can also simply thread the seatbelt through.
I’d put the baby in a bjorn or whatever for schlepping through the airport. Use a backpack as a diaper bag because they are much easier. DH somehow attached the carseat to the roller bag which was super helpful. We gate checked the stroller (umbrella, but we flew with a 4.5 monther who was already sitting) and the car seat, and baby slept the whole time because I was no fool and booked flights that fell during her naptime/bedtime. Bring serveral gallon plastic baggies for any mishaps that happen in the airport or airplane that need to be, ah, contained, for later clean up.
NewMomAnon says
I traveled with my little one at 3 months old. I was stressed out about it, but she did really well. Here is what we did:
We had the Britax infant seat, and as the earlier Anon said, you can buckle it directly into a car without the base. If you search Youtube, you can find a video from Britax about how to do it. I practiced at home first, and it only took about 60 seconds to get the seat installed in the cabs we took.
We did bring the stroller through the airport, largely because we were bringing the carrier, which snapped into the stroller. I had planned to do the Ergo, but it was really handy to have the stroller.
We did a lap seat, but asked at the gate to be reseated in a row with an empty seat. We were able to put the carrier in the empty seat for one of the directions. Baby slept in her carrier that entire flight. The other direction, we couldn’t get an empty seat, so we gate checked the stroller and carrier and baby sat on our laps for the flight. She slept under my nursing cover the entire flight. If you are nursing, I would recommend having some sort of cover or blanket – my kiddo was really distracted and got overstimulated quickly on the plane, so it was nice to be able to cover her up so she could rest.
Think about ear pressure management – pacifiers or bottles are key. My kiddo didn’t take a pacifier by then, so we brought bottles. I wish I had brought more bottles, since we burned through all of them on the way out and I had to then pump for the way home. If you take b*milk through security, let the TSA know and they will put it in a special scanner so you don’t have to follow the 3 ounce/plastic bag rules.
For mid-air diaper changes, I brought a little pouch with a couple diapers, travel pack of wipes, and hand sanitizer. That way I didn’t have to lug the whole diaper bag around the plane. A backpack instead of diaper bag would have been handy…I’ll keep that in mind next time we travel with baby. I would also recommend checking bags rather than trying to wrangle roller bags and baby onto the plane…
KJ says
I flew with my baby when she was 8 weeks, and I was also very nervous. The Lucie’s List book was useful because it gave me an idea of exactly what to expect, which just made me feel better. http://www.lucieslist.com/flying-with-baby/
Anonymous says
I was nervous about our first flight with the baby, too! At the infant stage, we took our stroller with the adapter/carseat through security and gate checked both. We checked the base with our luggage and tried to carry on as little as possible (I only had the diaper bag). I shared a luggage with the baby and bought diapers at our destination (but packed extra in the diaper bag). My husband and I could get from the baggage claim, etc. with all our gear and luggage without a cart. We flew once with the pac n play and won’t do it again – that was just too much!
I was b-feeding and had no problem feeding at the gate or on the plane as needed (even if not on schedule), which really helped keep baby happy. I think the most important thing to do is arrive super early and give yourselves plenty of time to get through checkin/security with all your gear, feed baby (and yourselves), and change diaper, etc. before getting on the flight.
I would install the carseat/base for the short ride to the airport, but our carseat was easy to install.
Nonny says
Ok guys, this is very personal, and I considered going anon for this, but whatever. We’ve all been through it.
My baby is now 10 months old and Aunt Flo came back about 7 weeks ago. Problem is, she’s been back twice since then, each time for about 5 days. Prior to baby, I was on a totally regular cycle, every 27 days like clockwork. I do not appreciate this every 2 weeks thing. AND I’m on the Pill right now so really, I would have thought it would be regular. For those of you who have been through it, is this just my body learning to regulate itself again, or does this sound weird enough to you that if it were you, you’d go to the doctor? At the moment I’m voting to wait another month and if it is still an issue, to see the doctor then, but this is totally bizarre to me, and definitely not welcome. What happened with the rest of you?
anon says
Are you on the pill or the minipill? Are you still breastfeeding? I have to say, my periods have been all out of whack each time – with the first, I got a period at four weeks (seriously), and then not again until 10 months but it was incredibly heavy. With my third, I got a couple of periods very early on (about two weeks apart as well), and then nothing, and then they were a little crazy (two weeks apart, then two months), but they’ve settled down now. I’d probably wait another one month to see what happens, if it were me.
Nonny says
Yes, still BF, yes, on minipill. Glad to know that at least one other person on here was out of whack for a while!
anon says
Minipill won’t make you regular – it doesn’t suppress ovulation like the Pill (at least, not all the time). The way the minipill works is basically like an IUD – it makes it really hard for sperm to get through (it can stop ovulation as well, but that’s not the primary mechanism). So your body might just be resettling itself after almost two years of not ovulating :).
Nonny says
Aha, that explains it then. My previous experience was all with methods other than the minipill…
Anonymous says
Some of you might have seen my posts before about DH being told to apply for a temporary job in a different city. Husband was offered the job today, salary is lower than what he earns here (though they did offer moving expenses). We are not moving. Saves us from a fight. Still annoyed though that he would apply without really asking for my input.
MomAnon4This says
Didn’t see your posts before but might scan for them. We’ve been through the same thing. Had to sit down and have either a KITA talk or some marriage counseling and tears, or whatever before he’d started looking locally. He’s not the happiest camper at his current employer, but I heart my supervisor and just got a promotion, so we’ll see… Hugs and empathy to you, and fewer future fights.
Anonymous says
He honestly was pretty torn about it. Very stupid situation. I keep telling him if this company wants to hire him they will hire him, not tell him to apply to a temp job somewhere else until something opens up locally.