Nursing-Friendly Tuesday: Sleeveless Faux Wrap Blouse

When you are potty training (either officially full steam ahead and/or they go sometimes as practice but you’re not yet “all in” training mode), how do you handle the multiple requests to “go potty”? In other words, we aren’t at a stage yet where we can tell if the situation is stalling/faking/doesn’t have to go or truly will go. Do you stick with once and if they don’t go, they don’t get to “try” 5 minutes (or less) later? Do you take them every time they ask for the practice? I don’t think there is a right/wrong answer here, but I am not feeling great about either option (saying “no” or repeatedly going to the bathroom), so looking to see what others do as well. None of the advice I’ve found has addressed this part of the process.

How does your daycare invoice you? I don’t know if this is normal or not, but we never get a bill from daycare. They give you the rates and you are just supposed to keep track and prepay. Some people pay monthly and some people pay weekly. You can’t auto-pay from a credit card, only a checking account. That is a lot of points to give up, so I am logging into the portal weekly and paying with my credit card. It is a little more complicated because my daughter goes part time — some weeks twice, other three or four times — and there are the ancillary programs (dance, karate, music) that cost money, but again, no invoice. This morning I reconciled things & found I never paid for May’s Croughing Tigers. I can’t believe that businesses actually operate this way… so how does it work where you are?

My almost-kindergartener hates his summer camp. (He spent the first two weeks of the summer at his school’s camp, which he loved, but school does not offer camp for elementary or middle schoolers for the rest of the summer, just for returning preschoolers.) He is attending a camp run by an outside vendor but held at his school and open to anyone, not just kids from school. So while some school friends are at camp, there are lots of kids he doesn’t know. He is very shy and does not like new people or new routines. Obviously we considered this when signing him up for camp, and thought that going to camp in familiar surroundings with some people he knew was the best option.

Apparently not. He cried all night last night because he was so unhappy at camp. That sort of meltdown is very out of character. He is scared of all the people he doesn’t know and doesn’t like the activities. I feel terrible. We have six more weeks of this camp. I don’t know what to do. I think I could convince his school to let him go to the camp for preschoolers (he is starting K a few months before turning 5 and the school would have enrolled him in another year of preschool had we not requested he move on to K, so is still the right age for preschool) but then I’d be out $4k for the other camp (no refunds after June 1). On the one hand I feel like this may be a good growing experience, but I don’t want my kid to be miserable all summer. Hopefully it will get better as he gets more used to it, but if it doesn’t I’m not sure what to do.

Good morning ladies, any second time (or more!) mamas here? I am a first time mom to a 14 month old and I feel ready to start trying again for a second! I have appointments made with my obgyn and my general doctor to get checked out, health wise. What other action items do you suggest before trying to conceive? My husband and I are going to sit down and look at finances too. Anything you wish you did, or that you recommend doing, before you started trying for number 2?

Would also be interested in hearing the age gaps between your first and second and your thoughts on the gap.

Thank you for your insight!

What was or is your favorite end of first trimester, not showing, but definitely growing a pre-baby-bump fupa outfit?