Maternity Monday: Printed Compression Socks

Anyone have a snorkel mask to recommend for a kid? We’re going to the Caribbean soon and although my 5 year old is not yet swimming independently, she’s comfortable putting her face in the water with goggles on so we’re hoping she can do some rudimentary “snorkeling” while being held by an adult.

yesterday i had what felt like a sad parenting moment. we live in Houston and took my 4.5 year old twins to a new to us playground and there was a sign on the gate with a picture of a gun with an X over it instructing people not to bring guns into the playground. my girls wanted to know what the sign said and what a gun is…

DC area moms, any intel on pumping rooms at either DCA or BWI? Which would you rather?

For those of you with older kids, do your kids use facebook messenger (the kids version) to message with classmates outside of school hours? and what age did that start? DD is in 2nd grade and at least five of her friends are on the kids messenger and have chats going. I know I’m not ready for that now, but wondering when I need to be.

Sidenote: mom I was talking to had given her daughter her old phone to use. It’s “only connected to the internet.” I feel like that’s the last thing I’m going to get DD? DD is smart and suggested that maybe I let her have messenger but she could set one time a week to check it and reply to friends. I told her that would be a great policy… in a few years.

Same parent, different question (I’m seriously questioning my relationship to technology or how I parent around it after a weekend away with a couple families). Our kids are in 2nd and 1st. We were traveling to a farm for 48 hours where the kids would be bunking together and every other kid had brought an ipad. My kids don’t actually have ipads – just kindles – although they can sometimes use mine. Am I way out of touch here? It was kind of a bummer for me, but it also made parts of the evening easier, so I get it. But when do individual ipads become a thing? And when do they get brought on vacations like this?

My 4yo got RSV two weeks ago and is now otherwise fine but still has a sporadic cough, and sometimes pretty bad coughing fits (usually at least once a night and a few times during the day, especially when he goes into the cold). The pediatrician took a listen and said it’s nothing to worry about and will go away eventually, but I’m wondering whether your any of your kids had this and if so, (1) how long it lasted and (2) if there was anything that helped alleviate it in the meantime. We’ve been giving him spoonfuls of honey. I feel so bad for him — it’s obviously uncomfortable and affecting both his sleep and play.

Hello, I recently was advised to do IVF and it’s been stressing me out. I dont think we’ve been trying that long, I wasn’t expecting that type of advice. It made me feel defective while everyone else i know managed to do this just fine. At the same time it feels like ages and ages, it was boiling hot outside when we started trying and now it’s cold. We haven’t told many people about this so I feel very alone. My husband is really confused as to why I’m so stressed out about this. His brother recently had a child and my husband was upset when he asked me how I felt about them having a baby and I said I wasn’t that happy for them right now because it is painful for me. We got into a fight about it because he’s upset with me for being so sad and angry about a lot of things right now. This is true, i am sad and angry right now, as I have to face IVF and my job has been incredibly stressful and hard. I dont even know WHEN I could do it with my work schedule, I’m scared, I don’t want such an invasive procedure, I’m worried it won’t work, I am exhausted. I feel unsupported and ya, I am unhappy.

I dont really know what I’m looking for here, support/advice? I hate that every holiday event with his family will now be centered around their baby, and everyone will be so excited and happy and I am dying inside. I just want to get to January.