Nursing/Feeding Tuesday: Nite-Nite Light Bulb
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2018 Update: We still stand by this Nite-Nite Light bulb review — but you may want to check out some of our more recent stories about bedtime, including our recent post on how to get your kids to sleep.
We got a version of this “sleepy baby” lightbulb from Hammacher Schlemmer a while ago — we were ordering other stuff and it was on sale, so I figured, why not throw it in — and we’ve been very happy with it. We have it in the reading lamp closest to my 4.5-year-old’s bed (although it would also work well for babies’ nighttime feedings and diaper changes), and bedtime has been easier since we got it. I’m not sure I’d say the former light energized him, but this one definitely seems to make it easier for him to recognize it’s bedtime. The Hammacher Schlemmer one is still available for $20, but this one is also highly rated and available through Amazon Prime for $20 as well. SCS Nite-Nite Light Bulb
Hmn: here’s a whole article about it in the NYT.
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First time mom here… any tips to gently wean a very reluctant child 14 month child? I went away for five days on business thinking this would be the clean break but as soon as she saw me she was all up in my shirt.
I would be so irritated if I were you.
Its amazing what assumptions even progressive men have that are so deeply ingrained they don’t even notice. I remember years before I was even pregnant my husband, who thinks he is far more politically liberal than I am, made some offhand comment about how once we had kids I’d have to get a bigger car to ferry around the kids. It didn’t even occur to him that he might be doing as the ferrying. It was just 100% assumed that that was on me.
If I were you, I’d set one or two specific nights each week that are yours to work, that way he can plan for it. Then you either tell him it’s on him those nights, and if he refuses to pitch in, you hire a babysitter. If he has said he’ll do one night a week, hold him to that. It doesn’t matter if it seems like he’d rather be working. Don’t not take him up on it because you feel guilty, and then get resentful. Just take him at his word. Besides, if he gets grumpy about doing 1/7 of the nighttime parenting, that’s on him.
My husband and I have very similar jobs. Similar titles. Similar roles. Similar employers. Our jobs are incredibly flexible. We’re expected to be in the office most of the core business day, but working from home or on alternate schedules is completely fine. We have two small children. Most mornings, I get up at 6:30, shower, do hair and make-up, then get kids up and dressed and downstairs. I start their breakfast then at 7:30, my husband takes over and I leave for work. The au pair comes on duty at 8:00 and my husband leaves for work at that time. His commute is about 30 min each way but mine is an hour. I get home at 6:00 to relieve the au pair (Fridays are different, but that’s a different story). I watch the kids while I make dinner. We eat at 7:00 and the kids go to bed about 7:45 (lights out around 8:15). My husband is typically home for dinner, but he kind of comes home whenever. He often says he has to work late. He also makes off-hand comments about how he works more than I do. When I have more work to get done I have to start at about 8:15 after the kids are in bed and work into the evening. He’s offered to do dinner/bedtime one night a week so I can work later. But it often seems like he wants that evening to work with his schedule. I feel like he has unlimited time every evening to work while I have to squeeze in dinner/kids and then try to get my head back in the game at 8:30. He’ll often have gotten home about that time, dig through some leftovers, then go watch TV. (It’s not like I was relaxing in the 2.5 hrs since I got home.) Between my longer commute and being on duty for kids in the evening, I feel like I get significantly less time to work than he does. He seems to have this assumption that he needs to work more than I do, that his job demands it. But as I said, we have almost the same job. We really just do the same thing at different employers. So I feel like my employer is getting the short stick (and I’m not putting in the hours I need to put in) just because, frankly, he’s the man. He doesn’t see it this way. If I say “I feel like you think you need to work more because you’re the man” he’ll deny it. But I can’t think of any other reason that he would think he needs to put in more hours.
I’d like transition my twins (who will be 3 in June) from cribs to toddler beds soon. They share a room. They don’t climb out of the cribs, so we haven’t felt that need. We tried the toddler rail conversion a few months ago but it did not work — they could not resist jumping out of the beds and trying to escape into the hallway, over and over, even though they were dead tired. I’m thinking of introducing a weighted blanket when we next try to go for big boy beds, but they are pricey (x 2). Anyone have any advice?
I have never heard of these light bulbs before, but my husband had the idea to get a red light bulb for our small lamp in the nursery and it worked out great while we still had middle of the night feedings and diaper changes. I still use it for bedtime bottle and book reading. Yes it is like being in a photographer’s dark room, but it was cheap and does the job well.
My toddler is obsessed with putting her hands down my shirt, preferably as far down my shirt as possible and into my bra. She also wants to pull down the neckline on my shirt and rest her head on my bare chest. I really don’t like it but am not getting anywhere with firmly but calmly removing her hand and saying “no, mommy doesn’t like that.”
Anyone experienced something like this? I don’t even understand why she wants to do it, so it’s hard to figure out how to address the need and stop it. I know from past experience that if I make a big deal out of it, she’ll keep doing it to get attention. Are toddlers supposed to need skin-to-skin time too? Because I am over it….
I’m pregnant and live in an area of the country that will likely end up having local transmission of Zika at some point this year. I’d like to be prepared and have some supplies at home before the network news headlines cause major panic. According to the CDC and EPA, they suggest pregnant women treat clothes with permethrin, use DEET, wear pants/long sleeves, avoid being outside at dusk and in early morning, etc. I’m also thinking about buying some indoor and some outdoor bug zappers. Should I consider getting our yard sprayed? Other ideas or thoughts on steps to consider taking?
I can wear jeans to work, and tend to wear dark rinse ones with a blazer and heels. I’d like to invest in a nice maternity pair that look professional but will be comfortable as I get larger. I’ve tried 3 different Paige styles; all fall off me by the end of the day. I think the solution is that I need a a full or half panel, instead of the side panels. But does anyone have specific brand recs for jeans that will look nice enough for work and stay on? Anyone have luck with ASOS before? TIA!
Any recs on great books for a 4.5 year old girl? She loves to read and loves princesses, but but no means do I only want princess books. Her mom is an engineer, so maybe some STEM themed books could be good. But bottom line, just some great books for that age (or even a bit older). Open to any and all ideas!
Rent one there.
I cannot believe I’m asking this, because I totally don’t think of myself as a Disney person, but we’re taking the plunge and going in late summer with friends and taking our 3 yo. She’s not a stroller person. At all. Ever since she could walk, it’s been a fight to get her to sit in it. That said, I’m told that if someone is under about 7 practically you want a stroller option at Disney. Is that true? Personal recs? And if so, what stroller? We have a City Mini and a Bob. Do I take one of those? Maybe I’m being paranoid, but I hate to lose either of them. Or do I buy an umbrella stroller? Or something else?
I don’t quite understand how this works, but I will say that we installed a dimmer switch on the nursery’s overhead light, and that has been great. We dim the lights at night when we’re getting ready for bed, and it was fantastic for middle of the night wakings when he was an infant.
Recs for Washington D.C. with a toddler? We’ve got 2 weekend days and the afternoons of Friday and Monday. I thought the Zoo and Natural History Museum would be fun; we’ve done all the major sights before, so I’m really looking for toddler-friendly activities and places to eat (near Union Station). Also, how is the public transit with an umbrella stroller?
I wondering what those of you with nannies do in this situation. We are going on vacation in a few weeks for 4 workdays. I’m not sure if I should pay my full-time nanny for those days. I’ve had this nanny for about 5 months and love her. In the past, when we haven’t needed her for one day, we haven’t paid her. If it makes a difference, she is 22, lives with her parents, and attends college part-time. We don’t pay her as much as the “professional” nannies in the area make, and this is her first nanny job. She also seems quite happy and has told me informally that she doesn’t want another job. She has taken leave without pay for her own travel, which we accommodated without question.
I know this makes me sound cheap, which I am a little bit, but I mostly want to do what is fair. We do give her bonuses occasionally- holidays, that time my potty-training kid crapped all over the hallway and she cleaned it up, etc.
How do these bulbs work? Do they only apply if you turn the light on in the middle of the night? I read the article and it talked about a huge impact on a 4 year old, but I can’t imagine you’re waking up and turning on the light for a kid that age. So how is it helping? Do you just hang out in the child’s bedroom for 30 min before bed, not going anywhere else? I don’t get these.
Sometime in the last few weeks/months there was a discussion about someone’s little being the youngest baby in the infant room at daycare by a wide margin. Can anyone point me to it? We’re looking at a similar situation and I’m trying not to freak out about it,but I can’t find the thread.