Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Sleepy Baby Nail Clipper
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Ughhh, clipping newborn babies’ nails! It’s the worst of every world: time consuming, detail oriented, a safety issue if not taken care of, and scary to do.
There were times when I noticed my son’s nails getting long and I would avoid cutting them, and of course then he would scratch himself on the face. There’s no cutting corners/procrastinating with a newborn!
When he was really new, I would use one of my nail files and file his nails instead. Now that he’s a squirmy toddler, he doesn’t have the patience for me to sit and give him a full manicure and I have to get in and get out while he watches his favorite show (Little Baby Bum).
I like using these because they’re sized for little fingers, and the light on the end does really help. Look, I’m not saying that these clippers are going to make the job much easier or fun, but it’s a necessary evil and these work.
They are $4.94 and available as an Add-on item (eligible for Prime with a 2-pack) with free returns. Sleepy Baby Nail Clipper
Sales of note for 12.10
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty deals on skincare (ends 12/14) including La Mer, Kate Somerville, Dior, Sunday Riley, Dyson, and gift sets — the deals include reader favorite lip balms Dior Addict, NARS Afterglow, and Clinique’s Black Honey, as well as Too Faced mascara and Sunday Riley’s Good Genes.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, up to 50% off outerwear
- Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off all sale + extra 25% off 2+ items
- J.Crew – Up to 60% off everything, with 40% off their newest styles
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
- Macy’s – 15% off beauty, including Tarte, Clinique, Dior and gift sets
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Talbots – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
The above thread reminded me– we’ve been slacking on making our 2.5 year old twins drink out of an open cup because the Munchkin 360s are convenient and our other glasses are too unwieldy for little kids. I was hoping to get them metal cups with handles engraved with their names for Christmas and cannot find ANY that are dishwasher safe! Help! Why must everything be silver?
Feeling bummed. Got a below average raise this year. Came back from maternity leave in March and I know I haven’t been crushing it, but I’m still really sad about how I seem to be floundering in my career… I feel like my ambitions are slipping through my fingers.
Can anyone reassure me that it’s normal for babies to go through phases where they babble less? My DD started babbling at a normal age (6.5 months) and it gradually improved and got more word-like until we were hearing tons of babas and dadas around 8 months. But she’s 9.5 months now and in the last couple of weeks I’ve hardly heard any consonant sounds from her. She makes a lot of noise but lately it’s mostly ahhhh or ehhhh. Sometimes ahh-yuh, but usually just the vowel. She is pretty good with non-verbal communication. She imitates gestures, waves, claps and points (I think? It’s hard for me to tell between a reach and a point, but she makes a gesture that looks like pointing). Clapping seems to be her way of telling us she wants to eat.
I googled it and it seems like it’s common for babbling to slow down when they’re approaching or going through a physical leap, but she’s not (already crawling well and she’s shown absolutely no interest in pulling up or cruising). I do think she might be on the cusp of some new sounds though – she’s been blowing a lot of raspberries which she did right before she started babbling in the beginning. Could that be the source of her not saying ba and da as much? Eg, she’s trying to practice her new sounds?
Good gender-neutral books for second grade? Our class is doing a book exchange, and I just realized that the book I ordered is one my fourth grader likes (Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing) and therefore is probably not the right reading level.
Tooting my own horn: I realized this morning that since my kid was born three years ago I have doubled my salary. A few months after he was born I took a new job with a significant increase, and then got a promotion this past year that also came with a nice increase. It’s been really tough at times but I’m also pretty proud of the trajectory I’ve had over the last few years. Just wanted to share since I feel like we don’t always hear about career successes in this context.
How much do you all spend on gifts for daycare teachers? I’m thinking Target gift cards and I realize the teachers probably don’t get paid well, so I’d like to be decently generous without going overboard. My LO only started daycare last week, so this is all new. He has two teachers in his room, and is assigned to one of them as his “main” teacher but it seems like they both work with him. Any advice is appreciated!
I’m pregnant with my second kid and now I have to decide on my maternity leave. With my first kid, I did the standard Canadian leave – 1 year. However, now I’m able to take up to 18 months. The money is the same either way with my work top-up (i.e. you get $x for leave and it is paid over the time period you are off) I’m going to take at least a year (in my office it is strange to not do this). Men in my office take at least six months. But many of my coworkers and friends are now taking 18 months leave. But any thoughts on the benefits/drawbacks of the longer leave? I was getting pretty restless by 12 months of no work. I also felt like I was missing out on career development because I wasn’t, you know, working. But it’s only an additional six months. Financially, I’m not concerned – we have a strong savings net.
We have used these nail clippers for both kids. I tried cutting kid #1’s nails once and cut her, and 3.5 years (and kid#2 later) have never cut another kid’s nail. It has been 100 percent delegated to dad.
My 9 month old loves finger food and will try just about anything we put in front of her, but it never seems to fill her up the way milk and pureed solids do. She will spend half an hour eating a pretty decent helping of finger foods (admittedly, quite a bit goes on the floor) and then she’ll act hungry again about 10 minutes later. She’s always been a bit of a “snacker” (likes to nurse frequently for a short time) but she doesn’t get hungry 10 minutes after nursing or having a pureed food. Is this normal? What if anything do we need to do about this? I know within the next few months she needs to transition to getting most of her calories from solids foods and I’ve heard from friends that our days of having her happily take purees are numbered. And I just don’t see how it’s going to work without purees.
so my 2.5 year old still drinks quite a bit of milk throughout the day. I’m ok with this but he is drinking out of the nuk sippy cup that we transitioned to when he was a year old. I feel like he might be too big for this. Is drinking milk out of a normal cup the next step? I can’t send that to daycare…. I don’t think. What does everybody use for milk at daycare?
My 4 year old has started to refuse to participate in her extracurriculars. She has a half hour of soccer at daycare on one day and a half hour ballet class on another. This refusal to participate started when there was a new girl in her ballet class who refused to participate. I think before then it didn’t even occur to her that she could just refuse to do what the teacher asked. Luckily soccer is over this week, but I’ve pre-paid ballet through February, so I hate to pull her out now.
Nothing “bad” happened and she used to enjoy these classes and participate willingly. She talks about ballet in a positive way and will show me ballet positions and moves when she’s at home, unprompted. I’m theoretically okay with her quitting these activities, but I’m not okay with her refusing to participate once she’s in class. I think it’s rude to the teacher and distracting to the other students. She can be a little bit slow to warm up to things, but she’s been in this ballet class for almost a year and one of her friends does it too, so she’s not by herself. I get the feeling that she’s just testing boundaries by refusing to participate.
What do I do?
Paging Anonon from yesterday who just found out she is pregnant with a second child. I just saw your post, and wanted to share that I felt the same way when I found out I was pregnant with our second. My first had just turned 1 and I felt like DH and I were finally getting the hang of juggling 2 jobs and commuting and family life. Work was on an even keel again and I had upcoming projects that I was really invested in and excited about. DH and I had just decided to wait at least another year before revisiting whether to try for a second child. I didn’t have the same thoughts about miscarrying (I’m fortunate not to have had that experience so my mind doesn’t go there) but the first part of my pregnancy was marked by grief more than joy. My second pregnancy has been even worse than the first so I’m still not the excited, joyful, glowing pregnant lady people expect me to be, but over the months I have come to feel more at peace that things are working out this way. We likely would have had wanted a second child, and there are benefits to completing our family now. My mantra is “this is the last time I’m doing this. I’m completing our family. I’m nearly done”.
My 3 year old is a little prickly pear. She doesn’t like talking to strangers, she’s mean to grandparents, she won’t acknowledge our neighbors or, e.g., our housekeeper, and it’s just a bit much for us at this point. We try to model good behavior, we try to respect her autonomy, but at this point I feel like I’m raising an a-hole. Help me have some perspective. This is just a phase? What else can we do to teach good manners?
LO has the FP Sit Me Up seat and LOVES it and is ready for a step up. Has anyone had good luck putting a 5 month old in a jumper? Jumper in question is the Baby Einstein Neptune’s Ocean Discovery Jumper, if that matters. He has excellent head and neck control but I’m wondering how much core/trunk strength he needs for it. I’m scared off because the manufacturer says 6 months and up. Thoughts? Or, do you have any recommendations for a good middle ground between the Sit Me Up and the jumper?