Family Friday: SoftSip Food Pouch Top
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If you don’t have any use for these, then your child has way better dexterity/self-control than mine! The minute I would hand my son a pouch, he would promptly squeeze the entire thing all over his face or shirt. I like these for several reasons — your child can’t squeeze the puree out without biting or sucking from the top, they keep their teeth and gums from scraping on the plastic, and they are easy to clean. With one of them, I cut the piece off that serves to cap the top — my son was distracted by it while eating, so off it went. Not holding the pouch while my son is eating them freed up many minutes from my day. They are $7.99 for two at Amazon. ChooMee Food Pouch Top
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Does anyone want to rave about their diaper bag? By the end of the summer, I will have a 2 year old and newborn and I don’t think my shoulder Skip Hop will cut it anymore. I am thinking one of the backpack ones would be easier for me. Are the Petunia Pickle Bottom ones worth the money or is the Skip Hop backpack just as good? TIA!
Kinda gross question. My head has been itchy lately, and I had a recent haircut; the stylist said it was probably just irritation from my shampoo and suggested a different one. But kiddo (who uses a different shampoo) has also had an itchy head, and I noticed several kids at her preschool scratching their heads at a recent program. How obvious is lice? I imagine a hair stylist would have noticed if I had lice….and I think I would have seen it in kiddo’s hair. But maybe not?
Happy Mother’s Day ladies!! I hope everyone gets what you want, whether it’s time with your kiddos or time alone for a pedicure or massage :) It’s my first and I’m so excited to get a card ‘from the baby’ and go out to brunch with DH and baby, even if it’s super cliche.
I’ve been working crazy hours and want to actually spend time with my 9 month old and husband for mother’s day. I had been thinking about going to the National Zoo (we got a membership for Christmas we haven’t used yet), but I think 90s is too hot for me to enjoy it and on Saturday it is supposed to thunderstorm. Any other ideas for a fun, out of the ordinary but still low-key way to have a bit of family time this weekend with a very active and mobile but not yet walking baby? I’m not a huge fan of restaurants, etc. on holidays, so I think I’m going to ask my husband to make me steak at home one night (not a brunch person either).
I’d like to get a “chair and a half” type chair for the nursery now that baby 2 is on the way – somewhere I can sit with baby on my lap and 2 year old next to me. Open to gliding/reclining or just a standard chair. Any recommendations for where to look for something comfy and relatively affordable?
I just stumbled across this older article I thought readers here would like. It’s by Barrie Hardymon from NPR, who I am huge fan of.
https://www.npr.org/sections/babyproject/2011/09/03/140124964/i-had-a-c-section-and-i-loved-it
Have you let a kid quit a sport in the middle of the season?
The backstory is that we’ve had a hard time finding an extracurricular activity that my son LOVES. He has ADHD, which means it’s hard for him to follow tons of directions and he’s socially immature for his age. So team sports haven’t gone especially well for him, but he played soccer last year and really enjoyed it. So I signed him up again and he plays on a rec league with his classmates.
The latest iteration of that is last night he was mopey at soccer practice and wanted to play on the nearby playground instead. So the coach let him walk of the field and go play on the playground until he was ready to participate (wtf, coach). DS has his challenges, but not being a good teammate is absolutely not okay, or acceptable. I’m trying not to be too hard on the coach — he’s a volunteer parent and I sense that he’s much more freewheeling than I am, which is disastrous for a kid who really really needs boundaries and to be held accountable.
DS swears that that I signed him up for soccer without asking him (not true) and he’s not interested in playing (huh)? He whines before every game and it’s 50/50 whether he’ll actually have a good time once he gets there. And frankly, I can tell it’s a distraction to the team, and it’s doing nothing to help DS’s relationships with his classmates, which already aren’t great. There also is a boy who picks on him consistently, and I know it’s happened at practice and even during games. So, I’m honestly considering letting him quit. There are too many boys on the team as it is, there really isn’t enough structure for him to be successful, and he’s definitely not making a positive contribution to the team. But what does that teach him in the process? My philosophy has been that you finish out the season, and then you don’t have to do it again. That said, time is worth something too, and will the world end if my second-grader quits soccer? (I know that I was raised with the “never quit” philosophy, and I’m still unlearning it. Sometimes it really is OK to say something isn’t working!)
I wish extracurriculars weren’t so hard for him, that he could find his thing and his people. He did well on a noncompetitive swim team last fall, and maybe individual sports are the answer for him. Team sports have this recurring pattern that he can’t seem to break. The exception was a basketball team he played on over the winter. A truly excellent coach made him come alive, but those seem really rare in the rec leagues. Good coaching seems to come with the more competitive leagues, and he’s in the middle of the pack athletically.
All: Help! My child is 18 MO and we have a city mini for travel. I know strollers are super personal so please don’t take this as an insult if you love your City Mini, but it really hasn’t worked for us. It’s heavy for a travel stroller and the basket is so small. I could deal with one of those but both are just annoying, and we travel a lot. The big positive of it though is that it is super durable and feels more like a regular stroller.
So: Any secret travel strollers you all like that are easy to collapse but also good for when you get to your location to go on walks? We need more than a mall-walking stroller – we go on long walks on streets and sidewalks that may not be perfectly smooth.
I hope this makes sense, I really value this collective group mind! Thanks.
(P.S. Assume cost is not a major object – just wondering if this unicorn stroller exists)
Could it be an ear infection or teething that is making nursing painful? It might be worth a quick dr visit to rule out something like that or to ask about giving Motrin if he’s teething.
When you travel with an infant do you use the hotel crib or take a pack n play? I really don’t like the idea of having to lug the pack n play (we’re going for <48 hours so we could go carry-on if we didn't have to take that) but I've read that hotel cribs can be old and may not meet current safety standards. Is it too weird to call the hotel and ask for more details about their cribs?
My 3.5 month old has taken a dislike to nursing. He’ll eat when he is REALLY hungry but doesn’t seem to enjoy it much. Is this common and will it pass? It’s mainly a problem because he has stopped eating enough before bed to last him through the night. He used to have a huge meal before going to bed, and then sleep ~11 hours. Now he’s waking up starving after 8 or 9 hours because he’s hungry, and then he’s crankier during the day because he didn’t get enough sleep.
I have to admit it also just makes me sad. I really loved the feeling of a little baby all content in my arms, getting sleepier and sleepier as they nursed. Now he just eats enough to take the edge off, then yell at me angrily if I try to get him to eat a full meal. This didn’t ever happen with my first — she definitely went through a stage where she was distracted, but not where she seemed to actively resent my b**bs.
He has a bottle with his dad once every other day or so, and it’s the same deal with that.
reposting from yesterday in hopes of getting more responses (thanks anon in NYC!)
We are considering switching our 2-year-old from a traditional daycare center (Goddard) to a Montessori-based toddler program closer to home. We have a “meet and greet” scheduled at the Montessori school next week. I know that it’s a fairly “strict” Montessori curriculum – what questions should I be prepared to ask? How can I know if Montessori might be a good fit for her? One of my hesitations is going from a class with 18 kids to a summer program with only 4 kids – I feel that she might be bored. Is this an unfounded concern? In the fall, the toddler program expands to 12 children.
So I thought I didn’t really care about mother’s day except my husband hasn’t asked all week what I’d like to do for it. And then today he asks if he can go see his mom (who lives 2 hours away) when she had just visited last weekend. I mean I get him wanting to see his mom but we see her pretty frequently considering the distance, are already seeing her next week, and it’s my mother’s day too. In some ways I think it’s a silly holiday, but I also don’t like feeling left out. Argh.
We went through a stage where we struggled with pouches, but it was just a stage. Our daughter got the hang of it with a little practice. Also, not all pouches are made equal. These seem like a pain.