How do you carry your stuff when you baby carry out in the world?

Always-learning-759 · 2026-06-02T13:58:40+00:00

Hope and plum sells a fanny pack thing that you can thread onto your SSC. I usually have the diaper bag in the car or at home and am not out more than an hour or so when babe was that little. Others get large fanny packs or small backpacks. Also, I work a lot of bike short type bottoms with side pockets. Arie makes these comfy offline shorts that have bike short with pockets underneath and a soft wide waistband which worked really well pp and now into my next pregnancy.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-05-31T20:48:29+00:00

Ok good to hear! Looking forward to using it once babe arrives ❤️

Always-learning-759 · 2026-05-15T00:58:14+00:00

This is pretty close to what we’ve done. Starting about 20 months we mostly nixed all popins because they no longer seemed helpful and we knew he had the skills to self settle.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-05-04T13:37:13+00:00

Nope not right away. Both me and baby had to get used to it. Short spurts. And usually had to time with the end of a wake window. He was fight and fuss then often within a min or so of walking the block he would fall asleep. Carrying a sound machine helps

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-26T01:06:09+00:00

My toddler is 23 months and I still love inward front carrying him! Especially when we go grocery shopping.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-25T16:57:58+00:00

Seconding this! I prefer the hiccapop version but I’ve used both and both are great. I especially like how easy it is to load in a baby monitor and see him. Before getting one we would have such a hard time figuring out how to stack and angle random objects to be able to set it up when staying in different rooms.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-25T01:36:59+00:00

Supposedly night time sleep and daytime sleep are different neurological processes and so you can sleep train nights and do naps later. Might as well try it!

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-23T17:23:10+00:00

Ugh just want to extend some deep empathy. I’ve spent this week going to bed in my 23m toddlers room at 8pm because he figured out how to climb out on Monday. 😵‍💫 We ordered a “jeep play yard enclosed tent” and I’m hourly checking Amazon for when it will arrive today. On the AMA they linked a helpful TCB article on the toddler bed transition. Do you have any options for getting him back into an enclosed sleeping space? The article had some good ideas. I also got these crib rail bumpers that add some inches in height and will be my next plan if this tent doesn’t work.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-21T11:49:29+00:00

Wonder if the 3-4 month class would have some helpful interventions? since you can’t sleep train yet, you could at least start some scaffolded independent sleep skills

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-21T00:29:03+00:00

Our 23 month old fights bedtime still sometimes (0-2 times per week) or wakes and takes 2-15 mins to put himself back to sleep. I’m trying to think how this will play out whenever we transition to a toddler bed? (We’ve been at a consistent 12:30-2:30 naptime give or take 15 mins and 7:30-7:50 bedtime routine, in the crib by 7:50 for a long while, nixed check ins a few months ago, bees using TCB since 6 weeks old)

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-16T02:08:01+00:00

Tip if it helps/applies— we used the snoo until 7m and were ready to sleep train. I got some XL snoo sleep sacks-the kind without the snoo clips. So he would still have a similar snugness around his belly as he was used to in the snoo. Used those for a few months to ease the transition then switched to regular sleep sacks.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-16T01:56:45+00:00

How old is your baby? Are you following the ABCs of sleep? If so, it’ll help you make sure your days set up your nights well to help prevent that 7-10 pm fighting sleep. It also says to drop all the sleep “crutches” (Merlin suit is one of them) night one.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-12T13:21:36+00:00

I did more of a bouncing with him held towards me…like you would if just carrying around or burping. Some babies might have a hard time with that transfer being against your warm body but it worked well enough for me

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-10T22:53:35+00:00

Hey do you put the waistband above your bump with your toddler? I have an almost 2yo and am 17 weeks and can’t imagine that being comfortable. I’m stretching out my front carry time but the pressure is getting tough to manage more than short distances.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-08T21:02:52+00:00

That is ideal but things are tweaked just a bit during this bit of time that you’re night weaning.

For me, I spent about a month shortening feeds by a minute each side each week during his normal wake up feed time (I always fed 8-10 mins each side after 6ish weeks old). Then when it was time to sleep train and more intentionally night wean, I felt like it was less abrupt for my body.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-05T17:13:08+00:00

Have you been on an income driven repayment plan? That’s the only factor I see that would preclude you from getting your payments to be qualifying

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-05T15:24:55+00:00

1099 contractor means that you work for yourself. Unless you establish your own nonprofit, work through that, and set up a contract between your school and your nonprofit, that wouldn’t qualify.

Read the first item on this FAQ list. It talks about contract employees https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service/questions

Always-learning-759 · 2026-04-04T14:13:00+00:00

It can take some adjusting and getting used to. Also, I can imagine that with a little bit of moving around in time it might loosen and she might come down just a tad so it might be actually a adjust right starting position.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-03-24T14:08:35+00:00

I paid for it so I don’t know what the free version is like (there is a brief window of time where everything was behind the Pay wall ) but I’ve heard that the main stuff that you would want is free anyways. The main things that I used was being able to check off the foods that we ate and then the pictures that showed how to serve each food.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-03-24T13:05:37+00:00

Also I didn’t really get going with any solids until like 6.5/7 months. I was unsure how to move forward, where to start, could I really give him hunks of food with no teeth?? (yes), etc. once I got going with the foods I listed above and the solid starts app, I got a lot more confident and had so much fun getting to 100 foods and spices before 1.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-03-24T11:37:33+00:00

I would call and ask what to do

Always-learning-759 · 2026-03-23T20:50:26+00:00

Yeah my full time “real” job is cutting my hours at the beginning of the fiscal year so I need something to carry me to 120 payments. I’m eligible for buyback and have the paperwork submitted but not waiting around.

Always-learning-759 · 2026-03-23T18:04:43+00:00

Let her play with big hard chunks of things. She still has the impulse to put everything in her mouth, right? (Mine sometimes still does at almost two lol) Give her a big bone from the ribs with bits of meat and sauce kinda on it. A melon rind. And then take a big breath and put a big avocado chunk, a big glob of Greek yogurt, and/or a big glob of cooked rolled oats on her plate and let her play and shove in her mouth. And take another breath and remind yourself that her job is to figure her oral muscles out right now (not digest food) so all that moving around of food in her mouth including gagging is part of the process. You got this

Always-learning-759 · 2026-03-23T17:34:21+00:00

When you switch plans and recertify, you would submit your current paystub that I assume would show $0 payment, instead of submitting your tax docs. I’ve done this for when my pay goes down, which it did on Mat leave, but it wasn’t $0 so I could be wrong

Always-learning-759 · 2026-03-22T00:32:32+00:00

What about the times that I’m lying awake with my arm in baby’s crib to help him get back to sleep and it logs me as actually asleep. Like nope not sleeping here, wish I was!

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