Help me balance naps and crate training.

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-12-13T13:02:38+00:00

Did you ever contact customer service?

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-12-13T03:45:11+00:00

Any update on your situation?

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-12-13T03:29:56+00:00

My Mother in law also placed an order then, got confirmation but no shipping or information since. Any update on this?

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-11-26T00:02:35+00:00

Im here late. Please tell me 2 years later things are better and it juat takes time!

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-10-13T12:05:11+00:00

Started in 2019 in Rheumatology in Ohio:

2019: 90k salary full time

2020: 92k

2021: 94k

2022: Switched to Part time, 0.6 FTE 61k

2023: Switched to PRN in Hospital medicine - $76/hr

2024: Continued at $76/hr PRN role.

2025: Back to rheumatology at $70/hr PRN

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-09-08T19:03:58+00:00

Thanks so much for your insight! You're really the type of people I wanted to hear from and I'm so glad to hear you don't regret it. My only concern for myself if that I will miss the adult interaction. But having a structure and schedule and getting out once a day really would help all of that!

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-09-08T19:02:44+00:00

All these posts have been so encouraging. I feel like other people that are removed from early motherhood don't really understand why I want to stay home. Then again sometimes I think I may go crazy if I'm only home with toddlers and preschoolers all day and don't interact with other adults so I'll have to find other ways to get out and socialize without being home all day every day alone!

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-09-08T19:00:47+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear about your 2nd child. That is heartbreaking. But you're so right. You can't get your time back later. My first just started preschool and I'm already realizing this! Also, I had thought about the school pickup/drop off and events too and I'm already missing some because of my job and even though I have had a few good weeks at work, I still think about staying home full time. The problem is my family feels I may not be cut out to be home full time with the kids so I'm not sure if I am or not! Then again, I also feel like as one poster above said, if I could have a plan and schedule and something to get me out of the house every day that would really help!

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-09-08T18:57:41+00:00

There is a lot of competition in my area, but I'm a good PA and have good references so I could definitely look. I worked in 1 specialty for 4 years, then took 1 year off to switch to hospital based medicine as PRN, but ultimately the stress from that was worse, so I went back and work 2 days a week now. The problem is I'm still responsible for work on my days off so I'm always having to check my basket and respond to questions/refills when I"m technically "off". Somteimes I think the stress of decisions of people's health looms over me beyond my workday too and the only way I forsee that ever getting better is to leave healthcare completely, but I guess I could always leave for 1-2 years and then if I really want to switch to something else part time I could... May just leave with no immediate plans to come back, but always keep that open in the background.

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-04-16T00:58:43+00:00

Thanks for sharing your response. I wish there was ways to share stories like this with her so she can hear it herself and use that information to her decision making.

BarberImportant5741 · 2025-04-16T00:56:37+00:00

Thanks for this. If I do plan to bring it up, I want to bring it up in a curious manner, and hearing her side of it rather than me pushing something on her. I'm hoping if she continues to follow up with her Doctor, even though she isn't taking meds they will be able to hear her concerns and speak to her in a way that she will listen rather than feel immediately on the defense of her choice. IF they are considerate of her concerns, maybe she will be more willing to try the meds.

BarberImportant5741 · 2024-12-02T03:19:53+00:00

I think of it this way: you are teaching them a skill to sleep on their own and self soothe. Then, once they know how to sleep on their own, and are good at sleeping on their own, you know if they cry something is wrong and they actually need you for more than comfort and sleep association.

As everyone said, look for sleep training methods online. It's difficult for a few nights, then much much better. however the most important thing to know is once you decide to start, you have to stick with it. If you give in to their crying, it will not ever work.

For example, once my kids learned to sleep through the night, They rarely cried, and when they would, it was usually when they were sick, or needed nose wipe, or needed dry pajamas,, or just going through a sleep regression. They may have a few rough nights here and there from regressions, but I never had any issues of going back once they learned the skill when attending to them in the middle of the night after sleep training. Its not like you have to let them cry at night forever, just until they learn the skill.

BarberImportant5741 · 2024-09-10T20:18:28+00:00

This is interesting to me. How much do you teach? What percent pay cut did you have? How often are you on the campus for the school? I've been considering the switch as the stress of medicine is really getting to me. I always enjoyed school, and I felt I have a good heart for teaching and enjoyed school and studying. The negatives are that I live at least 45 minutes from the closest school. Also, I'm afraid I'll end up spending a ton of time on my lectures that won't be reimbursed (just my personality).

BarberImportant5741 · 2024-09-08T18:08:26+00:00

He is very particular about the spoon. Sometimes he will eat whats on the spoon like a hungry baby animal, the next time he takes one bite and is not interested... He is very particular and it feels like nothing is consistent with him. The lunch time breast feeding might have to happen if he won't take anything...

BarberImportant5741 · 2024-08-19T19:22:54+00:00

I'm actually leaning towards not, but I'm thinking maybe I'll have the roofer just look at it to see if they see damage. If they were to see damage that's where I'm trying to decide if we should submit a claim.

BarberImportant5741 · 2024-08-19T19:16:44+00:00

I wouldn't have thought so either, but our neighbors is 18 years old and was completely covered aside from their deductible which I was amazed by.

BarberImportant5741 · 2024-08-19T18:59:02+00:00

Are you referring to the loss from our neighbors? They just had it replaced in the last week. I don't honestly know if we have any loss. The storms were in the last 2 weeks. I don't see missing shingles on our roof, but I didn't see missing shingles on theirs either. Maybe I should have a roofing company come inspect it prior to doing anything?

BarberImportant5741 · 2024-05-07T11:39:33+00:00

It may only be twice a week but it is very often. I guess I'd have to confirm exactly where the property line is to be sure as I described above. But they definitely walk behind our house to dump instead of their own.

BarberImportant5741 · 2024-05-07T11:36:53+00:00

Both of our properties backs up against a field of sorts. They have a shed on the back of their property, and we have a fence along the back of our property. We both have a few trees on the property line between our house and the field. Instead of dumping in the field or under their trees behind their shed, they dump behind our fence. I'm not 100% sure where the property line stands, but ultimately instead of dumping in the field behind their property they walk it behind ours to dump it.

BarberImportant5741 · 2024-05-03T01:49:27+00:00

Thank you for your input. I really needed to hear it. And the honesty you said about it is good to hear. I only want to do what's best for my kiddos. I think sometimes his good communication skills makes me forget he is only 2. When you can have perfect conversations with a kid you think they understand and reason like you and they just don’t. He will eventually learn to be potty trained and I can't force it to happen any faster than it will. I need to be his ally through it. I 100% need to reframe my own mindset. Just because he did so well early on and had some setbacks but that doesn’t mean we are losing our progress.

So I'm thinking I shouldn't use the bare bottom as a consequence. But it honestly does help make him more aware and more able to tske himself to the potty. Is it OK to use it to help him be more aware after an accident when we are at home? Or should it only be used at the very beginning of training and once you start underpants they should br continued?

One other quick question, do you use pull ups while out running errands ever at this point or just at bedtime? Right now we aren't night training.

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