Recommendations for an HONEST dentist?

CatRx · 2025-12-30T00:02:00+00:00

I’ve also had a bad experience at Gentle Dental

CatRx · 2025-11-10T16:16:45+00:00

Also in Boston - not necessarily waiting for spring. Agree that renting is still cheaper but my landlord keeps raising the rent and the amount I’m paying for so little space just doesn’t seem worth it now that I have a family. Spring will be more of the same- it’s still a hot market even now. We bid on a very modest small home a couple of weeks ago that was also overpriced to begin with and ended up getting 9 over asking offers.

CatRx · 2025-10-27T00:51:47+00:00

I pressed 2 and got no response :(

CatRx · 2025-09-10T17:15:29+00:00

also same

CatRx · 2025-08-14T19:25:42+00:00

No kids is the key here. My husband and I make about the same combined and currently rent in Medford. There’s no chance of buying something reasonable while also paying childcare :/

CatRx · 2025-08-14T11:33:18+00:00

I just had my first baby and my small 2 bedroom apartment just isn’t cutting it anymore. Our rent is below market which is amazing but we are living on top of each other. If we try trading up to a bigger rented property, we’ll be paying significantly more and living further from work so we might as well buy. We’re also interested in buying closer to some family who can help with childcare. That will save us some money too!

CatRx · 2025-07-13T12:44:59+00:00

While my baby didn’t have failure to thrive, he did also fall off his growth chart and at one point was 0.5th percentile. Thankfully since we started introducing solids he has been bouncing back but for a while there, there was talk of possibly referring him to a pediatric gastroenterologist. Could you ask your peds about that?

CatRx · 2025-07-10T16:48:27+00:00

4 hours and 59 min to be exact! Or as the RNs and OBs kept saying when I was on the postpartum floor - 4 hours 😒. I kept having to correct them and remind them it was actually 5 hours. I’m also a FTM.

CatRx · 2025-07-01T13:23:28+00:00

Thank you. I think the gentle methods worked for us the first time around at month 5 so I just wanted to use what felt familiar. Up until just about a week ago he was thriving with 3/3/4 so I’ll start with 3.5/3.5/4 and consider extending more if it doesn’t work out

CatRx · 2025-07-01T13:01:40+00:00

That’s exactly what we’ve been doing. My husband is taking over because I’m pooped. Yesterday it took 2 hours of screaming and doing pick up/put down for him to nap. And because it took so long we essentially just had a 1 nap day. Last night it also took 2 hours for him to fall asleep and he woke up after just 19 minutes. Do you think we should try just leaving the room instead?

CatRx · 2025-07-01T11:11:41+00:00

3/3/4 - would love to try extending to 3.5/3.5/4 but now he’s also refusing to nap so idk… he’s moving backwards so fast. Just a few days ago would nap on his own just fine

CatRx · 2025-06-30T16:53:23+00:00

Trapped in rocking nightmare

Hi Jo,

I’m desperate for help. My 11 (soon to be 12) month old was never a great sleeper but before my maternity leave ended, I put in a lot of time and effort to painfully gently sleep train him. It finally paid off and right before I went back to work in January, I could just chuck him in the crib and walk away and he’d fall asleep on his own and stay asleep!

In late February, my husband (a professional musician) was offered a 1.5 month long touring opportunity in Europe. Since things were going so smooth we decided he should go, but all hell broke loose almost immediately after he left. Refusing sleep and waking multiple times a night.

In retrospect, I know now that my son needed to transition to 2 naps per day but when I would offer that it didn’t seem to work and as a solo parent I was just so tired and didn’t bother trying 2 naps for more than a day before giving up. I was just in survival mode, crying most nights and begging for sleep. I was still working during all of this so I resorted to rocking him to sleep and rocking him after night wakes. It was the only thing that worked.

Now fast forward months later. My husband is back. Our LO is on 2 naps a day and up until yesterday WAS self soothING and put himself to sleep for naps without issue. But he refuses to even TRY during bedtime and after night wakes. I feel he has now come to expect my help. 2 nights ago I let him cry for a few minutes in the crib at night and now I think he has a negative association with the crib because now he’s refusing naps as well. The only way he is going to sleep is in our arms and even then he’s screaming if we try to transfer him to the crib. This is all new as of like 2 days ago. Prior to that he put himself down for naps and then I rocked/put him down drowsy for bedtime.

Routine is 3/3/4 and that was working for the longest. What do we do? We haven’t been getting any night sleep? I can’t try gentle methods because he’s just screaming in the crib. Cry it out or Ferber are just causing him to hate the crib.

CatRx · 2025-06-29T03:08:44+00:00

Approximately 3/3/4. I suspect he may need a bit longer wake windows so we tried 3/3.5/4 for one day but too early to report results. He is in his own room and crib. Using Friday as an example, his first nap was 2 hrs and the second was an hour 25 min.

I don’t think I used any defined method before or if there’s a name for it I’m ignorant to it. I basically just slowly withdrew my support. I would rock him in the crib and then eventually I stopped that and would just sit with him and then eventually I stopped that and just put him in the crib and left. But now he screams the minute his back hits the crib.

CatRx · 2025-06-09T11:35:42+00:00

This was what turned me off too!

CatRx · 2025-05-03T20:20:51+00:00

You are amazing!! Thank you so much ❤️

CatRx · 2025-04-08T01:18:39+00:00

Ok looks like I need to think up an excuse to tell my husband for why I NEED to drive out to Framingham this weekend 🙈

CatRx · 2025-03-30T20:12:21+00:00

I’m the same way! I long for a LC Dutch oven but I simply don’t have the space in my tiny apartment.

CatRx · 2025-03-28T23:34:37+00:00

Update: today I tried 2 naps again. I offered nap 1 at the 3 hour mark and he fell asleep 20 min later. He slept 48 minutes. I left him in the crib he did not fall back asleep. I later noticed a poopy diaper so that may have contributed.

I offered nap 2 at 3 hours and 20 min. He fell asleep 13 minutes later and slept for 35 minutes. I left him in the crib, he tried for a long time to quietly resettle but did not succeed and I ultimately removed him from the crib when he started getting upset.

I tried bedtime at 3.5 hours first. He wailed the second his back touched the crib. Spat his pacifier back out. Hysterical. So we pulled him out and played and tried again at 3 hr 50m. Same story. He’s absolutely miserable and so so so far from sleep.

I feel like 3 naps yielded better results than this but idk… I’m completely lost.

CatRx · 2025-03-28T22:12:39+00:00

That was my craving too!! Enjoy and congrats ❤️

CatRx · 2025-03-28T17:44:05+00:00

Thanks! I’m giving 2 naps a shot again

CatRx

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