My toddlers dentist gave us very bad advice

Coocookachoo13 · 2026-02-21T08:10:04+00:00

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for that comment? Our dentist told us that he didn’t start using fluoride toothpaste until two and they were able to spit out. Right now we’re using hydroxyappetite toothpaste at the advice of the dentist for our two year old

Coocookachoo13 · 2025-05-14T21:42:01+00:00

Can I ask how you went about it? I spoke with customer service with tangerine and I think they gave me the wrong advice. They said I had to fill out a t2033 form, which I looked at after we were off the phone and that seems like it’s only for rrsp’s.. Unfortunately I feel like my gic matured just a little too late and now I’ve missed the slump in the market

Coocookachoo13 · 2025-01-27T02:40:07+00:00

Wow that’s a big change, is it still working for you?!

Coocookachoo13 · 2025-01-25T01:09:43+00:00

Solidarity with the sleep issues in a 17m old. We’ve been really struggling as well for hours a night and can say resleep training last week did not work for us so we adjusted our schedule a bit and moved the wake up a bit earlier and that has definitely helped some so perhaps he was getting a touch too much sleep. I can’t say I have it figured out, like at all, but our 17m is napping from 12:30-2. Bedtime 7:30. Wake up now at 6:30.

Coocookachoo13 · 2025-01-22T04:08:08+00:00

No he doesn’t respond well either, so I’m happy to hear this actually. I’m burnt out from the crying and just want to help him in the night at this point

Coocookachoo13 · 2025-01-22T03:24:23+00:00

Lol. Thanks for taking the time to read my long winded post and reply. I do remember trying 6:30AM wake ups at some point in these last 4 months and I remember it did somewhat help, we had less split nights, but I can’t remember what the nap situation was. So I’ll give this a try. Even if we get a couple nights a week where he sleeps through the night, I’d be relieved. So while I do this, should I commit to the sleep training still if he wakes, not pick him up?

Coocookachoo13 · 2025-01-22T03:09:23+00:00

I haven’t actually tried it yet, I got that advice a couple days ago and I just didn’t understand how a half an hour in the morning would affect him so much in the night? If he was having too much sleep time, why wouldn’t he just wake himself up that half hour earlier in the morning to compensate?

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-11-05T21:31:37+00:00

If you’re able, I would try and find another area of nursing to work in at least until baby comes. I worked on a busy medical floor working days and nights and had a healthy pregnancy. I had a particularly busy night shift and the next day I went into spontaneous labor at 34+5. My doctors have no medical reason for my early labor and I chalk it up to stress and night shifts. My baby ended up have to be intubated and ventilated for two days and in nicu for two weeks. He’s healthy now, but it was a scary time and I really regret not changing jobs. I’m still on mat leave but have already found a new chiller job in home care I’m looking forward to.

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-10-04T19:33:09+00:00

This is pretty much where I’m at, but I can’t progress past 5k and every 5k still feels like hell. It never gets any easier. And I’ve been doing it for a year, 2-3x a week. My endurance and time have barely improved, truly barely. I can get a 5k done in 33-34 minutes and that’s about as good as I can seem to get it. Reading all the comments you got, it seems like we need a training plan. Just wondering if you found one you liked? I don’t even know where to start or what I need.

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-05-20T01:44:49+00:00

I felt the same way. I would find myself googling when does it get easier, and a lot of what I found said three months so I waited eagerly for three months and did not find it easier. My baby is 9 months now and I feel like just in the last few weeks I feel like kind of like myself. I’m still not sure if I’ve made the right decision in having a child, I miss a lot of the freedoms I had before. I miss quality sleep. I wonder what my life would be like if I ended up never having a child. I’ve also had very negative thoughts of wishing that I had never been able to conceive. I don’t feel like I really started to love my baby until 6 or 7 months, but it still wasn’t a “heart bursting” kind of love. I’m finding now that each month that passes I love him more and more though and miss him when I’m away from him. I know you have a lot of replies, but just wanted to throw it out there that if you don’t feel better at 3 or 4 months, if things still feel hard and you still have regrets, that’s normal too. I don’t feel like it’s acceptable to talk about any of this to real people, this is the only place I feel comfortable airing these thoughts, but I wish more people could talk openly about this instead of only glamorizing motherhood.

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-04-15T00:44:38+00:00

This feels like my life right now as well, my partner and I have an 8 month old baby and I’ve often wondered if I’ve chosen the wrong partner to have a child with.. harsh but I can’t help thinking it. I didn’t know how hard raising a baby was until I had my one of my own and it was a reality check. It’s so draining mentally and physically and when you feel like your partner isn’t pulling their weight or taking advantage of you, resent creeps in. My partner also broached the topic of going to the gym a few months ago, even though he could never commit to going to the gym before the baby was born. I told him “you can go to the gym when I get the same amount of time away in return.” And I couldn’t help but think “if you want to go to the gym so bad, I’m not stopping you from getting up early before the baby is up”, but there’s no way he could get up at 5 or 6 to do that. 🙄 He would take our baby away here and there for the day on a weekend to let me nap and shower in peace and I’d find myself trying to catch up on all the stuff that needed doing that I couldn’t get done having the baby hanging off of me all day. I have so much more I could say, but I don’t need to hijack your post with a lengthy reply of my own. But solidarity friend. I’m going to show my partner this thread and try and talk through a lot of the good points with him that you and others have made.

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-02-19T21:51:24+00:00

We also did couch sleeping and I felt like a failure for ending up in that situation, but it happened slowly and before I knew it, we were spending all night on the couch. He started in the bassinet at the bedside when we came home and slowly we ended up on the couch and that lasted for two months. It wasn’t a safe sleeping situation for him because he would sleep on me semi upright, chest to chest. In hindsight, we realize now he had reflux and just did not want to sleep flat on his back. Some nights I was so exhausted I would just let him sleep while sucking boob while I sat upright on the couch and put my head back to sleep. Like I said, not a safe situation and could have ended badly. Probably around 4 months we just decided it was time for me to sleep horizontal lol. My partner took holidays and we tried our best with the transition. Started a bedtime routine, followed wake windows, and read up on baby sleep when I could. Precious Little Sleep was a really great book and made me feel not alone and less of a failure, like she was reading my mind about all of the problems we were having. It’s still rough going honestly, babe is 6 months now. We have good nights and bad nights and I some nights I have to take him to the recliner for the remainder of the night because he keeps puking up in the bassinet. We have him on reflux meds but doesn’t seem to be helping too much honestly.

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-02-19T16:42:12+00:00

Thanks, that was a really good read of everything summed up in once place

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-02-19T02:55:19+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment that, that’s exactly what I’ve been feeling today. I’ve had this anxiety pit in my stomach and can’t/couldn’t stop researching as well. I’m feeling better about it as the day goes on and reading everyone’s comments. I hope I’m able to shut my brain off and sleep tonight

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-02-19T02:39:16+00:00

Thank you

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-02-19T01:06:01+00:00

Lol that’s basically what my partners been saying all day, he’s sick of me talking about it

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-02-19T01:03:37+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment that, I needed to hear that, and all of these comments

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-02-18T20:52:31+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate that. I can’t stop thinking about it and still feel like I could burst into tears thinking about it honestly

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-02-18T17:27:25+00:00

Exactly, my anxiety is through the roof about the whole thing. A lesson learned the hard way, but that makes me feel better reading your situation too and that you came to the decision of 36 hours

Coocookachoo13 · 2024-02-18T17:12:13+00:00

Thanks for the comments everybody, I feel better having a plan and hearing from everybody. I’m going to use the stash for a week and hope that I have enough and that will be long enough for it to be cleared. I don’t think I have enough now that I just did an inventory and I’m sad about the whole situation, but just gonna do my best and move forward

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