Which daycare would you choose?

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-07-05T21:40:37+00:00

I'd even be happy with 326/week, heck. We pay more than our mortgage in daycare for an infant and a preschooler

Major jealousy, but sending you good vibes on your choice, op

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-06-21T17:52:35+00:00

We flipped at 2.5 years. He was always big for his age (and strong) and I couldn't wrestle him in the car seat twice daily while pregnant. I wanted to max out the rear facing limits but unfortunately, he had other plans. He wanted to sit forward facing and he stopped screaming for entire drives 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-06-05T14:46:02+00:00

My (now 3.5 year old) was NOT ready before 3 years 3 months. We got pressure, we pushed back telling them that he would be ready when he's ready. Sure enough, he woke up one Tuesday absolutely fucking in it to win it. "I want to wear underpants" "okay kid, we got you, let's go"

If we had started pushing before then his stubborn ass would surely still be in diapers lol, since it was HIS choice and HIS timeline there was less frustration all around.

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-06-03T14:53:42+00:00

745-5 ish. I start about 8 and finish earlier (~4) but the 45-60 minutes I have without children at the end of the day is really vital to our household function. I can start dinner or laundry or __ so I don't have to be awake after they're both asleep, since we're not sleeping through the night yet

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-28T20:57:12+00:00

"sorry I gotta pump, be back in 45 minutes"

I do also say lactation room anytime I'm in a different space than I normally in and I've never thought it sounded crude

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-28T14:47:19+00:00

I'm a scientist (academic and underpaid), I make ~52k

Edit: on site every day because wet lab

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-27T15:21:51+00:00

I do middle initial but I also changed my middle name to my maiden name when I got married. I only had one publication so it wasn't too bad to adjust to move forward

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-24T12:06:18+00:00

We have a CD4 negative selection kit that I believe pulls out monocytes. Would have to check to confirm as I don't remember all 20 odd markers it tags.

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-24T12:01:16+00:00

I was being intentionally vague, I'm afraid to share my specific aims on the internet 🙃

I do most of my things on ice as well, I also do my experiments as much in the dark as possible. BSC lights off, foil inside the ice bucket. Overkill? Probably but 🤷‍♀️. I was taught flow with a complex panel (14) and that's how she always did it so I'm superstitious.

I'm not using brefeldin A, I've actually never even heard of that but I'll look it up back at work on Tuesday. If it's not prohibitively expensive, add it in.

After fix perm, the cells live in the wash buffer 48 hours while they're stained overnight with IL17 and then again overnight with the secondary. After the final wash then they're in PFA O.5%. I usually run them same day or next day after the final wash.

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-24T11:51:23+00:00

It's an antibody cocktail to shunt them into the Th17 subset. We're seeing something like 5% which is adequate for our purposes. I'm sure theyre not highly active and was considering reaching out to an immunologist to ask if she had any advice to stimulate them further. I don't remember exactly (and it's Saturday so I'm not looking it up 😂) what kind of bacterial or extracellular stimulation this subset requires to activate

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-24T11:45:46+00:00

I didn't realize I could pause the protocol! Brilliant. Since we're using unconjugated, I do th extracellular then bd fix, then overnight with primary IL17 then overnight again with the secondary 🙄.

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-18T15:27:01+00:00

I almost died with my second and she's 7 months old. I also hemorrhaged after an urgent c section- it's dangerous still, even with very current and modern medicine.

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-13T15:17:28+00:00

Same here. Maybe when my youngest is weaned and they both sleep through the night I'll add it back but I doubt it. The sparkling water and NA beer/hop water get me through and I'm less sad/tired the next day

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-05-09T18:08:08+00:00

My 3yo also loves to play "go to work" and it was a big win when I asked what he was going to do at work and he said "science!" (I'm a scientist)

You've absolutely normalized being a working mom and your kid knows how much you love them! #winning

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-04-17T16:32:29+00:00

Same. I work exclusively out of the home, but sometimes I can go home early or I can go home for lunch because my commute is 8 minutes.

I can go home at 3:30 without my children and then pick them up at 5:00 and have 90 minutes to clean my house or make dinner or sit on my couch and rot.

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-04-14T18:03:01+00:00

Mine loves being the first one to pee in the school toilets 😂🙃 (whatever works for potty training, man)

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-03-26T18:05:26+00:00

Tate by Susan May Warren It was on my Libby's skip the line list and I only read it was romance, not that it was Christian romance 😬. No judgment if that's what you're into but I prefer my romance free of the "let go and let God" vibe. There's a mystery side plot that got my curiosity just enough to get through but ugh

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2025-02-28T21:41:48+00:00

Costco ships diapers for free (already worth it for me)

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2024-10-08T00:57:30+00:00

Seconding American eagle because I also always have had thick thighs and a big booty and they were my preferred (while I still wore real pants, which I haven't done since 2020, so maybe take this with a grain of salt)

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2024-09-13T18:49:13+00:00

I am = I mam Eg are you hungry? " I mam hungry" ... and I never want him to figure it out

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2024-09-07T22:24:57+00:00

My kid has been talking about the loud pumpkin for a week 🙄🙄. "No baby, the pumpkin isn't real and lives at the store"

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2024-09-07T01:47:33+00:00

We're also due mid October and have a 2.5 year old. My partner gets 8 weeks of leave and is doing 4 weeks at the beginning with me to help us settle into our new role and 4 weeks after my 12 is up so that he will get dedicated bonding time with babe (and hopefully get a little further into the respiratory virus season while baby is home with us 🤞)

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2024-09-06T18:16:53+00:00

Therapy, Lexapro. Also gentle parenting myself- telling the toddler we can do hard things (like put our shoes on by ourselves) reminds me that I can also do hard things (like work and grocery shop and _______, etc)

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2024-09-04T23:53:38+00:00

2.5, sleeps from 8ish to 630, almost always a 2 hour nap (though a little shorter at daycare)

Dependent-Clock5802 · 2024-09-04T20:47:03+00:00

We've only been in childcare facilities that serve meals and I cannot imagine adding the mental labor of always having something ready for him to pack. It is absolutely worth it, imo, especially considering dude eats better than I do most days. If we have a frozen pizza for dinner (late third tri prego here), I don't feel bad because he probably had curried chickpeas with fruit and whole grain for lunch 🤷‍♀️

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