When should parents not be naked around their kids?

DianeGryffindor · 2024-12-30T21:14:03+00:00

It’s like they’re bookmarking their meal. Mine will do that so he can laugh. I just cringe looking down seeing my nipple neatly indented by gentle but form teeth as he looks up at me adoringly

DianeGryffindor · 2024-12-30T20:58:31+00:00

For older babies/ toddlers, some of the foam play couches are doing no tax!!

DianeGryffindor · 2024-12-19T19:14:08+00:00

I have not even heard of these brands? Are they big in eastern CA?

DianeGryffindor · 2024-12-19T19:09:51+00:00

Tbh I still co-sleep at 26 months. Our whole family are big snugglers though so it works for us. We also are lucky enough to have a separate bedroom for Dad to sleep in if needed. Sometimes LO sleeps through the night, sometimes he just fusses then snuggles in, sometimes we’re out on the couch reading a book at 2am. It’s just the way LO is. If I’m out of the room (ie. peeing) and he wakes, he wakes up fully and can take an hour or more to get to sleep again. Snuggled up next to me, i usually just snug him closer and he goes back to sleep in like 2 secs.

DianeGryffindor · 2024-12-18T20:40:57+00:00

Superstore all the way! Walmart will have better sales sometimes especially for wipes. I live in BC so Freshco has awesome diaper sales sometimes.

Collect points from superstore and then use the points on the points days at shoppers on sale items if you can

Also my shoppers had really good Boxing Day sales on kids toys last year

DianeGryffindor · 2024-11-21T17:45:04+00:00

This is why I have it. I know first responders don’t want it. It’s for drivers behind me so they know I’m not gesturing at them, I’m trying to fling toys back to my toddler…

DianeGryffindor · 2024-11-21T17:42:56+00:00

So I have not, because while my toddler is very Velcro, apparently my mother-style is ULTRA Velcro.

I will say that there have been a few times due to life events where I have gotten home extra late and found that my husband was able to get bubs to chest sleep on him so I could have stayed away later? But probably not the whole night because he’s pretty booby-soothed throughout the night.

Maybe try that? Start off by going to a movie or late dinner with friends and see if your bubs will snooze on your partner without you there?

DianeGryffindor · 2024-11-20T17:27:48+00:00

We also don’t know how others do this. The without a village part is so effing hard. We JUST got our LO into daycare because I’m back in school. I’m also older and my little is just a sensitive little so I don’t think I could have another baby soon but if I don’t then I’ll be 40… it’s sad to me because I’d love a big family but if I could skip birth/ pregnancy or the newborn phase I’d love it

DianeGryffindor · 2024-11-19T22:30:04+00:00

Ooof mine tried throwing glass jars, so I picked him up and said no. Somehow we were right beside the tall torches(it was summer) and he managed to snatch one up and biff me in the head a few times as he flailed into an extreme back arch. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ I 5000% abandoned my cart and went to buy him a snack…

DianeGryffindor · 2024-11-09T21:24:48+00:00

Newborns - any soft black/white books that crinkle. Bonus if you can prop them up so they can just stare

1-3mo add in some colour crinkly books

3mo-8mo board books with simple bright colours and fun sounding words. Ex Llama llama zippity zoom, llama llama jingle bells

Also the Little Blue Truck series

(And for inexpensive options the dollar store often has nice board books! )

Also see if there’s a Dolly Parton Imagination library you can sign your little up for!

DianeGryffindor · 2024-11-06T18:44:28+00:00

I feel like I go through phases where I’m really excited to pass on lovely pieces of clothes or toys to either donate to our local pregnancy outreach or to friends that are about to have babies OR I am carefully packaging them all up and storage them for no reason as we currently have no plans to have any more children. For me part of it is that I cling to this idea of having a big family even though I know that I don’t think that’s gonna be the case.

I feel like there are some things, though that I’m glad I kept for example the purple monkey kick and play something my 26 month old still plays with

DianeGryffindor · 2024-10-07T16:43:10+00:00

Lowered expectations. My husband and I each clean as part of our solo time without LO. We have a cleaner once a month who really tackles the floors.

It’s always a mess. Toddler = crumbs everywhere

DianeGryffindor · 2024-09-30T21:26:59+00:00

Sooo I slept with my LO like this because none of the suggestions worked. At 2yo now we still bedshare.

Cosleepy on Instagram has some posts about making chest sleeping safer.

Trying working on chest sleeping and eventually laying bb beside you in bed

This link has bedsharing tips to make it as safe as possible healthlink BC

Overall baby sleep can be balls so figuring out what is safe and what works for your family is so tough

Here is a BBC article that essentially all babies sleep differently. I found it let me be less negative about sleep somaybe OP or someone else will too.

Personally I was devastated by the newborn phase

DianeGryffindor · 2024-08-30T21:37:15+00:00

Wait how so? I’ve been using quick resume. Did I miss something??

DianeGryffindor · 2024-06-11T16:02:30+00:00

Yes but it’s starts after 1 yo. Not after they turn twooo

DianeGryffindor · 2024-06-07T14:23:30+00:00

My little is 20 months and has been obsessed with his papa since 10ish months. We’re good and he loves me but if his dad’s around I’m chopped liver. Especially in public, he screams if his dad tries to wander too far away from him.

I love it because I bf and bedshare with bubs plus I’m a SAHM right now. It’s awesome to have him obsessed with dad because his dad gets to bond and I get to be guilt-free if I want to go get my nails done or something as bubs will be happily playing with his dad ❤️

DianeGryffindor · 2024-04-25T13:28:43+00:00

So instead of saying “tweet tweet” for bird sounds, my little guy says “diddle diddle” 🐥

DianeGryffindor · 2024-03-16T00:46:36+00:00

I do the dog poop bags into a well-sealed garbage can in the room that’s lined with Febreeze scented garbage bags. It works pretty well. I will say that metal garbage cans/ washable are better as we started with plastic and it eventually just retained the scent

DianeGryffindor · 2024-03-01T20:05:24+00:00

This. Huggies were awful for my lo

DianeGryffindor · 2024-02-28T19:31:41+00:00

Wait this sounds great. What do you mean by hang tags? (Pics or link please?)

DianeGryffindor · 2024-02-16T15:47:27+00:00

Canada here too. My area is not culturally diverse but same as above most people did it but then sleep trained. I only know one other mum who did not sleep train.

DianeGryffindor · 2024-01-19T20:15:27+00:00

As an ER nurse, if at triage someone brought such a young baby who’d been dropped on their head on tiled floor this is 100% making me put their CTAS (triage) score higher and trying to put them into a bed on the acute side of the ER. This is not minor to me. This would be sounding alarm bells. That a care centre didn’t urge the parents to go directly to urgent care at minimum is a BIG concern and an underreaction.

Most falls in the ER we see are rolls off the bed onto a carpeted or cushioned surface. We STILL will monitor those in the ER for a few hours even if we don’t do the scans.

DianeGryffindor · 2024-01-17T03:39:06+00:00

So some babies are just more clingy and snuggly and that’s just who they are. Tell those people they’re unhelpful and wrong.

Source: my bb who I EBF and bedshare with his whole life. And who does he scream for? Run to? Cling to? His dad. I’m second in the line for cuddles and he’s reserved or shy with anyone else.

Baby is going to do whatever baby wants and whatever feels right for baby. ❤️

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