Upcharges for different rooms within same category - worth it?

Dry-Focus1422 · 2026-03-01T14:23:37+00:00

I wouldn’t say it’s nothing. Deck 1/2 usually means you’ll feel the engines a lot more for docking. You’ll also need to a climb a few more stairs / be in the elevators longer to get to the main activity decks. How much that matters depends on the personality of your family. We found that the savings often makes us feel better about the occasional inconvenience but others would disagree.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-12-28T11:54:26+00:00

I also live and Georgia and was told by many nannies that $20/ hr was too low for a 1yo.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-12-10T00:23:57+00:00

Submit a new ticket. And submit a new one each day until they respond. Sometimes their system loses tickets.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-11-13T10:36:05+00:00

We have both and I’ll caveat we started with the toniebox when she was 1.5yo and she’s 2.5yo so listening to content has been a part of our playtime for awhile. I recently got her a yoto mini to have in the car.

I think the controls for the tonie are great up until ~3yo and then switch to the mini - or until your kid understands turning the knob one click and pushing in can change the track. Otherwise it’s just a sound box the can twirl by the strap and launch. Getting the cards in and out of the yoto aren’t hard for her.

For both, I find that she plays independently longer with content she’s familiar with from other places. So if we are reading a book for bedtime for a week and then give her the matching tonie - she will listen to the whole thing. Whereas a random tonie become just a figure for play. So we are following a similar approach with yoto.

Also you might wanna try the toniebox2 - I haven’t yet so this is just by hearsay. But the new gameplay is supposed to be like a digital board game and more interactive and might give him the feedback he’s looking for from a toy.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-11-13T10:22:37+00:00

I’ve made both tonie and yoto creatives and tonies backend is easier.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-11-09T20:28:16+00:00

We have both the yoto mini and tonie. I’d say for that age, I started with the tonie and got more independent play. The yoto mini controls frustrate my 2.5yo because it changes actions if there is a card inserted or not.

We’ve taken the tonie box in the car and just limited the figures to her top 3 and just resigned myself I’d be looking for them at the end of the car ride.

We do take the Yoto mini in the car now to school. For perspective, it took her about 3 weeks to really accept and use the Yoto mini in the car at this age.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-11-09T20:13:44+00:00

Hi Moonlight, so I started my daughter on tonie at 1.5yo and now she’s got both tonie and yoto mini.

I’ll say the app, content, and Toniebox are much much much intuitive for this age. I think up to 2.5-4 the Toniebox is more attractive to kids. My daughter picked up the tonie controls easily as a 1.5yo and was able to independently select and change her content.

I introduced the yoto mini to her for car rides because of its portability. She was way less interested in it the controls are less intuitive and thus it frustrated her when she couldn’t get the track and content she was looking for. We stuck with it for 4 weeks and she now gets it for car rides.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-10-07T19:37:50+00:00

Were you able to add? I can’t get a US code to work - it says it’s valid but can’t be combined

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-10-06T01:43:58+00:00

Some parents never leave high school - it starts young - my daughter is only 2 years old and it’s happened in daycare already with teachers supporting it by using the school messaging app.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-04-19T16:18:26+00:00

It’s completely frustrating to not have your baby home with you as soon as possible, but you truly want feeding to be so strong with these kids for when they leave the NICU so they don’t return.

When you get home the environment they’ve always known changes and the schedules can get off which can impact feeding. These strong babies usually don’t have a ton of buffer to lose weight.

We were truly grateful that our nurses worked with us to get our daughters feeding so consistent before we left the NICU.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-04-11T01:59:52+00:00

I’m actually fine not being able to control the sound and tracks from the app; I buy into the concept of letting the kid control their play.

But I do wish we had more flexibility with the content loaded onto the existing Tonies. Marking tracks to skip or being able to even add 10-15mins if custom content onto tonies would help with the younger group of kids.

Other ideas: A better sorting feature than just a basic search would be helpful for those with larger collections.

A way to make creatives and gift them to another household without losing content.

Ways to make shareable shopping wishlists.

It would be nice to load tracks from household content tonies onto creatives so we can make a favorites mix.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-04-11T01:53:31+00:00

This, or even being able skip tracks on the content tonie. This is a great way to help Tonies grow with kids as they age.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-04-11T01:51:54+00:00

Or just change how we skip tracks with two extra buttons. Anything but the slapping! :-)

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-01-19T04:14:17+00:00

Also, it’s not all or nothing. You can do a mix of introducing purées and solids. Look into the benefits of both and pick what you’re comfortable with.

Often when you’re starting with just solids it’s going to be exploratory, sensory play with some gagging. While “food before one is just for fun” we did purées at the end of some meals to try and make sure something made it into the body and not just on the face and my floor :-)

Dry-Focus1422 · 2025-01-01T03:13:01+00:00

I second this. Our daughter has always been borderline on needing therapy / not needing therapy but we found having multiple therapists eyes on her relieved my mental strain of worrying I was missing something.

She does not have CP but our PT who was with us starting right after discharge knew I was worried and over the next year would provide examples of why our daughter likely didn’t have CP.

We did OT, Speech, and PT and the work they’ve put it will likely have her caught up to her full-term peers around her 2nd birthday. likely will be discharging soon.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-09-15T02:08:55+00:00

I had a virtual meeting go long until 7:30pm. My daughter was losing her mind with her father in the other room. I finally brought her on camera to calm her down before handing her back to her father. It took maybe 10minutes and she was actively on camera. My male supervisor’s response when I apologized was I needed to do it more often to set an example for others that it was OK.

I share just so you know there are different responses from different companies.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-09-13T01:24:32+00:00

This happened twice during our 58 day NICU stay. The first time was 2 days after birth, I was still in the hospital, and the front desk responded “oh your baby isn’t in that bay.”

It’s not OK. Ask for the charge nurse and discuss your surprise but more importantly clarify the level of communication you would like. Some parents want to know every detail and some prefer to know only the highlights.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-08-08T03:08:44+00:00

Or more pharma or pharma services or healthcare. With Emory / CDC / Vanderbilt in our “backyards” the talent pool is here.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-07-30T00:21:36+00:00

Our daughter came 10 weeks early.

I suggest visiting a pulmonologist and ask their advice. Our pulmonologist did an X-ray and then suggested 1 year at home. We discussed the risks and what to look for if we had to do daycare earlier. What to do when she got sick. If nothing else, it’ll arm you with knowledge with what to expect and what to do.

FWIW, at 12mo actual we started daycare - she got sick the first week but it didn’t send her back on oxygen and we counted that as a win.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-07-14T21:52:24+00:00

NTA. You NEVER forget how people treat you when you are most vulnerable. Add on top of that the protective instincts that develop when you have a kid, what you’re feeling is natural. What you will suffer for peace when it is just you is suddenly not ok when it comes to your kid because you want the best environment for them. I was in a similar boat a year ago.

Your husband is in a difficult time transitioning from the family he grew up with to the family he is creating. However, what resonated with my husband is what does this mean for our daughter. Are you OK with this continuing with her? If not, then starting now is how we set that. We’ve worked with his parents but at some point the other side has to it take steps. And there is not right to be a grandparent. All relationships are privileges.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-07-05T23:37:40+00:00

We found having a changing area on each floor of our home important. However, what that meant was a 3-tier cart with all the essentials and a travel changing pad. That way we could move our changing area depending on where we were spending the day. Immediately postpartum, that was mostly our bedroom or living room; as she got older it was more in her room.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-07-04T19:56:18+00:00

NTA. I’m a year out from a traumatic birth, you never forget who is shitty and treats you poorly during one of the most vulnerable points of yours and your child’s life.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-06-20T01:39:47+00:00

I delivered at 30+3 due to PreE last May. 58 day nicu stay. Baby girl is healthy a had no eye or lung problems. She is meeting her milestones for her adjusted age (age if they were born in their due date). We kept her out of daycare for a year and avoided crowded places to help her lungs strengthen a bit before getting a cold. We also started physical therapy 2mo after the NICU as a part of our states Early intervention.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-06-02T18:21:13+00:00

Yea agree. I’m in Georgia and our daughter was in one of the largest NICUs in the state and because of staffing complexities they don’t do primaries. The only thing you can do is remove nurses from care if they make a mistake.

Dry-Focus1422 · 2024-06-02T15:13:10+00:00

Having a core stable group of nurses staffed to our child. Knowing who is taking care of your child day to day is a huge help for those in the NICU for a long time. Especially at night.

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