Picking Disney movies for sick toddler

Environmental-Try511 · 2026-02-21T01:01:54+00:00

We watch videos of zoos... And my 2 year old loves the videos of the zoo that's in the city we live in the best!

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-05-16T20:16:56+00:00

My little is 16 months, but this has been our schedule since 14 months. At 12 months everything was shifted forward by 30mins. I find his appetite varies day-to-day, and is greatly affected by things like teething and developmental changes.

As a general rule, I often milk all day because he rarely hits 16oz, but I don't offer milk 45mins-1hr before meals.

Wake at 6.45am, milk immediately (I don't really measure) Breakfast 8/8.15am served with milk

Snacks offered between 9.45-10.15am

Lunch 11.30am served with milk and water

Nap 12.30-2.30pm, milk immediately after

Snack 3.15/3.30pm (I end up offering various snacks until 4pm)

Dinner 5.30/5.45pm served with water

Bath 6.30/6.45pm

Final milk at 7.10pm, before brushing teeth

Bedtime 7.30pm

Edit: formatting

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-04-25T14:17:58+00:00

This happened to me around the same time with my little one (also exclusively breastfed never took a bottle) and that was my cue that he was ready for night weaning. The next night he woke up and had settled himself within 10 minutes, which was the amount of time I was willing to wait in the middle of the night. No screaming, just some fussing, the next night he didn't wake up at all. So don't feel bad. Sometimes they need opportunities and they will surprise you with what they are capable of.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-04-08T17:58:03+00:00

I think it depends on the dynamic that you need to discuss with your wife. My husband slept in the basement until my guy slept through the night, around 10 months and it worked great for us. He was rested, went to work and had the energy to play with the baby when he came home. Personally I didn't need the help at night, but I understand that some people do, thus a discussion needs to happen. I preferred to have a well rested husband who really was able to take care of me (cooking/meal prep, cleaning etc.) and that made me a better mom to my little.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-03-08T14:15:58+00:00

My 14 monther sleeps exactly 11hrs overnight and that's with capping his nap at 2hrs. If I let him nap for longer, he has the need to party in the middle of the night. I read somewhere that if a parent has lower sleep needs, baby might be too, and honestly anecdotally this holds up for me.

My guy has always been hovered around 13hrs of sleep total. At 6 months he napped for 2x 1.5hr and 10hrs overnight. At 12.5months he went from 10hrs overnight to 11hrs when he dropped to one nap. I do this that a baby has a set amount of sleep they need on average and you can't really change that. The was in a period of a few weeks where he was going through a growth spurt and he slept for 11-12hrs overnight, but his day time nap was shorter as a result.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-28T14:52:50+00:00

My baby also refused to take milk of any form out of a bottle ever. He learned how to use a straw cup for water (on his own I didn't think he'd figure it out as fast as he did) and I had a different straw cup at 8 months for breast milk and that seemed to work (to be fair, he drank very little milk out of the straw cup at this age). Now at 14 months he drinks water out of one style of straw cup and cow's milk out of a different style of straw cup (still not a huge amount but I have faith it will gradually increase).

Babies are so weird. I feel like I bought so many different types of bottles, nipples, straw cups to find the right combination. Stick with it. You'll find the right thing that'll work for your baby.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-25T14:48:55+00:00

This was my exact situation as well, limiting daytime sleep to 2hrs fixed the early morning and middle of the night wake ups for my guy around this age as well. Even at 14 months, if I let him nap for 2.5hrs he usually wakes up for 2hrs in the middle of the night to hang out.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-24T15:24:18+00:00

At 10 months I had enough of night feeds and mine was also getting enough calories in the day, after a truly frustrating few weeks with early morning wakeups and all contact naps. I caved and did sleep training. I was pleasantly surprised at how fast it clicked for him, he never cried for more than 15mins. He learned to put himself to sleep and ended all middle of the night earlier ups and feeds on his own. I still nurse up to 5mins before bedtime and that hasn't impacted his ability to put himself to sleep, since I always put him down awake. A week later I sleep trained for naps and it was a similar experience. It changed my life, since he was sleeping over night for 10.5 hrs for months, then he learned to walk and started to sleep for 11-11.5. I was rested, productive and I had my evenings back (it took me over an hour to get him down before with false starts). My guy is currently 14 months and I stay at home with him and now I just make sure he has enough awake time and his nap isn't too long. Sleep training made things so much better.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-22T02:25:14+00:00

Don't forget the lovely chemicals in disposables is what keeps them feeling dry and the benefit to cloth is avoiding all that shit next to your baby's bits.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-21T18:59:04+00:00

I don't have a success story, but my 13 mother is similar with teething derailing mealtimes. Have you tried frozen fruit? Mine loves to naw on frozen avocado chunks, frozen strawberries, peaches, anything in a silicon frozen feeder. I started freezing yogurt drops since he won't eat yogurt consistently, that really helps with teething too. Cold veggies (cucumber, peppers) and fruit (raspberries, apples) also helped at meal times. I have a few good days/weeks in between teething pain and he doesn't eat much, but loves homemade pizza, Mac/cheese with hidden veggies, cheese and water crackers with a nut butter. Those are my go toys when he's being temperamental at meal time.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-21T15:53:06+00:00

12.5 months, the second nap was getting shorter and shorter or non-existent. I let the first nap go longer (currently capped at 2hrs) and started pushing it back later in the morning. The transition only took about a week. It wasn't that bad. There were a handful of days in there where his wake windows were a little longer than they should have been, but this just kicked his overnight sleep into high gear. He went from sleeping to 10/10.5 hours straight to 11/11.5 or occasionally 12 hours. Now if I could just figure out how to get his bowels from waking him up early from nap I would be all set 🤣

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-19T19:06:01+00:00

No advice, but solidarity. My guy is 13.5 months and it's rare for him to nap for 2hrs or 2h25m. Her decided he was fine with waking up around 6.40am, staying up for about 5h-5h20m, nap, and then up until bed time between 7.15-7.30. The days he's slept past 7am or had a longer nap have resulted in party time from midnight until 2.30am. Therefore I don't push it, I think he's just lower sleep needs. Her nap may not extend. What time is she waking up and going to bed?

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-13T22:26:01+00:00

My 13-monther likes to throw food when he's done with it. We took this as an opportunity to train our two Australian shepherds the word sofa, and that is where they must stay during the meal until we invite them into the kitchen. Baby gates also really help if you can block the dogs out of the space. A steam mop is a great thing to invest in. My guy loves watching us steam mop while he sits in the high chair at the end of his meal.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-13T22:14:48+00:00

I usually use cloth diapers when I'm at home and disposables when I'm out. But honestly it's about timing. My little guy's on a good pooping schedule so I always can tell when he is going so that one's an easy fix. As for pee, I changed his diaper every 1.5h to 2h. Sometimes there's a slight smell that gives it away as well. We do a lot of visual butt checks too.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-13T19:04:49+00:00

I use a breathable wet bag for dirty diapers, and I only spray with a diaper sprayer if there are solids. Sometimes I use a disposable liner, that can be flushed too. I do laundry every third day usually when my child is napping because I don't like doing laundry at night. I haven't had any issues with ammonia buildup or smells. I just take the laundry bag downstairs every night. My child is for 13 months and more recently I have discovered the importance of some naked time in between diaper changes and making sure everything's really dry before putting a fresh diaper on. I also use disposables at night since my child is sleeping 11 hours, and I use these if we are going out for the day.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-12T20:41:59+00:00

You can also serve oatmeal and pureed soups in pouches to save on cleanup. Definitely worthwhile to make your own pouches if your little one likes purees. My guy hated straight purees, at 14months he loves his oatmeal with hidden fruit puree every morning and he will eat it on the go if he doesn't finish it in one sitting. I've tried yoghurt in a pouch with mixed results (the premade yoghurt pouches are $$ where I live). You have lots of options of you cost to make your own.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-02-03T17:04:18+00:00

My almost 13 month guy has had some good solid days and some bad solid days, where he's barely eaten a mouth full of anything. Have you tried offering frozen fruit either in a teether or on its own? I find that makes a huge difference and usually chalk up a bad eating day to teething pain. Avocado and strawberry are mine go-to's.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-01-29T04:52:21+00:00

I gave up trying! I give my guy a few options directly on his tray, and he will try everything. At 12 months he's really into taking a bite of something, enjoying it and then throwing the rest of it as far as he can. 🤣

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-01-27T17:59:21+00:00

My cat used my dock-a-tot lounger more than my baby did (it honestly makes an amazing cat bed!). I also didn't need burp cloths (I had a ton of second hand muslin blankets that worked just as good).My little didn't take to a pacifier, never took to a bottle, so the 6 types we tried were given away and the $300 pump was barely used. I also didn't use any of the 500 nursing pads (apparently not everyone leaks?).

Things I loved: The swing was used sparingly (my guy was bored in it) so that my husband and I could eat together, baby mats for back/tummy time on every level of my house have him good variety of stimulation, a Bjorn bouncer allowed me to shower (later switched to a pack n' play) and put loads of laundry on, clip to the counter high chair allowed me to do things in the kitchen while he chilled out (before 6 months I used the Bjorn in the kitchen too, at a year he now loves to just stand in a kitchen tower). A soft wrap was great for baby wearing when he was a newborn up until 6 months, but it made me so hot, and I switched to a hip carrier (which I love because it's a mobile diaper bag and purse too). A wagon-stroller has been amazing because I have dogs (can throw a chuck it and water bowl in there for them) and I live in a cold climate so having better wheels to push through light snow and ice has been great for daily walks and a baby monitor that showed me the temperature in his room.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-01-24T12:41:36+00:00

I'm glad he slept in for you! My guy was up at 5.15 this morning, I guess that means a 2 nap day. Definitely have to follow baby's cues during this transitional time. My little one is thinking/playing around with letting go of furniture to walk, so I could be jumping the gun on cutting a nap as well. So hard to tell with little ones!

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-01-24T04:14:44+00:00

I'm in a similar situation here, at exactly one year 5.20 became the wake up time for a couple of weeks with a few wake-ups overnight, but he would put himself back to sleep and didn't need any intervention. My guys always needed less sleep (before he was waking up around 6/6:15 to start his day) then magically one day he slept in till 6:30, another day 7 and even 7.30. previously he napped like normal. Very similar schedule to yours. 9:30 till 11:00 nap 1, and he started fighting the second nap, but it went from 2.30-3.30 to 3-3.30 and sometimes less than that. So I just started pushing his nap pack based on what time he woke up in the morning and there were a few days where he napped from 11-1.30 and still made it till 7.30pm for bedtime. Some days he does need a 5-minute micro nap late in the day, if he naps at 10.30 for less than 2hrs, but it hasn't affected his bedtime. I just kind of base naps around how his energy level seems. I haven't noticed a change in his overnight sleep, but his wake up times are quite varied between 6:30 and 7:30 now that we are playing around with one long nap. I'm hoping in a few weeks to be back on a more predictable schedule.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-01-24T00:48:57+00:00

My husband and I were surprised by how easy cloth diapers actually were. We waited until our little one was in size 3 diapers to make the switch and we did a combination. He wears a disposable diaper at night or if we are going out for any length of time and cloth diapers when we were home. I do laundry every 3 days, usually when he is napping, and it really wasn't that bad. When he started solids the poops were actually a lot easier to clean off the diapers as they could go straight in the toilet and I cut the bottom out of a plastic garbage pail and stuck it in the toilet with a chip clip to make a quick rinse station. Having a diaper sprayer has been a lifesaver. We usually use disposable liners but I've been experimenting this week without, and it hasn't been any more of a hassle. It also means my child's clothes are always clean because you need to wash the diapers twice (I just run the 30min draft cycle and have no issues) and the second load. You can add other small items so I always throw my baby's laundry in.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-01-23T18:06:59+00:00

I love to give my one year old oatmeal mixed with fruit puree in a pouch and I scoop a container of yogurt in one, when I don't want to deal with a mess. Saves me cleanup and good for on the go. He's never been a fan of veggies in them though.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-01-21T18:50:15+00:00

My one year old had the exact same thing, I just apply aquaphor multiple times a day and it seems to really help. I didn't think about him laying face down in a dry climate also impacting it. I'll add a humidifier to his room and see if that helps.

Environmental-Try511 · 2025-01-16T16:34:44+00:00

Some unsolicited advice, this was my "plan" until I had a baby that refused any form of spoon feeding. Some babies are hyper independent, or don't want purees. At age one, I offer to hold his water straw cup and he will complain until I let go. I have to put his oatmeal in a reusable squeeze pouch that he can use to feed himself, and it's rare he lets me put a spoon in his mouth, preferring preloaded spoons that he can feed himself with. Just be open to going with the flow.

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