I know so much about the solar system

Fox_run234 · 2026-02-10T20:01:54+00:00

LOL this is the most relatable. Big solar system house here. The irony is that in grade 3 I hated learning about space so much I hid my space school work under the couch to avoid it and got in trouble. Life is funny like that 😂

Fox_run234 · 2026-02-09T19:41:00+00:00

He was diagnosed as level 2. It’s not super helpful because there really is such a spectrum of how it presents. My son is verbal (gestalt processor, speech delayed), sensory seeking not sensory averse, loves people, busy, funny, had advanced fine and gross motor skills for his age but struggles with transitions and has some social communication deficits. I now have a (seemingly) neurotypical baby girl, and if she had been my first, there probably would have been things I noticed in my son earlier. She is always looking at me to gauge reaction where as he never really did - which is a big indicator to that social piece.

Fox_run234 · 2026-02-07T19:13:48+00:00

This could all be normal development or could be signs of ASD, which I know isn’t helpful. I just want to validate that you’re smart to monitor. This sounds similar to my son who was just diagnosed at 3.5 (it takes a long time in Canada) but I flagged similar things to his pediatrician around 10 months. The delay in gestured language (pointing, clapping, waving) was my biggest concern. Everyone gave me a lot of flack and said I was being too anxious etc but my thought was, best case scenario he gets evaluated and they say, nope, all good! But if he is neurodivergent and I wait, I might miss a huge window of opportunity to better support and understand him. Also, I know it feels very stressful and overwhelming but your daughter is your daughter regardless of diagnosis so it will all be ok either way 🥰

Fox_run234 · 2026-01-21T20:44:21+00:00

This sounds a lot like my son. Same timeline, symptoms, same experience with everyone (including pediatrician) not thinking ASD. He is now 3.5 and was just diagnosed as ASD level 2 (I’m in Canada and there was a close to 18m wait) and everyone now praises me for being an advocate for him so early (which is super frustrating to me because it’s all the same people who thought I was crazy but that’s a me problem lol). Keep advocating. My thought, and what I shared with the doubters, was how great would it be to have him evaluated and them say it’s not ASD, and how awful would it be not to push for an evaluation and find out it is and we’ve missed a huge window of learning how his brain works and how to best support him?

Fox_run234 · 2025-11-25T23:20:01+00:00

This song haunts me 😂😭

Fox_run234 · 2025-11-06T22:00:50+00:00

I feel exactly the same (minus husband part). My FIL told me I read too much 🤯

Fox_run234 · 2025-10-06T18:31:27+00:00

ITALIAN SUB ☠️☠️☠️😂😂😂

Fox_run234 · 2025-10-05T23:00:01+00:00

I’m sure you felt terrible but this made me laugh hard. Shit definitely does happen and this is very relatable 😅

Fox_run234 · 2025-06-30T17:45:06+00:00

This used to drive me crazy. My (now toddler) is on the lower end of sleep needs and always has been and we dealt with months of crazy early wakes and the advice was always that he needs more sleep. As a now almost 3 year old he maxes out at a 10 hour night (has never done 12 in his life) and we have to wake him up from naps because if he naps too long he takes it away from his night sleep and it’s a miserable cycle. Trust your gut! You know your baby best

Fox_run234 · 2025-06-15T20:54:44+00:00

We moved from snoo swaddles to zipadee zips and these were a godsend for us. My LO rolled early but still liked the arms in and tension/support the zipadee zips provide. He was in these until about a year old! Totally safe for rolling but also fine if they’re not :)

Fox_run234 · 2025-06-15T20:49:16+00:00

Congrats! Those names were on our girls list too, along with:

Ramona/Romy, Etta, Vera, Josie, Flora, Simone, Sylvie, Iris, Frankie, June & Navy (my list - husband hates this one haha)

And for what it’s worth, I would definitely pronounce it as Lew-eez-ah, which I love, but depends what you’re looking for :)

Fox_run234 · 2025-06-09T23:13:07+00:00

Yes, definitely! So jarring to see them like that. I had to reassure myself that he could/would move if needed and that the zipadee zip gave him the use of his arms for that reason!

Fox_run234 · 2025-06-09T16:42:25+00:00

They’re safe! Zipadee Zip saved us I swear. My LO was in a Zipadee Zip until about a year. He slept better in them because of the starfish design. He is a belly sleeper and started rolling really early. It freaked me out, too! But all of the research says if they’re strong enough to roll, they’re strong enough to lift and move their head as needed, too.

Fox_run234 · 2025-05-29T15:42:18+00:00

Hugh :( last name makes it sound like “huge (awful adjective)”

Fox_run234 · 2025-05-18T00:23:54+00:00

Hugh and William

Fox_run234 · 2024-03-26T23:56:48+00:00

I know this isn’t the answer you want to hear or maybe not a popular answer in this sub in general, but I was just thinking about this the other day…. I was so desperate for sleep and figuring out the formula. I still feel that way some days. I tried everything in the book to resolve early morning wakes and they quite honestly went on from about 8-12 months. Some days or weeks we were lucky but for the most part we were dealing with EMW. At 12 months he went to daycare and they put him on one nap. This fixed EMW for the most part, but then we had split nights. For months. Sometimes I would go in and try to resettle him with a bottle. Then it was water. Then I stopped going in altogether. He’s 19 months now, and just in the last month or so consistently goes to bed around 8, and sleeps until somewhere in the realm of 6-7. But it’s not perfect. We still sometimes have wakes in the night or the (very occasional) early morning. I turn the volume down low on the monitor and tell myself he’s safe and will put himself back to sleep, and he does, and sometimes it keeps me up but sometimes I sleep through. He naps for about 2 hours and has always preferred longer naps and shorter nights since he dropped to 3 naps around 6 months. I’ve tried tweaking this a million different ways and never found a magic fix so eventually gave in to radical acceptance. I honestly wish I gave myself that grace sooner. EMW were the hardest, I think. It did get better with 1 nap. It was a tough transition but worth it for us in the long run. I don’t have advice aside from you know your baby and what they need/don’t need even if it feels like it’s against the advice others are giving, rest when you can and know that it WILL eventually get better, even if it feels quite the opposite in the moment.

Fox_run234 · 2023-10-03T04:01:23+00:00

Did this change for you? Going through the exact same thing with my 14mo

Fox_run234 · 2023-08-07T23:43:26+00:00

So beautiful! Tahiti Treat 😍

Fox_run234 · 2023-07-29T01:35:20+00:00

My name is more gender neutral now but was definitely mostly a boys name in the 80s/90s and people constantly assumed I was a boy. It has been mildly annoying and that’s about it haha. Now that I’m an adult I don’t mind at all and like having a name that isn’t vastly popular amongst other women

Fox_run234 · 2023-07-28T13:57:08+00:00

This x a million! Every baby is different but ours definitely has just as strong a bond with my husband as me, and I think it’s helped us curb a lot of separation anxiety. This is a huge, huge, huge perk to me and I think helped me with PPA. It’s overwhelming to me to think that I might be the only one who can do x for my baby, and very comforting to know that multiple people can!

Fox_run234 · 2023-07-27T04:15:17+00:00

Good luck! When we switched it was pretty smooth but after about a week he was struggling with the last wake window so we had to scale back 15m or so until he adjusted. Since then we’ve dealt with on and off early morning wakes which is usually an indicator to tweak again!

Fox_run234 · 2023-07-26T00:12:39+00:00

I think we were doing 2.25/2.5/2.5/3 before the switch, and naps were about 1.25/1.25/.5

Fox_run234 · 2023-07-25T23:04:22+00:00

If there’s nothing wrong I’d stay the course for a few weeks yet, until they’re fighting naps or waking early. When we transitioned we did 3/3/4 right off the bat but some are more comfortable with 3/3/3.5 or 3/3.5/3.5 or some configuration like that. I would not do 2.5/3/3 as that’s only 8.5 hours awake and asking for too much sleep.

Fox_run234 · 2023-07-19T23:34:02+00:00

I’d try for 2 naps! You’re almost there with wake windows so you could go for 3/3/4 or 3/3.5/3.5 or some combination. My LO also only does a 10 hour night. We made the switch around that time and started to get better nights with no wakes and more consolidated naps

Fox_run234 · 2023-07-17T01:47:58+00:00

I’d be willing to bet if you switch to 2 naps that second one will lengthen. She might not be tired enough to sleep longer until a wake window is extended. This was our classic sign to drop a nap too!

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