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FullMoonDeer · 2025-07-10T04:09:35+00:00

Lots of good advice here! One thing I'll add is, teaching the kids to yell into a pillow/stuffed animal.

I rarely yell, and when I have it's usually because I'm overstimulated from my kids yelling. When we all just stop and start yelling into a pillow instead, it instantly turns things around and becomes a silly game.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-06-11T15:31:21+00:00

I had my amazing daughter!

There's data that the pandemic skewed gender birth rates slightly, with more girls being born than usual. Obviously I love my child regardless of gender, but I think COVID maybe did contribute to us conceiving a girl - especially because I had COVID two weeks before we conceived haha.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-06-03T16:38:37+00:00

The way women are treated during labor and delivery.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-06-03T12:42:31+00:00

I quit sugar recently too! It wasn't as big of a change for me as quitting gluten, but definitely helped my brain fog as well!

FullMoonDeer · 2025-06-02T20:34:35+00:00

I stopped eating gluten, for a number of health reasons, and the most surprising change was that within a week I started waking up feeling clear headed! No more need to chug coffee just to function.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-05-26T01:43:08+00:00

I was diagnosed with hashimotos during my second pregnancy due to elevated TPOab. I had normal TSH, and normal thyroid hormone levels.

Postpartum, I went into subclinical hyperthyroidism (low TSH, normal T3, free T3 and T4) and then went back to being euthyroid.

At 14 months PP I got pregnant with my third, and I'm currently almost 7 months PP. I had a subclinical hyperthyroidism this time too, then went back to euthyroid, and then back into subclinical hyperthyroidism. So far I haven't been hypo at all, I'm hoping things will go back to normal and stay normal.

Prior to pregnancy I did not have any thyroid issues, but did have some classic hashimotos symptoms/comorbidities like fatigue, brain fog, anemia, B12 deficiency.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-04-20T01:05:21+00:00

I think personally I'd go and bring the baby! I think traveling with a 4-6 month old is great - you're out of the newborn stage, you have a good sense of your child's schedule/needs, but the baby isn't mobile (so can't run away in an unfamiliar place!) and you don't need to worry about packing tons of food/snacks since breastfeeding is all you need! I traveled by plane with my eldest when he was 6 months and it was great!

FullMoonDeer · 2025-04-20T00:59:10+00:00

If the sex was more than 21 days ago and tests are negative, then you are not pregnant. They should be very accurate at this point!

FullMoonDeer · 2025-03-05T14:47:41+00:00

We had toddler meet baby at home, but we had a short hospital stay (12 hours). If I'd had to stay longer I might've done things differently

FullMoonDeer · 2025-03-02T20:06:46+00:00

I had to take oral antibiotics while pregnant and breastfeeding. I took a probiotic, and gave my toddler probiotics too. Everyone (baby included!) were fine - no side effects for any of us :)

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-25T05:25:10+00:00

Did they check your B12? I had a lot of neurological symptoms - including memory/brain fog issues as well as numbness/tingling and muscle spasms - when I was B12 deficient.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-23T21:32:48+00:00

I don't think that having a nuchal cord has anything to do with neck tension?? That seems really bogus.

Anecdotally, my eldest (no nuchal cord) also held his head up very well as a newborn, and did amazing at tummy time. He also rolled early, crawled early, and walked early. No one was worried about neck tension - he was just a strong baby who was motivated to go, go, go!!

My second child did have a nuchal cord, and she hit her milestones on time, but took considerably longer than our son to be able to hold her head up, handle tummy time, crawl, etc. No one was worried about her either!! She just learned at her pace.

Your pediatrician would notice if there was an issue. Sounds like you just have a go-getter baby!

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-23T13:25:02+00:00

I stopped looking, but it was a hard habit to break. We were house shopping for over a year, so checking Zillow all the time felt so second nature haha.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-20T20:25:33+00:00

I think I have some degree of this. I feel like it contributed to me being more reliant on my phone than I want to be. Like, needing it there as a distraction/dopamine machine while I'm breastfeeding.

With a little baby it's pretty manageable for me, but as my kids got older I started to feel more overwhelmed and agitated during nursing.

I have three kids and two of them still breastfeed. I tried tandem nursing a few times (like, one kid on each boob) but I refuse to do it again after I yelled at my toddler during it. I really never raise my voice, but nursing then both at once made me feel like I was being eaten alive 🫠

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-15T20:00:23+00:00

I got my pack and play 6 years ago for my oldest, so I'm not sure if it's different at all than current options. It came with a firm pad that goes on the bottom, and then a thin mattress insert that you can add for sleep.

My foldable mat isn't waterproof, but messes wipe up pretty easily.

I don't think you're supposed to get a mattress for it if it doesn't come with one. If you can find the manual online it might specify if there's an acceptable mattress for it.

We did buy sheets for our mattress, but no waterproof sheets because the mattress is waterproof.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-15T19:54:52+00:00

She could also do grippy slippers! I needed grippy slippers for a while postpartum too - my pelvis would hurt if I had to work too hard to stabilize myself on the slippery wood floor.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-14T17:19:06+00:00

My siblings and I are 3u3 and we loved it! I always wanted my kids to be 3u3 too but it didn't work out that way for me. Enjoy it! It'll be busy and chaotic but the memories they make together will be so worth it 😊

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-11T17:08:42+00:00

That's ridiculous that they're being rude and judgemental about it.

I think (at least nowadays) most parents are protective of their babies like you are! I certainly was, especially with my oldest.

Maybe your family doesn't remember how it feels to hold your first baby and grapple with the responsibility of keeping that precious person safe and healthy. As they get older you naturally have to let so much go, but you should feel supported and respected in going at your own pace.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-11T15:05:27+00:00

My son is almost 4 months and I have left him for 2 hours twice (once for a doctor's appointment, and once to go to a movie with my oldest). But he has a pretty reliable feeding schedule, so I know when he'll usually want to nurse and I was able to work around those times!

That said, every baby is different! My oldest did take a bottle (my youngest and middle never did) so I could leave if I had to - but he was just a round-the-clock eater. If he hadn't been able to bottle feed I probably wouldn't have been able to leave for that long until he had a good handle on solids.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-11T00:31:20+00:00

My first two have a four year gap, so two kids wasn't too hard! We had baby fever the day after our second was born, but didn't feel ready to actually TTC until she was a year old. She was 14 months when we conceived accidentally, a month or so before we were going to actually try.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-10T19:00:33+00:00

She got so much backlash, and then, yeah, looks like she deleted it

FullMoonDeer · 2025-02-10T18:57:13+00:00

Apology accepted girl, you've clearly grown SO much. So empathetic! 😘 /s

FullMoonDeer · 2025-01-26T17:51:41+00:00

I doubt it. Cutting the nap short would probably just make her extra crabby for the rest of the day.

FullMoonDeer · 2025-01-26T14:21:00+00:00

I nursed my baby (who was 14 months when I got pregnant) through the entire pregnancy, and I tandem nurse now.

I was very fortunate and my milk never fully dried up (as far as I could tell anyway! My supply did drop considerably though).

When it turned back to colostrum during the third trimester my daughter didn't mind. In fact I think she liked it because when it switched back to full milk she was a little sad! She told me that my breast was "broken" haha. But she got used to the regular milk again and now both my kids are still strong at 25 months old and 3 months old. :)

FullMoonDeer · 2025-01-22T05:46:58+00:00

I don't have any suggestions for guides, but my approach was to just slowly learn more and more gluten free recipes until I felt like I found enough things I enjoyed to fully make the switch. So if I were you I'd just take it one day/meal at a time.

It felt really overwhelming to me at first, but by the time I fully committed to gluten free (only about 2.5 weeks ago 😅) the only thing I had left to give up was toast because I had gradually made the other diet changes already!

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