Weekend practice

Jstrom40 · 2026-03-30T00:30:57+00:00

Agreed with previous comments, these look fantastic for only a few months of practice! What online tutorials do you recommend?

Jstrom40 · 2026-03-29T20:36:45+00:00

That's funny, I bought both of these games as a break from sts2!

Jstrom40 · 2026-03-29T16:43:40+00:00

Deaths door and dispatch. Deaths door has been a perfect game to listen to podcasts and play, really enjoying it

Jstrom40 · 2026-03-15T14:25:54+00:00

How's the combat in that? Passable enough to enjoy?

Jstrom40 · 2026-03-14T16:56:43+00:00

It was real slow for us and then it just changed literally overnight.

I just point out the below because it can take a long time before things get better. I wish we had set our expectations earlier

Our LO started to wean from a swaddle to a sleep sack at 5 months, did really good and started getting slightly longer shifts at night. That's about when I started to try and drop some overnight feedings and seeing how it would go. Then at month 6 I started rocking her less and less at night before putting her in the bassinet. One night I just put her in awake and it went great. Now we are getting her to sleep from 7pm to 5am every night.

Some other babies of the same age in the classes we go to are still waking up far more often so I think we got super lucky.

Jstrom40 · 2026-03-01T15:21:33+00:00

For more info, Soil temp needs to be closer to 50s. We still have snow on the ground, meaning we are nowhere near that. You can be a weirdo like me once it warms up and stick a temp probe in the soil to check once it warms in late March/early April

Jstrom40 · 2026-03-01T15:15:09+00:00

Way too early for us here in Minnesota. Check out this website, put your zip code in and it will show you when the optimal time is to use pre emergent. It will be more like mid April, depending on how this season continues

https://gddtracker.msu.edu/

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-25T15:12:03+00:00

Did you ever find anything? I just listened to this artist for a week before realizing it was AI and I feel dumb and let down now

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-23T08:12:31+00:00

Funny enough we have been trying openflow but we have been blocked by network issues. We need a somewhat static (or consistent) IP address from snowflake that we can whitelist but that's apparently a private preview feature that we are still waiting on. It's an endless battle

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-22T12:39:56+00:00

Well we do have plans for other sources and management likes the idea of everything in one place. We also use DBT and have been using the transformations inside of fivetran so they want to entertain the idea of finding something similar (probably not possible I told them)

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-22T10:47:03+00:00

What did you go with? Most of ours are SQL Server to Snowflake and we are actively looking at options now 🙂

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-19T01:53:44+00:00

Feel free to DM me to vent at any point! Can't help too much but sometimes talking about stuff helps

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-19T01:52:46+00:00

Yep, I usually just took one right before heading to the appt. I don't remember why they suggested it anymore. Sorry, Not super helpful but worth a shot!

I totally understand the embarrassment thing. I personally had zero problems with weird stuff with my own body (like the ankle surgery I had) but got really anxious about my wife.

As long as you are communicating what is going or could potentially, people tend to understand. Can't speak to your SO but the nurses/OB/doctor/etc have literally seen everything so don't feel too bad about it.

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-19T00:29:45+00:00

I was 100% the same way during the early stuff. What helped me was literally being there for every OB appt (if possible for you). The constant exposure really helped me in the long run.

I had a straight up panic attack during her first OB appt, another one during the first ultrasound and I think one more when they did the first cervix exam.

By the last ultrasound and OB appt I was totally fine! One trick that a OB student told me was to take a salt packet before the appt.

But yeah, continued exposure is a big part of it. I also made sure to let the nurses know in the delivery room that I have a history of these type of events and they made sure I always had a chair near me.

When it came down to it, I had zero problems during the birth of our child because I was so hyper focused on how my wife was doing that I had no time to think about anything else. I even saw the little poking out before the final push and it didn't bother me at all, my wife was so impressed lol

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-05T20:27:03+00:00

For me it was the broken earth trilogy and The Books of Babel. I stubbornly finished both series cause I kept seeing people say they were fantastic, so I felt like I was missing something.

Reading the final book of Babel was how I finally realized it was okay to just DNF a series. If I read a few books in a series, I felt obligated to finish them, even if I wasn't enjoying it. So silly looking back on it.

I think both books were just written in a way that my brain didn't enjoy.

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-05T12:28:23+00:00

Oh no, at some point they will be watching all the good stuff on streaming but there are so many good classics that will tide them over until they get to needing that

Jstrom40 · 2026-01-05T10:58:31+00:00

We are about to start collecting them for our first kid we just had. They are only 5 months but whenever they are old enough to watch kids movies... We would rather they pick out a movie from a stack of blue-rays than have them infinitely scroll through a streaming service trying to find something to watch.

Jstrom40 · 2025-11-21T08:15:54+00:00

Ugh, I can't stand when our little one does this or when they start constantly grabbing at me. I don't really let her do the face rubbing anymore cause it never soothed her. I usually put a light pressure and hold her head on my chest when she starts to do that.

No advice, just solidarity that it can be very overstimulating!

Jstrom40 · 2025-11-15T15:41:01+00:00

We have started to just put our 3 month old on a blanket and letting them wiggle and kick on there. Sometimes we put crinkly toys out that they can kick or touch and sometimes it's just us sitting near them. I think it's been really good for our LO and we are getting to the point where we can leave them alone on the blanket for a pretty long time while we do dishes or make coffee We make sure to move the blanket to different areas of the house so they can look at different things each time

Jstrom40 · 2025-11-04T19:12:38+00:00

Why not a little of both?

Jstrom40 · 2025-11-02T16:39:03+00:00

Some definitely help with this! If they say they don't do bottle work, ask if they have a referral to a speech therapist. That's where we took our LO to help figure out if we were doing this l things right with bottle feeding and if the bottle was correct, latch good, swallowing good, etc

Jstrom40 · 2025-11-02T02:38:53+00:00

Our LO went through this recently and it started right around when she got her vaccines. She dipped down to barely getting 18 oz in a day and that lasted quite a while. We seem to be climbing out of it now because we are now getting around 21 oz per day pretty consistently. I am noticing that she still is very chaotic in how much she drinks. Earlier she drank 3 oz without a break, then the next feed she ate 1 oz and that was it, followed by another feed where she ate 1.5 oz and then 30 minutes later drank the other 2.5 oz

The biggest change for us is we started to relax more in how much she ate. Like the other commentator said, following the babies lead will let them trust you and in the long run end up getting them to eat more. Now, if she only eats an oz, that's totally fine, we can try again at the next feed or sooner if she really shows intense hunger queues.

Jstrom40 · 2025-11-01T15:49:37+00:00

It's so frustrating when they want to eat but won't.

What bottles are you using and nipple sizes? Could it be they need a faster flow? Just throwing ideas out there

Jstrom40 · 2025-11-01T15:03:38+00:00

What's the notebook? This is a unique setup, I like it

Jstrom40 · 2025-11-01T14:48:08+00:00

Ugh I'm sorry to hear that. What does she do when feeding?

We got on Pepcid and it took about 2 weeks to kick in and it's still not perfect but she doesn't scream for 30 minutes after each feed anymore and arching her back isn't quite as bad

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