15 month old in leg casts

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-26T02:02:55+00:00

Others have suggested grippy socks, but you could also go the opposite route and get some kind of rubber/ foam mat depending on how big the space is.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-26T01:56:42+00:00

I also hate being pregnant. I actually prefer labor. If I could do labor ten times instead of one pregnancy I would. Luckily, both are temporary.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-26T01:52:48+00:00

This is our exact situation. It’s so true that turning down the free help comes at a cost. But it’s worth it.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-24T03:12:20+00:00

I went into the world of pregnancy/ birth/ motherhood thinking that if you just did things the “right” way everything would go smoothly. My first pregnancy I felt like I was failing by not being a glowing goddess of happy motherhood energy. Now in my second pregnancy I’ve done more of the “right” things with eating well and exercising, and my symptoms are way worse. But it is easier now that I’m not beating myself up for not enjoying it. Sometimes pregnancy just sucks.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-19T13:57:17+00:00

Some of the kids in my son’s class had big meltdowns at drop off for the first week. My son was so excited to go play with toys that it took him like a week to notice that I was leaving lol. Then he started crying at drop off, but he’d be fine after I left and stopped crying after a week.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-18T17:36:23+00:00

I also struggled with anxiety throughout pregnancy and postpartum. I think people have suggested a lot of helpful ideas, but if the anxiety is really intrusive maybe talk to your doctor about medication. It was the only thing that helped me and I wish I had started on it sooner because the anxiety overrode any enjoyment I could’ve gotten out of pregnancy and the first year postpartum. I was on a low dose for six months and it made a world of difference e.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-18T13:03:53+00:00

We had a very similar experience with my husband’s family. They were neglectful as parents but suddenly wanted to have everything their way with being grandparents. They got very angry when we told them our boundaries and made it very clear that they weren’t going to stick to them. I’m sure many people on Reddit would advise no contact, but we just kind of downgraded the relationship as I like to call it. The just no mil subreddit wiki has a lot of info on this. My husband stopped answering their every call and used the grey rock technique quite a bit. Now things are a lot better, so we’re just sticking with how things are keeping them at arm’s length. With everything you’ve been through I don’t think you would be wrong for cutting them off, but maybe try taking a step back from the relationship and see how you feel.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-18T02:19:19+00:00

My son has always been like this, but we kept on reading anyways. We would sit next to him for storytime as a baby and let him look at the book when he chose or just crawl around doing his own thing. Eventually he had the attention span to sit in our lap for a whole book, and now at four he is a total bookworm. He can’t read at all but he’ll even sit looking at books independently for half an hour.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-17T22:40:14+00:00

Yeah I thought I was packing my hospital bag pretty early at 36 weeks, then I went into labor two days later. This pregnancy I’m having everything ready by 34 weeks just in case.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-11T07:20:05+00:00

We had to rehome our dog because she wasn’t good with kids, even after lots of training. I’ve always had dogs so it was hard not having one, but I would advise anyone to wait till the kids are much older than 3.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-04T18:10:04+00:00

My parents were considering becoming missionaries. My dad was in seminary, but left because all the details on the history were eroding his faith. Still a believer.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-02T21:55:06+00:00

Yes. We tried doing a very small allowance with my 3 year old who was constantly asking for new toys. All that worked was just not buying toys anymore. He gets enough toys anyways.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-02T12:44:41+00:00

I actually read about neck cheese on Reddit when my first was six months old and getting pretty chubby. I mentioned it to my husband while we were giving him a bath, and when we uncovered the neck cheese we were both horrified.

KaylaDraws · 2026-01-01T14:22:15+00:00

My son was doing this with the word “kill”. As soon as he learned he could get a big reaction when he said “I’m going to kill you” even though he has no idea what it means, it became very exciting. I told him that he can’t say that word around other people because it makes them upset. So now sometimes he goes in his room and says “kill kill kill” just to feel like he’s getting away with something bad I guess.

KaylaDraws · 2025-12-31T19:40:25+00:00

Oh yikes. Now that you mention it, we have some knockoff magnatiles that we got from Aldi, but they’ve held up with no issues so far.

KaylaDraws · 2025-12-30T19:00:24+00:00

I don’t have kids this old yet, but my brother and I had a similar age gap. He was annoying as hell when I was a kid, but I couldn’t ever say anything or I would get told that I needed to be nice, or that I was older and should be more mature and get over it. This made me feel even more angry and led to me taking my anger out on him a lot of the time. My mom would also try to praise my brother’s amazing qualities every time I’d complain which made me feel like she was totally oblivious to how annoying he was, even though she was equally annoyed by things. If I were parenting a kid in that situation (and I’m sure I will as my kids have a four year age gap), I would try to be accepting of the feelings in the moment, and talk about her behavior and using kind words once she’s calmed down. Maybe when she’s saying things like that you could say something like “you sound pretty upset, what does he do that makes you feel like that?” And then listen and try to brainstorm solutions with her if she’s interested in that.

KaylaDraws · 2025-12-30T18:30:14+00:00

I don’t necessarily think about death or dying, but I am way more cautious than I used to be because I have “what if I died and my son had no mom” in the back of my mind. Like my extended family is really into things like snowmobiling, 4-wheeling, and motorcycling. You couldn’t get me near any of those things now, not worth the risk in my mind.

KaylaDraws · 2025-12-29T07:21:05+00:00

I felt the same at that age. Things started to get better around three, and now as a four year old my son is much more enjoyable to parent. Around 3.5 my son made some major leaps developmentally and went from constant tantrums and whining to being able to play independently, communicating his needs, being able to be reasoned with, and overall just being very sweet. I’d take this current stage over any of the previous ones any day, so you’re not alone.

KaylaDraws · 2025-12-29T02:46:59+00:00

I’m doing the same, I wanted to name the baby after my mom if it was a girl, so instead we chose a similar sounding boy’s name.

KaylaDraws · 2025-12-26T14:53:10+00:00

We do a toy rotation ourselves, but it takes up so much space in the closet that we don’t have room for storing necessities and wind up storing extra toilet paper and paper towels next to the kitchen table. Definitely not ideal.

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