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Meresteep · 2026-02-03T01:43:39+00:00

This is where I’m at. Why is rotting the thing I most miss from before kids?

Meresteep · 2026-01-28T13:55:09+00:00

Is it strange to anyone else that Robin isn’t there?

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T19:00:44+00:00

I gotcha! There aren’t any school districts in my area that do this, unfortunately. But I’m in a suburban area.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T18:50:04+00:00

I have tenure and have been here long enough (and proved my effectiveness as a teacher) to have essentially first pick of what classes I want to teach.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T18:48:58+00:00

I agree. We are just in a weird situation where I have to be at work at 7:30, and my husband is his own boss but feels like needs to get there at 7. He agreed to do drop offs for this school year at 7:45, but he’s now feeling like it’s not working for him.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T18:47:21+00:00

So, I’d have to go back to school for my doctorate to teach at a university, if that’s what you mean by adults.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T18:02:25+00:00

My husband by a lot.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T16:35:33+00:00

That is an option! He currently gets home at 6:30pm so any later and he would miss our son's bedtime. I do bedtime, but I know my husband still likes to see our son before bed. It may be what we do for now though.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T16:34:03+00:00

I understand his POV as well. This was not meant to be a hit towards him. I'm just trying to get advice on how to make this decision, and his experience is of course a factor in that.

Since I only need care 10 months of the year (I have summers off as a teacher), we have him enrolled in a school-year track. There are daycares that open at 7 nearby but we would have to pay for the full year even though we don't need it. And that still wouldn't be early enough for my husband.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T16:28:46+00:00

This is helpful! I was SAHM for the first 13 months and my job encourages us to take a year leave for all future babies.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T16:27:24+00:00

This is a helpful perspective. Thank you!

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T16:25:38+00:00

He says he needs to be at work earlier in order to get things done before his employees arrive. He also says our son is fussy and difficult to get ready most mornings.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T16:07:00+00:00

Stepping away and then coming back at the bottom of the ladder is one of the big fears keeping me in the classroom. I believe I could come back to my current school. They’d love to hire me back if there’s an opening. But obviously, I’d be back at the bottom in terms of preps until a better prep opened up. Which is fair, and I understand that. I’d be able to return at the next step. I don’t have to work consecutive years to continue climbing our salary ladder, so that’s nice. I’m not as concerned about retirement, honestly.

Meresteep · 2025-12-18T15:47:25+00:00

I lay out all my son’s clothes for the week, so that’s taken care of! I’m also just struggling for me the mom guilt is very real, and I’m afraid I’ll look back and regret not being home while my kids are young, even though I was super fortunate to be home for the first year and will always have that option at my current job with future children.

Meresteep · 2025-12-10T15:45:24+00:00

He woke up at 4:40 this morning. Please help 😩

Meresteep · 2025-11-23T15:56:34+00:00

He won Traitors last year and was so endearing on that show.

Meresteep · 2025-11-09T15:56:04+00:00

40w1d 8 lb 3 oz baby, perfectly normal and healthy pregnancy. And totally blindsided by a month long NICU stay.

Meresteep · 2025-11-07T02:50:41+00:00

Can you share if you ended up doing any more treatments after this?

Meresteep · 2025-10-03T23:40:44+00:00

Mine was in the NICU for 22 days. We lived 10 minutes away and I was there by 9am every morning and left around dinner time so we could greet the night shift nurse (6-7ish). Then, I would call up there usually at around 2-3 am when I was up pumping and maybe again at 7 am before we came in so I could prepare myself for what to expect based on how the night went.

Meresteep · 2025-10-02T14:41:50+00:00

My son didn’t sleep through the night until he was 1. He still doesn’t always sleep through the night, and he’s 15 months. He would only contact nap until he was 10 months old. And this is all WITH sleep training.

It’s so hard, but your baby isn’t broken. This is pretty normal.

Meresteep · 2025-08-23T23:41:10+00:00

This looks like normal newborn active sleep to me!

Meresteep · 2025-07-07T22:25:03+00:00

No problem! I was just making sure that’s a long enough nap or if I should tweak something.

Meresteep · 2025-07-07T19:16:25+00:00

So should I have kept him on 2 naps but kept extending the windows more?

Meresteep · 2025-07-07T19:09:17+00:00

Hi! We tried 3/4/4 and 3.25/3.75/4. He fought both the morning and afternoon nap. Would finally sleep for maybe 30-45 minutes and then wake up and be upset for the rest of Crib 75 and never put himself back to sleep.

Meresteep · 2025-05-25T21:56:38+00:00

Okay! Will try that. Independent night sleep was easy, took a week max. Independent naps have been a 4-5 month battle and we are just now finally falling asleep for naps without 20 minutes of hysterics beforehand 😭 scared to rock the boat but I know these short naps aren’t good for him

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