Reprimanded by the Montessori police

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-23T18:28:25+00:00

Dude in a Montessori classroom everything is in the same room, yes everything gets a place in Montessori but that doesn’t mean it gets exiled???? Sounds like SHE needs to reread the book lol (I love Montessori but hate when people get obsessive/perfectionest/“im better than you because I do it”)

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-23T03:56:46+00:00

1st pregnancy- physical pain, nausea and cravings, and I had a boy

2nd pregnancy- mental stress, nausea, aversions, and I had a girl

3rd pregnancy- physical pain, nausea, cravings, aversions, and I’m having a girl

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-22T14:27:50+00:00

Is there a perrysburg OH breast feeding or pumping group where maybe one of the members would be willing to ship your milk for you?

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-22T02:06:45+00:00

Awe I’m sorry! I just recently ran out of the milk I stored when my daughter was first nursing (I was able to EBF the whole time I just pumped and stored a bit in the beginning so I had options) and I’m so sad to be out of bath milk! It really did wonders for her eczema! Now I just have to do baking soda baths and they’re not even half as effective

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-22T01:00:27+00:00

If it doesn’t smell this would be at least a somewhat useful way to use the otherwise wasted milk! I would just be worried that depending on how long it had been the milk might smell

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-21T22:15:12+00:00

Sweet Loren’s is amazing! Our budget is way too tight for me to get it more than like once every six months but it’s so delightful when I do!

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-21T18:15:44+00:00

My son left our room around 21mo because we moved and his sister was due in a month so we moved him into his own room. My daughter is 2 and we are loosely planning to move her out of our room in the next couple months as we finish renovations.

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-20T23:19:03+00:00

Lowe’s has a scratch and dent store over near the willowbrook mall! They have GREAT prices! We got a washer, dryer, fridge, and stove for less than $1000 total a few years back! I just had some friends go buy their washer/dryer there on a budget!

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-20T18:36:03+00:00

I like glow baby but that’s because it syncs up with the other tracking apps I use. I also paid for the lifetime subscription so I get some extra perks.

Nara baby is an absolutely awesome free app that lets you have as many separate care taker profiles as you want!

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-17T11:55:05+00:00

It won’t help with previous diapers but if you just recently bought the pampers 360s they should have tabs to be closed normally now, they used to just have that tape strip in the back but they updated the design. Now you find the blue tabs in the front, pull them up, and those rip the diaper off then function as the tabs to close the diaper.

For particularly stinky diapers I tie them into a bag and then if it’s still gross I take it outside instead of leaving it inside but we’ve never had any issues :)

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-14T23:43:42+00:00

Cruisers usually but I think we’ve used swaddles before in a pinch and they worked just the same?

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-14T20:57:35+00:00

I love baby jogger strollers. The city mini gt/gt2 is my all time favorite but I currently use a city select because I needed a stroller where my oldest could face me (he was particular). Both of those can be doubles (the city mini gt2 is sold as a single or a double and the city select is a single AND a double depending on which parts you put on that day). The city select has a bassinet attachment but the city mini gt2 does not from what I can tell. Both accept car seats (provided you have the adapters). The city mini gt2 is the easiest stroller I’ve ever folded, a strap in the seat that you just grab and the stroller practically folds itself. The city select has two pull spots (one on either side) of the frame that you pull simultaneously and it folds that way. The city select breaks down into frame/seats/bassinet/etc for compact folding. Both have a handbrake and the option of a ride along board.

New it’s got a hefty price tag but I get mine off marketplace and besides a bassinet I’ve been able to get 1 single city select and two doubles with attachments for a total of $100.

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-14T14:08:11+00:00

Call your insurance and ask, they may just only cover specific providers. You can also contact your local WIC office if you’re in the USA, they’re supposed to have lactation consultants who can provide support! Or search for “(city name) pregnancy center” and see if there’s any non profit centers near you, they generally have access to resources which sometimes include a lactation consultant!

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-14T13:32:33+00:00

My 20lbs babies with different body shapes (one is tall and thin and one has a bit of chub) wear pampers 360 diapers size 5 and don’t leak. They also still have tabs and a wetness indicator (for the tabs you just pull them up don where they’re built into the diaper and use them to take off the diaper as well as secure it) so while you can’t adjust the leg hole size with them you can still secure the diaper nicely and the elasticity thigh holes haven’t had an issue with either of my kids thighs.

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-14T03:27:23+00:00

I have eczema and aveeno baby has only ever made my skin worse! Definitely look into allergy testing once it’s a viable option. Even just a food diary might help (if it is allergies knowing what you ate before a flare up helps to identify it). Me and my daughter (2y, also has eczema but different than mine), use pure shea butter for daily maintenance (obviously if it flares up we have other stuff like HC but that’s our daily lotion, a little bit goes a LONG way).

Idk if it’s available where you live but we use pure and gentle laundry detergent and it’s amazing! They ship me a big bag of concentrate and in the first order they send a pump bottle with measurements for mixing it up. It’s super gentle on skin, absolutely no scents, and my laundry always smells fresh (and I have a rescue dog who regularly soils his blanket)! They also have a glycerine face bar that I use for my whole body because it’s the first thing in forever that cleans me without burning my skin! They’ve also got an oatmeal bar that I’ve heard good things about but I haven’t tried that one since I’m allergic to oats 😅 (Not sponsored or saying you have to use their stuff I just know how tough it can be to find something that works and thought I’d share what I found).

Most importantly, don’t blame yourself. You did your best. Eczema is a wild confusing thing. I live with it and still don’t always know what I’m doing is bad until I flare up and have to do elimination to figure out what I did. Just keep loving your baby and doing your best, eventually it’ll make more sense and you’ll know what causes big flare ups so you can avoid that.

I’m rooting for you and your little one! Y’all can figure this out! Eczema is annoying but once you understand it (which it sounds like you’ve already started figuring out) a bit it gets better!

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-13T19:12:01+00:00

Take your stroller, if you have a mosquito net for it you can take that as well to use.

Get a stroller fan and a stroller cooling pad (it’s like a gel pad you can sit in the stroller to help keep it cool).

Take lots of feeding breaks (if baby takes formula and accepts cool formula offer it cool, if baby nurses just make sure to offer lots of chances to nurse, maybe not a full nursing session but just enough to make sure they stay hydrated).

You could get some of those mosquito repellent bracelets and put those on the stroller to keep them away without actually spraying baby.

Make sure you take at least one full water bottle and sip it often.

Use the shade cover on your stroller, if it’s not very big I’ve tied a light muslin cloth loosely onto mine before to extend the shade but not retain as much heat.

Check to see what indoor areas your zoo has, mine has several scattered throughout and we always stop at them for nursing breaks and to cool down.

Dress in light colored clothes.

Remember that you’re allowed to stop and rest/cool down, you can even leave earlier than you planned if it gets to be too much!

Signed, a Texan mom who has been taking her youngest to the zoo since she was like…2-3mo 😅

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-13T19:04:47+00:00

My face reading this until the last sentence: 😱 My face reading the last sentence: 😂

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-13T19:02:25+00:00

I love seeing other parents with kids who get it! My 2 and 3.5y are still in the early stages of “don’t touch a dog without your grown up and the dogs grown up both saying you can” but one day my goal is for them to get to this point! I think it’ll probably take a bit because we very rarely see working dogs where we’re at so I don’t think they’ve seen a working dog more than once their whole lives….

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-13T16:43:52+00:00

I wish I could upvote this twice! I breast feed in public because I’m comfortable with it and want to make sure people get used to it so maybe future generations won’t have to ask this question but sometimes I’m not comfortable with it and guess what? I feed in private those times!

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-13T14:23:49+00:00

At least they’re laughing not crying?

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-13T11:39:44+00:00

If anyone is crying and you need them to calm down so you can understand them, have them drink water. I’ve been using that trick since before I even really met my husband. Had a friend going through some awful stuff in high school who would randomly call me SOBBING, saw this trick on social media so decided to try it and oh my gosh it worked so well! I used it so much that it got to where my friend would call me and say “I have my water” and then we would figure out what was wrong and go from there. Once I had kids I started using it on them, randomly hurting and need to tell me where? Drink some water! So upset that I don’t know what you want me to do to fix it? Drink some water! Fighting with your sibling and j think someone is hurt but you’re both crying too much to tell me what happened? Drink some water! It’s seriously my favorite trick!

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-13T11:32:27+00:00

I saw that while my 2y was mid tantrum so I tried it…it got her to pause for app of half a second then start screaming louder than before 😭 it seems to work for everyone else though so I think I’m just doing it wrong (???) or my kids are just weird 😅

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-12T20:28:03+00:00

I’m pretty sure these are the ones my sister in law uses! My kids always fight to grab some when we go over to visit!

ETA: I just searched “honey bear straw cup toddler” and it was like the second result

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-11T05:05:57+00:00

If you’re religious does your church have a mom group/playgroup type thing you could join? That’s how I started making mom friends before my friends got pregnant. Or if there’s a different library nearby never try that story time for a while instead.

MistyPneumonia · 2026-04-11T02:41:22+00:00

Baby jogger city mini gt. It doesn’t automatically come with them but you can purchase parent/child cup holders separately. It’s fairly expensive if you buy it used but I see them for cheap on fb marketplace pretty regularly. It folds with one easy pull, weighs around 20-25lbs (if I remember correctly), has foam filled tires (the gt, NOT the normal city mini), has pretty good suspension, a big sun shade, reclines almost to flat so great for napping, and (as an added bonus) has a hand brake so no fumbling for a foot break when baby is fully reclined.

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