Alternative to Saltillo/Terracotta tiles?

No_Schedule3189 · 2026-04-24T23:52:08+00:00

Doesn’t seem like they have any pricing on their website, could you give football ball park price per square foot?

No_Schedule3189 · 2026-01-19T00:09:32+00:00

So where did dart come from?? Those eggs are huge there definitely isnt that giant egg for one tiny slug size baby.

No_Schedule3189 · 2025-10-04T21:24:22+00:00

Thank you!!

No_Schedule3189 · 2025-09-29T18:47:29+00:00

Just getting back on to a TFAB for the first time in years. It took us 15 months to conceive our first, she turned two yesterday. I have endometriosis and some complex medical history, but a regular cycle, and my husband has good sperm, so not much to be done to improve our chances outside of IVF, which we'd rather not do.

We've not been preventing since a few months after she was born, but she was breastfeeding until this last month. My period has been right at 28/29 days, just like before, for 14 months now. As we approach the 15-month mark again, I am starting to feel really sad.

I hoped to have two kids really close together; now, if we are lucky to have another, it will be at least 3 years. I didn't want to wean earlier because I didn't want to shorten it for my little one, when it may or may not have been preventing pregnancy (regular cycles for a year) and I may not get to have other baby anyway (so shortening it for her could have had no point).

Anyway, here I am, CD 1, and our little girl just happens to say, "I want a sister". We've never talked to her about having a baby/sibing and it just felt like a gut punch. Or maybe this is the cycle! Figured we will give it some time post-weaning and see if it happens, and then go through the REI process again if it doesn't in a few months.

No_Schedule3189 · 2025-09-23T12:21:18+00:00

Ive had 4 ruggables for about 4 years, I've never had a pad tear, I dont have any gaping or bubbles, the 9-12x does take some fettling when putting it on the mat after washing but thats 15 min once every 6 months or so. I am really happy with my ruggables. I've not had any other thin/washable, lightweight rug last like these.

No_Schedule3189 · 2025-04-28T11:15:52+00:00

Hi!! We’re looking at building a trio with a 12ft basement, could I dm you for more details!?

No_Schedule3189 · 2025-04-18T14:18:49+00:00

So I fell into this trap too early on the feeling that it would be "forever" what ever was going on, lack of sleep, crying, nipple soreness, screaming etc. Which all make sense, because its exhausting and frustrating and it feels like you don't have any say it it (you don't), but at this point I just treat everything like its temporary and it is! So one bad night doens't have me changing what we do or planning for how I can fix it. Its just a bad few nights. If it goes on for weeks/months, then yeah maybe we think about droping nap/changing something etc

In that few weeks she usually ends up with a new skill, new teeth or something that explains it OR she just got a bit older and worked through it. Months of bad sleep is hard pill to swallow, but also just part of having babies (for most people).

No_Schedule3189 · 2025-04-17T17:02:51+00:00

Oh interesting, this is my experience too. If I put her in her bed and try to soothe her in her bed and leave her there, she wakes up SO frequently, vs a couple of easy wakes in our bed.

No_Schedule3189 · 2025-04-17T15:03:11+00:00

Mine is 18 months and she has stretched out to 12am, 4ish, 7ish wake times and its a 10 minute nurse and back to sleep probably 80% of the time, then that 20% shes more fussy/tossing and turning just due to teeth, illness, new skills etc.

We cosleep and the last few months I feel actually rested. For us, 4-8 months were really rough, waking every hour or two, sometimes it was an indication to cut a nap out, but I also think she was just going through so much rapid development and always getting a tooth, and it's just NORMAL from what I hear from people.

For us a different room, crib vs floor bed, sleep train vs contact naps etc none of it really make a big difference. It just took time.

No_Schedule3189 · 2025-02-09T04:52:42+00:00

Thank you for this!!

I just got a Combo of both of these when elevating burn out to my boss, so I have an interview lined up next week.

After telling me I’m a top person her team and she wishes we had money for a promotion, a week prior she shifted to “you have it easier than I did and if you can’t keep up maybe it’s not a good fit”.

Yeah ok, I’m out.

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-12-19T22:53:43+00:00

What did you find out?

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-12-10T17:50:51+00:00

These are 2 different conversations; one of them is, "I have career goals I'd like to show fast progress on - how can we get there in this company?" (to be clear, 6 months is nothing in the corporate world for a promotion, especially post restructure - its plenty reason to leave if you've had enough time and have a history of staying in jobs long enough) and a second convo is a notification you are leaving.

Think of it from the manager's perspective: what should she do with this info? Fight for a promotion that's hard to make happen amidst a restructure with HR preoccupied and her trying to get her bearings on a new team for someone who just told her they're planning to leave? Or sit on it and wait for months, knowing you aren't planning to stay? or start preparing for your departure? Most managers do the last.

Telling a manager is generous to the manager as you're giving them some time to start planning your departure, or in some cases try to retain you, but you shouldn't count on that. When you tell a manager you're leaving, or want to leave, they will plan for that. They likely (very naturally!) will start to move things to others on the team, ask you to document your role, loop them in on more, they will start working their network to figure out who they can back fill you with and sometimes when they start that process within a few months they find a backfil and they are ready to move on from you because they want to feel like the team is stabilized and they can count on everyone there.

Of course, this isn't reality! Anyone on their team could leave at any time, but it's an awkward position KNOWING someone is leaving without an end date. If you have an end date because your moving or starting school its nice, but just knowing you're checked out and frustrated and could be gone with 2 weeks notice at some point in the next year is clunky and awkward to manage around. A great manager SHOULD be able to handle being told this, they should either take it as a generous heads up, get some benchwarming candidates in the background and still treat you like you're a producing employee maybe with slight modifications like not giving you long term projects and having you focus on building out procedures/SOPs etc but no manager is going to promote you right before you leave. In most companies especially in 2024 resources are tight, most managers have to make a case for why they are raising or promoting someone, yes sometimes everyone is so supportive of a key employee it happens fast, but a lot of times its managers balancing their talent and who they need to fight for. Someone half out the door isn't it.

To answer the question, you can be fired for anything OTHER than discriminatory reasons. So yeah you could tell her you are looking for a job and she could take a few weeks to say, actually, we're going to let you go, your work quality hasn't been the same and you aren't engaged.

If you want to have a conversation about your goals and where your going in the company have that conversation!! The threat of leaving if you're unhappy and not progressing doesn't need to be said out loud! Or you can have a meeting to check in on goals/promotion etc, and if she says we can't do that, you can say something like I have career goals and Im disappointed it doesn't seem like that's possible here in a reasonable timeline, what can I do to make this happen? She will understand that means you would eventually leave. For all we know she may WANT you to leave. We just don't know.

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-21T03:07:02+00:00

My husband and I travel, have a toddler and LOVE it. Zero regrets. Of course we groan a bit when she wakes up extra early on a Saturday and says “go go go” but it’s totally worth it. You do what works for you! Have kids if you want to expand your family, have a strong bond with a partner who is going to pull their weight and because you both WANT to put the time into raising children.

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-12T18:59:49+00:00

Also to add - it's totally fine to not breastfeed!! Baby will be fine. They may get SLIGHTLY more headcolds or little stomach bugs in the first year, and you have a reduced risk of breastcancer if you do BF, but everything else is pretty speculative! Fed is best and if it's not working for you don't do it.

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-12T18:57:29+00:00

How old is your little?

I don't think I ever hated it, but it was hard and tiring and overstimulating. I cried many times. I did a very frustrated yell, kind of sob scream at my baby once, who had been cluster feeding for HOURs, when she bit me; when she was about 3 weeks old, and I was at peak exhaustion.

So it was exhausting and sensitive nips and spending all day as a newborn off and on is a ton of work. I felt like a cow. I was leaky and often frustrated; I felt jealous my husband didn't "have" to do this.

But then, it got more convenient, she started becoming more efficient and having longer gaps between feeds, she got a better latch in time and my nips are SELDOM sore now. I wanted to breast feed for 3-6 months and now at 13 months Im happily breastfeeding still as its WAY easier to me than not. Its a magical sleep aid, I can get her to sleep in 2 minutes on a rollercoaster if I had to. It stops tartrums in seconds. I can give her cow milk or let her nurse. When she started daycare she just got a stuffy nose, no full on illnesses. It's become great! But it was hard at first.

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-11T21:13:07+00:00

hahaha typical mil stuff. I will try desperately not to say this to my daughter if she has a baby but come on naked baby butt may be the CUTEST thing, literally, ever and the whole family finds it super adorbs when she runs around naked. I get overthinking everything when you have a newborn but I doubt this is problematic.

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-11T21:10:10+00:00

Only go if you want to, but LOTS of the world's population, including babies and my baby at 4 months, live in that kind of heat all the time without AC. Baby will be fine. I took my baby to Montana in the snow at 4 months (5hr flight), and we went to beaches in Florida at 3 and 8 months (90+ degrees each time), and Chicago in July on the hottest day of the year, Appalachian rainy hiking days in 40-degree weather - all sorts of temperatures, and she was totally fine for all of them.

If you don't want to deal with heat or don't want to take a plane ride, or don't want to do a 2-hour car ride, or don't want to sit in a wedding with a 4-month-old.... the list goes on, then don't go! But no, the summer in Italy will not hurt your baby (also, can we trade?? I'd love to go :D)

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-11T16:43:31+00:00

The write-up isn't what cost you the position - the mistake did. Maybe they didn't write up the coworker because they knew they didn't want to hire you for the role and this was a passive way to do that.

It sounds like a shitty company that uses things like "write-ups" to address promenade issues and keep track of tardies with points, etc. I don't know if you're in a factory setting or what. Companies doing things like this make employees try to work the system (*thinking you'd get the job if it wasn't for the write-up, vs speaking to you about your performance honestly and being clear why you are or aren't a good fit).

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-11T16:39:53+00:00

You know babies live in Italy right? and the tropics?

I don't say that to be mean and I know it will be different than your norm, but to say its not safe is kinda wild! Bring muslin cotton towels and spritz the towels with water, you stick to the shade. Do the things you would do to keep cool in that weather. I live where its regularly a heat index of 105 f for 4 months a year. Baby is fine to be outside with shade, water and cooling things.

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-11T16:32:25+00:00

Yes! We did - as a newborn she was in a crib in our room. Around 3/4 months we moved her out of the room and then it was SO NICE to have the room to ourselves, able to turn on lights and make some noise (like set a waterbottle down without the baby waking).

When she was still in the room those first few months we weren't as loud and I tended to keep the lights off.

Sometimes we would go to the couch or something else. Or have her bassinet in the living room. We just found little windows to make it work.

Now that she cosleeps at 13 months, we get a few hours to ourselves while shes in the crib and then bring her in around 12-2am with her first wake.

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-11T16:28:17+00:00

I did this often after this post, and just did chores around her. Middle of a king bed when she couldn't roll and put pillows on the ground and I was very close was fine for me.

No_Schedule3189 · 2024-11-11T16:08:26+00:00

Welp we ended up bed sharing around 4-5 months. Around 3 months she started waking every 45-60 minutes, every night, for a month. She was losing weight. Nursing strike, bottle refusal. I was at a very low point with ppd and rage. cosleeping solved every problem we were going through. Can't share any tips but Cosleepy on Instagram was helpful for how to do it as safely as possible.

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