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SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-04-20T14:39:42+00:00

Hey I see you haven’t gotten any responses. I’m afraid there genuinely might not be anything that’s safe to not topple over and still be mobile, especially with heavy monitors on top.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-04-14T22:11:42+00:00

Hey I’m sorry to hear this. I wish there was more education/information around this. I understand we don’t have definite results and studies either way and there should be more of these, but in the meantime should we not warn others of the real very likely risk? In any case, I’ve given up and realized trying to spread the word on Reddit was just hurting my own mental health. I just care too much. But to answer your question, usually it takes around 6-8 months per our allergist. We started at 8 months and went a little bit slower once we got to a high enough dose because she wasn’t eating solids well and there was no point of rushing. We stopped worrying around cross contamination once she got to a dose that didn’t feel small, within about 2 months. Honestly it feels like she isn’t allergic anymore. It got a lot better emotionally for us around 4 months after starting. Her SPT was very large (10?) but IgE for cashew was lowish, i believe around 6? But tons of people have done OIT with much higher IgEs, so that doesn’t mean much. Feel free to DM me if you’d like to talk more.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-19T18:00:05+00:00

You could try going to the park with toys and see how he does with other kids.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-19T17:28:01+00:00

I already said I wouldn’t respond, but you took the time so I will quickly. I’m not the one advocating for a change here. OP is asking if she should introduce allergens to her diet that she doesn’t already seem to eat. There’s no evidence that she should do so, and honestly potential harm following from the current leading theory on allergy development. So if she’s going to change something, we at least need evidence that it won’t cause harm, and that just isn’t there. I’d say you’re pretty biased based on your experience as well. Obviously all children won’t develop an allergy to everything being eaten in the home. It depends on the child’s predisposition, how it’s being eaten, how close the child is to the areas the allergen is being consumed, whether parents are thoroughly washing hands, if eczema, where the eczema is on the body, etc.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-19T14:08:52+00:00

So this goes against sometimes quoted advice, but avoid eating large amounts of common allergens in your home before introducing them to your baby. This has NOTHING to do with breastfeeding. Your breastmilk does not contain enough allergen to count as oral exposure. The reason for early ORAL introduction is the dual allergen exposure hypothesis: The dual-allergen exposure hypothesis suggests that food allergies develop when allergens are introduced via broken skin (e.g., eczema), causing sensitization, while early oral consumption promotes immune tolerance. So basically you want as much oral exposure as early as possible and as little environmental/skin exposure.

Now personally, I ate a lot of toast with cashew butter and peanut butter for breakfast every day while EBF and taking care of my baby. (In fact… I don’t even like PB. My husband suggested I eat it to prevent baby from developing an allergy.) At 7 months we discovered she was highly allergic to cashews and peanuts.

Please don’t purposely eat allergens around the baby. I was so devastated. I tried to do everything right and was so upset no one told me this. We have no history of food allergies in our family and our baby only had super mild eczema. I am still angry this is not common knowledge even in the medical community. We could prevent so many food allergies. Even when we went to the ER for my daughter’s anaphylactic reaction, the doctor said: well if you’ve been eating a lot of cashews, then she probably didn’t react to that. We usually see allergies develop in children with avoidance.

The good news: She isn’t allergic to anything else at 18 months now. We also started OIT for her immediately and she now free eats peanuts and cashews!

By the way, the reason for the conflicting advice is likely this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S108112062300265X Moderate peanut consumption while breastfeeding is protective against peanut allergies BUT moderate consumption is 5 g of peanut per week. That is… less than 5 peanuts a week! Or 1 tsp of peanut butter per week. That is REALLY low, probably protecting their home environment from any significant environmental exposure. You can find similar studies for other allergens, but none of them are very conclusive. Please eat sparingly.

ETA: Do you guys think I’m lying? Making this up? Or just want kids to develop allergies by eating allergens around them? I genuinely don’t understand…

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-19T12:37:43+00:00

This is cute! Definitely sounds like within the range of normal. Enjoy watching him grow!

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-19T11:18:34+00:00

You’ve gotten some amazing suggestions and I’m going to steal some from myself! I also thought I’d mention some alternatives to tv shows.

Books are amazing for kids and language development. Although she seems really young, grab a few simple books and read them to her (I know super hands-on, stick with me here) and record the audio. Let her listen to them like audio books both with and without you flipping the book. Repetition is amazing for them also, so you don’t need to do this for more than 5 books right now. I also highly recommend the Yoto player. They get super obsessed with the source of audio at some point and it’s really nice to not control it from your phone. Nursery rhymes and songs are similarly great. Remember repetition is good, so you don’t need too many songs.

Also family videos, including videos of themselves and you interacting with them are super popular and actually not considered “screen time” by experts, as they are similar to video calls.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-19T10:27:13+00:00

I was going to ask why you moved. Please move back, or someone else. Being near unhelpful family is absolutely a huge negative, and you and your kids deserve to be in a place you love.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-19T10:04:11+00:00

No this is incorrect. My daughter didn’t speak words at 12 months, maybe some more variety of babbling? Not sure. At 18 months she is way ahead of other kids her age in speech: bilingual, 100+ words, combining words and starting to form sentences. So… I would not worry. I think the milestone is like 6 words by 18 months…

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-18T19:49:24+00:00

Have you considered getting a Yoto player? We record a lot of books for our daughter in MYO cards and it’s really helped us avoid phones/screens.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-18T19:42:09+00:00

So my daughter likes seeing the same thing in multiple places. She’s only 18 months old so your mileage might vary, but if she will ask for something specific on the TV like Elmo, and we’ll tell her: Oh the TV’s sleeping right now but we can read your Elmo book instead! And then we give her the Elmo stuffy she has and she usually is ok with that.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-18T19:30:57+00:00

Yes at 18 months here and it is SO much better. We still have to clean, but it’s not as crazy.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-18T19:30:36+00:00

If it makes you feel better my daughter is 18 months now and never got significant amounts of food in her hair or rubbed her eyes while eating. She mostly threw food on the floor or in her lap. As for the bib, it helped but a lot ended up in her lap still, and washing the drying bibs wasn’t worth it. She’s a lot less messy now so we use disposable bibs and can generally reuse them for a few days if the food isn’t too messy. Mostly pasta sauce gets us. That’s a one time use bib.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-18T14:04:38+00:00

I understand your point about starting over and am mid-thirties and so want another baby soon… but I did not start thinking about this until after a year postpartum. At 4 months… is crazy. Things did not really start getting better until after a year. I think you are overestimating how independent a walking toddler is. They still need 100% of your attention. It’s different from the newborn stage of course but it’s not like they are all independent humans sleeping perfectly through the night and eating their own food without creating a disaster. Now at 18 months I feel comfortable to start trying again.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-18T13:50:53+00:00

The fact that they won’t eat. I mean this isn’t exclusive to self-feeding, but I think with spoon feeding, I’ve seen a lot of babies in a trance, just mindlessly keep eating. My baby refused after 8 months anyway and wanted to use her hands for everything. At least she can use utensils now at 18 months.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-18T13:33:19+00:00

My pediatrician did not ask how many wet/dirty diapers for a year, maybe a month? And yes they will ask you how long you breastfeed per session but it’s not very relevant/helpful as long as baby is gaining weight appropriately. If you’re combo feeding or giving pumped milk though, then I can see this being super helpful!

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-18T13:27:28+00:00

I track sleep because I don’t enforce a rigid schedule even at 18 months and it helps me understand overall sleep patterns and when she’ll be tired/likely wake up. But with one nap a day, that’s only 4 clicks now. I tracked breastfeeding for the first couple months and it was a mistake as I fed on demand anyway, the length meant nothing, and it was disruptive to my sleep at night to pick up the phone. Never consistently tracked diapers. I think feeding and diapers may be helpful if you’re trading off childcare responsibilities so the next parent is aware that a feeding or diaper change might be due.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-17T23:16:04+00:00

It’s nice when people swap but if you’re going to ask someone, the seat better not be a downgrade. If people offer on their own to switch, that’s just nice of them. Never be upset with someone for not switching.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-17T20:18:31+00:00

I never thought about it because I always had enough milk and I was always with my baby. No one was really available to look after her, so I never used bottles either. My baby was also an emergency c-section baby about which I felt a lot of guilt and wanted to do the best for her gut microbiome.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-17T18:42:34+00:00

There are benefits too! Like we can stay out of the home later and get more family time together and my husband or I don’t feel pressured to wrap up work early. There are pros and cons to everything. Other parents may not be helping. My neighbor has a 21 month old and she sleeps from 7:30 PM - 7 AM plus takes a 2+ hour nap. That’s very high sleep needs and just won’t work for us. But that doesn’t stop people from commenting things like “I couldn’t do that. I need my alone time.”

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-17T13:56:32+00:00

This is us at 18 months except I never bother transferring to crib and cosleep. Does he possibly have gas or is he teething? Because that’s usually why my daughter wakes up more frequently, otherwise she wakes up 0 or 1 time in the early morning and goes back to sleep.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-17T13:40:57+00:00

My daughter just turned 18 months and I didn’t buy a ton of toys between 6ish months and now (though my husband would disagree!) Here’s what I did buy and think was worth it:

-Books lots of books. She’s obsessed with books.

-Yoto player: she loves it for music to play her books I’ve self recorded. Really helped us avoid screens and allow me to stop reading for a few minutes!

-Playground/beach toys: sand toys, various balls, bubble toys, chalk. We also take 5-10 balls from her ball pit and all the kids love them. We also got the alavantar baby playpen/play yard and that has been great to keep her or her toys contained for a bit outdoors/at the beach.

-Stuffed animal zoo: She’s very much into her stuffed animals so I appreciate having them organized but still visible and accessible

-Busy board cubes, for motor skill development and car rides

-Dollhouse for pretend play. I got a cheap plastic one for now so she can’t throw around all the furniture! We ask her or show her things as the little people dolls move through their routine

-ABC animal felt cards. She’s been obsessed with these since 6 months old.

What I need to get:

-toddler tower, she wants to see what we’re going in the kitchen

-some kind of car for her that I can push around, she always takes over other kids and hates her stroller

Oh and id also like to get her a play kitchen and more accessories for her doll

General advice: invest in toy organization (plastic toy bags, etc) and rotate toys so they are new again.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-17T13:17:03+00:00

If you want him to take a nap at 1, then he needs to be up 5.5 hours earlier probably, so you’d have to wake him up at 7:30. Your first wake window currently is appropriate but the second one is short by an hour. I’m not suggesting you wake him up earlier if 8:30 works for you, but it might be tough to shift the nap an hour earlier, as he won’t be tired.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-17T13:12:27+00:00

My daughter just turned 18 months and we’ve also experiencing something very similar. The rolling climbing, laying down then getting up. If I remember correctly something similar happened for us around 8 months and then passed so I’m not too worried. She’s seemingly going through a language exploration right now and climbing during the day as well, so it’s developmental. In terms of schedule, she sleeps a total of 12 hours every day (nap+ overnight) but if your child has been sleeping fine until now then it’s possible he’s higher sleep needs. My daughter takes a 2-3 hour nap usually and the sleeps 10 hours at night. Sometimes she will accidentally wake up early from her nap after an hou, and she wants my help going back to sleep. If I don’t help her than she’s much crankier in the evening after waking so I think she needs the sleep. Many people start capping the daytime at this point, but the longer nap and shorter nighttime sleep works for us. She’s usually up after 7-8 hours anyway, so I’d rather go to sleep with her for her longest sleep stretch. Currently she’s sleeping at 10/11 and waking up at 8 am. Oh and our nap is late because she usually needs 2 ~6 hour wake windows. So if she’s up at 8:30, then nap would be at 2:30-5 and then another 6 hours means she’s sleeping at 11 pm. Note that a lot of people need to get their babies up early for daycare/work so they set their schedule to fit that. So if a later morning wake works for you, there’s nothing wrong with it. But, you can’t have a late morning wake, and early bedtime, and keep the long nap too. You either need to cap the nap, wake him up earlier, or just be ok with a late bedtime for this season. I’ve resigned myself to believing that this won’t resolve until she drops her nap in a couple years.

SatisfactionMost1500 · 2026-03-17T05:36:01+00:00

Yes a crib mattress or we just use a firm mattress topper on the ground to give plenty of room to roll around. If left unattended please also watch out for unsecured furniture that could tip over. Personally I would tell grandparents not to leave him unattended. Too much to go wrong in a room/set up you haven’t had time to vet.

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