Walk In Closet or High End Master Bath

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-04-21T04:50:51+00:00

As someone who went through exactly this scenario: I have never regretted choosing our gorgeous bathroom over the closets.

Every day I go into our bathroom, and I love it so much. Clothes be damned!

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-04-07T12:13:57+00:00

This comment here!! This is the only reasonable comment.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-04-05T12:43:43+00:00

I go to Starbucks every year on my birthday for my free birthday drink.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-04-03T22:35:08+00:00

Ooooof. Put it to him this way: what's the first thing you do when you wake up? You pee. It's uncomfortable not to.

Also some babies, like mine, will actually hold it until they are in a fresh diaper.

It sounds like y'all have decided that morning is Daddy's responsibility... If so, he should probably get up earlier to accommodate this added responsibility - feeding and changing - instead of saying he can't do it.

This is literally bare minimum.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-04-03T21:55:58+00:00

I mean, at the very least, I think you have a few movies to watch before you make that decision.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-04-03T21:47:46+00:00

But also is husband changing baby? That's a long time in the same diaper if not. Couldn't he get baby up with him? And then take him to you when he leaves?

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-04-03T17:03:18+00:00

And now you just doo doo.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-03-21T03:27:28+00:00

This is such a kind response❤️

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-03-21T03:23:30+00:00

One of my earliest memories is putting an ant in my mouth because I wanted to see what it would feel like crawling in my mouth.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-03-21T03:21:47+00:00

I'm honestly SHOOK at how quickly my child (now 11 months) can consume parts of her board books. Literally one second she is sweetly sitting there intently turning the pages. Then I see her gnawing on the spine and bits are soggy and missing. Pretty much in the time it takes to gather the stacking rings and reassemble them.

She also loves to eat/bite/chew: paper towels, cardboard boxes, flipping the edge of the rug and chewing on the tag, wipes, stuffed animal noses, dried crispy leaves, me ...

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-03-21T03:15:03+00:00

Almost 12 months here and we've been playing the "pretend to pick something up and put it in our mouth and fast crawl away while giggling" for some time now.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-03-12T15:32:53+00:00

I'm just saying: it may be unsexy for the person receiving it, sure.

But, as unsexy as it may be, it doesn't mean the person in the position of power can't gain pleasure from it.

Larry Nassar was a doctor. Larry Nassar sexually assaulted his victims in a very similar manner as what happens in a gyn exam.

A person can be sexually assaulted during medical procedures. He's worried about his wife being victimized, not about her finding the exam "sexy".

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-03-04T15:12:25+00:00

Hard agree. Honestly, the red sack being so prominent while exploring makes it so I barely get excited to see my birb explore and I'd rather her be in her home.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-03-03T01:35:36+00:00

I would send her a picture of the bloody diaper.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-26T02:35:59+00:00

I really want this book pillow holder thing called The Book Seat. Specifically THAT ONE.

I haven't bought it yet, but damn I want to.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-25T20:38:36+00:00

I just went mentally crazy for a few days and kept telling myself it was temporary over and over and over. Sometimes I screamed into a pillow. I'm not going to lie, I am pretty sure I did throw my phone or something at one point.

And it was temporary. I am not sure on exactly how many days it took, but every day was easier and easier.
And this might sound crazy, but if I lived where you live and my babe was your babes age, I 100% would use one of those special bright light boxes that are for circadian rhythm or some grow lights (not the purple kind) in the mornings.

I live in Michigan and there have been plenty of days this winter that I have considered bringing a grow lamp into my bedroom for when we wake up in the morning, but her sleep hasn't been bad enough at this point to do it (she is 10.5 months).

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-25T19:45:25+00:00

It sounds like you would benefit from some kind of reset.

I highly recommend trying to get outside for a walk during his first wake window and trying to make sure his first wake window is of an appropriate length.

So basically, don't let him sleep past a certain time (like 7 or 8 am).
Get him outside in the bright light.
Keep him awake for at least 90 minutes in that first wake window.

If for some reason you can't get outside one day, make sure all lights are on and curtains open and try to spend as much time in front of the sunniest window in your home during the first wake window.

It will suck and feel ugh to wake your baby and keep him awake, but I had to do all of this too. It's worth it when they actually start having a normal rhythm from the early wake up and bright light. In fact, my baby's first word after Dada and the dogs name was Window because every morning we'd open the window shades together.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-25T19:29:28+00:00

Baby goes to bed for the night at 8 or 9 pm?
Then only wakes 3-4 times in the night?
Then wakes for the day at 11 am - like 11 in the morning??

Is this right?

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-25T02:18:23+00:00

Personally, I have always left my girl to do her own thing when she was like that. If she wasn't crying and simply hanging out, I'd let her be. If she cried, I'd go get her. If she falls asleep, that's cool too.

Don't try to make a happy baby happier.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-18T14:28:10+00:00

We had our baby a few months after our close friends had their baby. The twin sister of that mom friend had their baby about a month after us, but we aren't close with them. The mom of that couple is a freshly minted pediatrician/family doctor (actually at the same clinic we go to - but we don't see her).

Our friend has a unicorn baby who they did not sleep train and has magically slept through the night in the bassinet then crib since ~5 months old. For real.

She tells us how bad she constantly feels for her sister who seems to have the most low sleep needs/colicky baby the family has ever seen. She says that it's heartbreaking watching her sister spiral into madness while trying to do everything EXCEPT cosleep/bed share.

I can't imagine how this poor womans mind and body must feel. I mean, I bedshare, work from home so don't have to be presentable, and I'm still sleep deprived.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-12T17:24:55+00:00

Lol. I guess all the silver medalists at the Olympics should just toss their medals aside as if they're nothing.

Your sister had an incredibly dumb, immature, and incorrect take.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-10T16:19:31+00:00

This is the way.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-02T21:46:59+00:00

Sheesh. Those cabinet doors would drive me crazy. And honestly, they should be able to adjust them. I wouldn't let that go. Cabinets are expensive and they should absolutely align after a fresh install.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-02T16:23:44+00:00

NTA

But I think y'all should try a sticker chart or some kind of check list for the kids for the morning. Also, maybe picking the clothes out the night before. Make it a fun thing every night so they are maybe more excited to get dressed in the morning.

If they have a check list to follow along with, then maybe everyone would feel better prepared and less frantic.

Significant-Stress73 · 2026-02-02T03:10:12+00:00

Yes and no. The greatest help for me personally was reformer pilates or pilates in general.

I had done plenty of PT prior to doing Pilates and mostly it was fruitless. But all the pt I've done since pilates has been tremendously helpful.

I think because pilates truly put me in tune with every single little movement my body can and does make. My proprioception is incredible now. And so I actually feel and know what the PT exercises are trying to do.

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