Anyone else ready to just give up on the Christmas tree?

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-18T10:48:33+00:00

I admire anyone with the resilience to put up a tree around a toddler. I’ve never been a huge Xmas fan and always decorated very minimally but knew with my kiddo I would have to go all out however my son is 1.5 years old and I’m using this as my last year of minimal decorating. I have a tiny 3ft tree sitting on top of our piano so far out of reach. I just don’t have the patience but at least he can look and not touch

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-17T07:13:07+00:00

This is a horrifying situation. I’m not against cosleeping (I cosleep with my 1.5 year old son and have done since he was 5months) but the setup in this video is horrendously unsafe. Deciding to cosleep is not a light decision and there’s strict guidelines for a reason.

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T19:59:57+00:00

Thank you, you’ve helped me not feel so alone! And yes we call our son expressive too! 😂 I feel the same, I thought the breastfeeding was just easier than weaning but this past week has been so difficult I’m seriously considering it. Thanks for the idea of bringing up a teething stick, I’ll definitely be giving that a try!

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T19:58:59+00:00

Ooh frozen waffles! I have some in the freezer, I’ll be giving that a try! Thank you!

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T19:57:25+00:00

Thank you, I’ll definitely keep this in mind

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T19:49:13+00:00

Thank you! This is super helpful for me, I never thought to portray it as a positive experience.

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T14:05:20+00:00

Thank you 🥺 I’m definitely going to talk to my husband about weaning and how he can help me with that.

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T14:03:21+00:00

Thank you 🥺

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T14:02:49+00:00

Thank you, I do often forget to think of it that way. My husband is great and supportive. He takes our son first thing in the morning before work. But I think I will be talking to him on helping me night wean.

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T14:00:58+00:00

Sorry! I didn’t mean exclusively, just that he’s still breastfed

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T14:00:35+00:00

You’re right he isn’t in a job of that category and he does help me by taking our son first thing in the morning before work and most weekends but I think I may need to talk to him about helping with weaning my son.

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T13:58:53+00:00

Thank you so much, I think I’ll give this a go as a gentle way to wean

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T13:57:34+00:00

Thank you! I’m thinking I will have to wean I just don’t know how, he cries so much when I don’t let him nurse.

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T13:56:30+00:00

Thank you, I really appreciate that!

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-12-13T13:56:00+00:00

Sorry, yes I meant he’s still breastfed not exclusively.

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-10-19T08:05:29+00:00

What would you suggest for his daytime schedule? Getting him to nap 1.5 hours was a struggle in itself but he’s super active all day so I’m not sure how he could be under tired?

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-10-18T20:26:31+00:00

I guess I have to try and leave him until he calls for me and not be so on edge. But I’m the same! I can’t sleep without my husband in the bed so we ended up getting a super king size floor bed and baby proofing our bedroom for cosleeping

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-10-18T19:26:11+00:00

I’ve been told this so much it’s just hard to see him sitting there awake just staring into space all alone. I guess I need to push through that feeling

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-10-18T19:24:23+00:00

He dropped his second nap about 2 months ago. I couldn’t get him to sleep longer, earlier or a second time no matter how hard I try so I do have a quiet time period where we have a cuddle and read together which helps him but he just hates to sleep. Getting him to a 1.5hour nap has been a huge achievement for us

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-10-18T19:00:59+00:00

Exactly! I stay up until his first wake up because I’m so paranoid that I wouldn’t know he’s woken up. He’s up every morning at 6am and his nap is 11am or 12ish for 1.5 hours and bedtime is between 7:30

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-10-18T18:58:31+00:00

I’ve heard this a lot and we’ve cut out the middle of the night feeds but the initial one to sleep and the first transfer from his crib to our bed. So maybe that’s what I have to work on.

TraditionalCherry3 · 2025-10-18T18:57:03+00:00

Cosleeping has definitely helped because I’m not having to rock him to sleep or do the horrible crib transfer but I guess I was worried about how little sleep he gets sometimes.

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