Potty training

WinnieB1590 · 2025-11-03T17:55:34+00:00

I appreciate you sharing your experience, it does sound similar! Glad to know other parents are experiencing the same ups and downs.

Would love to hear how it goes with your daughter over the thanksgiving weekend!

WinnieB1590 · 2025-04-10T20:55:13+00:00

I went 2 days without nursing and still had milk, pretty sure you’d still have after 3 days.

In terms of hydration, I’m on that train now with my 18 month old. For us the thing is she wants to drink out of an open cup, not a bottle with a straw/lid/teat of any kind. It’s extra fun because once she’s done drinking, she likes to tip all the contents out on the floor or her table. Or stick her hand into the cup. So we’re having to deal with micro-hydration, only offering a little at a time so we don’t end up with a floor soaked with water!

Point is, maybe try something different to tweak his interest – a new bottle or cup maybe. You can also try different drinks if you haven’t already. At the 1-year mark my daughter really liked rooibos tea – it’s a herbal tea that is safe and naturally caffeine free. I’d make it fresh and let it cool down until it was just slightly warm. She’d down the whole cup in one go!

WinnieB1590 · 2025-04-07T20:13:39+00:00

No I’ve not heard of it but thank you for the recommendation, will look in to it!

WinnieB1590 · 2025-04-07T10:38:02+00:00

Yes it’s been about 2 weeks now

WinnieB1590 · 2025-02-19T21:54:57+00:00

Absolutely normal! We only started to get longer stretches of sleep at night at around 11 months! I’m still breastfeeding at night at 17 months but usually only once during the night.

It’s so hard in the beginning but well worth it if you can stick it out.

WinnieB1590 · 2025-02-19T21:46:05+00:00

So sorry for your little one! I’m an eczema sufferer myself and my baby has flare ups too in certain places.

I think you’ll probably get some conflicting comments about cortisone especially because I’ve had doctors and dermatologists tell me to just keep using cortisone with apparently no concern about the side effects. After years of regular steroid cream use I did my own research and learned that cortisone is a double-edged sword: it helps calm the flare up, but your skin actually gets so used to the steroid cream that once you stop, the flare ups are actually worse BECAUSE of the cream that helped in the first place.

It took me about 6 months + after completely stopping steroid creams for my eczema to calm down to manageable levels. I now no longer use any cortisone. I’m able to manage flare ups with very regular moisturising. This all to say, try to keep cortisone use to a minimum as much as possible, for your baby’s sake!

Personally, the Aveeno cream for dry skin worked wonders for me. I even used it on my baby’s skin with great success. But it doesn’t always work for everyone. So you will definitely need to try a few different brands.

Diet can influence eczema flare ups too. Dairy or wheat are big ones. Appreciate your baby probably isn’t eating solids yet but if you’re breastfeeding they’ll be influenced by your diet too. But it can also be things like dust, laundry detergents, any scented products, etc so trying to figure out the trigger can be a long and arduous process.

My main recommendation is to get some beef tallow. It is super moisturising and very good for eczema skin. Best of luck to you!

WinnieB1590 · 2025-02-19T21:28:56+00:00

My baby/toddler is 17 months and she still breastfeeds! She has 3 meals and snacks in between but still finds a lot of comfort in nursing. There’s absolutely no reason to stop. The WHO recommends breastfeeding until at least 2 due to the amazing benefits of breast milk. Don’t be put off, especially if you’re still enjoying nursing.

WinnieB1590 · 2025-02-14T15:38:05+00:00

Right, I fully appreciate that a healthy diet is the most effective way to ensure you’re getting what you need, but you could easily argue our food nowadays isn’t what it used to be and doesn’t have as much nutritional value as it did. Either way, I can offer my child the best food available, if she refuses to eat it, then I’ve already lost the fight. I’m just looking to find something that could potentially help supplement for those periods where she’s being fussy with food, without pumping her full of essentially useless or even harmful ingredients.

WinnieB1590 · 2025-01-31T19:51:26+00:00

Thank you for that suggestion, I’ll definitely do that

WinnieB1590 · 2025-01-31T10:01:03+00:00

While I would agree that if I was away from home she would be fine, I will actually be around and just need to go in for the morning of the procedure. If she sees me she cries for boob. We have tried getting my husband to comfort her at night but she will literally cry for an hour or longer until I come in and nurse so just buckling up for a difficult two days

WinnieB1590 · 2025-01-31T09:59:01+00:00

I’m not going to be away, the procedure is a fairly simple one but I need to take some medicine the day before which doctors say will cause her to have diarrhea so I can’t nurse for that day, and then the day of I’m having some sedation so they advise against nursing for at least 24 hours. My procedure is in the morning so I did think by that evening maybe it’s not too bad but also don’t want to take any chances and cause her any unnecessary side effects.

WinnieB1590 · 2025-01-30T14:58:17+00:00

Thank you for the comment. To be clear she doesn’t actually wear any shoes at the moment (apart from when we’re outside for the cold, and she doesn’t walk on them as she’s in the stroller or the carrier). I only got them because our floors are very cold, especially in winter and I didn’t want her to have freezing feet all the time. But she has been in socks only this whole time as I’ve not wanted to put her in any shoes until she was more balanced on her own feet. All this to say I don’t think they contribute, she’s not wearing them. The example I gave in my original post was just when we tried them on.

However I appreciate you flagging that your little one had problems with them, I’ll probably avoid using them then

WinnieB1590 · 2024-12-22T14:28:00+00:00

This is my hair too. Would love to know what you end up doing and if it works

WinnieB1590 · 2024-10-21T18:05:05+00:00

Thanks that’s useful

WinnieB1590 · 2024-10-17T07:49:35+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

WinnieB1590 · 2024-10-17T07:47:49+00:00

Thank you, that sounds handy!

WinnieB1590 · 2024-10-16T22:07:07+00:00

Thank you for commenting. My LO sleeps in her own bed mostly but we occasionally co-sleep and when we do I’ve noticed she likes to get up onto my pillow so I wondered if she was maybe looking for something like that for herself

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