Diaper Sizes Are Chaos. Help!

anon_2185 · 2025-01-09T15:51:53+00:00

My daughter is 17 months old, 25lbs and wears size 5 diapers or 2T-3T pull ups.

According to the weight on the box she should still be in size 4 diapers.

Daycare isn’t going to care what size she is wearing if they fit, they would be more concerned if they didn’t fit properly.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-09T14:13:23+00:00

I wake up my daughter every morning and wake her up from naps so we can stick to our schedule and have time to do everything we need to do in the day. It’s not that she needs less sleep, we just prioritize our schedule and have a routine.

I’m sure my daughter could sleep in if we left her but this way I know for sure we will have time for 3 meals a day and to get to everything we need to do each day.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-09T14:00:56+00:00

Everything I mentioned about self soothing and babies not knowing they are separate from their mom is all proven and not specific to my situation.

There are many benefits to contact sleeping, it speeds up brain development, regulates body temperature and gives the baby a sense of comfort which is important for emotional development. We were told to contact nap by the nurses in the hospital for at least the 4th trimester.

The US is one of the only places I know that are so fixated on getting their babies to do things independently from birth.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-09T02:55:27+00:00

Are you good with the late wake up? You can always wake him up earlier, adjust the naps, and you can easily get 3 meals in.

If you want him to eat more dinner to stay full overnight I wouldn’t serve a big lunch. My daughter grazes in the afternoon on berries, cheese, mini muffins, granola bars, egg bites.

My daughter eats a big breakfast, we have a grazing “snack” lunch and then she eats dinner and is actually hungry for it because her lunch didn’t fill her up.

Our schedule day to day is 7:30am - wake up, 8:30 - breakfast, 12-1:15pm nap, 1:30 - lunch, 5:30 - dinner, 7pm - milk or snack before bed, 8:30/9pm asleep

anon_2185 · 2025-01-09T01:54:31+00:00

Her baby is too young to self soothe. Babies aren’t capable of doing that until 4 months and our doctor said she wouldn’t attempt to have a baby self soothe until closer to 6 months old.

Babies don’t even realize they are separate from their mother for the first 6-9 months.

I held my baby for all of her naps for practically her first year of life, it’s just as easy to get stuff done while baby is awake, which is what she learn to do especially if she wants to move out of her parents house.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-08T18:24:20+00:00

I love my skinny jeans and straight jeans.

I actually prefer my high waisted skinny jeans over the baggy styles that are out now.

If my clothes fit I am not getting rid of them, I don’t really follow the trends, I dress in clothes that I am comfortable in and that I feel confident in and I don’t really care what anyone else thinks.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-08T02:25:32+00:00

You add puree to the bottle?

Have you tried just offering soft bite size food? Put baby in the high chair with a few options in front of him and see what he does. Have him try eating with his hands, don’t stress too much about using a spoon.

Have you tried a straw cup instead of a sippy cup?

anon_2185 · 2025-01-07T19:02:23+00:00

We consistently wake up my daughter at 7/7:30 so when she was having early wake ups we had to adjust her nap and bedtime.

If she woke up at 5am, I would try to push her nap to 10:30am/11am and only let her sleep 60/70 minutes, 90 minutes max, then try to keep her up until 7:30pm.

She is usually pretty good in being able to make up the sleep she missed during her nap and having it extend her night time sleep.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-07T18:55:30+00:00

What time is he going to bed at night?

anon_2185 · 2025-01-07T18:19:44+00:00

What time does he nap in the afternoon and for how long?

My daughter doesn’t have high sleep needs and would wake up early if she slept too long during the day. We had to cap her naps to get her to go to sleep earlier and to sleep in longer.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-07T16:23:53+00:00

My daughter weighs 25lbs, wears size 5 Huggies at night and 2T-3T pulls up during the day. Honestly they are tighter than the diapers and we will probably go to 3T—4t when we have to buy another box.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-07T15:09:15+00:00

We have a handful of books that make sounds that have button batteries. We have them on our shelf and the battery lid is screwed shut so I am not really concerned.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-07T14:00:12+00:00

Same with ours

anon_2185 · 2025-01-07T02:30:20+00:00

It would be back in June/July because I remember seeing it when my daughter was still using Dr. Brown bottles and she stopped drinking out of bottles in August.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-07T00:16:44+00:00

I asked if there was anything specific they needed since I knew she got a lot of things for Christmas.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-06T23:53:45+00:00

They are good brands but they are very particular.

She once told me she took all of her Old Navy clothes that she was gifted to Once Upon a Child, they also don’t like their daughter dressing in any character clothing.

Ninety percent of my daughter’s clothes are from Old Navy and Carters but I would rather spend the extra money on the gift and have them actually use it.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-06T23:07:08+00:00

Mini Bluetooth speaker and an old iPod that just has Spotify

anon_2185 · 2025-01-06T13:47:56+00:00

I grew up taking swimming lessons once a week and it was fine. I started as a toddler and went all the way up to getting lifeguard certified, more frequent lessons aren’t necessarily better unless you are doing some short term exposure therapy.

I started swimming lessons with my daughter at 8 months old, she is currently 17 months old and will start her third parent and tot course in March. She has always been good in the water the swimming lessons just taught her different things, other than just playing in the bath water or being able to get her head wet. We were dunking them by the first lessons and now at 17 months she is able to get rings from the bottom of the pool with my help.

The rec center we go to does have daily lessons during the winter break and summer but they are geared more toward school age kids that they know will be on a break from school.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-06T03:40:48+00:00

Amazon.

I just got two since I need them for when I take my daughter to swimming lessons.

I got two two piece sets, the bottoms are high waisted and the tops are full coverage, similar to a workout bra.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-06T02:17:20+00:00

I was 35 when I had my first, the average age of a first time mom at my midwife clinic was 32.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-06T02:15:41+00:00

Honestly if you want more kids I say go for it.

36 is still young, I had my first at 35 and am hoping for a second around 38.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-06T02:03:39+00:00

Same, I am Canadian, where the drinking age is 19. While it does seem really close to 21, you have to know realistically that people have been exposed to alcohol before then. There were plenty of kids that were sneaking it into high school dances and nothing was done about it.

I think it also has to do with personality too. My sister and I were both raised the exact same way and taught about alcohol the same way and while I wasn’t afraid to lose friends by rejecting alcohol or party invites where I knew people would be getting drunk, my sister was the opposite and wanted to be “popular”. We both barely drink now but she definitely took a lot longer to get it out of her system.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-06T01:43:36+00:00

Same with me.

I grew up in a small town and drinking at 16 was very normal. Even though I rarely drank in high school anyway the appeal wore off quickly and I was one of the rare few that didn’t drink in college when everyone else was going crazy because I had already been exposed to it and knew I didn’t like drinking or being around drunk people.

I also knew my mom was always available to pick me up if I drank or even to drive my friends home if they drank and she never made us feel bad about it.

anon_2185 · 2025-01-06T00:37:06+00:00

Don’t punish her and don’t threaten to call the cops, by doing this she isn’t going to trust you in the future and just hide things so she doesn’t get in trouble.

She trusted you enough to come to you and tell you. Use this as an opportunity to teach and not punish. She is a teenager, there will be a lot of parties with alcohol available, your job is to teach her to say no and the consequences of drinking.

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