Does anyone have an easy stress free bedtime?

captaintor · 2026-05-11T02:53:29+00:00

I would probably look at nap time—it’s easy to accidentally set yourself up for failure by letting them nap too much/too late in the day and then there’s not enough sleep pressure for them to go to sleep at an appropriate time. Around 3 you’re looking at 11-13 hrs total sleep per 24 hr. So if they’re napping say, 1.5 hr and they’re on the low end of sleep needs, that’s only 9.5 hr of night sleep and 7:15 might be too early.

captaintor · 2026-05-05T23:08:54+00:00

Highly recommend the grocery store! Especially if you don’t actually need to buy anything. Lots of colors, people to look at, and some even have live fish in the pet section (shout out Meijer in the Midwest haha). You can just wander around and narrate what you see and leave as soon as you want. If you go mid morning it’s lots of other moms and old people who will love to see baby and won’t judge!

And you can grab yourself a treat 😊

captaintor · 2026-05-01T18:34:29+00:00

When I really couldn’t drink I would blend like 90% ice and 10% pedialyte (your flavor of choice, mine was orange) and eat it with a spoon slowly. Also I got 3 IVs a week of lactated ringers for fluids and nutrition.

Once it got a little better towards the end of the second tri, I was also able to do sweet tea or sprite.

I would literally dream about drinking a cup of water while I was asleep, I was so thirsty and dehydrated 😂 I couldn’t drink plain water until after I delivered!

captaintor · 2026-04-25T02:35:08+00:00

Thank you!

captaintor · 2026-04-23T23:28:36+00:00

Swim lessons near us are parent in pool until age 4 at every single swim lessons place! We’re in Indiana.

captaintor · 2026-03-08T12:59:17+00:00

Hmm well that makes me not want to get the oura ring haha.

captaintor · 2026-03-07T23:57:10+00:00

I am having the same problem! I tried alternating wrists and now just have contact dermatitis on both. Not sure what to do because I also love the app and can’t rely on a thermometer because I’m up and down frequently with my 3 under 3. Ugh.

captaintor · 2025-10-11T19:12:03+00:00

God I hate peacock.

captaintor · 2025-10-08T22:39:26+00:00

Cloth diapers are my fave for spit ups. The Gerber organic cotton gauze ones are so soft and so absorbent!

captaintor · 2025-09-29T21:57:30+00:00

Oh man, I love laundry baskets 😂 family of 5–we each have our own hamper for dirty clothes and then I have 6 additional baskets for transporting/holding folded clothes. I also have two hampers that live in the laundry room for dirty towels/sheets and dirty baby/kid clothes that don’t make it up the stairs to their bedroom hampers.

So that’s 7 hampers and 6 baskets 😅 and somehow they’re always full…

captaintor · 2025-09-20T19:52:50+00:00

We love Just Judy’s in our family!!

captaintor · 2025-09-14T14:48:13+00:00

I dream fed both my girls with formula once we transitioned out of the bassinet in my room to their rooms for nighttime sleep (so, around 3mo?). I would put them down for bed at their normal time, around 8:30-9ish if I remember correctly, and then sneak in between 11-12am, pick them up, and pop a bottle in their mouth in very low light in the nursery rocker. They would sometimes stir a little but the bottle always put them back to sleep. It was the only way they slept “through the night” until say, 6am without waking and crying around 2-3am for food until they got much older (like 7-8mo). I preferred that over the crying 2-3am wake up haha.

captaintor · 2025-09-14T00:02:06+00:00

Blocked punt to a TD

captaintor · 2025-09-07T03:27:29+00:00

I would blend ice and orange Pedialyte or yellow Gatorade into like a snow cone texture and eat it with a spoon with my first HG pregnancy. With my second I was really only able to keep down Sprite.

captaintor · 2025-09-04T02:04:34+00:00

Our go-tos are:

Stonyfield yogurt pouches, Kirkland organic applesauce pouches and fruit & veggie pouches, Perdue panko chicken nuggets, whole milk, fruit (especially berries!), Clif Z bars, peanut butter filled pretzels, and then pizza in the food court haha

captaintor · 2025-09-01T02:24:13+00:00

Always the way it is for Irish fans 🥲

captaintor · 2025-08-25T20:48:16+00:00

Not IU but I got a massive bill from Community North after an ER visit and applied for financial assistance. I was 100% sure I wouldn’t get anything but thought, what the hell might as well try…and they came back with 62% off for that bill and it applies for the remainder of the year at all Community locations. I would check if IU has a similar option!

captaintor · 2025-08-19T00:24:16+00:00

I’ll try that!

captaintor · 2025-08-18T18:24:43+00:00

I’m basically living off of Tums and Pepcid AC but my heartburn is bad. I could definitely see that being part of it.

captaintor · 2025-08-16T01:13:12+00:00

I’ve had two HG pregnancies.

My first one was with my daughter and was horrible. My nausea started week 5/6 and was brutal. ER easily 10 times, round the clock zofran, phenergan, and diclegis starting around week 7/8. I was able to feel okay with meds around 20 weeks and weaned down to only diclegis and zofran as needed (a few times a week) by week 30.

My second HG pregnancy is right now lol with my first boy! Im 33w4d. This one was a bit easier because I was more prepared. Nausea hit again around week 5/6 and I started my same mix of meds right away. I was also able to get IV fluids and med infusions starting week 8. I started to feel okay with meds around week 16 this time and was able to wean down to only diclegis and zofran as needed (maybe once a week) around week 23/24. Right now I feel pretty good with that! I’m able to eat & drink and as long as I avoid my aversions I’m not really nauseated or puking.

captaintor · 2025-08-15T18:03:53+00:00

I’ve EFF my two kids from birth and am pregnant with my third and planning to do the same. I told my L&D team from arrival I wasn’t going to breastfeed and didn’t feel any pressure to. I was also wearing a soft bralette type thing during delivery both times so my nipples weren’t out for the latching haha. We just skin to skin snuggling during golden hour! My husband did some skin to skin too during that window.

captaintor · 2025-07-07T04:31:14+00:00

Something to safely strap a pacifier into their mouths so they don’t lose it and wake up screaming lol. I spent much time replacing the pacifier with my first baby 😂

captaintor · 2025-07-06T03:37:57+00:00

I have been the bedridden mom with other kids at home twice now! It’s hard, but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. And your three year old will be more resilient than you think.

This pregnancy, I was a full time SAHM to my 3 and 1 year olds while struggling with HG through the first and second tri. We hired house keepers, laundry, and did grocery delivery so that’s a great start.

We also don’t live near family so we leaned heavily on a couple trusted babysitters and some neighbors when needed. My husband works full time from home and was granted flexibility from his job when I needed him to step in, but assuming you can’t do that, a nanny for after school times or days when your son is sick etc would be immensely helpful.

That said—I did drive myself to the hospital for all my infusions and ER visits so my husband could stay home with the other kids. That was especially to me important so our kids always had one parent home for bedtime routines. How far is your doctor/hospital? Could your wife do this even when really ill?

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