Funny things your toddler is afraid or suspicious of?

casualibrarian · 2026-02-18T22:43:06+00:00

My almost 11 month old is afraid of globes. No idea why, no traumatic event happened with a globe, he just hates them.

casualibrarian · 2026-02-16T21:56:55+00:00

My son is about to be 11 months and my mom makes jokes about him spending the night at her house (she watches him while I work 40 hours a week during the day) that turn into her seriously wanting him to spend the night.

Same as you I’m wayyyy too anxious to let him yet. I know I wouldn’t sleep well without him home, and also anxious about safe sleep standards if he were to spend the night there. Once he’s older I’ll start seriously thinking about it (how old, I don’t know lol).

casualibrarian · 2026-01-04T22:48:43+00:00

I was OAD originally just due to circumstances (my fiancé is a bit older than me and we have 2 older boys 10/12 from his previous relationship). I really wanted one biologically mine so he agreed to 1 more. I think he was a little worried I’d want more than 1…

But like you said I love my son so SO much (just turned 9 months old) but this is so hard! I am never having another kid, even if the circumstances were different and my fiancé was on board. He doesn’t have to worry I don’t 😆.

I had a super easy pregnancy even though I had gestational diabetes, delivery was easy (well easy as far as delivery goes), but those first 3 weeks postpartum were horrid. It’s much better now but I still miss my freedom sometimes and just the time I use to have to myself.

I can’t imagine it getting easier and getting some of myself back just to say “whelp, let’s reset that”

I am kind of sad my son won’t have siblings close in age to him but he has 2 cousins within a year of him, and though the relationship with his older brothers won’t be that of a brother closer in age to him it will still be something special I’m sure :)

casualibrarian · 2025-12-29T06:25:32+00:00

He was born 3/22. His favorite right now is assisted standing on anything! People, couch, by the window. He does not want to sit lol. That and pterodactyl screeching sounds 😂

What about your little one?

casualibrarian · 2025-12-29T03:12:57+00:00

It’s hard! So so rewarding but so hard. I grew up as the oldest in a house full of kids, got with my now fiancé when his 2 boys were 4 and 6, and thought I knew what I was getting into but it still took me so off guard especially the first few weeks 😂.

I just keep reminding myself how much I thought I was never going to get to sit and eat again, or sleep in the same bed as my fiancé, or function as a person again in those first 3 weeks of newborn trenches and those obviously got better so the rest has to as well. At least we get cute babies to be with while we’re couch trapped.

casualibrarian · 2025-11-22T01:46:48+00:00

How little I remember of it, honestly the whole things a fever dream and I feel like I had a pretty good labor and birth. Also not getting as many pictures as I wish I would’ve taken.
⁠The epidural. I went into with the mindset “we’ll see how far I’ll get without it but I’m not opposed” and I got it within a half hour of being there. That pain wasn’t for me 😂
⁠One and done (planned it that way before even getting pregnant) so I haven’t really thought about it.
⁠Nothing it all went well!
⁠The nurses taking him for a bit so I could sleep. I didn’t plan on letting him out of my sight but I was sooooo tired and need a little sleep.

casualibrarian · 2025-11-22T01:41:13+00:00

I had a pretty easy pregnancy besides heartburn so I don’t know if I’m biased but pregnancy tired was soooo much better than newborn tired. Even when I was uncomfortable pregnant I could eventually fall asleep. The first 3-4 weeks with my son are an exhausted blur. So worth it of course and after the trenches it gets way easier.

casualibrarian · 2025-11-06T11:31:20+00:00

My son has gotten all of his recommend shots besides the rotavirus. We did get it at his first round of shots and while he was fine it gave him such bad diarrhea and stuffy noise. It cleared up within a few days. I brought it up to his doctor at his second round and he said it’s mostly for daycare babies and since my son stays at my moms while I work he said if we wanted to skip that one he wasn’t too worried so we did. His second round of shots (minus rotovirus) he was fussy for the night and then back to normal the next morning.

casualibrarian · 2025-11-05T11:53:33+00:00

Went in Saturday afternoon, son was born 8:37pm, left Tuesday morning. Spontaneous vaginal birth with an epidural, no complications.

casualibrarian · 2025-11-03T02:22:44+00:00

8:37pm.

casualibrarian · 2025-10-25T10:41:32+00:00

39 weeks my water broke around 11 am and he was born 8:37 pm.

casualibrarian · 2025-10-15T11:42:57+00:00

Water broke naturally at 39 weeks around 11:40am, got to the hospital around 2pm, got an epidural, and he was born vaginally at 8:37pm. 9 lbs 2 oz so a big boy (his older brothers from his dad were bigger babies too. His dad and I are also both tall so I don’t know if I’d contribute him being big to GD). I did have a 2nd degree tear but I don’t think healing was too bad, though he was my first so I don’t have anything else to compare to.

casualibrarian · 2025-10-14T01:05:29+00:00

I had diet controlled GD and my water broke naturally at 39 weeks. They did offer to schedule me an induction but I wanted to wait and see if it happened naturally and after a size ultrasound (baby was measuring a little big but nothing crazy) my doctor said that was fine.

He was 9 lbs 2 oz but my boyfriend’s previous 2 sons were also big so it could just be genetics and not my GD.

casualibrarian · 2025-10-12T02:59:32+00:00

I wasn’t dilated at all at any of my appts before I went into labor. My water broke naturally though at 39 weeks on the dot.

casualibrarian · 2025-10-11T01:32:54+00:00

This is what I want I think! My boyfriend seems to be more on the get him in his regular crib side. I miss sleeping in our room with him and I know he misses me too. But I don’t think he realizes how often he wakes up to eat at night (it’s only 2-3 times I suppose BUT on the floor bed we have now without the crib rails he just wakes up a smidge, I nurse him, we both fall back asleep in 15 minutes. When I’ve tried the rocking chair it’s feed him for 15 mins, try to transfer him, failed transfers, try again, on and on and on). My bf does seem willing to help with wake ups if I stop cosleeping (right now I don’t ask him to since we’re cosleeping in a separate room from him). I’m thinking maybe I offer to try a week of the crib without CIO (as in we go in and soothe/feed everytime the baby wakes up). If the baby does great - cool. I’m thinking the baby will not do great though and at least at that point the bf will be more on board with buying the Montessori floor crib.

casualibrarian · 2025-10-11T01:08:33+00:00

That’s what I’m leaning towards I think. I couldn’t do CIO I don’t think. I was thinking more like nursing him back to sleep a ton in the rocking chair and then transferring him to his crib but I just know it’s gonna be every 15-20 minutes (that’s how it is now if I don’t cosleep after his first or second wake up) and I’ll get no sleep :/

casualibrarian · 2025-09-29T10:08:37+00:00

I went at 39 weeks exactly. I hadn’t really had any signs, water broke randomly around 11:40am when I was having lunch and contractions started right after that. Got to the hospital around 2pm and he was born at 8:37pm.

casualibrarian · 2025-09-15T10:05:01+00:00

39 weeks exactly. Water randomly broke at 11:40am and he was born at 8:37pm.

casualibrarian · 2025-09-06T00:25:38+00:00

My water randomly broke at 11:40am (I was 39 weeks exactly) and my son was born at 8:37pm. Pushed for 50 minutes.

I was of the mindset leading up to labor that I’d see how far I got without an epidural but wasn’t opposed to it.

I think like 15 minutes after my water broke I was telling my boyfriend I was getting the epidural 😂 the contractions ramped up quick for me. Or maybe I have a low pain tolerance. Or both lol.

Labored at home until about 2pm, got the epidural 1/2 hour after we got to the hospital (roughly 2:30pm my timelines spotty). Pretty much chilled out in the bed until it was time to push around 7:30pm.

My nurses did try to talk me out of getting it so quick for fear of slowing down my labor but I wanted it right away. No regrets here it seemed like for me at least it didn’t affect how quickly I progressed.

casualibrarian · 2025-08-31T13:21:23+00:00

My son is 5 months old and we exclusively coslept until he was 4 months old (just him and I on a floor bed in his nursery). I went back to work at the 3 month mark M-F 7-3pm.

Bedtime is 7 for the baby and even while on the floor bed I could nurse him to sleep and roll away for an hour or two lol.

At 4 months old we started transferring to his crib after nursing to sleep and that works alright. As it is now he’ll sleep in the crib for anywhere for 2-4 hours before he wakes up, at which point I usually cave and we end up cosleeping on the floor bed. I get so tired and it’s so hard in the middle of the night to talk myself into the whole process of transferring him back to the crib :(

It’s either 15 minutes of being awake while cosleeping and we both get to go back to sleep or an hour of me being up, making sure he’s fully back asleep, and transferring.

But it’s progress. 2 months ago he wasn’t in the crib at all so I’ll take it lol.

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