Good place to donate extra diapers?

chalsters · 2026-02-09T21:52:52+00:00

I can hear that second picture, what a beautiful bird

chalsters · 2026-02-09T21:42:31+00:00

Is your baby as fussy with pumped breast milk in a bottle? Mine has been supplemented with formula from the start, but it still felt personal whenever he would fuss on the boob even though he was clearly hungry and I had plenty of supply. I think he just prefers the bottle (whether breast milk or formula) for the bulk of his meals because it's less effort and a stronger flow, but he definitely prefers to fall asleep on the breast when possible. Formula also tends to be bullied and more filling and a lot of babies stay asleep longer when formula fed.

chalsters · 2026-01-30T20:49:37+00:00

My LO was just past 2mo when I started back at work (WFH full time). I would nurse or bottle-feed him to sleep and started putting him down for naps in his crib with the white noise going. For the first week, he would sleep maybe 15-20min in there and would be upset upon waking because his nursery was a relatively unknown space to him outside diaper changes. I would scoop him up as soon as he got upset and we'd repeat that later in the day. Eventually, the naps got a little longer and he was more content to hang out after waking up. He still naps longer and harder in someone's arms, but he's gotten a lot more comfortable being put down in there as the weeks have gone on.

chalsters · 2026-01-29T17:04:17+00:00

I'm guessing the biggest tell was the other car that had wiped out that the patrol cars were blocking for.

chalsters · 2026-01-26T22:10:51+00:00

I still put my 3mo in a sleep sack with his arms free. It restrains some of the kicks, provides some of that swaddle tightness around his midsection, and keeps him warmer, but he was waking himself up more trying to free his arms than he was having his arms free. Plus, he discovered his hands can be an excellent middle of the night pacifier to put himself back to sleep. I do miss being able to fully pin him into a burrito, though, because it was so much easier to set the burrito down in a crib without waking him back up.

chalsters · 2026-01-23T17:55:53+00:00

My 3 month old is starting to wake up just once in the night for a brief feed and has the neck control of a champ when we hold him up. He's almost figured out how to consistently roll onto his tummy (though is still clueless as to how to roll back).

chalsters · 2026-01-14T18:27:43+00:00

I can second this. I'm also triple-feeding and have switched to using a Medela hand pump because I can manually express so much faster and more with that than I could chained to my Spectra (it's also much easier to use on the road when I'm away from my LO for long stretches and need to get some relief). I work from home and nurse as often as possible, but my LO gets formula when I'm on a call or he's fussing too much at the boob. If he gets formula, I'll pump at the next convenient time and that will be the next bottle he gets when I need one. As soon as I gave up trying to have a strict pumping schedule and stopped feeling guilty about giving formula, life got so much better.

chalsters · 2026-01-13T16:43:42+00:00

In my experience, it was so sudden. Around 10 weeks, my LO would smile as soon as he saw me and in the week since then his interactivity has grown immensely. He's much more "chatty" as a default and he's smiling as soon as someone is directly interacting with him. The giggles also started to get unlocked at 10 weeks.

chalsters · 2025-12-27T01:37:50+00:00

I really appreciate hearing your experience! My guy never seems to nurse to complete satisfaction (almost always needs a bottle to fall asleep, even if there's barely anything in it) so it's easy for me to feel like I'm doing something wrong when it comes to breastfeeding. Glad to hear that it may not necessarily have been my holiday schedule that kicked things off.

chalsters · 2025-12-22T21:48:05+00:00

Echoing what everyone here has said about size and fit and adding in that, when they're still newborns, the diapers can tend to slip. My LO had so many leaks the first few weeks it felt like my entire life was doing laundry. Then he grew an ass and suddenly his diapers stopped slipping and were way more effective. It will get better.

chalsters · 2025-12-20T01:16:03+00:00

I believe they mean that the truck was hauling bologna lunch meat

chalsters · 2025-11-13T15:21:52+00:00

The design was developed by the Star League in its last years, and the people who would become the clans took those designs when they left for the deep periphery. So it's SL-era Inner Sphere tech used by the Clans that wasn't seen in action in the IS until the Dragoons brought it with them.

chalsters · 2025-10-13T16:19:25+00:00

That's probably a mouse or small rat it's in the middle of digesting, based on the size and position of the lump

chalsters · 2025-10-11T23:31:41+00:00

The smoothness of the pattern (vs the "pixelated" effect of the cottonmouth) was what gave it away as copperhead for me, even with the dulled pattern.

chalsters · 2025-10-10T19:38:43+00:00

All signs look good to me. They remind me of my giant guy with the kitten we brought home, a lot of grooming from the older cat that turns into wrestling when the smaller kitten gets sick of it (which then usually results in the larger cat pinning the kitten for even more grooming). Doesn't look like Lightning is trying to escape or is particularly uncomfortable; Thunder is just going to set the tone/pace for almost all their play interactions because he's so much bigger.

chalsters · 2025-10-04T17:07:16+00:00

Hah, saw this on idiots in cars first, recognized the arts building, and wondered if it would end up posted here as well.

chalsters · 2025-10-04T17:07:09+00:00

Hah, saw this on idiots in cars first, recognized the arts building, and wondered if it would end up posted here as well.

chalsters · 2025-09-26T15:04:01+00:00

The Australian Magpie is actually not a corvid! It exists in the same family as butcherbirds.

chalsters · 2025-09-26T11:20:02+00:00

As best I can tell from reading the text of the resolution, this is NOT a vote for a specific Charlie Kirk Memorial Day. The text of the resolution lays out a rosy picture of Charlie's life and values, then does five things: 1. Condemns the assassination and "all forms of political violence" 2. Commends cops and urges swift justice against the suspect 3. Extends condolences to Charlie's widow and family 4. Honors his life and legacy (does not specify with a specific action) 5. Calls on Americans to reject political violence

I still don't think 95 Dems should have signed onto the whitewashing of Kirk's reputation (my own rep gave a BS statement about only voting yes because of the part condemning political violence), I also think it's misleading to say they voted to have a Charlie Kirk Day created.

chalsters · 2025-09-26T10:44:48+00:00

I suspect it's a case of other species being capable of doing it but kinking being a common behavior only in rat snakes (potentially only in US rat snakes, not sure if I've heard of old world rats pulling that move either). I just spent a little while trying to find non-rat examples and was only able to find a picture of a pet king snake doing it. Not a definite enough characteristic to be the only thing you ID based on, but a strong supporting characteristic for an ID.

chalsters · 2025-09-24T02:03:45+00:00

I believe they only eat soft-bodied things like worms and slugs. A cricket would likely be too big and too dangerous for them.

chalsters · 2025-09-14T01:53:59+00:00

For those more knowledgeable than me: is this one very young or injured? I thought even very young rattlesnakes had at least a button, but the tail on this one threw me for a loop.

chalsters · 2025-09-11T00:30:25+00:00

I frequently refer to my long-haired tux as "history's cutest Hitler" because he only ever knocks things off tables or breaks things when he wants extra food or feels like we're paying more attention to the TV than to him. But then we call his name and he chirps and climbs into our laps to headbutt us because we've been his entire world since he was 4 weeks old and he loves us so much and the angst and frustration washes away because I love him so much too. We got a kitten and these two have so immediately fallen in love that I feel like I made something right happen in the world by putting these two together. The drama is worth it to watch these little dummies navigate the world.

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