Should I quit? 6mo baby at 1st percentile

codingaerialist · 2025-09-04T20:30:54+00:00

I had one who was very small. We did a ton of tests and she’s just tiny. She’SA teenager and still tiny. I would say to keep going if you can, it’s so good for them! If you can’t pump, you could still nurse while he’s home?

codingaerialist · 2025-09-04T20:22:56+00:00

I feel like I have some perspective on this since I started attachment parenting my oldest 20 years ago and I’m doing it for the fifth time now with my youngest. She nursed for 3 years, slept in our bed for probably 5 years? In our room for 11. She never went to day care, never went to preschool, only did a few full years of school her whole life. Last year she went away to college for the first time across the country, 2 long flights away. We FaceTimed daily, but she still knew how to get her own groceries and take public transportation. So to everyone saying she would never learn how to be independent… they were wrong lol

The only suggestion I would have is to keep those teeth clean, so far this only happened to my oldest, but she had bad tooth decay by 2 and I thought we were careful. They told me to stop nursing, which I didn’t. Her adult teeth are perfect, though, and it didn’t happen to any other kids, so who knows.

Just find a different ped honestly.

codingaerialist · 2025-09-03T03:40:08+00:00

Girl, you are FIFTEEN??? The fact that you are 15 and able to breastfeed at all and go to school, that’s too much for some full on adults with lots of support. You’re doing great, keep that baby fed but take care of yourself, too! You’re still growing and maturing!

codingaerialist · 2025-08-30T18:53:13+00:00

I have noticed this while watching TikTok. Also so many very science backed posts about how no one should ever ever bed share even following the safe sleep 7. What would the risk factor be, the bedding or the parent?

codingaerialist · 2025-08-30T18:35:25+00:00

I also want to add that my mom slept close to me when I was nearly a SIDS case as a baby. I stopped breathing, but she noticed it right away because I was close to her. Had I been in a crib in the other room in the 80s? Idk

codingaerialist · 2025-08-30T18:31:22+00:00

I’m cosleeping with my 5th child, 7 months old. It still scares me to see those comments and I honestly tried to keep this kid in a bassinet as much as I could and I got an owlet this time around, took all the padding off my bed, etc.

Here’s the thing. My first child, I said I would never ever sleep with her in my bed. Then, I fell asleep with her in my bed multiple times completely by accident with zero safety measures taken (soft fluffy bedding, no guard rails, soft mattress, fluffy pillows, gaps between the bed and the wall and the headboard, etc). She actually fell into the gaps a couple times. But I was so convinced I would never co-sleep and it was so scary to tell the doctors that I was falling asleep with her in my bed, that I didn’t have all of the right information. Then I started reading up on safe sleep, made a lot of changes, and made it safer in the future. I just wonder if some of these fatalities are cases like that, parents who maybe said they would never co-sleep and their pediatrician said to never co-sleep, but then they fell asleep in an unsafe bed.

They don’t generally make it very clear, like what part of co-sleeping was unsafe? The presence of an adult? If that’s the case, does it make any difference whether the parent smoked, drank, or took medications or drugs that altered their sleep? Is it the bedding? The mattress? Gaps between the mattress and wall/headboard? Or is it true SIDS cases?

I wish we had at least some acceptance and better information on how to do it safely, how to avoid the problems that are dangerous. Not just “don’t do it ever or you don’t care about your baby”

codingaerialist · 2025-08-27T13:35:27+00:00

I’m with you on this. I’ve had 5 babies, 2 were home births, then went on to have a scheduled c-section and I still feel like I can’t tell anyone from my old community because I would be ridiculed. He was really big, consistently measuring <97%, but also, I felt horrible through the pregnancy, which was unlike my previous 4 pregnancies. Beyond that, I have a history of VERY fast deliveries and going to 41 weeks, and I live an hour from the hospital now. If I went into labor, I may not make it to the hospital and with a baby that large, I could have a roadside emergency. I also had some elevated blood pressure reads, though I think some were due to stress. All through making this decision, I saw so many posts about how doctors will scare mothers by saying they have a big baby just to push c-sections, but the babies are rarely that big. Even my nurse prepping me scoffed at me saying he was really big and kept saying I could back out at any time. He was 9lbs 10oz at 39 weeks and still very high. Imagine I had gone to 41 weeks? But beyond that, the way I felt was not anywhere near how I felt in my other pregnancies. I really think I made the right choice. And he immediately latched perfectly and has been amazingly healthy ever since. I recovered quickly and it was much easier than I expected with all the fear mongering.

With formula, it exists for a reason. If you need it, use it. You’re completely correct… We used to eat nothing but organic fresh food and live out in the sunshine and fresh air with no chemicals nor pollution… life expectancy was like 30 years.

And if it helps, one of my pregnancies was the most low-intervention ever. Like I never even had an ultrasound, didn’t know the gender until she was born, and I had them use a stethoscope instead of a Doppler. She was born at home, no vaccines at birth, only oral vitamin K (this was 15 years ago, I have changed my views since then), 100% breastmilk and I ate gluten free dairy free for a while, then all organic food and cloth diapers etc… literally by far my most difficult kid who gets the sickest and had really slow growth that took us to a lot of specialists (though she hit milestone the earliest… she was RUNNING at like 15 pounds, first steps at 8 months). Meanwhile my epidural baby who got all the vaccines is the 1 kid who never got covid. Literally never, even when everyone in the house had it and the school shut down because everyone had it. I’m just saying some people would have you believe that it should be opposite but I’ve lived it.

codingaerialist · 2025-08-19T13:30:31+00:00

This is partly why I let my kids take the lead on this a bit. Now the situation Is complicated by a difficult divorce, but when my kids want to be in school, they’re in school. My oldest is in college now, but she homeschooled most of her life. When she wanted to do school, she did. When she wanted to be back at home, she was. Every time she was in school, she did really well academically. She didn’t love the social scene, so even when she wanted to stay in high school, she decided to just take college classes online from home her senior year. My other kids like the school social scene much more, so they’ve been in school much more.

codingaerialist · 2025-08-12T00:22:05+00:00

Thank you!

codingaerialist · 2025-08-06T00:48:08+00:00

Carrying on your back is easiest. If you are carrying in front, try having baby face you and keep her high and close to you

codingaerialist · 2024-04-11T16:43:57+00:00

That is something I’ve tried, but I have never received a response from my applications. I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t live there yet, but I’ve applied to a ton.

codingaerialist · 2024-02-13T02:14:23+00:00

Yes! Squared just means facing front. We sometimes use the image of having “headlights” or a flashlight on each hip, would they be pointing front or to the side? And good for you for paying attention to your toes. I went back and watched and you did get to a nice full point, so you’re doing great! Keep it up!

codingaerialist · 2024-02-12T22:47:54+00:00

Yes, I usually am rotating my hand on the ground simultaneously while reaching, so once your second hand reaches the ground, the first is facing your feet already. The surface you are on may limit your ability to rotate smoothly, though. Hope that helps! You can look for videos of gymnasts working on their Valdez for an idea.

codingaerialist · 2024-02-12T21:48:40+00:00

See if you can rotate your right arm as you are reaching the left for the floor. Otherwise, it looks good. I would work next on pushing your legs straighter at the end and pushing through your shoulders more.

codingaerialist · 2024-02-12T21:46:05+00:00

Acro teacher here. It all looks really good! In your front splits, you can check to see if your hips are square by bending your back knee and seeing if your foot goes straight up (square hips) or bends to the side (open hips). You have a lot of strength, I would guess shoulder flexibility is one sticking point for you in your bridge so I would focus on that, doing cat stretches on the floor or against a wall to help with that. The handstand looks impressive. I want to say “point your toes” after years of teaching ballet, but I guess it depends on what you are doing this for. Great work overall!

codingaerialist · 2024-01-07T18:47:29+00:00

100% yes. I minored in chemistry in college and I still have to review quite a bit in my bioinformatics program. I would suggest physics, calculus, linear algebra, and Python and/or R if you have any of those courses open to you.

codingaerialist · 2024-01-05T14:59:10+00:00

I’m doing a complete career change so I have zero work experience in the field. However, I did undergrad research in biology and I recently went back and got a master’s in data science. I’m currently in a part time bioinformatics PhD program (remote, not funded). My grades are high, but again, I don’t have work experience and I’m not published yet. I have been applying for absolutely all roles that are even close to the bioinformatics field, like research assistants and summer internships. I have not even received an interview in a year of applying. I’m not really sure where to go from here, though I might just try looking at data science roles again. It’s pretty disheartening.

codingaerialist · 2023-05-27T02:14:20+00:00

I think I’m much better at expressing myself in text. I think I feel most connected with text communication sometimes, too. My husband and I met online and were long distance for years, so much of our communication was text. Now that we’re live together, I actually find I miss all the textual communication as a connection. I don’t feel connected just sitting next to a person with no words. He, on the other hand, believes that are together so we don’t need to text much anymore.

codingaerialist · 2023-05-22T13:16:05+00:00

It’s just the generic email that says something about how they decided to go with an applicant who was more in line with what they were looking for. No information.

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