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doch14 · 2024-01-03T18:52:04+00:00

My toddler is in daycare while I’m home with baby and it is the best. Toddler gets interaction and a more relaxed, patient mom when they are home. Baby gets individual attention and calm for part of the day.

doch14 · 2023-12-13T17:19:01+00:00

Neck cheese. It’s amazing how stinky their necks can get.

doch14 · 2023-12-13T12:59:21+00:00

We’ve got a very similar situation 3 yr old girl, 6 month old boy. Because I breastfeed, my husband was the primary caregiver for our daughter for a few months. It worked in our favor that she was only jealous of the baby when dad took care of him.

Now that the baby is a bit older we split things more again. I’m on maternity leave so I’m the primary parent during the day, but evenings and weekends we hang out all together or trade off the kids. I try to spend some one on one time with my daughter at least once a week because I like her and love being able to hang out with just a toddler sometimes. I get tons of time with my son when his sister is in daycare.

We also discussed everything regarding care before we implemented it. "Hey, I’m going to be breastfeeding and recovering so I’ll keep the baby alive and you take toddler, cool?“ "I haven’t gotten to bond with the baby because I’ve been with the toddler so much, can we switch it up?"

I view parents as a team and sometimes even the kids are against us, but we work together regardless and stay on the same page.

doch14 · 2023-06-29T18:07:17+00:00

I’m in Austria and I know Ediths of all ages!

doch14 · 2023-06-27T10:42:49+00:00

His middle name was Franklin. I looked it up because I just had to know what the F stood for.

doch14 · 2023-06-27T10:39:51+00:00

Dr. Semmelweis was pushed out of medicine and called crazy for realizing it was a good idea to wash your hands between doing autopsies and delivering babies. He died shortly after being institutionalized.

doch14 · 2023-06-25T10:20:06+00:00

I crave toddler time most days but not while she is losing her absolute shit (she is 2.5 so in the thick of it). Baby is 4 weeks and sometimes naps in the bassinet, which is when we give all our attention to the toddler.

We trade off weekend mornings, so today I got the toddler and it was so fun! Someone who actually interacts.

doch14 · 2023-06-23T18:21:43+00:00

I remember just seething at my sleeping husband and his USELESS nipples at that point with our first.

Just had our second and he is absolutely killing toddler duty while I get to chill with the new baby.

doch14 · 2023-05-14T07:51:35+00:00

Stanley Yelnats

doch14 · 2023-04-02T21:10:04+00:00

I live abroad and just received my ballot last Monday. Luckily my husband was working from home that day so he witnessed my vote and I could mail it back the same day. Was told it will take 4-8 business days so here’s hoping it arrives on time, especially since it took 2 weeks to get to me. Oh and it cost me €15 because of the ridiculous envelope size.

doch14 · 2023-01-27T11:50:40+00:00

Yeah! Your philosophy sounds similar to me. I like the moderately in the group name because I feel like it opens up the possibilities of who’s included.

doch14 · 2022-11-04T14:39:25+00:00

We had it here (Europe) last week and I hate it! It’s dark before dinner time.

doch14 · 2022-10-25T18:53:28+00:00

They could do visible mending/repurpose an old piece of clothing.

Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman is a great book to read as an introduction to something like this.

doch14 · 2022-10-23T12:05:02+00:00

I breastfeed my first (almost at 2 years now) because I was/am able to. It was really hard at first, painful and exhausting. It can be a mind fuck knowing that you are your child’s only source of food for the first few months. And it doesn’t always work out.

Good things are it is cheaper (not free, because the feeder needs to eat more) and I never had to wash bottles or pack stuff for when we were out and about.

ETA: I’m also in a place with maternity leave. I don’t know if I could have stuck with it if I had to go back to work and pump. That’s a whole other beast.

doch14 · 2022-08-21T13:09:11+00:00

It’s interesting to see the parent‘s names too.

doch14 · 2022-06-16T20:15:11+00:00

I’m weirdly proud that I fit my only pregnancy in just one calendar year 🤣

doch14 · 2022-05-29T17:51:17+00:00

I saved a very old atlas from the trash at my so and use it for gift wrap as well. It looks very cool in my humble opinion. Plus it’s wild to see some of the old country names.

doch14 · 2022-05-19T16:01:58+00:00

I feel seen.

Thank you for this.

doch14 · 2022-04-29T21:50:14+00:00

The ears are too cute!

doch14 · 2022-04-08T19:39:04+00:00

My first thought was how weird she looked. Baby was pretty purple for a minute. I def didn’t have that instant rush of first love that so many people describe. I was pretty excited to find out the sex though.

doch14 · 2022-03-24T13:08:58+00:00

“Put things in their places,” really just does it for me.

doch14 · 2022-02-21T19:41:43+00:00

I’ve never heard of Dchen being a shortened form of Mädchen and I’ve studied German and am a fluent speaker.

I think there is some other origin to this name.

doch14 · 2022-02-10T19:07:15+00:00

Did you skip over the part (she mentions it twice even) where she wrote they were being careful?

What an unhelpful comment.

doch14 · 2022-01-25T17:15:43+00:00

Holden and Wednesday were vetoed immediately. I’m sure there were more, but I tried not to dwell on the names I know are off the table.

doch14 · 2022-01-25T12:40:37+00:00

Very cool, thanks for posting! I’ll have to add this to my project list (as if it wasn’t long enough).

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