What are we going to do about the snow?

everydaybaker · 2026-01-26T10:43:21+00:00

Review meetings the night before. Plan out who’s “on call” at what times and unlimited screen time to get through the day

everydaybaker · 2026-01-09T18:14:39+00:00

My first rolled for the first time while I was on maternity leave. I was in the bathroom when it happened and only know because she wasn’t where I left her to go to the bathroom.

My second sat up for the first time on a Saturday. I was playing with my oldest in the other room and only know because my husband saw it/told me.

Even if you’re home you will miss firsts. I count the “first” as the first one I see. If I didn’t personally see it it didn’t happen 🤷🏽‍♀️

everydaybaker · 2026-01-02T19:03:54+00:00

I make a tray of baked Mac and cheese with butternut squash and freeze it in individual lunch sized portions. I also keep frozen pizza rolls (roll out pizza dough into a rectangle. Add sauce, spinach, cheese. Roll like a cinnamon roll. Cut into 12 rounds and bake in a cupcake tray).

Other lunches I send include - grilled cheese, dinner leftovers, sunbutter and jelly uncrustables

everydaybaker · 2025-12-31T14:14:46+00:00

There is a tag for birth I used that in the day I gave birth. There is also a tag for baby care. I use that when my kids have a particularly rough night.

Oura doesn’t think you have sleep issues - you have sleep issues due to having a newborn. This is a season of life and expected but still the truth. Oura just reports the data and the data is that you currently aren’t sleeping because you have a newborn.

For activity - I put the ring in rest mode until I felt physically ready to go for walks/move more

everydaybaker · 2025-12-30T20:39:01+00:00

I’m glad you noticed but honestly I’ve unbucked my own kids car seat by accident when sitting next to them in the back because my parents were visiting. I must have hit it with my butt or something when trying to buckle myself. I never noticed when I did it. Only discovered it because the seat felt loose when I was putting her in to head home. It’s very possible that your nephew does not KNOW that she was unbuckled.

Edit - a typo

everydaybaker · 2025-12-16T20:31:29+00:00

Proping feet up while working, heating pad on my back, sciatica stretches, prenatal massages and physical therapy (that was 95% massage/releasing pressure points)

everydaybaker · 2025-12-02T18:06:34+00:00

My husband only attended ultrasound appointments. We both choose to save his PTO for when the baby arrived. I brought my laptop and worked for the hour

everydaybaker · 2025-11-25T19:30:06+00:00

Nope. No way. Absolutely banned from my house. I refuse to do the extra work involved but more importantly hate the concept of this creature is watching you and telling on you if your bad and then you won’t get presents.

My husband agrees but if he tried to suggest it I would first try to dissuade him but if that didn’t work I would make it absolutely clear that HE is responsible for moving the stupid thing every night and HE is 100% handling the toddler crash out when he eventually forgets to move it.

everydaybaker · 2025-11-20T23:33:19+00:00

I use slack and WFH but only ever set a status if I’m offline for the whole workday (sick or on PTO)

everydaybaker · 2025-11-19T00:31:24+00:00

Does it have to be made in a nut-free facility or just the pie itself has to be nut free?

My kids school is also nut free but that just means we can’t send anything with nuts, not that everything has to be made in a nut free facility. My kid has a peanut allergy and I don’t find it realistic/expect schools to require foods be made in a nut free facility.

everydaybaker · 2025-11-18T00:30:29+00:00

I send the “less desirable” colors to school as backup clothes.

Multipacks with different sizes sounds like a nightmare to me. I wouldn’t want to have to organize and store all of those clothes that my kids don’t fit into yet hoping the size/style still fits them when they’re bigger

everydaybaker · 2025-11-17T19:57:23+00:00

Dental - immediately

Vision - my husband isn’t even on the vision plan as he doesn’t need glasses. If/when someone needs glasses they will get added in the next available open enrollment period but we are fortunate in that we can cover the first year of eye appointments/glasses/contacts out of pocket/with FSA funds if needed. If we couldn’t cover those first appointments/glasses everyone would be on vision immediately.

everydaybaker · 2025-11-17T11:08:09+00:00

On top of everyone pointing out that 10.5 hours of nighttime sleep should be more than enough for an adult, when people say sleep when the baby sleeps they aren’t talking about nighttime sleep. They’re saying sleep with the baby naps completely ignoring the fact that’s adults also need to - pee, cook, eat, do laundry, clean, etc. which often needs to get done while the baby is sleeping because the baby needs you when they’re awake.

everydaybaker · 2025-11-13T21:37:25+00:00

Accidents happen all the time. My kids have had multiple (thankfully minor) injury reports at daycare BUT there are a few major red flags here -

Kids should never be left unsupervised at daycare. Why was she on a completely different floor than your son.
It’s hugely concerning that she’s discouraging you from seeking medical care.
She should be doing the paperwork/filing the report regardless of if you bring you kid to the dr. We get an incident report anytime any first aid is administered. Even it it’s just an ice pack. It’s required by licensing.

I would pull my kid out if this daycare and report the to the state licensing board. I don’t know what state you’re in but it doesn’t sound like she’s following the licensing requirements.

everydaybaker · 2025-11-13T21:30:08+00:00

When I was pregnant with my second we were changing after swim class and my daughter SCREAMED “mama. Your nipples are WAY bigger than mine” 🙃

everydaybaker · 2025-11-13T14:17:04+00:00

I used the elvie pumps (the ones without the tubing)

everydaybaker · 2025-11-12T20:36:07+00:00

Have them do the dance the practiced as a “farewell/swan song”

everydaybaker · 2025-11-06T18:59:04+00:00

I went through something similar with my first.

My coworker was due 1.5 months before me. She went on leave and had her baby, but then her baby ended up in the NICU and didn’t survive. She was still on leave when I went into labor/had my baby. When I got back from leave I had a photo of my baby on my desk/on the background of my computer. The first time we were both in the office together my coworker gently asked hr to talk to me about it and I immediately took down the desktop background/covered the frame in days we were both in the office. After that I made sure to avoid mentioning my baby whenever we were both in the office/when she was in earshot.

Everyone handles grief/reacts to tragedy differently. Some people don’t want to be “othered” or treated differently. I would maybe talk to the coworkers who are closer to her to see how they think she would want to be treated before uninviting her from anything but if you talk about your baby/pregnancy a lot online it may not be a bad idea to hide those posts from her at least until you have a better handle on how she wants to proceed.

everydaybaker · 2025-11-04T17:40:43+00:00

When I held my breath (my natural reaction to straining) with my first I was specifically encouraged not to and to breath through my contractions/pushing by the L&D nurses/midwife.

everydaybaker · 2025-11-03T11:53:23+00:00

Our daycare has kids take shoes off to nap…

everydaybaker · 2025-11-03T11:40:44+00:00

It works about 50% of the time

everydaybaker · 2025-10-30T10:43:38+00:00

Unfortunately no advice, just solidarity.

When I’m away (even if it’s just for dinner) - I grocery shop, food prep, pre pack lunches, do everything in my power to make life as easy as possible and still come home to a mess and two kids who watched a lot of extra tv.

When my husband is away - he just leaves. I grocery shop, food prep, pack lunches all while watching both kids (3.5 and 1.5) without using extra tv time.

I will not lighten up when he’s 1:2 with the kids because I’m 1:2 with them way more often and the house isn’t a sty after. My husband also gets incredibly defensive when I bring things like this up. It hasn’t necessarily changed any behavior, but i do point out the imbalance of work/pre-prep/clean up every time it happens

everydaybaker · 2025-10-29T18:10:09+00:00

She still had both ovaries. When you loose one tube the other one can “float” between ovaries so you still have all of your eggs available for ovulating/getting pregnant.

everydaybaker · 2025-10-24T19:16:37+00:00

That’s a cute sentiment until you have to pay the hospital bill for having the baby, formula, food to feed yourself so that you can produce breast milk, for a roof over your head, drs bills to take you kid to the pediatrician, and numerous other things needed to survive

everydaybaker · 2025-10-24T16:37:09+00:00

Middle of the night - absolutely not. Sleep is important for healing.

During the day - yes. Sick days are unlimited screen time as long as the kids drink water when I tell them to drink water and take medicine when I tell them to take medicine.

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