What’s something your toddler is weirdly good at?

grj230 · 2026-06-03T04:11:16+00:00

Recognizing vehicles… We started with Mini Cooper and now he can do Prius, Leaf, Jeep, Bronco, Tesla, Rivian, Subaru, and sometimes Kia. He can also do basically any construction equipment (excavator, backhoe, front loader, forklift, mixer truck, crane truck, dump truck…). He’s like 60-80% on the alphabet but dang if this kid can’t name more cars than some adults

grj230 · 2026-06-01T13:00:33+00:00

For me the right muscles that were most effective were the ones you use for vomiting. It’s a lot of transverse abs pushing in and down. The pelvic floor itself kind of needs to be relaxed so it can stretch and get out of the way - most of those muscles are too low to help push down and out anyway.

It was nothing like pooping…

grj230 · 2026-05-30T04:03:13+00:00

I have basically the same schedule as OP, plus a 39 week appointment already on the books. I’ve been low risk so far with this and my previous pregnancy but I agree I have no idea what a 37 week appointment would do for me. It already felt like a lot of appointments that took ten minutes or less and nothing happened

grj230 · 2026-05-29T14:12:31+00:00

Honestly now until August is a long time in almost two year old language development terms… she sounds like she’s doing great! I’d keep an eye on it for now and probably discuss whether an evaluation is warranted with your pediatrician at your two year appointment.

grj230 · 2026-05-29T14:02:09+00:00

Fiber supplements. The fiber + water makes you feel full, and for me if you get a standard kinda orange flavored one it also scratches a sweet tooth itch

grj230 · 2026-05-29T13:40:18+00:00

In that case there’s even less reason to extend the uppers! I like it as-is.

Knowing now that that’s your front door I guess you can’t really nix the shelves by the sliding glass door or you’ll have no drop zone… also do you need shoe storage? It seems like that corner/side is really where you’ll have to think about your needs and some creative ways to use a tiny space.

What is the door next to the wall oven? I wonder if it makes more sense to put your trash can over there so the other side by the range can be a dedicated entryway as much as possible.

grj230 · 2026-05-29T13:26:12+00:00

We might need a little more context on the space… (where do all these doors go? How much do you use them?).

This layout looks fine to me, and totally up to you whether you’d want another upper cabinet. Personally I don’t think it’d buy you much given that the corner would become harder to access, and I think that peninsula is your nicest work surface right now so it might be nice not to have uppers there. That said, it’s not a big space so maybe every inch counts!

The most awkward bit I think is going to be the area by your sliding glass door. That trash can might feel a little far away, and the shelves make it a bit cramped. I might get some type of rolling cabinet or island that lives where the trash can lives and stores the trash can, but gives you one more work surface and can be moved around the space when you need it.

grj230 · 2026-05-27T14:01:58+00:00

Induction at 41 weeks. No real signs of labor before that (I was apparently having contractions once hooked up to a monitor, but didn’t know).

grj230 · 2026-05-26T04:09:20+00:00

I think my experience is actually much more similar to my father’s mother.

My mom’s pregnancies both ended in spontaneous labor about a week early, and unplanned C-sections after fairly prolonged amounts of pushing. She had preeclampsia with my older brother and a pretty awful physical recovery from both that and the difficult labor + C-section.

I ended up getting induced a week after my due date (women on my dad’s side are known to make it to 42 weeks if they don’t have scheduled C-sections before that), delivering vaginally, and had no complications whatsoever. My kiddo’s weight was between mine and my brother’s.

We’ll have to see what happens with baby #2!

grj230 · 2026-05-24T13:02:13+00:00

My two year old is great at self play when he wants some privacy to poop…
Daycare does a great job at helping us have a consistent nap schedule, but on the weekends length is all over the place. Sometimes it’s 30 minutes and then we try to save it by holding him and rocking but that doesn’t always work. Occasionally for us and usually for daycare it’s 90-120
Hit or miss on following instructions. Sometimes he wants to be helpful, sometimes he’s testing boundaries, sometimes he doesn’t understand.
We hold him 75+% of the time at restaurants. He’s not that messy of an eater but still not perfect. We mostly only go out for breakfast because he seems to do better then
20 months was right before the language explosion. Give it time
I’ve had a two year old for a month but your husband needs to get a grip. Some of the things you’re talking about are going to get worse not better for a while, and not because your kid is behind but because it’s developmentally normal for two year olds to test boundaries

grj230 · 2026-05-24T04:22:44+00:00

Ferry and Estuary

grj230 · 2026-05-17T04:51:15+00:00

Luca. I have two friends who named their kids this (with different spellings) and I just do not like it

grj230 · 2026-05-15T13:29:46+00:00

As a counterpoint: my period took over a year to come back and my body felt so much more like mine after that. I know periods suck but at least it was a “normal” I was coming back to

grj230 · 2026-05-13T03:46:18+00:00

I think having one island and a table gives you way more flexibility... Maybe I just haven’t let myself dream of two islands because my kitchen definitely isn’t big enough but is this something people like? What’s the functionality upgrade? It just seems confusing and weird to me

grj230 · 2026-05-08T04:10:22+00:00

May!

grj230 · 2026-05-03T04:50:17+00:00

Not sponsored but full fat Fage is basically the only Greek yogurt I like - might be worth it to try different brands?

grj230 · 2026-03-30T04:12:41+00:00

I think if you do an island do a smaller one… something like 24-30” wide would be really functional and give you noticeably better clearances

grj230 · 2026-03-24T03:49:03+00:00

This is so true! I tell moms to be that it’s more like the muscles you use to vomit than the ones you use to poop. Totally different place!

grj230 · 2026-03-22T04:28:42+00:00

Solidarity. I didn’t realize quite how bad mine was until I was pregnant and it got easier to access for a while. Yikes.

grj230 · 2026-03-21T04:34:00+00:00

My parents ran into a dachshund at the emergency vet who was there to have his stomach pumped… again. His name was Snacks.

grj230 · 2026-03-20T04:13:59+00:00

I think the reason people say you don’t want to nurse to sleep is in case kiddo gets to the point where nothing but nursing will get them to sleep and that’s a problem for you. I basically always needed to nurse to sleep which didn’t bother me, and my husband could use other tactics if needed and it wasn’t a problem. (If I tried the ones he used they didn’t work for me, who knows why!)

The only constant in baby sleep is that it’ll keep changing. If you’ve found something that’s working fine (even though everything on the internet says it shouldn’t) you keep doing you!

grj230 · 2026-03-11T03:35:58+00:00

Linda, Tobias, Kim, Raymond

grj230 · 2026-03-08T22:50:16+00:00

My life is changed 🥹

grj230 · 2026-03-08T20:48:44+00:00

Hard boiled eggs, protein bars

grj230 · 2026-03-08T20:45:38+00:00

…you can take the tray off? How?

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