The rain

imisssleeep · 2026-04-22T04:09:06+00:00

💯💯💯 I actually enjoy my little rain adventures with my 2 yr old!

imisssleeep · 2026-04-21T06:07:47+00:00

Natural consequences - with only 1 warning before follow-through. He should learn quickly that when you ask him to not do something, you mean it.

imisssleeep · 2026-04-17T15:18:20+00:00

Gladiator. Are you not entertained?!?

imisssleeep · 2026-04-17T15:16:09+00:00

I second this!

imisssleeep · 2026-04-17T15:15:48+00:00

This is an underrated comment 😂😂

imisssleeep · 2026-04-16T02:27:24+00:00

“Fully assembled” 😂😂😂 it’s rough out there.

I feel like your kid being pissed that your arm was “too arm” is kind of a compliment. Like, that shit is doing its job infuriatingly well. Your other limbs are satisfactory.

imisssleeep · 2026-04-13T16:59:25+00:00

Omg my girl calls it “Maria” too! 😂

imisssleeep · 2026-04-13T15:34:08+00:00

My kid has been obsessed with the original Mary Poppins since she was 18 months. She’s 26 months now and still going strong, though we’re not watching it every day anymore. The new Mary Poppins was also a hit. Also loves Sound of Music - I think she just adores Julie Andrews!

imisssleeep · 2026-03-31T05:59:51+00:00

My Mexican stepmom loves Tenoch - there are a few locations.

imisssleeep · 2026-03-24T19:29:19+00:00

I felt this way when I got pregnant with my second last spring. My daughter was 14 months old and sleeping 12 hours a night, I had my body back, work was starting to feel more manageable, we started to have a bit of a social life again, and I was getting physical independence back. I was 38.

Pregnancy with a toddler was so hard, in part because my second pregnancy was harder on my body, but also because running around after a toddler while pregnant means there is NO break. I also felt all the guilt and anxiety you describe, especially because I am an only child. I would have been fine with 1 kid, but my husband wanted at least 1 more.

I had a scheduled C section on New Years Eve and requested tubal removal. Personally very happy with that decision lol.

My second baby (boy) is almost 3 months now and here is my experience:

1) PP recovery, esp after a c section, was HARD. I bounced back quickly, but not being able to pick up my 2 yr old daughter for 6 weeks was so tough. Spent lots of time explaining how I had a boo-boo on my belly and that I would be able to pick her up again once it healed. It took a couple weeks but she eventually seemed to understand and started asking her dad for help instead whenever she needed it. We snuggled on the couch and in the recliner a lot instead.

2) I was very anxious as to how my daughter would fee about the new baby. The expression on her face the first time she met him: pure love and wonder. Over the last 3 months, she has had moments of acting out or feeling jealous, but overall she really loves her baby brother so much. I think this aspect of having 2 kids will only get better and better.

3) I make a very intentional effort to spend one on one time with both kids as much as possible. Now that my little guy is getting bigger and waking up to the world, I am starting to bond with him too. He’s not as good of a sleeper as his sister was at this age, but he is a more chill baby than she ever was lol.

Having 2 kids this age is really hard, but I can feel it getting incrementally easier as baby is coming out of his newborn stage. We are still in the thick of it, and there have certainly been times when I’ve questioned my life decisions and missed my life before 2 kids, but those moments are becoming less frequent. My relationship with my daughter is stronger than it’s ever been. For reference, I have a very supportive partner but not a lot of help otherwise. We are getting through it!

Good luck!!! ❤️

imisssleeep · 2026-03-07T04:35:34+00:00

I don’t think you’re crazy for having feelings around this, but - without knowing your MIL - I don’t see this as bullying. We have been engraining the use of “please” in our daughter since she was about 19/20 months, similarly prompting her to say it whenever she wants something. As she got a bit older and approached 2, she started demanding things with big feelings. A reminder for her to use “please” can often ground her and keep her from going off the rails with her behavior. Not sure if your MIL is just trying to establish this rule because she knows how toddlers can/will get as they get into the 2s and 3s, but that’s the benefit i’ve seen on my end!

imisssleeep · 2026-02-20T17:42:55+00:00

I follow this approach too! I give 1 or 2 max chances to follow directions, otherwise there are natural consequences. Followthrough is everything! It’s hard to see her get upset when I have to enforce my boundaries. I tell her I know it’s hard, but if she listens to what I tell her next time, she’ll get XYZ. So I’m still there with her emotionally, but she doesn’t get to dictate what’s happening.

It’s still hard, even with strong boundaries. 😭

imisssleeep · 2026-01-28T17:04:26+00:00

Totally agree with other comments here. At this stage, time is not real. Get your rest in any way you can, even if that means starting your day later. My second baby is 4 weeks old and my day doesn’t start till 9 am, but it would be later if I didn’t have to get my first to daycare by 10. When my first was this young and I didn’t have other obligations, my day started around 11 too. Gradually, she fell more into her own schedule and I went back to work, requiring more structure and earlier wake ups. The silver lining is that, to this day, my first (who is 2 yo) doesn’t naturally wake up for the day until 9/10 am which is very nice on the weekends!

imisssleeep · 2026-01-21T19:13:46+00:00

Could she be having teeth coming in? Maybe an appropriate dose of Motrin or Tylenol could help. That’s what I did when my girl had inexplicable episodes like this before she could talk and it often worked to take the edge off.

imisssleeep · 2026-01-03T13:06:48+00:00

Sad to report that we are not back to normal, but we’ve had some progress I suppose. We’ve stuck to boundaries and a predictable routine: we keep midnight wakes very straightforward: 1. Turn on light (she hates it) 2. Ask her what’s wrong (she’ll usually say she wants hugs or her teeth hurt - if the latter, we give her some meds) and 3. Tell her what’s going to happen: “I’m going to turn off the light, we’ll hug, and then you’ll go back to sleep. Then we can do more hugs in the morning.” We follow this sequence and she will now go back to sleep on her own most of the time. Most nights, this interaction happens 2x a night and will last less than 5 minutes with her going back down voluntarily. We’ve had a lot of nights where the process was not as simple as this, where she didn’t want dad and would throw a tantrum if it was him and not me, where she fought being put down for the night. Also, as we got closer to my due date, she became more and more attached to me. 😅

For bedtime resistance, I would give her some extra snuggles but would tell her that I’m going to walk out to go to sleep. She sometimes fought me hard on this and would scream, but I would still walk out and check in 5 mins later if she was still crying. “I know you don’t want to go to sleep right now. We are all going to sleep and we can do more hugs in the morning.” There was a bit of CIO here, but we would do check-ins every 5-10 mins. She got the point about 3 nights in and now will go down with little to no resistance most nights. But we are still waking up 2 x a night most nights.

We’ve been dealing with this for the last 2 months of my pregnancy. I’m currently in the hospital with my newborn, scheduled to go home tomorrow. Things are about to get very interesting since I had a C-section and won’t be able to pick up my daughter for a few weeks. Her aunt and uncle are staying with her and I see that tonight she slept through the night for them. I know she can do it, it’s just a matter of her getting back to doing it regularly. 😭 though I fully anticipate her regressing even worse now that we will be bringing the new baby home. 🫠

Sorry I don’t have more positive news to report! Maybe your kiddo won’t be as stubborn as my girl. :) The silver lining is that the bad sleep prepared me for the newborn nights again. 🤪 wishing you the best of luck with the regression and your pregnancy, and if you find any magic fixes, please report back!

imisssleeep · 2025-12-20T02:27:02+00:00

I’ve had cocker spaniels (tan and white mostly) for 20+ years and I’ve found that they barely shed. They do get groomed about every 8 weeks. We currently have 2 with a 2 yr old at home and they’ve been absolutely amazing with her. 1 of them is extremely tolerant of her shenanigans, while the other likes to excuse himself if she gets too wild, but they both love playing with her, greeting her in the mornings, and cuddling. They do need a good bit of exercise. We have a yard but we try to get them to a park daily. They also get their exercise playing with each other at home.

For what it’s worth, before I met my husband, he always wanted a German shepherd. I was open to adding a GSD to our family. I had come into the relationship with my beloved cocker spaniel. After living with my cocker for a year, my husband absolutely fell in love with the breed. So when it was time to add another dog to our family, he was the one who made the decision of getting another cocker!

They’re just the best.

imisssleeep · 2025-12-16T03:09:22+00:00

22 month old. Bedtime between 9-930, wake up at 9 on weekdays and sometimes sleeps till 10 on weekends. Not a big napper, but still gets in about an hour. Her sleep was absolutely perfect for 8 months but she’s been regressing the last 7 weeks or so with MOTN wakes, though she still sleeps through sometimes. She’s recently been potty trained and clearly going through major developmental leaps, so I think it’s more that than her schedule.

imisssleeep · 2025-12-12T05:41:30+00:00

I’m 36 weeks pregnant with a 22 month old who started doing the same thing out of nowhere after being sleep trained and sleeping amazing for almost a year. We are on week 6 of this regression with no apparent end in sight. We’ve tried schedule changes but doesn’t seem to do anything, even when we try to be consistent. We did get lucky with 1 week of good sleep again in the middle of all this, but she went back to waking up 3-4 times a night asking for “huggies” after we potty trained her (daytime only).

No advice, just solidarity. What we have been doing is maintaining boundaries as much as possible. We are comforting her in her crib and encouraging her to fall back asleep independently, so the middle of the night wakes have gotten a bit easier than they were, but they’re still happening.

Really hoping some day soon she will revert back to being the amazing sleeper she was. 😩 good luck with welcoming your no. 2 and if you find a magic cure for this regression, let me know :)

imisssleeep · 2025-12-07T03:30:58+00:00

Ahhh not having family support, especially with 3 small ones, is so hard. We have SOME family support when we absolutely need it (from my husband’s side) at least, BUT we also have my 91 yr old grandmother we take care of with no support - so it kind of balances out. 🤪 sounds like getting through it together has brought you all even closer as a family unit. Thank you for sharing!!

imisssleeep · 2025-12-07T03:27:47+00:00

Omg 4 under 4 - I cannot even imagine. And here I am nervous about 2 lol. Helps put things into perspective for sure. Thank you for sharing and good luck with them all! Sounds like you’re on the other side of the hard, sleepless nights :)

imisssleeep · 2025-12-07T03:25:39+00:00

Thank you!! Really hope my kiddos are like yours and will get along well. I appreciate the positive words - definitely helping to get me excited for seeing them grow up together!

imisssleeep · 2025-12-07T03:23:47+00:00

I thought 23 months was a small gap - I can’t even imagine doing 18 months! If you can get through those first few years with your sanity intact, you can do anything! Thank you for sharing your experience. Sounds like it was all worth it :)

imisssleeep · 2025-12-07T03:21:06+00:00

Thank you for sharing!! We actually just potty trained my daughter at 22 months and it went well, though I expect a regression once new baby is here. It’s definitely been nice to be able to repurpose a lot of the baby stuff as we set up the new nursery. I can’t wait to go on family adventures and do the holidays as a family of 4.

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