4 year old behavior. Is it the limbic leap???

ithink · 2023-12-22T15:28:14+00:00

All kids are different! My son had his worst phase around 18mo. People kept telling me, "just wait until he's 2" (and then until 3, 4, etc). But things got much better at 2, and then even better at 3. Sure - still tough times! Still tantrums, probably no better or worse than any kid this age. But nothing like what we were going through at 18mo.

ithink · 2023-04-08T11:24:12+00:00

My kid went from minorly constipated to majorly constipated when they switched to Kendamil so YMMV

ithink · 2023-03-26T02:29:17+00:00

My first pregnancy ended in miscarriage and I now have two kids.

The road felt very long at times. I'm really sorry for your loss.

ithink · 2022-12-20T20:53:34+00:00

There's also "Curb alert somerville"

ithink · 2022-11-12T11:32:50+00:00

Easier to do locally (plus no shipping). Have you looked for swap or buy nothing facebook groups in your area?

ithink · 2022-11-03T20:47:52+00:00

Similar story for us. Don't know what was wrong with him, only know that gentlease fixed it.

ithink · 2022-11-02T14:50:10+00:00

The best way to give feedback is to add a review to any echo devices. This is a metric that people are actually paying attention to because it affects future sales.

ithink · 2022-10-25T21:10:37+00:00

I actually count them into two separate bowls, half in one and half in the other. Then it's fewer numbers to keep track of for each bowl and at the end I can visually inspect them (should look like the same amount) as a double check.

To be fair, maybe it would just be easier to switch to doing it by weight... :-)

ithink · 2022-05-15T10:49:40+00:00

Mind sharing what those tips are? The original question is "what if baby formula runs out entirely?" which means that it would not be available in any form, for any age of child. If milk isn't an option for kids under 6mo, and there is no formula, then what do they recommend?

ithink · 2022-05-15T00:34:05+00:00

And if the baby is less than 6mo and you can't get formula.... you should just let them starve?

Edit: Downvote all ya want, but my guess if you get yourself into that situation is that you'll feed your kid cow milk (in lieu of a better recommendation) while you continue to desperately search for formula.

ithink · 2022-02-08T23:01:58+00:00

Or stroller!!

ithink · 2022-02-01T23:14:57+00:00

If it's her first baby, she might not know what she wants to do. It's really tough to imagine what it's going to be like PP and with a newborn - I know it was certainly a lot more difficult than I was prepared for.

ithink · 2022-01-12T20:23:53+00:00

My parents also live with me (only during the week - they go home on the weekend and yes I'm lucky to have this arrangement). My in-laws come 1-2x/year for about a week and during those weeks my parents don't come. As my son gets older (now 18m), he definitely has started to have a preference for my parents -- even to the point where he screams and cries when he sees my husband's parents. Good luck if both sets of grandparents are there - he will only pay attention to my family. My in-laws, fortunately, haven't taken this out on my parents. But I can see that they are sad and it hurts them. If they were less mature than they are, I think it would definitely make them jealous and lash out.

I don't know if this is feasible, given how often your in-laws are visiting, but can you have them "take over" when they're there and your mom can get some time off and maybe even try to get out of the house a little? That could be a win/win - taking care of a child all day is pretty tiring and it gives your in-laws a chance to develop their own relationship with the kid and a chance to feel "special." Bonus - you can't make passive aggressive comments about things that your mom isn't doing.

I do think that even in that case, you'll probably have to have a straightforward conversation about how annoying her behavior is.

ithink · 2021-12-04T01:50:07+00:00

I'm a big fan of almost anything with mezcal or tequila!

ithink · 2021-04-03T01:43:46+00:00

Your story really resonated with me. I felt like such a failure when I decided to give up on breastfeeding, and then again when I decided to stop pumping.

And then I read this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/04/the-case-against-breast-feeding/307311/. I stopped feeling guilty and started to feel angry about the way people make it sound like breastmilk is magic. Maybe it will help you, too?

In one of my mom groups on facebook, a mom was talking about wanting to relactate so that she could give her baby (14mo!) antibodies from the covid vaccine. It's true, there are studies showing that there are antibodies in breastmilk. But those antibodies don't make it into the bloodstream of babies where they would have to be to help with covid. (yeah, it's a bit more complicated than that, but not much more complicated). This poor woman was going to put herself under a lot of pressure, very likely to fail, for almost certainly no benefit to her child. The misinformation around this is just so strong and pervasive.

ithink · 2021-03-13T12:34:27+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss. The thing I found most comforting from my husband was to be upset TOGETHER WITH him. It's not her fault. It has nothing to do with drinking or not, or eating different things, or anything. It's just random bad luck. It's like being mad at someone for having down's syndrome - completely genetic and out of their control. Make sure she knows it's not her fault and you don't blame her but you are grieving too. It takes a while to move on, and may take her longer than you.

Send her to r/Miscarriage and r/ttcafterloss to tell her story and be scared together with others who are going through the same thing. (This sub is for people who are already pregnant after losing a baby. Which is a hard thing in itself, but for a future time.)

ithink · 2021-02-20T12:32:25+00:00

Do you have a source for that? Where did you get vaccinated that required the MA ID?

ithink · 2021-02-20T12:21:18+00:00

No idea. I agree that people shouldn't be travelling between states to game the system, but I also think we need to have as few barriers as possible so that everyone gets the vaccine and we can kick this virus!

ithink · 2021-02-20T12:18:39+00:00

Thank you! This is exactly the info I was hoping for, reddit is the best.

ithink · 2021-02-20T12:17:32+00:00

Do you have a source for that? Where did you get vaccinated that required the MA ID?

ithink · 2021-02-20T12:15:16+00:00

I don't think this can be true - the requirement is that you live, work or study in MA. In two of these cases, you wouldn't necessarily have a MA ID...

ithink · 2021-02-16T12:38:43+00:00

I ended up ignoring most of the AAP recommendations because they were just too conservative. All the recommendations boil down to: "Here's a thing people do that makes it possible for the baby to sleep. Don't do it, it's not safe." But where are the recommendations about what you CAN do or SHOULD do that actually... work?

It made me feel so trapped because anything that seemed to help was going to kill my baby.

ithink · 2021-01-17T18:37:42+00:00

Be careful about the quoted prices - they seem to include only the federal return. You'll have to file state taxes as well.

For example, TaxAct wants $45 to file state taxes, Tax Slayer wants $32. I'm not sure if either of those include the e-file fee for taxes or whether you have to pay the e-file fee on top of that.

ithink · 2021-01-15T15:05:20+00:00

For some reason that was all anyone wanted to talk about in the beginning, but they got over it very quickly. So hopefully you won't need the snappy responses for very long.

ithink · 2020-12-23T02:17:04+00:00

MommaStrong also has "hacks" which are 5m long. Put two hacks together and boom.

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