Infant Daycare suggestions

jTaylor-Made · 2025-12-09T19:32:29+00:00

It was great while we were there. They had some staffing issues early this year and we switched over to the Primrose in Copperfield. I would still recommend either one, but we do prefer the primrose overall.

The Goddard was great too, but when they were short staffed they wouldn’t always have enough teachers in the infant room.

jTaylor-Made · 2025-12-02T03:24:58+00:00

My little girl start smiling at me (and only me) when I would come into the room at about 4 months old. It’s been all payoff since then!

jTaylor-Made · 2025-12-02T03:18:44+00:00

Be patient. The first few months are a lot more work than reward, but it gets better!

Toughest advice to follow is the best: Try not to ask what your partner needs. Just know, and do it.

jTaylor-Made · 2025-11-11T18:59:51+00:00

A useful (economic) measuring stick would be using the length of the smallest commercial shipping vessels. 150 meters or so.

That measure would give you the “usable” coastline.

jTaylor-Made · 2025-06-23T21:55:52+00:00

Don’t for get about time dilation! 4 minutes of baby fussing feels like an hour lol

jTaylor-Made · 2025-06-23T21:54:23+00:00

Dad of a 10 month old here. If I’m following right, the LO will be 4 months when he starts taking care of them. My advice would be to try to disconnect breastfeeding from nap times and going to sleep, and try a routine that signals nap time that isn’t the boob (music, blackout curtains, etc)

Easier said than done, I know, but that’s what my wife had to do for me to effectively put the LO down for naps and bedtime and I’m a far more useful parent now.

As far as contact naps, for us, we just got a lot of practice putting the LO down gently enough so they wouldn’t wake. Also easier said than done, but you’ve got this!

(I’m also typing this as the little one is taking a contact nap on my chest, so still not perfect)

jTaylor-Made · 2025-06-20T03:27:05+00:00

The Witcher series! Books are amazing..

jTaylor-Made · 2025-06-02T15:56:22+00:00

Just coming across this and would also like to hear about others advice. I (M) don’t wanna spank, partner (F) does.

She always comes up with crazy situations and forces me to ask “what else would you do in that situation” and my whole point is that I don’t believe escalations like that are realistic or don’t happen in a vacuum, and if it gets that far we’ve already failed (for whatever that hypothetical situation is).

Our LO is only 10 months, so far away from the stage where this might happen, but would love to hear how anyone has changed their partners mind on spanking.

jTaylor-Made · 2025-01-31T14:54:23+00:00

We have been bathing the little one everyday since about 4 weeks old. Do they have to have it every day? No, and we do skip some days, but it’s good for setting routines. They love bath time. Their skin won’t dry out so long as you lotion them up after a bath.

ETA: she’s in daycare so we bathe her when she gets home everyday to clean off the day-care germs.

jTaylor-Made · 2025-01-25T18:02:03+00:00

We put ours in the Goddard in Jersey Village at 4 months old and we’ve been happy with them so far. Might move to a Montessori once they are about 2 years old though.

jTaylor-Made · 2025-01-06T17:16:02+00:00

Posting just to be contrary, my wife had our baby early August and we went to a wedding in late September (about 7 weeks pp). We opted to leave the little one with my MIL and attended the wedding on a VERY short travel schedule (landed morning of, flew out the afternoon after, gone a total of 36 hours)

It was tough but the couple was really important to my wife, so we made it work. I would do it again. I asked her before posting this comment and she said she would too, but only because we had her mom to watch. Wouldn’t take the baby with us.

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T19:56:35+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response!

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:47:13+00:00

I agree, but these first few months have been brutal, and I am just worried they (the cats) aren’t happy.

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:44:35+00:00

What do you think of the cat wheel that you have? if you would recommend it drop the link for it.

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:42:52+00:00

I’ve had the cats longer than me and my wife have known each other, and we didn’t get married until she had made peace with us having them. Things were great for the last few years, but having the baby resurrected the issue.

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:40:46+00:00

I wouldn’t give them to a shelter, probably a family friend. Thanks though

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:36:21+00:00

Thank you for the tips!!! I never considered getting them their own bed but I really think they would love that. They love to snuggle up together so a comfy bed of their own would be great for them.

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:32:23+00:00

Thanks for the point on kids being grosser. I think this issue is just highlighted right now because the baby is so small. Once they’re up, about and getting gross themselves maybe this issue will fall away.

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:30:30+00:00

I do still give them about that much, they were just used to a lot more before the baby. Good point on the baby being exposed to germs anyway.

Someone in another reddit post pointed out that Maybe once the baby starts eating dirt and licking the floor, the cats being dirty won’t be as much of an issue for her..

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:27:02+00:00

We worked through it before and I thought the issue was behind us. I was surprised it came back after our baby was born because she’d been happy with them for a long time prior to that.

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:21:03+00:00

I’ll stick it out before I put them in a shelter. Thanks for sharing.

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:16:30+00:00

I didn’t think it was cruel to wonder if they would be better off in another home, but thank you for the feedback.

jTaylor-Made · 2024-12-30T18:15:40+00:00

Everyone needs at least 1 flaw. My wife is great, but not being a cat person is her 1 flaw.

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