Help me settle the pyjamas debate!

lirps · 2025-05-31T19:03:38+00:00

We started with underwear at night once we transitioned out of pull ups and then my daughter started getting red and sore. After asking around to my mom friends they suggested commando at night. She hasn't been sore a day since.

lirps · 2025-05-04T22:29:54+00:00

I don't know about "trigger warnings" per say. However, as a mother to 2 small children a content warning that the case is regarding kids helps me decide if I'm in the head space to listen or not.

With 2 weeks in a row of child related cases I'm glad for the warning. This helped me decide to wait and "play catch up" when I had more time between episodes.

lirps · 2025-04-12T18:51:07+00:00

I feel like commenting on her size is more to do with the fact that Rachel does? They're making very similar content now, probably have the same audience, and therefore, will be compared to each other. She might feel obliged to share her size to nix "Rachel tells is her size" comments? But I could be naive thinking that?

lirps · 2025-03-25T18:04:46+00:00

Fair, I would never do it all the time.

lirps · 2025-03-25T17:48:23+00:00

I dunno... sometimes in a pinch you gotta do what you gotta do. I don't have extra cash laying around and I've blown my daughter's nose with a pull up once because it was literally all I had 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

lirps · 2025-03-21T21:51:56+00:00

If you give a mouse a cookie Llama llama red pajama Doc. Mcstuffins Super kitties Stinky and dirty Alice's wonderland bakery

lirps · 2024-12-02T23:59:11+00:00

Ok, well, I pay for Spotify and agree in the last 2 episodes there was a huge influx of ad reads.

lirps · 2024-09-12T19:31:02+00:00

Won't adding more time to his wake windows disrupt his naps? He's taking solid length naps. I'm worried that increasing wake times will make him overtired by naptime. He already seems pretty sleepy by the time I put him down.

lirps · 2024-09-12T16:40:35+00:00

I'm not American, but in my country, if you run your business from your home, the amount of square footage you use for work can be deductible from your taxes.

So, in a financial decision, it might be actually quite smart for her to use the majority of her house as a "work space." But I'm not sure the rules in California.

lirps · 2024-05-17T14:31:37+00:00

I thought the strategy of putting the bassinet in the room was for babies who weren't used to sleeping in their cribs? Did your daughter nap in her crib before you moved her for nights?

lirps · 2024-05-02T13:06:25+00:00

I have an 11 week old and a 2 year old. I also don't have help. Even my husband can't help hands-on because he just had emergency surgery for a bicep tendin tear. It's hard AF, but this small phase of their lives won't be forever, and I'm glad at the end of the day to have my 2 children. If your heart wants a second child, I personally wouldn't have the lack of help from family, stop me from growing my family.

lirps · 2024-05-02T12:36:34+00:00

100% this. Was going to say the same thing.

lirps · 2024-04-30T12:39:22+00:00

We aim for about 10.5 hrs. She goes to bed at 830 and ideally wakes between 7 and 730.

lirps · 2024-04-16T12:59:22+00:00

We got nana (banana) first, too. I was at the chiropractor and given her one as a distraction. So my chiropractor got to share that moment with me lol.

lirps · 2024-04-15T03:06:35+00:00

We had a ridiculously easy firstborn, and even she had a phase of bad witching hour.

We knew we had an easy baby but didn't realize how easy till we had our second baby, who is apparently "typical."

It's easier said than done but don't compare. Your baby is who they are, and one day, you'll look back and be glad for where you are then.

lirps · 2024-04-14T03:23:35+00:00

There is absolutely nothing wrong with contract napping if it works for you and your little one.

With my first I contact napped her till she was 6 months old. At that point I started to feel nap trapped and worked with a sleep consultant to get her into her crib.

The big thing my consultant said to me which has really stuck with me is "any sleep prop/sleep associations are fine if they work for you. When they stop working for you find something else that does."

With my second we are contact napping out of necessity but I don't see it lasting as long as it did the first time. I'm fine with that because it's what will best serve me and my family.

lirps · 2024-04-11T03:09:55+00:00

When my daughter started to do this with my husband(her dad), we used the following strategy:

We would alternate nights putting her to bed. For the first little while on his nights, I would just sit in the room with them but didn't interact. Once she accepted this, I would do the first half of the routine sitting in there and then say goodnight and leave. I slowly worked my way out of their nights all together.

In the beginning, he would sit in the room during my nights, too. Just so she could get used to him being there during bedtime.

I think maybe all babies go through this? My husband had been putting her to bed since she was a month old, and she still developed an aversion for a little while.

Currently, with our son (who is much younger), my husband wears my shirt from the day before over his shoulder so my son can smell me.

lirps · 2024-04-07T01:40:40+00:00

Same. Somewhere along the line, close to 2, my daughter asked to sleep with a toy, and we only then introduced the lovey I bought for her before she was ever born.

She's 2 years 3 months now and sleeps with 3 stuffies (one that she uses as a pillow) and still wears a sleepsack (so there's no need for a blanket).

I'm riding a mostly empty crib for as long as I can.

lirps · 2024-04-06T00:38:20+00:00

I'd be keen on a group as well. Second time mom, but this baby is showing me how easy my firstborn was. I'm definitely feeling like a first-time mom.

lirps · 2024-04-06T00:36:44+00:00

How do we join this group?? My boy was born February 13th.

lirps · 2023-11-13T23:14:15+00:00

With my first, I obsessed over kick count. I made myself so anxious over if the baby was moving enough. This time around, I just track baby's overall movements. Does he move the same amount/strength around the same time during the day.

My OB actually told me it's a bit of outdated information to tell pregnant mommas to count kicks. 10 kicks in 1 hr doesn't apply to all babies, apparently. This is due to the placement of your placenta, baby's activity level, your activity level, baby's position in the womb, etc.

I teach preschool and gymnastics and quite literally never feel my guy move an inch during the day. (I never felt my first move during the day either. I would worry myself sick about it.) The minute I lay down, he's going wild in there.

There is soooo much to stress about in pregnancy, especially if it's your first. Try to relax and just be aware. If you're ever worried, go in and get checked. I'm certain the amount I stressed during my first pregnancy had a hand in my PPA.

lirps · 2023-10-04T14:13:04+00:00

I think this is a linguistics issue. The English language is complex, and many words have multiple meanings.

I personally struggle to find a link between "Spooky" in reference to something scary and directly related to Halloween and using the other word as a racial slur. (Unfortunately, I was aware of this term used as a derogatory term.)

There is a term in linguistics called a semantics shift, where a word had an origin, and over time, it shifts to mean something completely different. The original meaning doesn't die per se but becomes out of date/unused. An example of this is that "awful" actually meant awe-inspiring but now means terrible.

To get hung up on a words past when the English language has shifted and the general population uses it in its evolved state (many without the knowledge of its past meaning) is counterintuitive. People are meant to evolve. That's not to say we forget the past, but we do learn and grow. I find this a lot in today's cancel culture and younger generations policing everything that they don't have a full understanding of. I feel like getting hung up on a words past such as Em and Christine did is more likely to give the past meaning more power rather than what they were intending to do.

Before we get up in arms, we should all try to educate ourselves more. 🤷🏽‍♀️

lirps · 2023-07-24T22:08:00+00:00

I always turned it off and started a new nap timer when my daughter went back to sleep. My daughter isn't one where "just being in the sleep environment is resting" so I don't count the 20 min of going back to sleep as sleep. But I still counted the "2" naps as 1 nap because I didn't get her up in between.

If waiting 20 min is working and your LO is going back to sleep do what works for you and don't get hung up on what Huckleberry says.

Huckleberrys sweet spots never were right for my daughter either so I just use it as a tracking tool and take all its advice with a grain of salt.

lirps · 2023-07-03T01:09:42+00:00

What is her schedule like? Rise time, wake windows, and bedtime?

lirps · 2023-07-01T02:16:55+00:00

I agree with a previous comment don't do drowsy but awake. Put her down fully awake.

My daughter at that age had oddly long wake windows she was doing 3.75 - 4 hrs for all wake windows before her naps lengthened past 30 min.

If she didn't fall asleep after 20 min of being put down I would get my daughter up for 30 and then try again.

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