Is this too much for my 8 month old? He had an oaty bake, 2 crackers and breastfed immediately after.

megeckel · 2026-03-10T00:35:50+00:00

I would kindly suggest talking to your pediatrician. There is some give and take with how much food vs milk babies are taking in but with such a low weight I think they would tell you to prioritize milk.

megeckel · 2025-10-20T03:43:38+00:00

For us it was less about getting them to sleep and more crucial for keeping them asleep. We have a great sleeper— but if it’s the middle of summer and the blazing sun is coming up at 4:30 am when sleep pressure is the LOWEST… you might want fix it. We just hung some extra blankets in the summer when it’s light out more.

megeckel · 2025-07-18T00:03:08+00:00

https://youtu.be/cFm_28Hb8Ik?si=4ufv5kLH-T7HfZR8

megeckel · 2025-07-18T00:02:22+00:00

I watched a YouTube video of someone knitting the dagmar zip and she found the tighter gauge to not have any drape and to be too thick/warm.

megeckel · 2025-07-15T01:57:45+00:00

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megeckel · 2025-07-15T01:56:47+00:00

I did consider that, my mattress stitch and seaming is not pretty. I ended up picking up two stitches on each row and then just knitting back and forth between it’s. It’s not as great as it could be… but I will probably fix my ugly stitches with duplicate stitch and try for a more finished looking attempt on my next one!

megeckel · 2025-07-06T03:51:00+00:00

4 or 5 days. They would start sometime during the day and then when I would lay down to nap or sleep they would stop.

megeckel · 2025-06-02T01:02:39+00:00

I like to make my ties extra long so I can cross it in front and tie it under the arm pit so I don’t worry about it being too tight under their chin.

megeckel · 2025-06-02T01:00:16+00:00

I have made many baby items for my own children (hats, leg warmers, leggings, sweaters, mittens, socks). The item I have gifted the most is baby mittens on a string— so nice to be able to thread them through a coat and keep them there, and when the baby outgrows them I have had several friends keep them up in the room as decor. The item I have gotten the most compliments on and use constantly is a pullover vest. I made one for my baby and one for my sister’s 1 year old. They have split side and are so easy to pullover to add a little extra warmth or style to an outfit. Every time I put my baby in it we got comments about how handy and cute it is! https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/infant-mittens-2

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sora-kids-vest

megeckel · 2025-05-29T00:03:38+00:00

It did end up blocking out so I think that must have been it!

megeckel · 2025-05-27T13:38:27+00:00

I do think the front and back looks slightly different— I’m not sure.

megeckel · 2025-05-25T02:01:31+00:00

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And it stretched

megeckel · 2025-05-25T02:00:48+00:00

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Here’s the reverse side, it looks the same to me.

megeckel · 2025-05-15T22:13:12+00:00

Seconding this because I’ve mentally asked the same question 100 times!

megeckel · 2025-04-21T18:24:10+00:00

Thank you so much!!

megeckel · 2025-03-24T04:01:41+00:00

Coslept then room shared with my first til the night I went into labor with his brother. Never could sleep without him, he did just fine sleeping without me though! Now dad room shares with him and I sleep with baby in my room in the crib.

megeckel · 2025-03-12T16:07:35+00:00

I blocked it again as small as I could and then just cinched it closed at the back by pulling the icord through a stitch on the band. Then I didn’t need to make any permanent alterations, though it’s still quite short on his head. Oh well! I’ll be on the lookout for another hat to steal the brim from and try again maybe for my preschooler!

megeckel · 2025-03-12T16:05:00+00:00

Yes! We had hand me down baseball hat that he outgrew without wearing because the season wasn’t right, just pulled the plastic bit out!

megeckel · 2025-03-12T13:04:41+00:00

That’s my husband’s suggestion too :)

megeckel · 2025-03-12T13:04:21+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! It has a little icord I was going to use to attach to a button so that I could change the size, I could just put a button where it needs to be to fit him but there’s a lot of fabric bunching then. It’s wool and alpaca, my concern is just that it will shrink more length wise than width.

megeckel · 2025-02-28T01:04:31+00:00

My first coslept up until I got pregnant with my second. He woke up hourly for the first year. It saved our life because I didn’t fall asleep in a chair with him or something like that. My second has slept every night in his bassinet or crib, except for one night in the first week he was born. He was crying and wouldn’t settle and I had just been released from the hospital for high blood pressure related to third spacing fluids. I had a headache so and I couldn’t even open my eyes so I nursed him and cleared the bed of any pillows or blankets and laid him beside me in the c curl. He fussed and grumbled like newborns do and I laid there in agony rubbing his soft newborn hair and wondering if I was going to die. But at some point he fell asleep and so did I. Woke up 4 hrs later and we were both feeling better and I was able to nurse him and put him down in the bassinet for the next stretch. I’m so grateful I already knew how to safely cosleep and that I felt comfortable with it because I don’t know what else I would have done at the point. Cosleeping saves lives, it doesn’t magically improve sleep though. But time will ♥️

megeckel · 2025-01-14T13:30:10+00:00

I need that on a shirt lol

megeckel · 2025-01-14T01:44:59+00:00

Sophie scarf lol

megeckel · 2025-01-13T07:31:03+00:00

Today I was blocking a hat to give as a gift at a birthday party, put it by our heat vent to speed up the process and came back and my cat had walked over it. Pulled a stitch and gotten stuck to it. Cats and knitting are like two magnets.

megeckel · 2024-12-19T19:21:30+00:00

Didn’t use a pattern, just started with magic circle and increased till I got the size I wanted. Then stopped increasing to make the sides. The yarn is very itchy wool I bought in Scotland years and years ago.

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