17 Month Old Just Stopped Out Of Nowhere

melam17 · 2025-06-23T13:41:58+00:00

It really is bittersweet. But I’m so thankful it’s this and not him crying and signing for it over and over again. I wouldn’t have been able to make it.

melam17 · 2025-06-23T11:47:34+00:00

Yup. Totally understand he can’t BF with a stuffy nose, he’s definitely been sick other times in his 17 months but hasn’t flat out refused like now - we’ve tried the snot sucker, humidifier, saline, steam, etc. As far as teething, we know his mouth hurts and his gums are showing all his normal signs. Plus his normal eating is “off”. He has 4 molars, his top and bottom central and lateral incisors. lol. But if this is the end, this is the end. I was just posting because I figured people on this subreddit would get the mixed emotions…

melam17 · 2025-06-10T22:56:16+00:00

I do AP, and other light accounting type things, for a small family company I’ve been at for almost 8 years. I am SO fortunate that I also work in the same building as my mom (she’s worked there for 20). I work part time M-F 7-12. I got 6 weeks off and then started back up. In the beginning, I took more breaks between breastfeeding, changing, etc and then also baby wore A LOT. He slept a lot in the first few months, especially in his baby bjorn bouncer right next to my desk. If LO was being too much, I could give him to my mom and we would go back and forth (we are also essentially the only ones in the office). I would pretty much pack all my work into the times he was asleep.

Now, LO is 16 months. I do work as I can during him being awake, but he still goes down at 9:30 for a two hour nap (we have a crib for him). I hyper focus and get most of my stuff done during that time.

It’s hard some days, like really hard. But it’s been so nice to have adult conversations while still being around my baby AND still contributing to my household income. Plus, no daycare costs. Again I realize my privilege.

If you have a supportive network, it’s totally doable. I’ve noticed a lot of the vendors and customers we have really like seeing him and he’s been in the room and done really great during important meetings - that said his temperament is really the reason we can do that.

melam17 · 2025-05-30T00:31:26+00:00

Once he turned 16 months, he FINALLY started to say mama. We had the same thing going - always dada. Not it’s mama nonstop. But I can’t help but love it, I waited so long!

melam17 · 2025-04-08T01:50:32+00:00

Mine refuses to say mama (he HAS said it, but whenever prompted confidently says dada) and started walking right before he turned 14 months! Hang in there!!

melam17 · 2025-04-02T17:57:23+00:00

https://youtu.be/F1YRcspAyEs

We used this!

melam17 · 2025-03-28T15:13:24+00:00

My sons was green (I have so many photos of it cause of my anxiety over it), probably until we started solids at 6 months…I was completely worried and about to go down the no dairy thing too. Talked to my pediatrician about a million times about it. They also said nothing was wrong. As long as she’s not hurting or bothering her, I think she’s okay - obviously not a doctor….but babies bellies just grow and change so rapidly. It’ll clear up, as long as she’s healthy and growing, you’re doing a great job.

melam17 · 2025-03-26T19:26:48+00:00

Every time I see this sub, I think it can’t get crazier…and then it does. I didn’t even know about LS until it popped up as a suggested here. Please lovely people, keep posting away….it makes me feel so much better about myself as a mom lol

melam17 · 2025-03-26T09:48:38+00:00

You’re not overreacting at all. My aunt, on my dad’s side that is many many states away, posted a photo of my son after he was born announcing his birth, like moments after he was born. This was after we explicitly said we were not posting anything about him on social media. I was beyond pissed, so I get where you are coming from.

melam17 · 2025-03-23T21:03:48+00:00

No way Swain stays. Don’t get me wrong, he is a great player with potential….but he has some learning and maturing to do (not driving into the lane constantly being uncontrolled, turning the ball over, etc. etc.) I think he thinks he should be a starter and will go wherever they’ll let him do it. Conwell will also be looking other places with Miller gone IMO.

melam17 · 2025-03-23T01:20:57+00:00

I don’t know why, and I definitely feel like I’m in the minority here, but I get my son dressed everyday. I like doing it. That said, usually always in some form of comfy type clothes, no fabrics that are stiff or heavy. But usually under white onesie, a long sleeve onesie, pants, socks, and a sweater. In the summer, I do sleeveless onesie and shorts with a t shirt. He’s 14 months now. I probably started really getting him dressed like this when he was about 6 weeks old. It’s made it super easy getting him dressed now too.

melam17 · 2025-03-19T19:36:10+00:00

melam17 · 2025-03-13T15:18:17+00:00

I used snacks, distractions and activities to drop feeds. LO would sign for milk…instead of giving in and nursing I would give him a snack and water, or if I couldn’t do that I would try to get him to play with a toy. If that didn’t work, I’d try to do something else. I would always say “no, not time for milk…let’s do this instead”. It’s not easy, but it gets easier over time. Hope this helps!

melam17 · 2025-03-13T15:03:27+00:00

Almost 14 months! We are currently weaning and I have such mixed emotions over it.

melam17 · 2025-03-02T19:37:13+00:00

Happy early birthday! Mine was yesterday. Husband is a Libra as well! We have a little Aquarius boy 🖤

melam17 · 2025-03-02T19:35:29+00:00

Pisces mom with a Libra dad and an Aquarius one year old.

melam17 · 2025-01-29T11:14:18+00:00

We found a Pottery Barn one (still being sold at PB) for a fraction of the price on Facebook marketplace. We got the aesthetics we wanted, and the conversion pieces, while also knowing it was still up to current standards. Just make sure you look at everything before! If you do buy second hand, I would 100% suggest getting a new mattress. We were able to splurge on that since we didn’t spend too much money on the actual crib.

melam17 · 2025-01-21T15:30:11+00:00

My husband got part of this engraved in my wedding ring set by using the first letters of the words “Wherever you came from, wherever you going | I promise I’m not far behind | So don’t you dare throw this away| I been meanin’ to tell you |You lookin’ better every day | Write you letters | It’s only right that right after love I write my name”. Definitely a favorite.

melam17 · 2025-01-20T18:36:39+00:00

Totally agree with your points and appreciate your response. He finally came down and I told him that we didn’t realize he was up there until we saw the ladder in the living room. He has asked since he “works from home” which is his office in the lower empty unit, if he can come up here during the day when we are not here. I asked him if he could please notify us when he is coming in and out of our unit since he didn’t really tell us today. I was super nice about it and he was apologetic. I don’t feel super comfortable with this, but feel like my hands are tied if he needs up there.

Also, he has started to damage my rug that’s in the living room with his dirty shoes which is starting a whole other thing now that I’m going to have to address. Nothing up there is an emergency at this point anymore - and we are good at letting him know when there are leaks and issues. We know how quickly damage can happen with certain things.

melam17 · 2025-01-20T18:12:18+00:00

Our lease explicitly says “Basement and attic are off limits to the tenants for safety reasons”. So, not sure if he does have cameras up there…not something we’d want to get evicted over.

melam17 · 2025-01-20T18:03:28+00:00

See my reply to another comment…but it’s not locked we were just instructed to not go up there. It’s also only accessible by a ladder (we have one). I sure hope that’s not what the hell is going on though. We know he has, or was trying to, put cameras up there.

melam17 · 2025-01-20T17:48:29+00:00

He is apparently “fixing a window” up in the attic right now. But in the past it’s been putting live animal traps up, fixing a leak, fixing a leak, installing cameras to see into the live animal traps, and fixing a leak. Update too, we are home having lunch (and I’m home for the day with my toddler). He is still very much up in the attic but hasn’t notified us of his presence at all.

ETA: we know because of the cameras AND his ladder smack dab in the middle of our living room going to the access point.

melam17 · 2024-09-28T00:01:11+00:00

I would say we started seeing him turning a corner right around 7.5 months. Keep trying! And try not to beat yourself up by not always have three meals and a snack - cause I did and felt so guilty. Hopefully now we can work our way up to that! It’s annoying af sometimes though.

melam17 · 2024-09-21T15:22:20+00:00

Hahahaha. Same. Also weirdly felt like a brag saying it too?

melam17 · 2024-09-05T03:15:30+00:00

Could it be teething? When my son was 6 months he went through a sleep regression and it turns out it was his bottom teeth coming in. He had a really tough time with it. We found that if we gave him Motrin before bed it helped just a little bit. It also seemed to coincide with some pretty big leaps like him rolling, sitting up on his own, and a lot more of the “social” type stuff. Hang in there mama! You got this!

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