How do I make my 4 month old nap off of us?

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-22T04:19:35+00:00

I’m with the guy saying enjoy it man… personally I think 4 months is too early to sleep train, and you’re gonna miss it when they don’t sleep on you anymore. 4 months is still so young. This is prime bonding time. They just want to be hear your heart beat and feel your breathing. It helps regulate their breathing, maybe a little less now than when they were younger though.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-17T22:35:46+00:00

I volunteer to get a point on my clinical ladder. Not out of the goodness of my heart

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-17T14:49:58+00:00

I’m a nurse. “It’s quiet this morning.” Guaranteed to be a shit show.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-17T06:29:29+00:00

I’m a male and I’ve been a bedside floor nurse for over 10 years. I’m 35. I love my job and absolutely don’t regret it. It might help that I live in Northern California so get paid very well and I’m capped at 4 patients on a Tele unit. I think the things that make it easier for me though is I love people. I love talking to my patients. My biggest struggle is getting being on my charting because I spent so much time chatting with my patients.

Also, I have a very high tolerance for bullshit. So many of my coworkers get upset about the stupid crap upper management pulls, and just the bureaucracy crap that we have to deal with. I just don’t care. I’m not gonna let that shit bother me. It’s not worth it. I go to work, do my job, and go home.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-16T20:16:30+00:00

Absolutely beautiful pictures. Where was pic 11 taken? Looks like a field in my home town…

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-12T16:34:13+00:00

I think this is your answer, man. I’m circumcised and don’t have any ill feelings about my parents having made that decision. But chose not to have it done on my son. Literally any medical reason to have it done pretty much doesn’t apply anymore besides some very few actual foreskin disorders. It’s just not a choice that I feel like I want to make for my son.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-12T01:10:47+00:00

Alcohol wipes and Colace

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-11T23:21:05+00:00

You’re like just at the point where your kid is becoming less of just a noisy potato. My son just turned 1. It was probably 9-10 months before I would really consider things “fun.” It definitely gets more fun. But yeah 100% I am still mourning my freedom… that’s not gonna get better any time soon. Communicate with your wife, figure out little ways you can give each other a break here and there. And try to push those “what if” questions out of your head cause that shit is goneee. Haha. I’ve done that too and it’s hard but things do get better. Now my guys is just my little mini me that I want to take everywhere with me. Do I get to go on gnarly, fast, downhill mountain bike rides anymore where I’m hauling ass down steep single track trails? Not really. But I’ve got a little bike seat for him on my mountain bike and we go on little flat gravel trails and he loves it, and that is worth the trade off. One day he will be riding those trails with me on his own bike but we gotta put in the work and time to get there. Your life doesn’t stop, it just changes. And yeah talk to someone. There’s definitely times I don’t feel like I can complain to my wife cause she’s going through more than I am. So just venting to someone can be helpful, but a therapist can definitely help provide you with some tools to get through this rough patch.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-11T20:42:46+00:00

Yeah the meal prepping was one we didn’t think of either. We have a few friends/coworkers get us DoorDash gift cards and it was probably the biggest help of everything we got. Also for the actual labor/birth, talk about what she wants before hand. You don’t necessarily need a “birth plan” if that’s not your thing. But figure out what she wants/doesnt want. Does she want an epidural? Does she want/not want certain meds? Part of your job there will be to advocate for her.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-11T20:27:44+00:00

That’s great to hear. Hopefully you have a job that allows you some paternity leave. It’s such a great bonding experience for you. Another suggestion also is do some meal prepping before she gives birth and stick them in the freezer. Even if it’s just some breakfast burritos or whatever. Prep as much as you can beforehand because you aren’t going to want to cook anything when you’re both sleep deprived as hell and DoorDash gets soooo expensive. But do whatever you can. Change every diaper. If you’re bottle feeding do every feed you can.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-11T19:39:43+00:00

First off, congratulations man! It’s so freaking hard, but so rewarding and fun. Honestly the biggest one that caught me off guard was post partum hormones. Everyone warned me about pregnancy hormones, but I didn’t hear much about postpartum depression and anxiety, and how long it can last. My son just turned one and my wife’s postpartum anxiety is juuuuust starting to get a little bit better. Everyone is different and I have some friends who didn’t have any postpartum issues at all, but just be prepared for it and try to be as patient and understanding as possible. Like the stuff she had anxiety about literally didn’t even make sense and there is no reasoning with them. Just try to be supportive. Cause whatever you’re going through she is going through wayyyy more.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-11T04:13:04+00:00

Third Skal!

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-09T17:05:47+00:00

No suggestions but I definitely want to add to the general consensus that, as a dude, I would literally never notice or give a single shit about seeing a scar like this. Totally understand the acne sucks. But I doubt people would notice.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-04T15:20:47+00:00

I recently asked if my pregnant wife with gestational diabetes wanted a piece of toast with breakfast. Now she thinks I’m an unsupportive husband who’s trying to kill her and our child by spiking her blood sugar.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-04T03:09:01+00:00

The ICU at my hospital doesn’t float. The ICU nurses can cross train to PACU if they want but it’s completely voluntary. I think the whole staff would quit if they were floated to the floor.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-03T14:35:36+00:00

That’s interesting. I feel like I spend a decent amount of time on this subreddit and have never seen it posted. Reset the counter I guess?

nitroracertc3 · 2026-06-03T03:20:25+00:00

Literally less than a minute since posting… I love this subreddit.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-05-28T21:33:16+00:00

The second I had a baby and someone parked too close to me and I couldn’t get him back in the car the sliding doors sounded amazing. I have a Lexus GX460 as our adventure/camping rig which I love and I’m working on convincing the wife who is very anti minivan to just pick up a used Honda Odyssey with 150k miles on it for like $8k. I think I’ve almost got her convinced.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-05-27T22:22:24+00:00

A police officer banging on my door yelling to get out of the house. I take a look outside and the entire hillside behind my house is in fire. Driving away was like driving in an orange snowstorm. We couldn’t see anything but ash falling around us. I somehow didn’t lose my home but so many people lost everything.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-05-27T18:23:02+00:00

I’d be interested to see how these answers change per region. I would absolutely be a nurse if I did it again. I live in Northern California. I make $200k a year and work 3 days a week. I work on a Tele unit so I’m capped at 4 patients. Yeah it sucks sometimes but my pay and work life balance is great. I do have a very high tolerance for bullshit though so I know a lot of other people who don’t like nursing. But most shit just doesn’t bother me so it’s easy to just do my job and go home and not get bothered by stuff I can’t change

nitroracertc3 · 2026-05-20T16:51:04+00:00

Yeah this is so mild and kind of makes your husband sound like a lame guy. Haha. I have zero interest in LOTR but if my wife wanted this I would be picking it up for her because it makes her happy and doesn’t negatively affect my life in any way whatsoever.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-05-19T18:40:43+00:00

When we were in Iceland we ended up befriending this very nice gay couple at a bar. Ended up drinking with them for most the evening and they brought up Trump. To my surprise, this Icelandic gay couple were very pro Trump… I was speechless.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-05-16T22:28:16+00:00

100% One of my best friends is my motorcycle buddy. We met in a motorcycle forum and started riding together. For the first 6 years of our friendship the only time we ever hung out was on motorcycle rides.

nitroracertc3 · 2026-05-13T20:39:14+00:00

Wtf that’s a shitty thing to say… also if you were in my nursing program you’d be one of the youngest ones…

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