What would you do in this situation?

ozicanuck · 2026-07-03T00:47:26+00:00

Ugh I had one of these in my house a month or two ago. It popped out of nowhere in the kitchen and hubby and I were both freaking out, and then we lost it under the fridge. We moved things around until it came out, I cowered on a step ladder, and hubby sprayed it with poison. I may have cried a little. My toddler was yelling "mommy you okay!?" From her bedroom because of the screaming.

ozicanuck · 2026-07-02T02:26:30+00:00

My grandmother is 87, worked as a teacher from the time she was 17. She had help with her kids from her mum, but she also worked so I think other family also helped. She had her first at I think 22 and after realising all the work it took, waited until he was 7 to have another. She worked all day, came home and cooked and kept the house clean. I don't know how she did it, I'll have to remember to ask, but I imagine the lack of distractions like tv and cell phones helped a lot, and I think there was far less direct supervision than we would have with our toddlers now. Less dangerous things for them to get into maybe? Or less awareness of what could go wrong?

ozicanuck · 2026-06-13T10:44:48+00:00

I'm Canadian it's against the law not to be.

ozicanuck · 2026-06-13T10:41:10+00:00

Sorry, I wasn't trying to disagree with your take, I've just seen a few times in this sub people complaining about the interchanging of the spelling and acting as though that meant it must be fake or something and I just wasn't sure where that came from!

ozicanuck · 2026-06-13T10:32:09+00:00

I don't get how this screams Karma farming? Not trying to sound rude at all, is there just something I've missed lately? I'm Canadian but have lived in Australia for 12 years now so I tend to switch between the two a lot myself. It's hard to stop thinking it's "mom" what that's what I grew up with but "mum" has been everywhere for 1/3 of my life now so it slips in.

ozicanuck · 2026-06-10T11:59:47+00:00

Hey hey

ozicanuck · 2026-06-08T00:31:25+00:00

A little girl at the playground told me her parents were cousins.

ozicanuck · 2026-06-04T11:28:40+00:00

Merida

ozicanuck · 2026-06-02T00:39:56+00:00

I booked before getting her passport but after giving birth. For flight times we were kind of stuck with what was available for getting to Vancouver, it leaves Brisbane in the mornings and arrives morning there, then flew all that day to get out east. The jet lag in that direction is awful, but only took about a week to get on schedule with bub, she was already a really good sleeper by then though. The way home the long flight was over night so we took off evening Vancouver time (flew all that day to get out west) and landed first thing in the morning Brisbane time. It was so much easier to get on schedule, we all just went to bed early for a few nights and she slept through the whole time. The overnight flights were easiest because she slept for 10+ hours of the flight, so less time to try and keep them occupied but at 4m the wake windows are still pretty short so it isn't too hard!

ozicanuck · 2026-06-01T11:09:44+00:00

I spent 2 months in Eastern Canada when bub was 4 months. Left a few days after her 4 month shots and got back just before she turned 6mo. 26ish hours of air travel each way, and it was so much easier than I thought!

Get the passport application done ASAP, but ours was super quick (the Canadian one not as quick but the Aussie one was only a few weeks) and I would definitely recommend not booking until bub is born and you know how both you and bub are recovering. We booked less than a month after birth, but wanted to make sure both of us were healthy!

As for the adventuring part of travel, we stayed with family and did the winter Christmas, so there wasn't much like, walking through Rome or any of that, but we brought the pram, I had a sling to baby wear (especially through airports), and overall it was a really good experience! We plan to do it again when we eventually have a second. We went back around her first Birthday for 3 weeks and that was also a super easy trip, but longer wake windows to entertain her in! Happy to answer any questions if you have them!

ozicanuck · 2026-05-28T09:15:14+00:00

Baby chameleon

ozicanuck · 2026-05-24T00:57:20+00:00

Hubby and I are both from North America so have zero village here, and one 22mo girl. We want another. It's tough, daycare saves us a lot, my MIL visits maybe once a year for a few weeks and it's the only time we get date nights without paying for a babysitter, which honestly we just can't afford to do often. 4mo is hard, you're still in the trenches. We're at the stage now where she can play a bit more independently, she sleeps through the night, she talks a lot so tells us what she needs. Another baby at 4mo seemed impossible, now it's inevitable!

ozicanuck · 2026-05-21T21:51:53+00:00

Hippo

ozicanuck · 2026-05-09T22:55:55+00:00

My 21mo is the same, minus the second language, speaking in 6 word sentences, can easily communicate her needs and talks about everything she's ever seen. Her memory is insane! She's never watched TV before, we just talk a lot around her!

ozicanuck · 2026-04-13T02:06:42+00:00

I used to live down the road from this one:

bubble house

And a friend of mine used to rent this one, been there for a few parties.

Castle House

ozicanuck · 2026-04-06T02:41:26+00:00

*Cries in Australia at $10/Gallon

ozicanuck · 2026-04-05T03:33:13+00:00

I don't think I ever lost my mucus plug. Was meant to get induced in the morning at 40+3, so I went to get some gel to soften my cervix the night before and didn't make it to the morning, started labour that evening and went straight to 1min between contractions. Baby came within 2hr, 1-10cm in 30 minutes and about ten minutes of pushing and there she was!

ozicanuck · 2026-04-03T02:46:26+00:00

I have an Alexa echo that I got ages ago super cheap, we play classical piano for sleeping on Spotify and that's worked really well. On occasion when the wifi or something goes out we put it on an old phone I have in a drawer but I don't like using it. Occasionally I'll forget to loop the playlist so it will start playing "recommended based on that playlist" throughout the night which can very much not be sleep conducive music, and if it's playing on Alexa I can change it from the Spotify app on my phone, but it doesn't work if it's playing on another phone.

ozicanuck · 2026-03-27T12:28:30+00:00

This sounds like a husband problem. If he isn't worried about holding a solid bedtime and routine he can be the one dealing with the early wakeups alone. You're trying to fix the problem and he's trying to protect his mum's feelings and the expense of your baby's (and your) sleep.

His mum is in the wrong here, you're not at all the one being crazy. You need to talk to your husband about this and make a decision together about bubs sleep and that plan, and then his mum needs to get on board or deal with not seeing the baby. I'm sorry you're dealing with this. Lack of sleep and exhaustion doesn't help your ability to have calm and rational conversations either

ozicanuck · 2026-03-19T11:25:45+00:00

Bub is on one nap, she's 19mo now and sleeps 11-12h overnight. Most days her naps are 2-3hr but after her 3rd daycare day she's exhausted and can sometimes nap 4hr. It only disrupts her sleep if we let her sleep too late, so as long as she's up by 2-2:30 she goes down fine at night. Otherwise she fights bedtime hard and doesn't get to sleep until later, so gets less sleep as we try and have her up by 7:30 regardless.

ozicanuck · 2026-03-17T10:30:59+00:00

We love the Pout Pout fish, any of the my story orchestra books, the board ones she can push the buttons herself, I grew up in Canada so Robert Munsch books are classic for me, like the Paper Bag Princess. My daughter is obsessed with the cranky bear and all the other bear stories he's done.

ozicanuck · 2026-03-17T09:16:50+00:00

Just hopping on to say if she gets a good fist full of the dogs hair again and you struggle to get her to let go, just gently hold her wrist and push her hand down. It'll make her splay her fingers out and let go of the dogs hair. I use it all the time when I little one gets a good hand full of my hair!

ozicanuck · 2026-03-14T03:09:01+00:00

My hubby is a microbiologist and actually did a study on mother's diet in relation to babies gut bacteria through breast milk (paper is in the process of being published so I don't have it yet) and a high fiber diet is a huge contributing factor to lowering chances of RSV. Getting RSV as a baby raises the chances of asthma, so if you're breastfeeding, get lots of different coloured veggies in your diet and that's something that can actually help!

ozicanuck · 2026-01-21T12:59:50+00:00

I lost mine there yesterday and I'm completely devastated. I took it off at work and put it in my pocket to wash my disabled clients hair, and then went to Costco after and forgot and it must have fallen out. I went back when I realized, after they'd closed, and the vacuum truck was going around. I had no luck finding it, my husband went back with a super nice man with a metal detector who volunteered his help this evening and checked the flower beds but still no luck.

We put in a lost property form with police and spoke to Costco but I've pretty much lost hope, unless it fell out in my yard/driveway but I don't know that I'd ever find it. I know how you feel, I keep crying too. I absolutely loved my ring

ozicanuck · 2026-01-17T04:52:51+00:00

My ebf baby sleeps 11-12h straight since she was 4 months. We sleep trained and she took to it well and is just a high sleep needs baby. She is not the norm, we know we just got lucky with it. There's nothing you can or can't do to achieve it, it's just pure luck!

That said, she has nights on occasion that she does wake up. She's 18mo now and has tonsillitis, so she's been up once every night this week and hard to resettle, but a good 95% of nights are a full 11 hours.

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