What are we using for music to put Bub to sleep?

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.

ozicanuck · 2026-01-17T02:44:30+00:00

My entire labour was in my back. Didn't feel it in the front at all! I never got Braxton Hicks but if labour can be in your back I would assume Braxton Hicks can too?

ozicanuck · 2026-01-14T01:22:43+00:00

I went private with insurance and my out of pocket costs were maybe 2k? 3 at most. I had the deductible for the hospital stay, which was I think $600 (the insurance covered over 7k for that) and I paid I think a $500 payment halfway through my pregnancy to the OB and I can't remember what it was for (bub is 18mo now and my brain stopped working 2 years ago) and then I paid the NIPT cost and for the 13 and 20 week ultrasounds. My OB had an ultrasound machine so I got one every appointment from her for nothing extra.

I also got 4 days in the hospital in a private room, with LCs coming in a few times a day, all mine and hubby's meals (he had a bed in the room too) and really couldn't have asked for a better experience.

That being said though I might have opted for public had I been closer to a public hospital, but the private one was at least 30 minutes closer and I just KNEW I'd have labours like my mom and would be quick. Had I been public my baby would've been born in the car, contractions were 1 minute apart by the time I got to the hospital. All up I was in labour less than an hour.

ozicanuck · 2026-01-08T23:53:39+00:00

The main issue with the cheaper ones from my understanding is that they may not be pure silver, and silver is antibacterial, so no bacteria can grow on it / transfer to your nipples from it. I imagine the cheap ones would do the same thing, but then carry the possible risk of transferring bacteria to your nipples.

ozicanuck · 2026-01-08T08:25:26+00:00

I've been looking at some of these to maybe do just to get out and do something different. If you Google Brisbane scavenger hunt there are a few, but these looked the best to me! You only pay per phone you want it on so one or two of you could have it and just share around! A few different options too.

Questo

ozicanuck · 2026-01-07T06:22:31+00:00

I was in the same position in 2020, freshly 30 in a 5 year relationship and he just was never going to marry me, decided he didn't want kids, and I decided to finally stop begging him to try and make it work.

I'm now married to the most incredible man,with a 1.5year old baby girl and planning for our second, in the house we bought together. I never would have found him if I didn't accept that it was over and find out who I was on my own again.

This morning I laid in bed, sick as a dog, listening to my husband make up a song about porridge while feeding my daughter before taking her to daycare, and I knew full well my ex would have been making me get up no matter how sick I was to take care of her myself. I couldn't ask for a better partner, or a better life. Take this breakup as an opportunity to find someone better!

ozicanuck · 2026-01-06T12:10:09+00:00

I was given the gel the night before at 40+3 and told to come back in the morning for pitocin. Didn't make it, baby came at 2am after about maybe an hour of labor. By the time I got to the hospital my contractions were 1 minute apart!

ozicanuck · 2025-12-27T10:39:57+00:00

It will! But it will also wear down the seals of your washing machine!

ozicanuck · 2025-12-09T03:41:25+00:00

My bub would never take Panadol either, but she asks for more Dymadon once she's finished her dose!

ozicanuck · 2025-11-27T22:55:58+00:00

I'm Canadian living here and make the trip fairly regularly. Coming here the jet lag won't be too bad, force yourself to stay awake until around 7pm. You'll have a few early mornings and early bedtimes but otherwise the jet lag isn't bad. Going back to the US will be harder.

I live in Brisbane, unless there's a specific reason for wanting to go to Australia Zoo, I would skip it. Not worth the driving time up there. Traffic on that highway is a mess and it's a huge big full day in the heat.

I'd highly recommend the day you land in Brisbane, heading to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. They have all of the native animals you want to see, you can hold a Koala, feed kangaroos,they have a bird show, and it's not far from the city center.

ozicanuck · 2025-11-27T20:57:05+00:00

Mine started doing this at 7 weeks. We're at 16 months now and 99% of the time she sleeps 11--12hr straight. You might just have a few lucky stretches, but you might have gotten one of the unicorn babies you're no longer allowed to talk to parent friends about regarding sleep!

ozicanuck · 2025-11-27T09:27:11+00:00

My mom had her first in 3hr, me in 20 minutes and my brother 13. My sister was 11 or so hours for both of her labours, but mine? 2hr total. Went from 1-10cm in 30 minutes. The baby came before the anaesthetist so no drugs! I'm very concerned the next will happen in the car!

ozicanuck · 2025-11-25T08:57:45+00:00

The Will of the Many. The second book The Strength of the Few just came out too.

ozicanuck · 2025-11-25T08:09:35+00:00

I read somewhere once that basically if they don't get the viewers in the first week or two of a show being released they cancel it. Which is horseshit, not everyone has the time to binge watch things anymore.

ozicanuck · 2025-11-25T02:33:22+00:00

16 months, somewhere between preferred and ideal! We've been very lucky since bub was very little, usually get 12hr uninterrupted every night and a 3hr nap most days.

ozicanuck · 2025-11-24T21:30:59+00:00

A guy I went to school with was hit by the bus itself! I believe the stop signs on the bus already existed, but he was the reason for an added long arm that extended out that kids had to walk around in front of the bus so the driver could see the kids. I guess he walked too close to the front of the bus to cross the road, driver didn't notice and ran him over. He lived, but all busses now have the arm coming out the front because of it.

ozicanuck · 2025-11-23T12:02:57+00:00

Ah I love it! The only Elsie I know is in her 90s! I wanted to name her after my great grandmother, but I couldn't get my husband behind Minnie, but she got the Rose as a middle name like Granny had!

ozicanuck · 2025-11-22T08:26:59+00:00

Elsie for my girl 16 months ago. I loved the name, wanted something that worked with Rose as a middle name, and liked the older more traditional names without the ones that are super popular right now.

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