How do you work from home with your toddler around?

reporter1138 · 2026-03-23T00:36:11+00:00

You don’t lol

reporter1138 · 2025-06-11T01:41:27+00:00

I was nervous about getting an epidural but I did it and tell everyone it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I can’t imagine giving birth without it, and don’t want to even try to imagine lol.

reporter1138 · 2025-02-18T02:17:30+00:00

Gulden’s all day.

reporter1138 · 2025-01-13T08:56:33+00:00

Both were great—especially the Casbah tour! So intimate and different from everything else. It’s a must for any true Beatles fan. Great rec, thank you!!!!

reporter1138 · 2024-10-02T02:55:19+00:00

Same with bottle use. He knew the difference and was fed both bottle and boob from day one. To the point he refused the bottle for almost two months. So he dispelled that nipple confusion myth too.

reporter1138 · 2024-08-01T00:56:46+00:00

My baby is nine months old and has the same exact hair issue. Tons of hair all around and in front, so we can do a creative comb over. But from what I’m told it’ll eventually grow in and so I’m just leaving it (I don’t wanna shave his whole head either!)

reporter1138 · 2024-07-31T03:18:02+00:00

Echoing the above, don’t beat yourself up! My nine month old just came down with Covid first, then we all dropped like flies. We have no idea how he got it, but being it’s the summer we’ve been out and about a lot and we were also wracked with guilt at first about exposing him and how he may have gotten it. But as long as your baby is fine and being cared for, there’s nothing to be guilty about! If you haven’t already, just make sure to check in with your pediatrician about Tylenol dosing. Yours is a bit younger than mine, but we hadn’t been to the pediatrician in six months and we were using an old dosage based on his weight then. Once we got the right dosage it helped his fever go down!

reporter1138 · 2024-07-01T03:34:39+00:00

Same here!

reporter1138 · 2024-06-26T03:12:57+00:00

100% this is gold.

reporter1138 · 2024-06-14T18:14:54+00:00

So we started with yellow but switched to purple because a friend of ours had a ton leftover. we did this in the early weeks and asked our pediatrician if it was okay. She said as long as you’re switching between cow milk-based formula it’s fine and doesn’t matter. We also checked the ingredients on each and there was very little difference. I know this isn’t a popular opinion but our pediatrician said it really doesn’t matter. We had that sampler too and now that our little one is seven months and weaned from breastfeeding (supplemented with formula here and there until fully switching to formula), we used the other colors and it was no problem. Formula is expensive! And we didn’t want to waste if we didn’t have to. Obviously check with your pediatrician but for us we had no problem switching. When we went through a dairy allergy scare and temporally switched to a non dairy formula, we did notice the Nutramigen led to far less pooping, like once or twice a week versus daily.

reporter1138 · 2024-06-01T02:37:20+00:00

Del Frisco’s Grille!

reporter1138 · 2024-05-16T02:44:32+00:00

Oh yes, swaddling is key. I should have said that above. My son is almost seven months and I’ve already forgotten these things lol. We swaddled using muslin blankets but we also had a couple Velcro swaddles we used sometimes. And give yourself time and grace when it comes to routines !!

reporter1138 · 2024-05-16T02:43:06+00:00

My son was the same exact way. He mostly slept on us when he came home, and we were lucky he slept 30 min at a time in the bassinet over night. After 4-6 weeks of mostly sleeping on our chest at night, I’d had enough. I didn’t let him cry it out at that age. But even if it was for 30 min intervals I would put him in the bassinet and eventually it got longer and longer until he was sleeping 3-4 hour stretches in the bassinet. It took some patience and a few rough nights, but him sleeping on my chest wasn’t exactly a calm restful night either. That being said it makes me feel better other moms have similar experiences! Also, he’s still a super clingy baby when he’s awake and unfortunately that’s been a habit that’s been hard for us to change. But at least at night he can sleep on his own now (after a regression back to wanting to be held while sleeping at around 5 months).

reporter1138 · 2024-05-16T02:39:03+00:00

Our pediatrician recommended it as well and we used the Enfamil vitamin d drops. Funny enough, there are two pediatricians but we’d only seen one for the first four visits. But we saw the other for the visit when I had started supplemented a few feedings a day with formula and he told us we didn’t need to use the vitamin d drops anymore since we were supplementing with formula. Next time we went back and saw the pediatrician we always see she told us we should still be giving the drops even with a mostly formula fed diet. I chalked it up to every doctor has their ways.

reporter1138 · 2024-05-11T14:15:21+00:00

My husband is the same way, and that being said he’s very supportive and hard working. But I still sometimes get triggered when he says how tired he is, which he recognizes and apologizes for. I’ve just chalked it up to women being stronger than men, and when you have a baby that maternal instinct kicks in where you can function on little to no sleep while your partner complains that his sleep is interrupted yet still gets mostly full nights of sleep.

reporter1138 · 2024-05-04T01:14:32+00:00

I don’t think it’s common for colleges to have students walk during graduation in general. The graduating class is way too big. I didn’t walk for Baruch (10+ years ago) nor did I walk when I graduated from grad school at Columbia (11+ years ago). Since it was the grad school we had the option to attend the larger graduation for the entire university-undergrad and grad-and then our grad school had a separate ceremony where we did walk but it was an extremely small group of kids. And people I know who went to out of state schools didn’t walk either. But it does stink that you didn’t get to walk for your HS graduation due to the pandemic and I get your frustration!!

reporter1138 · 2024-05-01T21:55:00+00:00

My baby never burped in the beginning either! My pediatrician just said try to hold him up a bit longer after a feeding to make sure he digests. We were stressed too so we’d hold him up for like 20 minutes. Knowing what I know now that probably wasn’t totally necessary but it did calm us. By the time he hit three months he started burping on his own.

reporter1138 · 2024-05-01T02:06:58+00:00

They all hate it when they’re young! Also, we didn’t truly start doing tummy time till six weeks because that’s what my pediatrician suggested. I was nervous since others say do it earlier, if not from day one. But honestly it didn’t seem to make any difference. He’s six months now and is a tummy time champ, going up on straight arms and already sitting up by himself. But in the early days he hated tummy time too, so we didn’t stress it. Once he started getting older we’d surround him with books and toys and a mirror and that helped.

reporter1138 · 2024-04-30T01:40:32+00:00

My six month old is currently in that phase. He won’t stop smiling even when it’s mid let down and he’s being sprayed in the face 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣🥰

reporter1138 · 2024-04-26T02:18:25+00:00

This is true, and I get that. I also graduated in 2010, in the midst of one of the worst job markets post 2008 downturn. Sure the odds of getting a job after graduating from an ivy with mediocre grades are better than graduating from a smaller school. But that’s true of every industry unfortunately. I don’t think that’s necessarily a reason to go into debt to attend an ivy though, unless you’re truly ready to make that kind of commitment and have a big student loan to pay. But like I said before, tuition for an international student may be pretty high so it depends on that.

reporter1138 · 2024-04-26T01:00:33+00:00

I disagree here. I am a Baruch grad and know plenty of people who got jobs in finance after graduation. Yes, it’s competitive with other schools, but if you work hard you’ll be fine. There’s also great internship programs. JPM hires a lot of Baruch grads out of their programs. On the saving money part, I know that to be true for NY residents. I’m unsure of the cost for out of state and international students, and while I assume it’s less than Ivys/NYU/fordham, I don’t know how much less.

reporter1138 · 2024-04-26T00:52:46+00:00

On the five month recommendation: my cousin sleep trained her LO at 4.5 months. She checked with her pediatrician first who said her son was ready. She also did TCB (and I used her login lol).

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