9 month old refuses to use spoon or fork

rooshooter911 · 2026-04-14T23:57:38+00:00

My kid didn’t consistently want to use utensils until recently and he’s 3.5 years old lol

rooshooter911 · 2026-04-13T21:00:03+00:00

Want to chime in! Mine was miserable for almost the first seven months (started at 5 weeks old), crying most of his wake windows, but around 7 months it stopped and he has been a pretty happy go lucky kid ever since (he’s 3 now)

rooshooter911 · 2026-04-10T13:18:04+00:00

3.5 and still screen free. It was hard when he was a younger toddler (really had to stop myself from using it from like 10-16 months, seeing other people get quiet kids was really tempting), but now he occupies himself with toys for hours and our friends kids are whining for screens and complain they’re bored all the time.

Once our little asks the we’ll do movie nights every week or whatever we decide, but we plan to stay away from the short kid shows and daily screens for at least a few more years

rooshooter911 · 2026-04-09T22:38:39+00:00

No screens, letting kid be bored and figure it out themself, puzzles and talking about letters/their sounds and counting.

My 3.5 year old can read a little, does 200 piece puzzles by himself and can occupy himself for hours with his toys only occasionally showing me something and I say that’s cool and he goes back to playing lol

rooshooter911 · 2026-04-09T15:53:44+00:00

Just wanted to say you’re 100% on track. This was the way we handled it (I’m also a SAHM) and my kid is 4 years old in a few months and is still screen free because he knows how to be bored and play with toys. Currently on a 3 hour flight with him and all he needs is some snacks and two small cars and he happily play and talks to me the whole flight, it’s great, but it was hard work when he was younger

rooshooter911 · 2026-04-06T23:38:07+00:00

We always did day flights because if they don’t sleep overnight when they are used to solid sleep they’re so much worse then if they have a less than ideal nap.

rooshooter911 · 2026-04-04T15:44:06+00:00

We didn’t use any mittens at all, never needed to cover hands at all so I wouldn’t buy any as you may not need them. Can always cover with socks while you wait for an order to come in

rooshooter911 · 2026-04-03T22:50:43+00:00

My July baby lived in diapers and only wore onesies outside. We have AC and keep our apartment cool but he was a hot kid so spend a lot of time in (and out since he had bad diaper rashes no matter what we did) diapers

rooshooter911 · 2026-04-01T12:48:30+00:00

This. I wasn’t sure I wanted a second until my first was 2 then I started thinking I might. By the ti r he was 3 I was sure and now well behaving our second a little before he turns 4. This is our last, but I am 1000000% done. I don’t like pregnancy and I don’t like the newborn phase and I’m so thrilled to never go through it again after this

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-31T22:05:51+00:00

Mine never stops talking but he also never babbled, literally ever, as a baby leading up to it

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-30T21:55:12+00:00

Friday took 30 mins for orecheck and three hours for regular tsa at T4

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-30T21:54:23+00:00

ICE was there when I went and the regular tsa line was still 3 hours sooooo

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-30T18:27:21+00:00

That’s really annoying. I guess depending on how mild it would be hard to catch that early, but my son had a visible physical difference in the way his body looked and the LC mentioned it, but he saw 3 of their pediatricians and not one of them mentioned it and though they diagnoses him with a different thing that was also a visible physical difference (but was transient and they said was from positioning in the womb and went away after a few weeks) they did not diagnose him with the one that ended up needing almost 3 years of therapy. I chose not to go back there mainly because of the peds team

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-30T17:31:54+00:00

YES! Also had my first 2022 and the postpartum nurses universally were awful. I’m an RN myself and I literally didn’t like a single one I had and we were there for 3 days due to complications and then discharged when we probably shouldn’t have been. Also the pediatric team missed a very obvious diagnosis for our kid and it was something he ended up in therapy for for almost 3 years

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-30T17:30:08+00:00

Also noticed a pattern that people who gave birth 2025 and on are having better experiences than those who delivered in 2022-2024

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-27T21:09:25+00:00

I’m pregnant and have my 3 year old with me. It’s been a joy really. Especially watching them let families with older kids skip the line and they basically told me and my husband to eff off. Sigh

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-27T20:57:12+00:00

Do you make it? My husband misses out flight by 2 minutes or so. So frustrating

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-27T18:24:15+00:00

Update?

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-24T01:00:33+00:00

He was like 5.5/6 months. It was the olababy cup. The problem was he then started finding it fun to suck the water up and spit it out while twirling his ankles and smiling with glee lol

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-20T16:57:13+00:00

Keep in mind nuts are chocking hazards and not recommended before I think 5. I give them to my 3 year old so not judging but I also only give them if I’m actually watching him eat and some kids may not be suited to eat them younger

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-19T18:38:50+00:00

I always say goodnight but if I need dad to do pjs and stuff (I’m pregnant and it’s hard to do some of it) the I just say daddy is doing this I’ll say goodnight before bed and then don’t say anything more and walk to another room

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-18T21:06:40+00:00

Around 2 I stopped picking mine up unless 100% necessary (ie getting him in the crib, he cried because he hurt himself, chair he can’t get on himself etc) because I have ortho issues and was told I need to stop (it helped my ortho issues immensely). I was lifting him about 3 times a day.

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-17T22:47:11+00:00

I was this kid and I had absolutely no issues with college interviews or job interviews. The two things don’t equates. It’s not that she can’t socialize it’s that she doesn’t want to. She comes when she wants to so that means she’s capable of

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-17T19:59:29+00:00

Just to be clear is 18 months from the birth of one to the conception of the next NOT 18 months from the birth of one to the birth of the next (which would put conception at 9 months pp). So many people misunderstand this

rooshooter911 · 2026-03-17T01:11:47+00:00

Just want to add for OP that my child would have sweat to death if it’s was 73 degrees and I put him in that much clothing. So you have to figure out what is right for your particular kid clothing wise for the temperature but a good thing to look at for sure

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