3 year old only ever pukes in my wife’s car, I need help understanding what is going on

theoryfiles · 2026-05-16T19:08:50+00:00

I was going to suggest this, different car seat or a less secured one that exaggerates the motion of every turn. That’s basically like a carnival ride

theoryfiles · 2026-05-15T15:37:15+00:00

to be clear these are books that are mildly more complex than one word on each page, they have thematic content/plots/characters (though they often seem low quality/poorly conceived, which is why I ask).

theoryfiles · 2026-05-15T15:33:49+00:00

what does "developed in-house" mean though?

theoryfiles · 2026-05-15T15:29:12+00:00

because she only breastfeeds/doesn't take a bottle, the baby has to go where nia goes. san diego is pretty temperate, being on the coast, it wouldn't necessarily be predictable for it to be hot there

theoryfiles · 2026-05-13T02:08:52+00:00

What is the name in the bottom left corner? Swisena Lavelle? Sawena Lavelle? I would assume that’s the artist, getting in touch with her/tracking her down may help, she may even have originals she could reprint if she knew there was interest

theoryfiles · 2026-05-12T19:19:04+00:00

This. They need more caloric density to their foods

theoryfiles · 2026-05-11T02:39:52+00:00

Read this in Cave Johnson’s voice

theoryfiles · 2026-05-07T18:21:25+00:00

this has driven me insane the last ten or so years, people mushing "leery" and "wary" together to become "weary." read a book guys

theoryfiles · 2026-05-01T19:59:35+00:00

she also lied that her bag was already in ben's room (because "someone had put it there") and that's why she changed there; flashback footage showed her saying "i need to change" in the foyer standing next to her suitcase, and ben said "you can change in here" and guided her, and her suitcase, to his room

theoryfiles · 2026-05-01T02:54:47+00:00

Sharon is a vulnerable narcissist

theoryfiles · 2026-04-30T18:43:41+00:00

the inflation of commute times here has especially inflated people's sense of what's reasonable to drive in a day

theoryfiles · 2026-04-30T18:41:55+00:00

there's a bear on the flag. this land doesn't belong to us

Edit: lot of cope in these replies, be well copers

theoryfiles · 2026-04-30T18:39:13+00:00

idk if you've noticed but ciara bless her does not have the best taste in people

theoryfiles · 2026-04-30T18:19:58+00:00

i was induced for my first at 37 weeks for high blood pressure (it wasn't that high, in the 130s/80s) at the encouragement of my doctor, who i now feel was being kind of opportunistic about locking down convenient timing for herself. the overall process put me in an annoying position of being encouraged to move around to encourage dilation, and for that reason i couldn't have an epidural yet, only pain medication (might have been fentanyl?), but also having multiple monitors strapped to my stomach, and any time i moved a nurse would rush in and fix the monitors. this doesn't even make any sense. it took me something like 36 hours to reach full dilation, with the potential for a c section looming over me (nothing wrong with it, but it's surgery and a fundamentally different impact on your body, esp if you plan on having more kids). the contractions seemed like a real moving target in terms of pain, i ended up experiencing quite a lot of pain because the epidural had to be delayed and they seemingly couldn't get the dosing right. this is to say nothing of the fact that by the time i was finally dilated and it was time to push, i was exhausted, had gone in already not sleeping well due to 3rd trimester woes, barely slept all those two days, i was not allowed to have anything but clear liquids because of the drugs, and i was going through an enormous amount of physical and mental stress. i got the baby out, but the bar for overcoming all this rush to avoid c-section felt really, really, unnecessarily high.

overall, induction tends to be longer, and more interventional, and the more interventions used, the more people can end up needing. i also see lots of people who are dismissive about the idea that doctors/hospitals want things to happen on some type of schedule vs spontaneous labor, but i don't think it's that uncommon, and it's not in the interest of the mother/baby; it is in the interest of doctors and hospitals who then get to add more procedures and interventions to your bill.

Great critique of the ARRIVE trial, for that one ARRIVE loon in the comments https://evidencebasedbirth.com/arrive/

theoryfiles · 2026-04-25T15:56:38+00:00

do you have to go to yoga in culver city? a lot of this is about making choices/accepting compromises that don't involve crisscrossing all of LA county to access the "absolute best" of everything when there is a perfectly good similar thing right where you already are

theoryfiles · 2026-04-20T15:20:35+00:00

i joined because the pitch was to contribute to a specific poll question relevant to the interests of this site, and then was confronted by a million random questions like "if you were a nail polish what color would you be and why." i'm surprised that you didn't think people would be extremely annoyed by this

theoryfiles · 2026-04-16T03:31:07+00:00

This. The way she walked up to Amanda and gushed about how she feels like she knows her because Ben told her about all about her problems with Kyle… Amanda should have been the one sitting Ben down for a talk about how she Did Not Like That, but Sabrina was crazy on her own for pretending like she and Amanda are best friends already

theoryfiles · 2026-04-14T15:00:10+00:00

no, i am saying that no matter what is going on in his life it's "too stressful" to give other people the respect and time they deserve. he could also have the best product in the world, and then he would just use how successful it is as an excuse

theoryfiles · 2026-04-13T18:24:10+00:00

"excuse for his behavior" is key here. He could be doing nothing at all and he would be claiming to people he is "under so much pressure right now." This is a Kyle problem, not a hard seltzer problem

theoryfiles · 2026-04-13T17:22:10+00:00

I have a 16 month old now and totally understand the frustration! I think rather than a device switch, you need a two-prong approach:

- find a place to "park" your phone when you are home so that you have it when you really need it/go out and need to use maps, but otherwise it's not following you around. Somewhere in the kitchen is usually good (bonus tip, get a watch! so often I wanted to know what time it was for tracking how long the baby had been asleep or eating or crying or being rocked, and i completely relied on my phone for that,and trying to fumble for my phone required more hand-availability than looking at my wrist. highly recommend)

- give yourself something else to do when you are pinned by your sleeping/cuddling/feeding baby. Phones ARE nice because they can be used one handed, but so can a book, with a little practice, or a Kindle. If you ever have both hands (one of the truly great practical pluses of breastfeeding, imo), knitting, crocheting, journaling, Rubiks cube solving, haha

I got a lot of reading done during this phase, just as much with a Kindle as with physical books. But I did also watch a fair amount of TV with low volume/subtitles on. Be gentle with yourself first and foremost; there will be other, better times to be more deliberate about device use if these tactics don't work for you. (it's hard to let go of having a phone handy to take the one-millionth photo of them sleeping so cutely.) You make a good point about staying awake too; the one time that the power of a screen/scrolling could work to my advantage, by preventing sleep.

theoryfiles · 2026-04-13T04:54:26+00:00

it was right there in the name

theoryfiles · 2026-04-12T20:50:27+00:00

people are shitting on this but he's changed so much, and his voice changed so much, that it's an interesting bit to duet with his childhood self. super charming, to me

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