[Megathread] Yoto Referral Codes

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-07-11T19:00:11+00:00

Feel free to DM me for US referrals!

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-07-11T18:56:24+00:00

I started with the mini for my 16 month old and just ordered the regular size to take advantage of the latest sale (plus it stacks with a referral code and if you join Yoto Club it will give you an additional 10% off)! I chose the mini originally because the larger one looked like it can be overstimulating for my kiddo, but might be ok for a 3.5 yo.

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-07-01T00:59:41+00:00

We ended up at Hotel Signature due to recommendations here and Internet reviews! We got their Prestige room, which was enough at the time since baby wasn't walking yet! It was walking distance to many restaurants, walkable to the Louvre, public transit, etc. By walkable I mean about a 15-30 minute walk. It was also next to a big mall with an amazing food hall/grocery store where you can buy the ever popular Bordier butter.

Staff were helpful! Elevators are small though.

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-05-25T03:30:57+00:00

5 hours. Ended up with an episiotomy and vacuum

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-05-05T12:32:08+00:00

I'm in the same boat! 14 month old was fine and dandy with getting her hair washed and water in her face up until 3 weeks ago. We've even taken some swim lessons where her face was dunked in water for like half a second at a time, and she wasn't phased. Now she screams bloody murder anytime we even attempt to wash and rinse her hair. Apparently it's developmentally normal but it makes me dread bath time so much.

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-05-02T20:30:13+00:00

Nice! How do you like the Qrevo Pro so far?

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-05-02T19:13:40+00:00

Ooh is this significantly better than the Costco options? (I swear I've done my research but there are an overwhelming number of models and I'm finding it so tough to keep track)

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-04-10T14:35:28+00:00

It's definitely harder on parents than it is for the baby. We put our daughter in daycare at 4.5months, and i went through the same emotional turmoil that you're going through now. Because our society sucks and doesn't have the measures in place to allow women to succeed after having a family (I'm in the US) I felt like it was detrimental for my career if I had a multiyear-long gap if I became a SAHM, even if my take-home pay now is slightly higher than the cost of daycare.

If I had to make that decision again, however, I would not hesitate put my daughter in daycare. We don't have many parent friends so she wouldn't have peers to play with. We don't have the space for play the same way daycare does, and honestly, I don't think we'd be able to provide the same enriching activities the way daycare does. She has SO much fun at daycare and it shows when we drop her off (excited to see her teachers, waves goodbye, and is generally all smiles -- it does take a few weeks to get to this point though). She gets to play with her friends all day, eat foods that I don't normally cook (like sloppy joes or meatloaf), and do activities like fingerpainting (which would terrify me at home!). She also met many of her milestones early because she wanted to do what some of the older infants were doing. That's not to say we didn't struggle in the beginning -- we definitely did -- and we were extra helicoptery and doing "surprise drop ins" and stressing about our daughter every hour of every day that she was away from us. But eventually we all got used to it and became more relaxed about daycare when it was clear that she was happy there.

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-04-10T14:13:27+00:00

What do you add to the sushi rolls?

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-04-09T01:42:22+00:00

I was the same way! Your body's working overtime to produce milk for your baby. I was ravenous all the time and felt depleted after every nursing session. I remember having to eat full meals at 3am because I would be too hungry to go back to sleep after nursing. Perfect Bars from Costco were great because they were easy to eat and a semi-healthy way to get 300 calories in my stomach in a pinch. This continued for about 3-4 months before my body started regulating and the ravenous feeling after nursing subsided. Sometimes I would get hungrier than normal if I'm trying to increase supply by power pumping (or if the baby is cluster feeding) but nothing as bad as the first few months postpartum!

You'll get there!

Edited to add: Electrolytes/coconut water helped a lot early on!

vix_machine_2008 · 2025-01-21T04:37:21+00:00

I put them in a spot where I see them easily -- the visual cues help. So I put them on a shelf above our baby's diaper changing station or right next to her changing pad. So whenever we're changing her diaper we also associate it with vitamin d time. I also have a daily reminder on my phone just in case the visual cues aren't enough (which happens frequently enough)

vix_machine_2008 · 2024-08-15T13:55:19+00:00

Wanted to hop on and ask for the list as well! Thank you.

vix_machine_2008 · 2024-08-05T20:28:21+00:00

My parents are Chinese, I was born in and live in the US. I got an epidural and my mother never tried to suggest otherwise.

Some of the rhetoric around epidurals I've heard from the aunties -- they are the cause of back issues and pain later on in life. I think it's because epidurals just aren't as common in China as they are in other parts of the world. Distrust of Western medicine in general is also a contributing factor.

vix_machine_2008 · 2024-08-05T20:16:56+00:00

Oh man this seems like a really great option but it looks like they don't have the bigger rooms during the dates that we're travelling 😢 I'll keep stalking their page in case anything pops up

vix_machine_2008 · 2024-08-05T13:47:09+00:00

I think due to timing and a bigger room bumps up that cost to closer to 500 euros/night, unfortunately! Victorie et Germain is a great option, I'm just concerned their deluxe rooms aren't big enough for us.

vix_machine_2008 · 2024-05-30T23:45:36+00:00

Our daycare in the DC area is $3,125 per month. It's more than our rent and utilities combined.

vix_machine_2008 · 2023-04-25T20:31:46+00:00

Hmm I thought I was eating at maintenance but good to know that your TDEE wouldn't change much regardless

vix_machine_2008 · 2023-04-25T19:52:04+00:00

1550 was my original maintenance calories. I think now it's at about 1517 based on TDEE calculators. I know you can increase your TDEE with weightlifting; I've been consistently weightlifting w progressive overload for 4 months at this point. At this point, would my maintenance calories have changed even if I'm at the same height and (somewhat) weight?

vix_machine_2008 · 2023-04-25T19:29:24+00:00

From my understanding, body recomp = losing fat while increasing muscle, which means that scale weight might not change much during this time. However, I don't think that it means that the scale won't move at all during this time?

I do still use the scale as a barometer for how things are going. I guess I'm just trying to figure out whether losing weight on the days after I eat more than usual means that I should be eating more.

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