Parent Thread

Congrats on the new little girl bralkan!

chaos_sl said:

Yeah I see people all the time who have a 2-3 year old with a bottle or a pacifier. Shit is weird but I don't say anything.

My wife had issues breastfeeding. She was able to get to 3 months with our first and third kids, only 6 weeks with our second. So we use(d) formula and a bottle. But we promptly stop that shit at 1 year. I'm not sure what we are going to do about our youngest, she sucks her thumb all the time, which is fine at 9 months. But we never had to break our other kids of that so I am not sure how that will go.

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She'll grow out of it. Some kids suck their thumbs until they're 2 or 3. It's not -that- uncommon. Social interaction with other kids breaks them of it if they don't just drop it on their own.

There's no great harm in it. Especially not at 9 months. It's mostly just a habit. But if it's an annoying habit (like nose picking), you break it the same way.

Tarrant_sl said:

I remember she had this air about her like I was the biggest piece of crap in the world...I hope all social workers aren't like her.

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I'm an education major and a lot of my 100-200 level classes coincided with social worker majors. Holy fuck you would have thought these fuckers were going on crusade. Seemed like every professor teaching those classes pumps their heads with horror stories of deadbeat parents and how they (the professor) swooped in and saved the child with blankets and Christmas turkeys.

chaos_sl said:

I'm done being a girl about it.

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Yeah that'll be the fuckin' day. This thread is gonna be gold, I can smell it.

General Faggotry, are you this desperate for attention?

ZyyzYzzy_sl said:

So, me and my wife had a 28week check up which included a gestational diabetes test. Results show that she has it. I assume it's relatively easy to manage, but that's going off of what little I remember from an undergrad and 2 grad classes in Endocrinology.

It seems weird that her levels were so high too since we eat healthy and she tries to walk about 2 to 3 hours a week. We're seeing a specialist tgis week, but does anyone have any tips since now she's in full freak out mode.

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Would probably post this in the pregnancy thread - that's the better fit.

I'm a little late to the party, but figured I might as well post some pictures of my son finally. He was born on 9/7 and will be five months this week. The last pic I had to post because I find it hilarious. I happened to have the IPAD out right when he had his poop face going. There is a video as well but the wife shut me down on posting it lol.

My son is 11 months old, and now he is starting to fight when it's time for bedtime. He used to be able to go down without being rocked or cuddled. Now, it's a full on scream fest from him when I try to put him down. Has anybody been through this? What can I do to help this be an easier time for us? Also, we've had the same bedtime routine since we brought him home.

Ferberize his ass. Put him down, he starts crying, you give him 5 minutes then come in, calm him down, and put him back. Next time 10 minutes. Next time 15 minutes. The books say not to exceed 15 minutes. This worked on all of my kids, the first day or so sucks but you have to be stronger than the kid.

My oldest kind of stopped doing this once we moved her to a toddler bed. So for that we switched up to the Supernanny technique. She puts them in bed, does the routine, and says goodnight. If they get up again, she puts them to bed again and says goodnight. After that she doesn't talk to them, doesn't look at them, ignores them and puts them in bed immediately. This was frustrating with a toddler. But it worked.

Sweet, going to try this tonight. Thanks for the info.

I've finally got my 9 month old into a bed time routine (I've always been bad and let them fall asleep on my lap). Sometimes she puts up a fuss, but I've started to just leave her through it and she will now go to sleep within 10-15 min. She's sleeping until 5:30-6:00 now as well which is freaking awesome. The 2-3 times a night feedings were really wearing me down after so long.

Bedtime is the best thing in the world.

lindz_sl said:

Bedtime is the best thing in the world.

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One could argue that's what got you into this mess in the first place, heheI agree though, sleep is awesome - my little girl sleeps 6 hours now - I can finally function

Aladain, we were at that same point with our son when he was 8 months old, then one day out of the blue he decides that sleeping is a terrible thing. My wife thinks he is teething, which I don't see any coming in yet. Last night was a much smoother bedtime. He went down, cried for a whole 5 seconds, and was out for 10 hours.

Yeah, around 6-8mths it always seems like a kid is a great sleepers. Then BAM around 10mths they start fighting you, enjoy your sleep while you can. Anyone have to deal with their kid having Croup or similar (if there is)? My son is 4yrs old, and his doctor and the doctors at the ER both said he has enlarged tonsils and that they need to be removed, I vaguely remember when my brother got his taken out, think it took 1 check up and they went ahead with the surgery. With my son, we had to try 3 different types of meds, goto a specialist to see what they thought, and now next week he has to goto a sleep study to make sure he doesnt has sleep apnea. For something that seems so minor, it just seems we are jumping through alot of hoops, I understand its for all these people to get paid, but goddamn when he had it bad it was non-stop for hours on end, but that doesnt seem to be a concern to them 'another checkup' is all they care about. Just pisses me off.

My oldest had croup, we had to do breathing treatments and it sounded horrible but other than that she was fine.