u/CATScan1898

We just found out my 4 month old is allergic to cats and of course we have one. We're working on decreasing his exposure to her and I've way has to be related to the couch. My thought was to buy a washable couch cover. This is where the toddler comes in - I honestly don't care that much what it looks like, but his current hobby is tearing all of the cushions off the couch.

Any recommendations for a couch cover that holds up to washing and toddlers? Also the toddler wipes his nose constantly on the velvety couches, so they look pretty gross despite being steam cleaned in December.

Or any recommendations related to cat allergies? So far we have/are planning to:

- keep the cat on our first floor (hardwood floors, no bedrooms)

- deep clean her cat trees & soft sleeping spots

- sweep/vacuum more on that main floor

- deep vacuum carpeted upstairs where the bedrooms are

I know the cat beds have a ton of hair, but I don't want to take away all of her soft places to sleep, so recommendations related to that would be greatly appreciated.

I had a slightly unhinged phone number idea earlier. I would set up a "reach mom & dad" google voice number that would ring both of our phones (I think this is technically feasible, but not certain yet). This way if daycare or a doctor's office is trying to get hold of us, they call one number and one of us would likely answer.

The longer motivation: We have 2 under 2 in 2 different daycares and my one son has some health stuff, so the phone calls to schedule appointments is unending. For some reason, everyone always calls the least ideal phone number (my office phone when I'm driving back from another appointment, etc.)

Has anyone done anything like this? Is it helpful or just even more maddening? I think we're nearing the end of the constant scheduling of appointments, but right now I get so frustrated whenever I miss an appointment call.

"I wish you had turned up the microphone volume." This could have been so fixable if you had only told us before the semester was over!