u/CreativeJudgment3529

For a while I’ve been giving him a bottle of milk and he’d want to eat about three hours later. Even when he is hungry, he’s not that fussy. I have to really guess if he’s hungry because he eats like a bird until late snack or dinner. He’s growing well so that’s really all that matters, but I would like him to eat more table food. I figured by now we would drop the morning bottle of milk even though I’m sure it’s fine?

Sometimes I won’t even give the bottle of milk, for multiple days in a row, and he will still ignore and throw his breakfast. I give the milk because I think it’s important to have something, but I have really tried to not do the milk. Is this a phase they go through? Sometimes he won’t even drink the milk?

I’m not a breakfast person and need a lot of time to feel hungry. Can a kid be like this even if they are growing?

I’m not sure if it matters but by bottle I mean a straw cup lol

I found the products I want to use and stick with, I just don’t know the best or proper rotation.

1. azelaic acic
2. adapalene gel .1%
3. salicylic acid
4. vitamin c
5. ordinary multi peptide copper peptide serum
6. vanicream moisturizer
7. glycolic acid

I need to add an spf, but can’t find one that makes me able to layer makeup properly.

I mostly do skincare at night because I don’t wear makeup often, I just do AzA + moisturizer during the day if I don’t do it that night.

I’d like to rotate the products - but I want to make sure none of these will react. Any tips?

I had a pretty great VBAC with my second last year. I'm now pregnant with my third and have hopefully 2-3 weeks left. I am reflecting on my birth with my second and getting a little nervous about the contractions because they were much worse a lot earlier than I imagined it would be.

My water broke at 39 weeks and 2 days - the second I stopped thinking about it, literally! I got in bed and was like, ugh yes, I'm going to read a book and relax with my heating pad. My water broke 5 minutes into reading and my contractions started about 15 minutes later.

Some thing to think about is I was stressed about childcare for my oldest and I had work due two days from when I went into labor, so I sat down in front of my computer and finished it early so I didn't have to think about it. Luckily our childcare also showed up. My water broke at 11pm, the on call told me to come in right away(?) even though my doctor told me I could labor at home for a while. We called the nurse watching our oldest at midnight and she showed up around 3-3:30am and by that point, my contractions were so painful that I could not talk through them. We left around 4am and got to the hospital before 5am. The car contractions were the WORST. I was convinced I was in transition. The contractions were 5 minutes apart in the car, and that was the only time I was consistently timing them because they were not consistent AT ALL when they started for those first few hours but because of the pain I was in almost immediately I was like.. this is going fast!

I get to the hospital and it took forever to find a wheelchair and a security person to show us where L&D was. I had to stop for every contraction cause I couldn't walk through them or talk. I was like you guys I'm going to have this baby in the lobby!

I get to triage and I'm freaking OUT because they are taking their sweet time with me and they check me and I'm 2 FREAKING CM. I had to stay in triage until I was 4cm and the only reason they didn't send me home is because my water was already broken. They were questioning me if my water actually broke and I was like you guys, I went through like ten diapers from the time it broke because it gushed out at first and I had to sit on a towel in the car. Like there was absolutely no question if it was my water vs pee? that was so annoying of them lol

I was DYING!!!!!!!!! At 4cm I could only get through them by standing up and swaying (I also couldn't get an epidural until I was in my delivery room obviously so I was like PLEASE GIVE ME THE EPIDURALLLLLLL I was doing alll the breathing exercises (I planned for an unmediated, what a joke LMAO) but the breathing exercises (like... breathe in for four, out for six) made me want to pass out, so they were like you need to lay down. I was FERAL.

Why was I in so much pain when I was hardly dilated?????? Did anyone else experience such pain?

edit to say: the post was getting long so tdlr my water broke at 11pm and I gave birth at 1pm and had an epidural and pitocin and the pitocin dilated me within like 3 hours from a 4 to a 10 and then he was born 2 hours later and it wasn't bad at all that's why I said it was a great vbac cause really no major issues

so, our toddler never slept in a crib. he slept in a pack and play since day 1. he is 15 months old now and he has started to take the sheet off the little mattress and lift the mattress up, but also i'm pretty sure the weight limit is 32 pounds and he's about to reach the limit. because of these reasons i'm not sure it's safe anymore.

the pack and play was awesome because you can easily move it from room to room, unlike a crib. we had a crib but destroyed it trying to move it around finding a place for him to sleep, so we just took it apart and someone came and got it. it belonged to his older brother who is disabled and we never had to deal with any difficult transition because he never attempted to get out of bed and he upgraded to a loft bed.

we have a queen bed that we took out of the bed frame and just put it on the floor on top of a short box spring. he can easily climb on top of it and get off of it. I tried to put him in it for a nap but he rolled off and just started playing with his toys. he's young so I figured it would not be an easy transition but would it be easier at nighttime, when it's dark and he's super tired? he's never needed a dark room/white noise or anything like that to sleep. you just plop him in his pack and play and walk out. i'm open to if I need to try something like this (black out curtains or something) but I even figured the first time was not going to work. I just don't want to disrupt his schedule by making him uncomfortable, but also not wanting to let him sleep in the pack and play while I can't keep an eye on him anymore.

we usually let him sit in there and play because we keep the door open and a gate locked and he is so good at just relaxing and playing with his toys in there. i'm afraid he is confused why I put him on the bed? will night time be a better time to try?

I am overthinking this probably but I didn't think we'd have to do this so early. it feels like too early, but cribs aren't cheap, and neither are toddler beds if his set up is already safe, i'd really like to not have to buy something new

Is it because chores (dishes, cooking, laundry, trash, vacuuming, etc) are “basic life skills” but changing diapers, feeding a baby (I literally don’t know what else would be an example) is not a basic life skill because not everyone will have kids?

Sorry if this is a stupid question. I was watching a reel from a mom with 6 going on 7 kids and she told them to do laundry and as a kid who went into adulthood blind I wished my parents would have guided me more and asked me to do those things but is it not giving kids your responsibility?

I had a baby Jan 2025 and will have my third in June. I still have my pink pumpin pal flanges and luckily they were the best things ever. Wish I found them sooner.

Are they made to last this long? I used them for about 6-7 months so they’ve been sitting in a drawer since I was about three months pregnant with this one.

They do look pretty cloudy but unsure if they would not work as well as brand new ones? I want a second pair anyway but wondering if I need a third for backup.

One thing that really bothers me (sushi restaurants mostly) is that there is no option to add sauces or any notes. This used to a thing and it’s very rare for this to be turned on anymore.

I have ordered from literally every single sushi restaurant in my area and 1/5 times they include soy sauce packets or wasabi. Very basic things that come with a meal and don’t cost extra. What is the issue? They don’t even have a part of the menu for these add ons. Has anyone noticed this?

Curious if anyone understands what I’m asking cause I feel crazy. I had a great birth but the one complaint I had is I really just wanted to feel the urge to push. everything went fine and normal, but I just wanted to know what it felt like? the second I was 10cm they told me I was ready. I even asked to wait and they let me wait approx two minutes before making me start pushing, and then it took two hours. baby was fine the whole time.

Why is it that they make you push, even if you aren’t ready?

is the fetal ejection reflex real, and can I attempt to feel it the next time by just standing my ground - or am I being too challenging?