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My almost 3-year-old (32 months) is typically very good with speech and has hit all her milestones on time. She’s never had a speech delay or anything like that. That being said, over the past several days, she’ll mix in made-up words/sounds/babbling. Like she is still speaking in full sentences as normal, but she’ll also sometimes answer us with a “daaa” or “da-da-da” or “ba-ba-ba”—mostly complete nonsense. Or she’ll fully mumble a word that closely resembles the actual word but is just a slurred or mumbled version. As far as I know, she’s not sick. Hasn’t experienced any significant trauma, no big life changes or stressors. And she’s not even laughing or giggling when she does it so it doesn’t seem like she’s doing it to be funny. Just hoping this is typical toddler nonsense/rebellion and not something to have to look further into 😅

I watched a movie several years ago with the such a weird plot/ending and I can’t remember what it was. I swear it took place in Mexico but I suppose it could’ve been somewhere in South America. All that I remember is that two men meet up at night in the street, they go back to one of the mens’ apartment. They talk all night, maybe they have intercourse? Don’t remember. Anyway I think the conversation starts to go left at one point and one of the guys gets the creeps. I remember it ending with him trying to run down the stairs to escape and the other man brutally murdering him. That completely shocked me. I’d say the movie was from anywhere between 2005 and like 2018. I wouldn’t classify as horror but more like drama/thriller.

I technically do “dirty fasting” because I do use creamer in my coffee in the morning. I understand black coffee would be better, but enjoying my coffee is more important to me than the like 25 calorie difference and it’s the one thing that helps me get through a fast day. That being said, does it make any difference that I use a sweetened creamer versus if I were to use just plain half & half? One serving of my creamer (which is what I use) is 5g of sugar. I read somewhere that your body just detects sweet things regardless of sugar content levels and that’s what triggers insulin to release, but I am certainly no doctor, no nutritionist, etc., so idk if that is making a difference in my fasting. If it makes no difference, I’ll continue with the sweetened creamer, but if it DOES likely make a difference I’m happy to switch to plain half & half. I just need some kind of creamer in my coffee lol

I’ve been noticing a lot of pain in my neck, especially near the base of my skull, and it’s been causing what I assume are cervicogenic headaches. Anyone else deal with this and find a workaround/solution? Only thing I can think of is holding my project up but that’s so awkward and tiresome. Maybe I need some kind of personal table to rest my arms on? 😅

We are about two weeks into potty training our 2.5 year old and it’s so hit or miss. She has peed a handful of times on the potty at home and at daycare but there are several days where she just sits many times and doesn’t go potty. And then as soon as I put a diaper or Pull-Up on her after sitting, she’ll pee or poop in it. She also refuses to let us know when she has a pee or poop feeling, no matter how much we encourage her to do so. We do a reward system and she loves it. She does get excited to sit on the potty, and she’ll often say “I did it!” or “I peed!” and she didn’t. To be fair, we are doing things pretty casually and not really following a particular method, but I’m wondering if maybe she’s not quite ready? Idk. Maybe I’m just not mentally prepared for such lack of progress. Whenever we try to keep her naked from the waist down, she’ll just sit on her portable potty the entire time because I think she’s uncomfortable walking around or sitting on anything else with nothing on, and it makes me feel so bad and I don’t want her to develop a negative relationship with the potty. Any advice or encouragement to keep going is greatly appreciated 😔❤️

Ok this is probably a weird question, but we’re potty training our 2.5 year old right now. We have a potty that just sits on the ground like the old school ones, and one that attaches to the toilet. Obviously if she pees in the floor potty, we can tell if she peed because we have to dump it out. But when she sits on the toilet attachment, there’s no way of knowing if she actually peed or not unless I try to really listen, because her pee is clear, and she likes to say “I peed!” even when she didn’t. I know there are little toilet fizzies you can use to entice children to go on the big potty, but is there anything that is like pee-activated (lmao) or some kind of hack that I can do to know with certainty that she peed? (Working on getting her to actually be honest about it lol, but until then…)