u/Spirited-Bed-2220

Pediatrician is informed and we're monitoring the situation.

So I had this *magnificent* idea to diy a sensory activity with aluminum foil. All was OK, baby was excited and playing until she decided aluminum foil is a delicacy. I think a small piece may have been ingested. 🤦‍♀️It only took one second.

I'm losing my mind, I should have known better. I know babies eat all sorts of stuff, I've eaten worse as a kid. Baby looks fine so far, ate, drank milk, but I can't relax. She's teething, of course she would shove it in her mouth. What was I thinking. Yes I'm a FTM.

Βρίσκομαι σε ένα σταυροδρόμι, οι 2 επιλογές που έχω σκεφτεί θα με οδηγήσουν σε τελείως διαφορετικές ζωές.

Επιλογή 1. Αγορά σπιτιού με αποπληρωμή μέχρι τα 60; 70 χρόνια; Με πολλή στέρηση, αν όλα πάνε καλά, αν δε το αρπάξει η τράπεζα, αν, αν, αν. Μηδέν αποταμίευση. Θα μείνει όμως το σπίτι στο παιδί.

Επιλογή 2. Παρατάμε την ελπίδα για σπίτι και κοιτάμε να πάρουμε ένα camper, γυρνάμε για τα επόμενα 15 χρόνια με το παιδί Ελλάδα ή και παραέξω Χριστούγεννα/Πάσχα/καλοκαίρι. Μένουμε όμως στο ίδιο σπίτι που μένουμε τώρα, 47 μέτρα, αρκετά στριμωγμένα. Λογικά με οικονομία θα μπει και κάτι στην άκρη. Το παιδί όμως θα κληρονομήσει ένα ερείπιο για γκρέμισμα, το πολύ πολύ να το δώσει αντιπαροχή όταν θα είμαστε σε ηλικία για ☠️.

Η επιλογή 1 είναι αυτή που θα έκανε ένας σοβαρός ενήλικας, η επιλογή 2 μου μοιάζει πιο πολύ με καλοπέραση.

Κι επειδή εδώ είμαστε μια μικρή παρέα είπα να μοιραστώ τις σκέψεις που κάνω εδώ και λίγους μήνες.

Ξέρετε κάποιο spot με δημοτικές ντουζιέρες και καμπίνες να αλλάξεις απο Σωζόπολη μέχρι Φλογητά; Δε μπορούμε να πάμε σε beach bar φέτος με το μωρό λόγω περιορισμένου χρόνου. Ευχαριστώ!

FTM to a 9.5 month old and honestly I'm not sure if I'm too emotional or overreacting to normal behavior or if there's a problem with my baby.

She screams most of her awake time. Screams when she's happy. When excited. When she wants something. When hungry or thirsty. It's constant and very very loud. So loud her face turns red. My ears hurt. My head hurts. I'm taking paracetamol almost daily. She does it in public when she sees pigeons or other kids and it's kinda cute for a moment but when it continues people start staring. No other baby at the park does this. It's so loud it echoes.

She's also hyper active to the point she starts panting like a dog from all the effort. Won't settle even for a minute. Can't focus on a toy for more than a minute. Heck, sometimes for more than a few seconds. Looks at it, touches it, tosses it to the side. Then tries to climb on me to play with my hair or nose. She literally tried to grab my eye today. I try to hug her to help her relax but she won't relax.

She screams if I'm not glued to her all day. Screams at my face for random reasons. Randomly tries to dive forward towards me or bend backwards if I'm holding her. I almost dropped her today twice but luckily I was sitting on my bed. It was so fast I barely had time to react.

It's like she's always hyper stimulated. When not screaming she'll usually do brrr brrr brrr sounds over and over again.

Sleeps like a rock, eats like a champion. Maybe it's teething? A growth spurt? She was super hungry today and yesterday, also stopped babbling the past few days. Upper gums are more white, maybe teeth will emerge in a couple days.

Just booked our first short trip with our 10m old baby. I know some of you will laugh because you're going on international travels like it's nothing 😂

I booked a house 1hr away by car, for a week. I'm super excited but also mildly panicking about baby's adjustment to a new place (has never slept anywhere besides our house or the stroller). She always sleeps independently in her own room but would it be a good idea if we slept in the same room so she feels safer?

Tips from veterans are appreciated, thank you!

Είναι παντού, τόσο που πλέον μου φαίνεται περίεργο να δω τις κλασικές κιτρινόμαυρες σφήκες.

Hello, welcome to my vent I guess. Baby is 9 months old. This has been the most difficult 9 months of my life. Not because I don't love my baby, but because I'm juggling 100 balls at once.

I had zero days maternity leave. Because I'm a freelancer and technically I'm my "boss". So in paper I *could* stop working, but I'm the main source of our household income plus my client would replace me because someone has to do their work. So I'd end up unemployed.

I scheduled an induction on a Friday so I can work on Monday. My husband would help with my work while I took care of baby and vice versa. We did shifts so I can sleep 4h. But now baby is older and demands more and more and also wants specifically me to be around because of separation anxiety.

I'm with my baby all day, and when she goes to bed after 7pm I work until past midnight, only to wake up 2-5 times at night and again 6am when baby wakes up. Husband is doing laundry, dishes and vacuums/mops so our house remains in decent living state. I cook for the baby, and I also cook whatever 10 minute meal I can for us.

This cycle continues every day, 6 days a week. I'm on a list for daycare for f*ing autumn 2027. Nannies in my area are rarer than diamonds. So somehow we have to survive, I have to keep my job so we can pay the bills and keep up with baby's needs.

On top of all that, the building next door is being demolished, the whole house is shaking like a 2.5 earthquake because they're scraping and digging next to our building's foundation and I have to flee the house with the baby with nowhere else to go but the local park. I'm running on fumes. I have to repeat to myself, "this is temporary" to gather some courage to continue. Ugh.

Οφείλω να ομολογήσω οτι τα έχω βρει σκούρα. Τα τελευταία 10 χρόνια πήγαινα σε μια παραλία στη Χαλκιδική, καθαρή, χωρίς πολύ κόσμο κλπ. Με μωρό 9 μηνών όμως δε βολεύει. Δεν έχει ούτε ένα δέντρο και πρέπει να σέρνουμε το καρότσι στην άμμο κάπου 15 μέτρα πάνε και άλλα τόσα γύρνα. Το μωρό δεν κοιμάται στην άμμο σε ψάθα/στρωματακι, θέλει βόλτα με το καρότσι και σχετικό σκοτάδι 🤦‍♀️ . Πείτε κανένα τιπ, και αν ξέρετε μέρη στη Χαλκιδική με σκιά, τουαλέτες/ντουζιέρες/αλλαξιέρες που να έχουν πρόσβαση με καρότσι για να μπορώ να το σέρνω πέρα δώθε. Θενξ!

Baby is 8.5m, gets bored easily if I give her a toy to play. So I discovered the "box of treasures", I place a box with random toys/items next to her, that keeps her occupied for 10 mins so I can get time to prepare myself and her stuff for going out.

Got any other tip to share?

I don't know how I'm going to survive and function today. 14 times from 10pm to 5am. I think it was the worst night so far. 8.5m. Pacifier, rolled over, was thirsty, hungry, then pacifier again, leg stuck between crib rails, rolled again, pacifier, pacifier, pacifier...

Baby will soon be 9 months and sleep is all over the place. Wondering what other parents are doing at this age.

Μυρίζει έντονα, ξέρουμε αν έχει κάτι και προς τα ανατολικά ή είναι απο Ωραιόκαστρο;

Ξέρει κάποιος αν υπάρχουν ταξί με παιδικά καθίσματα; Τι γίνεται αν θέλεις μετακίνηση με ταξί και δεν έχεις ειδικό καθισματάκι μαζί;

Second day this is happening. Baby is generally a bit fussy, goes to the scheduled nap, falls asleep as usual, wakes up screaming this terrifying scream like something happened. I go in, put the pacifier on, baby falls back asleep. This happened last week once, and today twice in the same nap. Is it teething?

My baby will be 8m in a few days. Babbling has dropped to zero for the past month. I'm wondering if it's because she's focusing on mastering other skills*.

I try to be responsive, I always reply when I hear a sound to encourage her to reply back but she just smiles. I sing and narrate.

*most recent skills include banging a metal bowl with a whisk and rolling both ways

Δεν έχω ιδέα απο τιμές, απευθύνθηκα σε εταιρεία καθαρισμού για τα του σπιτιού πριν κάτι μήνες και μου ζήτησαν 300+€ για μια φορά επειδή λέει έχω πολλά τζάμια. 50τμ σπίτι.

Ξέρει κανείς αν έχουμε στην πόλη μας εταιρείες που κάνουν μαθήματα σε group γονέων με μωρά, κάτι σαν το falmed.academy στο ινστα;

Please don't repost, thank you

I posted here a few months ago. My previously okay-ish MIL had the baby rabies, decided baby would be named after her without saying anything to us, the parents, announced to her friends and took them out to celebrate, then when we (clueless at the time) announced the name, her and FIL/BIL went no contact with us for 6 whole months.

MIL decided to show up a couple weeks before baby's baptism, acting all happy and jolly, like nothing happened, asking who we'd invite to the ceremony. Then started asking/pushing to see baby once a week. The same baby she didn't care about for 6 whole months, now she shows up asking to hold, says "come to grandma" and asks FIL to take pictures so she can show her friends.

Meanwhile I'm vomiting internally but I'm trying to keep the peace with as little contact as possible only because I know they'll accuse me of keeping their grandchild away from them. This woman made me hesitate to call my baby by her name that me & DH chose with so much love, took all the joy of the early months away. DH wants to be as low contact as possible.

Like Hulk? Or like those gym guys that lift way too much and go AAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHH!!!! GRRRRGHHHAAAAAARRRGHHH!

Just curious...

Baby's 7 months old. She's not gonna walk outside anytime soon. It's June, in Greece. It's hot. Why are people shocked her little feet are bare. 🙄