My daughter turns 2 next month so need suggestions of which ones to buy for her birthday.
Her favorite is Ms Rachel, so would love others similar that are a combo of music and interaction.
She also loves the Elsa tonie but I wish she would lose it lol.
We have the puppy dog and winnie the pooh, and those are hit or miss for her
As a data-lover, I found this interesting and thought I’d share! My oura ring consistently shows that I never go into a deep sleep while cosleeping.
During the first half of the night, my husband stays up late with our 2 month old to give me some uninterrupted sleep. So here, I am alone in bed and go into a deep sleep quite a bit.
In this particular night, I got up and fed baby around 2am, and coslept for the rest of the night, and stayed in either REM or Light the whole time!
Hopefully this helps reassure those who are considering cosleeping. One of the reasons I was nervous is that I typically am a very deep sleeper, and was worried I wouldn’t sleep light enough to know if she moved or something.
Curious if others who wear fitness trackers have noticed the same thing!
Colicky baby, also with reflux. EBF and dairy free, and I’m about to cut out soy as well.
She’s taking pepcid for the reflux, and it’s helps immensely, but she’s still very colicky/gassy. Doing mylicon after every feed but tbh it feels like a placebo.
Curious for those who have tried probiotics, did they actually help?
Just need to rant I think, and maybe hear other perspectives to see if im the asshole
Currently 7 weeks postpartum with my second, and my first is 22 months.
Situation: My husband has a wedding coming up for his best friend that is out of town this weekend, so he will be gone for 3 full days. The wedding is no kids, so I will be staying home with our girls. Also, my parents will be out of town at the same time for their annual vacation, so I will be totally alone. I have friends, but they aren’t moms so they don’t get it. One of them will be stopping by to say hi to me.
Backstory: when my first was a baby, my husband went on:
- bachelor trip in Vegas
- wedding in the mountains (also no kids, so I stayed home with the baby)
We went on one family vacation in a ski town where he snow boarded the whole time and i was stuck in the hotel room while our baby napped, or fighting the baby to put on a coat and braving the bitter cold during wake windows by myself. I was totally miserable.
Then, during my second pregnancy, I had wanted to go on a family beach trip in January before the baby arrived in March, sort of as a baby moon.
But best friend scheduled his bachelor trip for January on a cruise, so we scrapped the family trip and he went on the bachelor trip.
We briefly talked about turning this wedding into a family vacation, but between credit card points and sharing hotel fares with other groomsmen, he’s going for basically pennies. Whereas we’d spend a couple thousand at least if we turned it into a vacation for the family.
Now the wedding is approaching and I am absolutely dreading it. The newborn is a trash sleeper because she has reflux (being treated with meds.)
Even doing shifts with my husband, I am totally sleep deprived and exhausted (Baby is EBF).
He noticed I’ve been extra cranky and frustrated the past couple days, and I told him how I am dreading him being gone, scared of falling asleep in unsafe circumstances because I’m so tired, and am honestly feeling resentment towards how he gets to have yet another fun trip with all of his friends while I take care of the kids.
Then he was basically saying that now he is going to be miserable because this is an obligation, but now he’s going to be too worried about me to have fun, and that this is a “once in a lifetime experience for him, so can’t I just nut up for one weekend for him?”
Am I wrong to resent him? Should I just “nut up?”
ETA: he also brought up a wedding that I was a bridesmaid in when I was 4 months post partum. It was local, and he had the baby during the “getting ready” part of the day (I pumped), and then we had the baby at the wedding, and left at 9pm. So, definitely not the same thing as him going on 3 day trips totally kid free.