r/Crunchymom

How do we feel about starches before one? The amount of conflicting things I read is crazy...

i didn’t pay much attention to individual ingredients when i first started looking at prenatals, but choline and methylfolate kept coming up as i compared labels. i’ve been looking at Needed, Ritual, Perelel, and FullWell, and Needed has probably stood out to me the most so far because the ingredient breakdown seems pretty comprehensive without feeling like i’m just looking at a basic prenatal.

i’m still figuring out how much weight to put on individual ingredients versus the overall formula. were choline and methylfolate both things you specifically looked for when choosing a prenatal, or did you mostly compare the full ingredient lists and go with whichever one made the most sense overall?

Hey mamas. Discussing with friends yesterday all the gross junk in boxed snacks. Even the snacks marketed as "healthy" have some questionable ingridents like "natural flavors". We typically shop at Aldi but do a monthly costco trip.

Wondering if any mamas have completely cut out packaged snacks and prep some solid homemade options for quick grab and go. Any ideas are welcome.

Thinking a weekly mini muffin, homemade popcorn, granola bars along with the standard veggies and dip.

I'd even consider doing a monthly prep of items to freeze and pull out later.

Any tried and true tricks for Hand Foot and Mouth? My three year old has been writhing in discomfort from the itchiness of his feet all night. It’s almost 1am and he’s genuinely slept for 10 minutes.

We did do a little Genexa acetaminophen and that didn’t seem to do anything for him.

We did calamine lotion on his foot spots and I think that made it feel worse somehow, even though none of his spots/blisters have opened.

I accidentally did a heating pad on his feet to distract him from the pain before reading that that might make the itchiness worse.

We wrapped his feet in cold cloths after that, though they weren’t very cold… probably should’ve soaked them in an ice bath first.

What gave your kid true relief? Hoping he can eventually fall asleep and tha we don’t do a round two of this tomorrow night!

I just gave birth 5 days ago and my 22mo developed a cold the day she was born and has since passed it to me and my husband.I was worried about my toddler getting sick because she seems to get sick at least once a month now because she’s around other kids at church but I didn’t know it would be so quick.Im breastfeeding on demand but besides that I don’t know what to do if my newborn gets a cold or what I can even do for myself because I’m breastfeeding

Hey everyone.

I’m 32 weeks pregnant and I’m feeling really overwhelmed trying to learn about labour and delivery. I’m signed up for a birth class that’s 4 days total, but one of the days of the class goes past my due date.

There’s a lot of reading material, but I find a lot of it is driven towards hospital births, and I’m going to a birth center with midwives. I do have a doula as well.

Can any recommend some easy to read articles or something like a YouTube channel?

Thank you