r/January2025Bumper

I fear mine is, of course at a time when I had lots of things I was trying to do in the evening and when my partner will be out of town soon. 😭

today napped for 30 minutes instead of 1 hr - 1 hr 20 min, and then when I tried to nurse him to sleep he kept waking up.

now he slept 1 hr and fell asleep after 40 minutes of nursing, only to wake less than 5 minutes later and I came into the room to him sitting on the floor crying mama :(

he also hasn’t been interested in eating as much/has been more picky which goes with it usually for him.

I don’t know why I’ve had a resurgence in anxiety about speech. I know animal sounds count and signs count but I’m wondering if they count if I have to prompt her to say the words

She says
Ball
Hi
Dog
Nay for horse
Cuck for chicken
Shhhh for shoe
Moo for cow
Nana
Mama
Dada
Up
Down
All done
Wawa

However, she only says mama, dada, ball and dog unprompted and regularly. As in she points to it and says dog if she sees a dog. Sometimes she says “all done” if she is done but usually she just signs it. She’s beginning to say da for down and up for wanting to get up but I’m not 100% sure of this. She will say hi when she looks at herself in the mirror and sometimes and sometimes to me and dad.

Most of the time though, I have to ask her what is this to get her to say it, like she doesn’t look at a cow and say moo, I have to say, what does a cow say

She also used to say yes and na for no and nod/shake head but now she only shakes her head or nods yes to mean yes and no.

Is any of this concerning? Would she qualify for services if I were to get her evaluated? Her receptive language is very good and she meets all physical milestones

Since we had to change shoes a couple weeks ago as they where too small plus heavy for the upcoming heat, my 16 month boy is loosing his mind (crying, screaming, refusing to walk) every time we put on a new pair.

We’ve tried multiple pairs and models, try to have him pick the pair to wear, showed us wearing shoes, have him play/touch the shoes before putting on, nothing works and it’s been very challenging for all of us now!

I’ve never heard of that happening and i don’t know what else to try!

Kid is otherwise healthy, very ahead of motor skills, normal development and social skills, funny loving beautiful guy!

Please tell me if this happens to you as well and any tips and tricks

I know it’s a sensory thing but short of only offering a few bites at a time is there anything else I can do? Or just hope he grows out of it? He also still will try to put non food items in his mouth like at a party today he kept trying to put legos in this mouth and the more I tried to correct him the more it was a game to him. He’s a good eater which I’m grateful for and he’s never choked even with stuffing his mouth so much but it just stresses me out lol

So we live right across the street from a huge park with a ton of activities and a busy street about 2 blocks away with a ton of shops. For the past couple of months, I’ve been taking my daughter out without the stroller and letting her walk with me or I carry her if she doesn’t want to walk. I wear a tush baby side carrier thing that she sits on for support

Lately, she has been trying to get out of the carrier and then not wanting to walk and laying on the ground and throwing a tantrum. Then I carry her back up, she wants to walk again, she walks a little then wants to be carried. Especially if she wants to see a dog, she’ll point to the dog, get all excited and want to walk but as the dog and owner approaches she gets scared and wants back on the carrier

Just curious, if you guys take baby out without a stroller and are able to just walk with baby along the street or park the entire time (while being carried occasionally).

She’s been walking for 3 mo, walks all the time at home but seems lately doesn’t want to walk outside as much unless we’re at the playground. I’m a first time mom so have no idea. I’d love constructive criticism on this.

My baby is taking steps independently and can walk up to 10 to 15 steps.. she has been doing this since she turned 1 and its been around 4 months but she isn’t really getting there and walking yet. She is walking on knees and scared to walk on her legs. From the past few days she is not at all walking and i am worried now. Anyone has any suggestions??? Anything that helped?

I’m desperately seeking ideas for my baby’s early wakeups. She’s sleep trained for nights (falls asleep independently), but naps have always needed patting/rocking.
Until 3–4 weeks ago, her schedule was:
7:30 pm–5:45/6 am night sleep (no MOTN wakes except illness)
Nap: 12:30–3/3:30 pm (~3 hrs)
Then we had sicknesses, jet lag, and daycare start in the last month, and since then I’ve joined the 4:30–5 am wake-up club.

Current schedule:
Night: 7 pm–4:45/5 am
Daycare nap: ~11:45 am–1:45 pm (varies 1.5–2.25 hrs; assume 2 hrs)

I saw lots of varied advice on the previous post by someone else. Thanks for creating it! I’m making a more specific one because I need ideas and help understanding how to experiment.

1. When trying a new bedtime, how long do you stick with it before deciding it’s not working? Yesterday I moved bedtime earlier (6:45 instead of 7), thinking overtiredness may be causing early wakes. Instead, she cried longer, woke at 3 am, and was fully up by 4:30. We didn’t get her until 5:30, so she cried for an hour. Should I abandon this or try it for a few more days?

2)Any ideas I can try immediately? I’m planning to try overnight diapers. Bedtime is really the only thing I can adjust right now—should I move it earlier or later?

This bud is a volume eater. He’s tall and skinny so weight isn’t an issue here but the kid just eats. Morning till night. He has an anaphylactic dairy allergy so I cook most of his meal from scratch or hand pick all his snacks and we have to pack him an adult sized lunch box packed to the brim when we go out. Sometimes he will just eat for like 2 hours. I guess this would take preference to the stage they survive off air and raspberries but goodness.

I'm trying to troubleshoot my bub's 5AM wakeup time... 😬

Meal time seems to be more of a fight or he just gets bored and wants to move on.

He’s always been a good eater, would eat and try anything. Now he’ll eat a little then want to get down and play. I’d say he has one good meal a day then trying to offer healthy, protein snacks and not just puffs, etc.

Pediatrician said to look at the intake over a week, so I’m not worried necessarily, more so is this a phase that passes?

Yesterday, she demanded that everyone (mom, dad, grandpa, grandma, dog) stop what they were doing and watch her do the itsy bitsy spider dance. She was quite graceful too, I had no idea she knew how to do the whole thing.

If someone wasn’t paying attention, she’d stop and point at them until they did pay attention, then she’d continue her dance.

Then shortly afterwards, we had our first serious meltdown because I wouldn’t let her walk and eat a banana at the same time.

Where did my baby go???? When did this opinionated toddler take over?

I just typed out a whole thing and it deleted LOL. So basically my son has been waving since 12 months, but it was always like a hand flapping wave, but whatever that’s fine he understood what the gesture meant and when to wave hi and bye. Now for the last few weeks, whenever he waves he is doing the typical “open close” of his hand, but his palm is facing him instead of facing out. I thought it looked so cute but naturally I decided to google if this was a “typical” thing before figuring out to flip your hand outward. Everything that comes up is having waving toward oneself is a sign of autism because they copy the motion exactly as they see it vs understanding that they have to turn their hand out too.

So naturally coming here to see if any of your littles had a phase of waving toward themselves? Is it truly that worrisome? I feel like I always have these little concerns about my son and have since he was really little, and I’m constantly on the fence of wondering if he may be autistic or not (not much speech at all only like 3 words, he gestures, knows his body parts, but then does “stim” occasionally and does not know some items I feel like he should like ball etc so idk truly lol) . Overall I know it’s truly too early but little signs here and there still have me keeping my eyes out (we have a dev pedi for my oldest that already said she’d gladly eval him if I wanted, but to not do it too soon just to waste our time for him to clearly not get any diagnosis from being too young).

I didn’t realize it was this weekend (here). oops.

Man, today fkn sucked. I’ve been home for an hour and I still have this lingering anxiety buzz.

I don’t think I’ve ever had an anxiety episode like this before—it just built up from a bunch of things all at once.

I went to my cousin’s going-away thing at my sister’s house. She has two dogo argentinos and two yorkies, and she scheduled it right at my baby’s bedtime, which already had me wondering if I should even go. But I made a banner, so I went to drop it off.

I get there, I’m starving, she had said she was going to have pizza so I came hungry —but it never came while I was there. Meanwhile, one of the big male dogs kept barking at my 15-month-old, especially when my sister held baby, I saw the doggo did a fake bite at his legs. Then one of the yorkies kept trying to nip at him whenever I set him down to walk.

And then my BIL says I should just let him get bit because “it’s going to happen eventually.” I just walked away and ignored him

At that point, my anxiety just started building. People kept talking to me and I could barely focus on what they were saying. I couldn’t put my baby down because the dogs would rush him, and my sister kept saying I needed to get him used to it.

Finally, I was just like, okay, I’m ready to go. It was already an hour past his bedtime anyway. My sister asked me to wait another 15 minutes for the pizza, but I said no. As we’re leaving, my husband says, “You always freak out”when I apologize for wanting to leave so abruptly. I knew he was enjoying himself—which is ironic because earlier today he told me I’m too calm when the baby gets hurt.

I ended up crying on the drive home. He didn’t notice because it was dark.

I’m still processing everything. I don’t feel like I was overreacting for not trusting those dogs around my baby… but now I’m second-guessing myself.

I hope everyone has a lovely day! 😊

last two days I’ve tried getting baby to sleep for over an hour with no luck. he’ll sleep at night from 830-730ish (usually 11-11.5 hours), with that including time woken up to nurse (at least 3 or so times, big chunks in the morning). he used to do this and would take 1 nap but now he’s been refusing that nap and then just exhausted by the end of the day.

and then of course I want to cry because that’s my only down time all day (to get stuff done but also relax).

a couple websites said about 15 hours a day of sleep (11-12 hrs at night and 2-3 hours of naps).

So my baby, especially during the morning when we are getting ready to go out, the door will cry for everything unless I give him a snack. I don’t want him to cry to tell me that he wants something so what I’ve started doing is ignoring him or I tell him no crying if you want a banana say banana

I think I’m just overstimulated

I am somewhat sure that currently rotavirus is in our house. My partner and I both have been having to go to the bathroom every couple of hours for the last two days. I have stomach cramps. No vomiting. Baby (15 mo) has had one bout of diarrhea, now seemingly fine. No vomiting for her either. Everything else is normal as well.

She is vaccinated so makes sense why she’s not getting these symptoms, or just less severe symptoms. Wondering if this has been the case for anyone else where baby doesn’t get symptoms and parents do. I feel like I must have been vaccinated as a child?? We were all traveling via plane 2ish days before this hit.

Anyways…this is a walk in the park compared to norovirus that we had a month ago. No symptoms for baby either. Just me and dad.

So far this spring, I’ve had Covid, norovirus and rotavirus or whatever this is. Baby either did not get it or was asymptomatic although she did get roseola, runny nose and fever for a few days. This me and my partner did not get.

Is this just par for the course with having kids? She’s not in daycare, but we go out often and do lots of baby classes and playground almost every day. None of us got sick at all during the winter and now looks like we are making up for lost time this spring. I usually get sick like once every two years so this is totally new territory. I feel like no one believes me at work anymore 😂