r/January2025Bumper

My son has made slow but steady speech progress - we are at what I’d count as 15 consistent words. Randomly has said others and will copy back a few but 10-15 he uses on a regular basis. We did get him evaluated for private speech and they did recommend it (they’d recommend it to anyone lol they can’t even give me the copy of the actual assessment showing his scores), so we will be starting in September. But every single day on Facebook there’s another post of “anyone else have a kid speaking in 3-4 word sentences?!” “Anyone else have a kid who knows their entire alphabet and can count to 10 or 20?!” Literally I’m impressed if my son gets me the correct colored crayon when I ask. I have days where I’m happy with how he’s doing and then others where I’m like “what am I doing wrong for him to not be speaking more”.

Ok I’m editing to add - the correct crayon thing is like a once in a blue moon, and literally when it’s a blue crayon. He cannot identify colors in any other sense so he’s definitely not ahead with that just wanted to clarify

Anyone else’s child have endless energy? We took ours to a restaurant this weekend and she ran the entire time.

She’s still a great sleeper and eater. I’m just overwhelmed.

Have any of your babies had their 2 year molars pop out yet?

My daughter is almost 19 mo and is showing signs of teething, hand in mouth, fussy randomly with hand in mouth where her molars are.

She’s had all 16 teeth for quite awhile now (since maybe 15 mo or so), but just I feel it is SO early for the 2 year molars. One of her 2 year molar gums feels significantly more swollen than the others, so maybe?

He things it’s funny. I even tried biting him back to show him it’s ouchies. He was shocked and stopped for a bit but like amnesia he forgot all about it 20 mins later. I’ve tried correcting but nothing. I worried because I have the urge to give him a spank but disengage. I just worry I will one day.

Anyone else's kid still putting things in their mouth still? We've definitely made progress and my little man is teething but his new favorite thing is to eat his crayons....

We now give him a warning then take the item away and redirect but it happens so often still!

Just sharing because I was so traumatised by the what ifs and don’t want anyone else to go through the fear, let alone the possible worst case scenario.

My 18mo was walking around the wide edge/wall of a small and shallow pool and he toppled in. The water was maybe 10-15cm deep? He rolled over onto his back quicker than anything and was totally submerged. I‘d had my eyes on him the whole time, was 1m away, and he still was able to be fully submerged for a few seconds with his eyes open, panicking and looking up to the surface of the water. I was there in a flash (even though it felt like in a dream where you can’t run) and huge shoutout to another mum who leapt over screaming to grab him too. He coughed up a little water, had a huge cry, and then was completely fine and has been since. I was eerily calm and then totally broke down once I got home and I can’t get the image out of my mind; I think the image was horrifying but made worse by the fact he was totally silent under the water.

I cannot emphasise enough: please, please never leave your child alone near water, no matter how shallow. I think as our Jan babies get more confident, it can be tempting if they’re in the bath or playing in a paddling pool to pop away for a second, but in this case if I hadn‘t been right there, and that other mum hadn’t been there, that would have been it. It was the classic “a child can drown in a few cm of water“ scenario.

We have adequately watched him in the aftermath so please no advice on getting him assessed medically, just love and light and vigilance to you all!

How are we babyproofing outlets? I have high end outlet plugs, but she can get her nails/fingers under them somehow and get them off. I keep her nails super short so I don’t know how she’s managing this. Any help is appreciated.