Posts by plunky

There's a thread in Dads that might have relevant information for you as well, although it was about an older baby: http://www.mothering.com/discussions....php?t=1117471

I wouldn't deal with the tantrums, either, but are you adding 80 minutes of driving time to his day that he wasn't expecting until this conversation? Cause that's a lot of driving.

FWIW, my daughter never really got into the bottle thing. According to our pretty crunchy pediatrician, it was fine if she waited until Mama got back and nursed again. The context there was Mama going to work for 8 hours and DD being...

I'm a fan of barefoot. It bugged me a bit when I heard people talking about how my daughter's feet weren't perfectly sized for whatever shoes they were looking at. That was about a year ago though, I guess, before DD was 1. And she...

Totally out of left field, probably, but my guess is that he's freaked and not behind the home schooling idea.

Quote: Originally Posted by Pearl H DH feels the same way as me and doesn't know what to do either. Any ideas on how to deal with the situation? Your DH should handle this, as they're his parents. Give them...

Sounds like how you rotate food in a restaurant. Use the oldest that is still good, and rotate the new into the back of the queue.

Never been in that situation and had a kid at the same time. I've had minor backaches a few times like you described (only minor because they went away), and all I did was take ibuprofen and rest a lot. Do whatever you can to rest and...

My brother went through a phase for several months at least where he insisted he be called Lando Calrissian. I'm with your husband, don't change her name officially. Call her what she wants to be called, though.

Not going to vote as I think it would skew the poll the wrong way (since safe assumption is that the respondent is female), but my DD has my last name and my wife kept her name when we got married.