I'm baaaaaaaaaack...........
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Originally Posted by Paddington  And Heather, for someone not very NFL, don't you clean your house with vinegar?  |
Vinegar and baking soda, yes. Point taken. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Neth Naneth Quick question for you all, for all the babies . . . I mean toddlers  that are under 30 pounds does anyone have their baby ride facing forward? |
We've not turned K quite yet, but will be soon. She's only in the past few months been remotely happy in the car about half the time, and since I just traveled 2 hours to my parents' house this week we decided that now was NOT the time to change the car seat arrangement. When we get back home next week we'll turn it and see how she does around town. If she's noticeably happier, we'll keep it FF - cause as Helen said, I'm a less safe driver when I'm stressed cause she's screaming (and it's not fair to D to keep us housebound). If she's not noticeably happier, we'll probably put her back RF for a little while longer.
I posted on the recent "how old is too old for a booster" thread and went with the minority that I would not force a petite tween/teen into a booster - and that minority group was lambasted. I am of the opinion that the car/booster seat is only one factor of many involved in a crash scenario. A high safety crash rating, following proper car maintenance, and making sure your tires are safe and properly inflated can make a big difference in a crash as well. Also, many people do not have their seats installed correctly, and/or do not have their children restrained properly in the seat. I think a lot of these important factors are glossed over in the child restraint/safety frenzy and too much of the focus is put on keeping your kid in a seat/harnessed booster.
. But enough of my opinion on that...
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Originally Posted by sehbub as opposed to PA where folks like to stay in the right lane and cruise, thus forcing the person on the on-ramp to slam on their brakes. Not so much with the safety. The only time I would freak out is driving in to Baltimore or DC, which isn't often.
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Originally Posted by BundleFishMama And Sarah - you are SO right about PA, I cannot believe how bad people are at merging!! I almost had an accident last week for that exact reason - I was in the right-most lane on the highway and I saw a guy coming down the entrance lane so I slowed up a bit to let him merge on, and he was so afraid, he just kept braking and was entering the highway at like 10 mph!! I had to slam on my brakes and almost have an accident because he wouldn't decide whether he was going to go or not!
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Seriously. I've lived in PA and NY just about my whole life. What is it that so many PA drivers don't understand about merging? Or doing onesy-onesy? Or that a yield sign is NOT a stop sign? Good grief.
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Originally Posted by mommitola Actually, what is everyone doing with sleep these days?
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But I think we're going to start offering the crib and see if it makes a difference. It's a whole 2 feet from the bed. Or I may side car it again now that she can safely climb down.
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Sleeping arrangements: K nurses to sleep and starts the night in her crib, then I bring her to bed with me when I'm ready. When she's walking well enough and safely able to climb down from the bed, and can understand the concept, we'll do with her what we did with big bro: Take the rail off the crib and make it a day bed, close all the doors in the "hallway" (which is just a 5x5 landing with a permanent gate at the stairwell) but hers and ours (so she has nowhere to go but our room), and let her come to us whenever she wakes up and wants to. Worked beautifully with D, as he aged and slept longer on his own it just naturally happened and he continues to ease out of the family bed. He's mostly in his room now though he joins us now and again still...and we love it that way!
As far as actual sleep, sometimes it's great - she'll nurse to sleep in about 10 min and sleep for up to 6-7 hours before waking up to nurse to sleep again. Then, there are the other nights. The nights she just wants to scream while laying on my lap. FLIPS OUT if I try to comfort/cradle/rock her, DOESN'T want to be put down. Teething tablets/tylenol make no difference. VIOLENTLY refuses the breast (one time had her foot on my throat
). Just wants me to sit there in the rocker with the Boppy on my lap, while she lays on it writhing and wailing for about 10-15 minutes, then she nurses for about 30 seconds and passes out. Yeah, that's good for the old nerves.
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It would be one thing if she would let me comfort her, or just want me to leave her alone - but it's like all she wants is a silent witness to her misery and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. I hate those nights. Those are also the nights she's up every 2 hours to nurse. Fortunately, they are few and far between (though now that I've mentioned it here it will probably happen tonight.)
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Originally Posted by chiromama generally, sleep is better, she goes down easy (and at a decent time if we catch it) and sleeps for a couple of hours with out needing boob, then i come to bed and she'll sleep up to 3.5 hours between boobings. Then up about 11-12 hours after she went down. Naps are usually 1x a day for about 2 hours. sometimes more, often less, and occasionally two shorter naps. She doesn't seem super cranky so I assume she's getting enough sleep.
Me? not so much.
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Damn it woman, neither of us are following the pact we made. Remember: No mentioning ecent-day eep-slay!!!!!
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Originally Posted by papayapetunia
My baby is so cute. She likes to feed us. She was eating Annie's brand whole wheat bunny crackers, and she holds one up for me, then one up for Joey. She accidentally almost gave me two in a row, but remembered that it was Joey's turn, so she snatched it out of my mouth and gave it to him. : |
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Originally Posted by Amys1st So Amy is now in the house!
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Originally Posted by Amys1st But most importantly, she wants to do everything her big sister does and tries and can usually do it. Ughhh.
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Here too - K MUST try to do everything D does, climb everywhere he is, sit next to him wherever he is, eat everything he does, brush her teeth when he does, etc. etc. etc. And she also is pretty darn good at most of it, too!
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She has a new "word" - more a sound, but getting closer to the actual word. "Up". Way cool.
: She's also doing the phone thing with real phones and other non-phone objects. She holds it to her ear, says, "uhhhhhhh?" and smiles. She also LOVES plastic grocery bags
: loves to walk around shaking them - she walks and laughs and hums and shakes the bag looking about as proud as a little one can be. And, um, I let her...but only supervised. I promise. What else? Oh - she's obsessed with the bathtub/shower. MUST be in it with me when I shower, in addition to her nightly bath time with brother. She is the TP bandit so all our TP is up off the rolls on top of cabinets. No interest in the toilet so long as I have the lid shut; she's not into opening the lid, yet. Loves climbing up into office chairs and being spun. A weird thing - at least weird from my previous experience - she'll actually bring me things if I don't want her to have them and I ask her for them. Toddle right over and put it in my hand. It's quite nice.
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Birthday Picture Explosion. This includes both her actual birthday, and the party 2 days later. Many pics that are of other kids, cause she was asleep for half of the party. Had the old college gang up (minus two who couldn't make it - we're still a close-knit group after 15 years!
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I just see the discussion always gets heated on general carseat threads, with a few folks especially vocal. As in I am surprised they did not spidey sense that forward facing was being discussed and decide to drop in!
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we all have tots now!!!!
he's usually 9pmish-7:30am
: I felt funny taking it and using it but mother had no idea how to use it (she's very low-tech and like a regular film camera) and was going to give it away to somebody.
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