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What is one thing your parents said to you that you swore you’d never say to your kids?

I have a loooong list, here are my top things I’d never say to my children: 1. Have you gained weight? Your stomach looks bigger. 2. I brought you into this world I can take you out of it. 3. Because I said so. Tell me yours!

how often do you clean your babe’s pacifiers?

clean, sanitize, rotate out, etc. also, if the paci falls on the floor, do you immediately get a new one or just wipe it off and give it back? we are first time parents and of course are extra careful with everything but we saw a meme about second time parents who laugh at how overly cautious they used to be so we wonder now 😂

Think my husband may be going blind

He came to me last night so proud of himself. "I cleaned all the dishes in the sink, it took half an hour!" I was impressed! There were a lot of dishes from dinner, snacks, toddler lunch box, pump parts, bottle parts... We don't normally leave it to get that bad but it's been a rough two days. I go to rinse out a glass a few minutes later and there, sitting UNTOUCHED in the sink, are my two momcozy pumps. Not washed. Not rinsed. Not even opened and soaking. So he washed all the dishes and just... Left those? The pumps he knows I use at least twice a day? Send coffee

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MIL pushing unvaccinated (for covid) cousins on my baby.

So my MIL keeps pushing that my baby's cousins spend time with him. For context, he's 7 months old and obviously unvaccinated for COVID. His cousins are in public school, sports, activities etc and unvaccinated due to parents decision. Any tips or advice on how to handle this situation? Has anyone dealt with this before? I'm so sick of navigating COVID.

Ear cleaning. How do you do it?

Pretty much the title. I have a 4-month-old and she has some crumbly ear wax. How the hell do you clean out their ears?

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Am I a terrible mom for not having a first birthday party for my son?

Basically the title. We plan to do a cake smash at home. My parents are coming up for it, but we don’t have a lot of friends with kids in our area at the moment because we recently moved here. I plan to do pictures and such, but I just don’t really have the time nor energy to make something besides that happen.

Happy spitter support group

My 7 week old is a "happy spitter" and spits up CONSTANTLY. After spending the last few weeks stressed trying to fix it (spoiler: I can't), I'm now trying to accept it and do what I can to make it less frustrating. Any happy spitter veteran parents have advice/tips and tricks for managing the spit up and possibly lessening the amount of laundry we have? Any funny stories you can share about your happy spitter? My husband and I are really trying to roll with the punches and find the humor in drowning in spit up. Not looking for advice on prevention- I'll likely lose it if someone else tells me to keep baby upright for 30 minutes after a feed! Only partly joking ;)

No one has patience with my teething baby

What are yalls experience with teething? My 4.5 month old has been teething for a few weeks now and is a completely different baby than his easy going chill self. He's super fussy, clingy, and just grumpy more often than not. I don't mind cause I understand what he's going through and that he doesn't feel good. Everyone else however acts like he's annoying. My husband complains that he just wants to be held all the time, and family just complains that he cries too much. I'm a stay at home mom so I'm around him literally 24/7 and I know he only acts like this when he doesn't feel good. I guess I just wanted to vent. It drives me crazy that no one is understanding that this is such a hard thing for a baby, and they expect him to just deal with it. I even mentioned giving Tylenol to him when he started getting really fussy and my husband said "he'll be alright." This coming from the man who would literally wake up in tears when his wisdom teeth were coming in. Can anyone relate?

Fight with bf over driving w baby in the front seat

So today we planned to go to the park. They went down into the basement where the underground garage is located. I walked downstairs to the parking lot outside for them to meet me (I was making a bottle inside while they went to get the car). While I’m waiting outside for them, I see my baby’s head bobbing under my boyfriends. She’s in the front seat on his lap as they drive up to me. His defense is that she was crying and it was literally a 20 second ordeal. I was livid and done. Like I have zero patience for stupidity these days. He is pissed that I’m upset and he stormed off. Wondering what your ladies thoughts are? AITA? I feel like I’m going crazy because of how upset it made me and how relaxed he was. He is normally an amazing, overly cautious father. Thanks

Stressing about taking your 1-2 year old out during covid.

So the universe decided at the start of covid was the perfect time to give us our little boy, during covid we did it all we stayed home when we could, wore masks when we were out etc. and the whole time we had ways of someone watching our LO(almost 2) when we needed to go to the store or just one of us would go while we stayed home. We go on walks and stuff with him but out in public not so much other than doctor visits and he's in physical therapy so there sort of too. We are both getting to the point of just saying screw it and taking him out with us because him being at home all the time is causing obvious delays in his social skills and you can just tell he wants to be out looking at other people and just other things. I just feel both sick to my stomach and like an awful parent just because I want my kid to experience the world. Just curious of your inputs on this because the stress from just not being able to be a family has hit hard after all this time.

Trust your baby's competence: she wants to do things for herself, and she can do things for herself. Let her be the initiator and problem solver. -Magda Gerber, #unschool

Baby tear duct cleaning

Last week my son (11m) had his tear ducts cleared out. If you don’t know how this procedure works: they don’t put the baby under, they just strap them down to a board, and push through their tear ducts into their sinuses with a very thin metal rod (the doctor described it as an unraveled paper clip). It was horrible. I could hear him screaming from the lobby. I just sat there and cried. Ever since then he has been happy as a clam BUT refuses to lay on his back for diaper changes or changing his clothes. He screams like he being hurt and struggles with everything he has to get away. It’s breaking me heart. It didn’t click until yesterday that this was likely a reaction from the procedure. Is there even therapy for babies with (what I assume is) PTSD?? Do I just try to do all changes while he stands up? Am I just overreacting? Any suggestions, advice, or similar stories appreciated!

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