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I'm so sick of "I hate my kids" type of humor

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8 month old fell off the bed and wife is pissed. Please help

I’m not sure what kind of reaction I’m looking for by posting here but I feel… a bit traumatized, but all in all baby is OK so that’s good. Wife was reading in bed and I was playing a video game on my handheld device. Wife got up and left, but I didn’t fully register it. Next thing I know, baby rolls off of the bed and hits her head on the hardwood floor. She cried a ton, I called our pediatrician and it seems OK as long as we monitor baby. No obvious signs of concussion and now she’s napping. My wife is upset and says she never wants to see the video game device again. I feel like it’s less the video game’s fault and more my own since I didn’t look up and put baby between my legs like I normally do. She’s saying CPS would have a field day with this… is it all really that bad? From now on I’m not going to be so engrossed in something when the baby is precariously placed. Idk. Is this really CPS level neglect/harm? Edit: the top of the mattress is 2ft 3in off the ground.

My baby is 3 days old and I'm crying over the fact he is going to grow up so fast

I love him so much, he is so tiny and beautiful, I'm so sad I don't have more time with my little newborn.

4 days PP as FTM - emotional wreck

I had my beautiful baby boy on April 7. I’m so in love and obsessed. I’m also so so emotional. I know that hormone changed and lack of sleep are huge culprits, also a huge life change. I just want to know if other people felt this particular way. I find myself thinking about how much I love my parents, that they won’t be around forever, that he’s already growing up too fast and that he won’t be small forever, that one day I will feed him a bottle for the last time or that I will swaddle or hold him for the last time. I’m trying to be in the moment and soak up all these times but I can’t help getting so emotional and feeling these things.

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How many deviled eggs to make?

So I’m making deviled eggs for Easter. There’s going to be 10 adults and 6 kids ranging from 11 to 3. Since there’s other food I’m thinking 2 whole eggs, 4 halves each, a person so about 32 whole eggs? Or maybe just a round 36 just in case. I’m also going to do 2-3 different kinds so there will be variety. Feel like I get the best amount of responses on this sub.

Raising children is one of the most significant, meaningful, and profound experiences. Is this just an evolutionary illusion, a trick to make us keep on reproducing? I’ll argue that it’s the real thing, they put us in touch with truth, beauty, and meaning. -@alisongopnik

Are you a host or a guest?

Question: Do you have people over to your house? Or do you visit others' more? I usually (almost always) host, and it drives me bananas. My house must be cleaned, then torn apart by kids playing, then re-cleaned. And I have to cook and provide snacks. I can see why people never want to do it. I feel taken advantage of. But, if I don't invite people over, my daughter will have no friends, and we'll just be the odd lonely losers.

Botched circumcision

Before people come at me, I didn’t know what I knew now. I am pregnant again and if it’s a boy, I will not circumcise. But we did it with my son and they did not take enough skin. Without a revision, he will have issues. Has anyone did a revision? How old was your son when you did it? What can I expect. I feel so so guilty.

Me: I think it’s time to go up a size in diapers

Husband: I don’t want to go up quite yet. We still have a bunch of 2s. We still had a bunch of 1s when we went to 2s. I think you go up too fast. Me: *just changed a very average sized poop that was a messy leg blow out in the grass at my mom’s house while husband builds a deck.* But it’s not time to size up yet…

Q for mom's who had gestational diabetes

Did you or the baby have any complications from the gd? And if so, what? I know the biggest concern is a big baby, and I know from 6 ultrasounds I'm not making one of those. My desire for sweets and carbs is getting harder and harder to keep at bay the last 4 or 5 days (currently 37 wks 1 d). I want to hear real stories, real experiences, not Google what Mayo Clinic says can happen since my mind keeps bouncing between anxiety and fear that all the bad possibilities will occur and then like the little devil on my shoulder sometimes telling me it'll all be fine and eat some fucking pizza and donuts or candy...TIA

I want to disappear

Throwaway I’m really struggling. I have my 14 month old and I’m 5 months pregnant. I feel like I’ve ruined my husband’s life by having kids. I don’t make enough money to support my children. My job is stupid and at best I’ll get a 5% raise. Other jobs I’ve looked that I qualify for require a bunch of travel that I don’t think I’ll be able to swing with a newborn. I just want to disappear and my husband can go do what he wants and be happy and my kids will at least have one happy parent.

Baby Advice Again Pls

So if anyone hasn’t read my previous post, we have a 3 and a 1/2 month old baby who seems to be teething early and is extremely fussy. She’s been to a urgent clinic already and they said the only thing we can do is try to get her to take infant Tylenol and the only way I can get her to take it is through her bottles. But now she’s started to seem to spit a little back up after drinking her whole bottle of formula and I can’t be certain she’s getting enough medicine to help her. Any and all tips or advice will help, thank you!

My son is eating the drywall.

That’s it. That’s the post. Anyone know of a good way to cover the corner of walls with a type of metal guard?