The Parenting Thread • Page 111

Hey that's where we live, and this is the time of year to visit since it doesn't feel like a hellscape

 

I'm leaving for 9 months next month and am really being hit by a wave of sadness lately. I left during the same age period for 9 months also for a deployment with our first kid and know my wife is just going to be so over herself on dealing with day to day things. I'm of course sad that I can't be there for her during the hardest times but even more sad over just missing a time where I know how much 9 months makes a difference in growing up. This will be the first time I'm away from my youngest for more than a month and I know she doesn't understand it, while my oldest will (but still is of course super sad over it)... I wish I was confident enough to just get out but I'm so close to retirement that I need to do this for the better of our family in the long run. Sorry for the rant, I know like only 2 people here can even relate (as far as I know), but... I honestly have no other outlet to just... type things out.

 

I didn’t know this thread existed. Single dad of a 2 year old and always looking for advice! Also I miss sleep.

 

We're all just too tired to post lol

 

8 month sleep regression is brutal this time around. I feel as tired as I did when my daughter was first born!

 

When it was time to move my son out of the crib we went to the full size bed instead of a toddler bed because he would still wake up in the middle of the night and the full bed could accommodate my wife going in and laying in the bed with him.

 

Yeah I’m thinking of moving to a full size bed. My daughter moves a lot in her sleep and gets up and comes to my bed in the middle of the night. I wonder if a bigger bed would help.

 

We were pretty much kid free in the bed with both of our kids for almost forever... until a couple months ago when our youngest started getting in bed with us a couple months back. Me getting Covid two weeks ago stopped that real quick when it was just me in bed and she (youngest) realized not to come in our (my) room at all. Thankfully it hasn't picked back up since "recovering" (sup, 3x vax and having zero side effects out of the first day, which was probably a hangover).

 

We moved our son from crib to full size bed at 2 years, 4 months. We moved our daughter from crib to queen size bed because we had an extra queen at the time.

 

My daughter has had a cough for over 2 weeks now. It’s strange, there’s really no other symptoms and it’s usually only a problem at night. Some nights though she coughs all night. Time to take her to the doctor again.

 

Could be croup. Normally acts up the most at night.

 

Sounds like croup. Our daughter went through that a few weeks ago too.

 

Does she sound like a seal when she coughs? That's the telltale sign of croup. If it's just a normal cough and you don't have a humidifier in her room, try that.

I've had a persistent cough for like 2 months ever since getting a cold right before Christmas.

 

No it’s not croup, just a normal cough. There are days when she hardly coughs at all. It’s odd.

 

Had a rough day with the newborn yesterday, she did NOT want to sleep during the day. We thought she'd be overtired and have a horrible night but we had our first six hour stretch of sleep and it was glorious

 

Our new son was born on Wednesday. Took him home yesterday. Surprisingly waaaaay more lax than our first. He sleeps pretty much all day but even at night only really is “awake” for maybe 3-4 hours. I was very anxious the last couple months not sure how it was going to be with our 3 year old in the mix. He’s been very good and listening really well. He slept through the night last night even with the baby crying a couple times.

 

Congrats!

 

Congrats, that’s awesome!

 

Congrats! Hope that trajectory continues!

 

anyone stressing about the Similac recall? the last batch we fed our kid was in the lots that were recalled but he's been fine so we are hoping we dodged a bullet

 

also here's a photo of the young god

 

Love the closed fist arm raise of sleeping babies

 

Same, my 2 month son always sleeps like that and it’s hilarious. Makes the swaddle his worst enemy however.

 

My wife was big time against Similac and its ilk before our daughter was even born, she kept getting ads about lawsuits against the company lol