1. He JUST started dipping! Ketchup with any meat really, hummus I have tried and he liked so I'll be picking some up soon (I buy spicy so I have to get regular). He had some sweet BBQ with popcorn chicken 2 nights ago. It was so cute watching him dip. But I will be giving him more sauces and sips for sure.

  2. If he likes hummus you can also try putting tahini on other things. They make a shelf stable squeeze bottle of tahini. We used to drizzle it onto things. It’s how we exposed our kid to sesame for allergen reasons, and we also did it to pack in calories. It’s savory and a little sweet.

  3. At around that age ours kept saying “I-ya-da” and it clearly meant something to him, but we had no idea what. Finally one day at dinner a couple months later we realized that he was saying HIS NAME! Elijah, except we call him Eli. We discovered that daycare uses his full name often, so he had been introducing himself that whole time.

  4. Find ways to combine more than one thing. Exercise can be done as a family. Might not be the kind you want, but you can take walks and run around the playground. Or do yoga and stretches with your kid. Many chores can be done while also spending time with your kids. Definitely only do necessary work stuff out of work hours, and really examine whether it’s necessary.

  5. My mom is not comfortable being alone with my toddler outside of the house for very long because she can’t run after him. But she will happily babysit in the house. So when she visits we do lots of date nights and run errands kid-free. It’s not full service grandparent, but we appreciate what we can get.

  6. Does your friend have kids? Everything potty related is just different once you have kids. She has no idea what she’s talking about.

  7. Fake it till you make it! And by make it, I mean when the baby starts smiling or having a personality.

  8. He might be reading that book himself to try to see things from your perspective? But my god, just ask him. You’re married. You get to ask questions. Then you make decisions based on his answers or lack of answers.

  9. Pretty rarely, and almost exclusively when we’re out and about at a mealtime. Takeout or deliver just doesn’t fill any of our needs. We always have food we can make at home. Toddler doesn’t find eating out or ordering in special.

  10. If I need to have a treat - I totally hear you on both cereal and bagels - I just pair it with protein and then take a 20 minute brisk walk afterwards. The walk will always bring me back into range. Doesn’t work for everyone, but if you haven’t tried it, you should!

  11. I’ve bought several colors/prints of this one from Amazon. Can be worn with skinny jeans and flats, or slacks for dressier.

  12. We said f*ck it and let him eat breakfast on the couch while he watches Sesame Street. We change his clothes as he sits on the couch and eats. I brush his hair on the couch. I put his shoes on while he sits there. Then we say something like “okay we’re ready, say bye bye to Elmo and you’ll see him tomorrow”

  13. Yep I came here to say that we use tv. It makes the morning go so much more smoothly. I finally fully gave in when I was in my first trimester of my second pregnancy and felt like death in the mornings. I couldn’t fight the request for tv anymore, and knew it would also be helpful once baby is here. He gets dressed easily, and eats efficiently while enjoying a show of his choosing.

  14. I did this. But I’ll give you a shortcut. Just figure out what the biggest daycare chain is in your area. Mine was Kindercare. They’re everywhere and they always say they have space (ie they’re big enough that they make space when demanded). I got a quoted rate for them. Then I got a few more quotes, and realized that Kindercare was the top of the market. So we were able to budget based off that. We knew we wouldn’t need to pay more than their rate.

  15. You’ll learn more here than you will from the dietician, assuming you passed whatever health class you were required to take in high school. The only thing useful mine told me last pregnancy was that the thighs burn the most sugar, so focus on exercises that get your thighs moving when you need to burn off sugar.

  16. Did someone tell you to keep him upright for an hour?! The most I’ve heard is 20 minutes. My son had reflux but keeping him up didn’t make any difference. Medicine and time is what made a difference and until then we just let him spit up. Couldn’t do anything else.

  17. The ped told us to keep him upright during and after feeding. I started with 10 mins and worked my way up, thinking, I guess, that maybe he just needed to be held upright longer. But yea... even at an hour of keeping him upright sleeping on my chest after feeding, once I lay him down, he still hurls.

  18. If it helps, how it worked with us was the doctor kept close track of his weight. If he was gaining weight appropriately and not upset about spitting up, then they didn’t intervene. When he started falling off his growth curve, then we talked about intervention. (It sounds like your son has other symptoms though - crying a lot, upset about the spit up? That could also warrant intervention) first we ruled out him having an allergy. Switched to the hypoallergenic formula and I went on a restrictive diet (he was combo fed). We have that about 6 weeks to see if it made a difference. It didn’t. Then they diagnosed reflux and put him on the baby dose of liquid Pepcid. That did help - not 100%, but got better. We also added extra powder to his formula to boost what he took in (the doctor gave me the recipe - don’t just decide to do this yourself). All of this helped until he started solids and could sit up. 8 months was when we felt like we were really past it.

  19. Are you really going to watch the camera the whole day? And if so, why are you paying for daycare anyway? And if not, you have to be able to trust the daycare. If you trust the daycare, then you don’t need cameras. Get to know the workers, get comfortable with the setting…but don’t torture yourself by watching cameras all day! It’s never been an option for us, and I’m better for it. Mine will occasionally send photos, and she did send a lot of photos his first week to show he was doing well.

  20. Please save your sanity and stop doing 3 finger pricks in one setting! Just take the first one and stop. They look at multiple data points and trends for this reason. Try not to stress about each individual number. Also don't drive yourself crazy trying to find a relationship between meal numbers and fasting numbers. Read up in this sub - for most people there is no relationship. Many of us a diet and exercise controlled for meals, but end up needing meds for fasting.

  21. This is our family car, many roadtrips, carpools, daycare pick ups, etc. ahead of us. Plan to have it for 20 years if possible. And we were going from smaller, more fuel efficient cars to this van. So it absolutely made sense to go with a hybrid, and get as many features as we could - because they'll be outdated in 20 years. If Odyssey was available in hybrid, we definitely would have considered it. I think they are making a hybrid one now? But another baby arriving this year sealed that timeline for us.

  22. Ours only does diaper cream, sunscreen and insect repellent, and we sign a form every year allowing them to. They can’t administer meds. That’s a different certification. We go to an in home daycare, though it is very professionally run.

  23. Caveat that I haven't been having real troubles yet keeping my meal numbers in check, because I'm only at 15 weeks (diagnosed really early, as I expected). But I just save my big meals/treats for when I know I'll be able to walk or go to the gym afterwards - which for me is mostly during the day, when I WFH and toddler goes to daycare. Sometimes I even work from the gym - they have a 'work lounge.' I am fortunate to have a very flexible job.

  24. We got it, but it wasn’t so bad. One day my husband and I both had the worst sore throats we’ve ever experienced - it was like swallowing knives - but after that all we got was sensitive skin on our fingers and toes. No sores. It’s such a weird disease.

  25. If it’s good quality ice cream and you have some protein before, it might not even be an issue. But I also indulge a lot - I just go for walks afterwards. A 20 minute brisk walk will always bring me into range. I guess I should caveat that my previous GD pregnancy never had concerns about baby size - he was small - and so far in this one also no size concerns. If baby was getting too big, I’d cut back on the indulgence.

  26. I think you should let them see your reaction - don’t turn the corner and cry. Cry in their faces! Let them see how awful they’re being.

  27. My neighbor said her method, which she didn’t actually recommend, but I thought was genius, was that every time they had an poop accident they had to get in the shower to clean off, and the water mysteriously got a little bit colder each time.

  28. Four weeks was what my husband took, then he went back to work and I finished my maternity leave. Then I went back, he took 6 more weeks before baby started daycare. It worked out great. The only complication was that I had a C-section and couldn’t drive till 6 weeks.

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