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@dan54fis My toddler is 18 months old, and I'm 25 weeks pregnant. Plus I got sick and stayed sick for 6 weeks in November then toddler started daycare in January and was continually sick for like two months straight. So we did a lot of staying in doors this winter to avoid nasty weather and...

@wayofthepromise From the Safe Sleep Seven page of the La Leche League website (https://www.llli.org/the-safe-sleep-seven/), from the paragraph directly below the listed seven guidelines: "By the time the baby is about four months old, research indicates that bedsharing with a healthy baby by...

@xuanang01 I am literally counting down the days until my two week old reaches four months. She sleeps so well beside me, but I have to stay awake and keep her there so long before I can transfer her to her bedside bassinet without waking her. For some absolutely idiotic reason all of the...

@thomasleonard It's so individual. Just like adult humans run across a huge spectrum of sleep habits and eating preferences, so do little humans. My baby will turn 1 next week and honestly I don't feel like she sleeps much better than she did at 2 months. Needs co tact and support not only to...

@torn12 You know that the vegetables you buy yourself at the grocery store also have heavy metals, right?

@pokerfaceblonde I stored the milk in one glass bottle, used my warm hands and breathing warm air onto the bottle and swirling the milk around to warm it just enough to get get the solidified fat back into solution, then poured the amount I actually wanted to feed into a a room temperature...

@tmorey7788 We still use one at 18 months. My husband used to play rain sounds off of YouTube overnight before the baby was even born. I bought a Hatch programmable night light/sound machine to color code for night weaning, but honestly the sound part is more for my husband than the toddler.

@xeonome ....How do you have multiple loads of dishes and laundry every single day? Do at least 5 extra people you haven't mentioned in your post also live with you while contributing nothing towards housework? I'm just confused. We don't even own a dishwasher and I spend less the cleaning and...

@henryjoshua I have the impression that my toddler is a bit older (she's 19 months now), so this may not be very relevant to you. I definitely go with a gentle, highly responsive parenting style with a focus on attunement, but I also have my toddler in daycare full-time. We didn't start until 15...

@jess75 True independence is born out of the faith that when a child needs their secure base, they will be there. Your pediatrician may know pediatrics but they very clearly do not know established developmental psychology. Young children learn to self regulate by coregulating. They learn to...

@confusedbuthopeful My toddler is 18 months and basically entirely self sufficient in the bed at this point. It's definitely not how I would have let her sleep when she was smaller and it's really not very comfortable for me, but she's been sick and wanting to sleep with her head resting on my...

@wifee Despite the suggestions of the US CDC that every pregnant person should take folic acid no matter what, there is evidence that suggests that women with MTHFR polymorphism are susceptible to an increased risk of fetal loss if taking folic acid, and all women are at an increased risk if...

@jaredbrown85 Ah, yeah, I can see how that would get uncomfortable quickly! I think SSCs can be comfortable, but each one tends to be most comfortable on a certain height/body weight distribution, and if you don't happen to be a match for that specific carrier, it can be pretty uncomfortable...

@jaredbrown85 My plan is a stretchy wrap on front and a ruck carry with a woven wrap on back. I'm still only 14 weeks pregnant now so we'll see how it actually works out 😅. I'm also considering hunting down a mehdai carrier, but a ruck isn't terribly difficult or time consuming so I'm not sure...

@crownfair I've sadly never loved a single SSC I've tried. There's nowhere local I could go to try a twingo and given my other experiences I don't trust I'd like it either. The convenience, speed, and ease sound great, but I've been spoiled by the comfort of wraps and everything else always...

@alexander7791 My anticipation of exactly that is why I haven't passed on my onbuhimo even though the best I can really say about it is that I don't hate it and sometimes it's faster (and convenient not to have to deal with keeping fabric off a dirty floor). I usually only reach for it when I go...

@puddintain Oh wow, I do like the look of that! One of the reasons I prefer wraps is I don't like padded straps, so this really might be a happy medium between convenience and comfort for me, I will seriously consider! Thank you!

@puddintain Like this? It's interesting but looks like it might only work for tandem hip carries or the buckle would have to go on the hip which seems likely to be a bit uncomfortable. I'll look into it more though, thank you for the suggestion!

@mike247 I live in Taiwan, and while I actually can't yet speak Chinese (taking classes), my husband is Taiwanese. His English grammar isn't at all perfect, but English is obviously our family language since I can't speak Chinese. I honestly don't worry about Chinese for the toddler at all. She...

@thabang I'm an American living in Taiwan with my Taiwanese husband and even though his grammar is far from perfect in English, we do primarily English (the minority language) at home, not least of all because despite taking lessons my Chinese is terrible. My husband often will speak Chinese to...