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@miyuki256 My 2 cents - assuming your baby will eat and have a loving care giver for those days, I do NOT think this will have a lasting negative effect on her. 2 of my 3 babies would have been just fine if I was gone for three nights at 10 months, so this is really baby dependent. However...

@eveningxhush Imagine all the tiny observations she is making about fish and an underwater environment! She’s like a budding scientist! Definitely not the same as screen time.

@momof2napril I like this! I’d also talk to my partner about what happens if their toddler is actually inconsolable. Come up with a plan in the event MIL calls/texts and says she’s tried everything and he’s a mess. My mom is extremely maternal, but she doesn’t get on the ground with the...

@vinhhali Thank you so much for posting this! Sometimes this sub takes the Marty Mom stereotype too far. We have to balance our needs with our babies needs, and also learn to differentiate between needs and wants. For example, a 13 month baby wants to latch all night, they do not need to latch...

@thomasmann My third baby was very clingy and never slept more than a handful of hours outside of my bed (we would start with crib sleep from about 7-9/10pm then move to bed sharing). At just shy of 12 months we moved his crib to his own room, and did the chair method. It did not work at...

@benzohar You should listen to an episode. She is all about talking to kids like they are people. The cape thing is about getting your own mind and emotions in the right frame as you face what your toddler is doing to you - basically it’s a mental strategy to address the panic attacks you are...

@benzohar Janet Lansbury has fantastic podcast episodes that talk through how to handle these situations. A lot of acknowledging and naming the emotion, while prioritizing safety. Littles feel big emotions that overwhelm them, combined with developing communication skills, so they can’t always...

Oh and a comment about burnout - I really enjoyed the SAHM thing for a while, and still would like some parts of it. But I found myself feeling burned out because I needed intellectual stimulation. I’m super nerdy, I love school, love thinking about complex problems. I just get bored by the...

@psalmofmercy Just a comment about speech delay - my oldest wasn’t saying more than a couple words at age 2. I read all the time to him and he was an only child still at that point. We started speech therapy with EI, and then my 2.5 years he was starting to speak more. He’s 9 now and is still...