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@morirach I ate salads for lunch to reduce my daily carbs. But I also don’t think it’s a problem to have salad for dinner. Toddlers need vegetables too, though at this age they might just eat carrots and ranch. I go by the “Offer healthy foods and let them decide how much to eat” method. So you...

@agape9 looks like I was mistaken, pumped milk does change to a degree over time. It does not have all the enzymic changes of milk at the breast but it does change. Electric pumping combined with manual pumping helps...

@robinrocks Something about being on the breast makes our milk adjust to the baby. As she gets older, the composition of the milk changes; it gets fattier and more filling, so even though baby is bigger she doesn’t need to drink more volume. It can also affect their poops - if you give an older...

@lesbian5eva After my leave was up (18 weeks) I worked 2 hrs a day in the mornings while husband watched LO. I would be wary of working in the evenings because LO nursed to sleep and would need help settling between sleep cycles, especially at the 4 month sleep regression.

@helpingfamilies Infantile childhood amnesia - toddlers will remember toddlerhood but as they get older they will forget them. Like making more room in their brains for the next stage.

@joshdons The author wrote an npr article about teaching her daughter to go to the grocery store in SF. It’s something that you teach and build up to, within the tot’s capabilities and your comfort zone. The elementary school that my toddler will go to is 3 blocks from our house. The school...

@joshdons I read the book while pregnant, but still fell into the norm of “entertaining” the baby instead of just letting him explore at his own pace. It was also really hard to not overpraise. Going to the playground with a bunch of toddler parents really made me realize how much Americans...

If my husband is not sleeping with us, I take LO and we sleep in the guest room where the bed is up against the wall. So LO won’t fall off the bed. I’ve tried sleeping facing away from baby but I get anxiety because I know I’ll have to turn around when he wants to BF and turning around will...

@thomashanancy My LO sleeps in the middle of the bed between my husband and me. When LO started rolling in his sleep, he would only roll the top half of his body, pivoting at his feet. So the three of us would end up in a bizarre “N” formation, sometime “H” formation, and once or twice he...

@infomommax I think you mentioned that he has access to the shared calendar but only you get the notifications? One way around that is to invite his personal email to the event. Then he will get an email notification to Accept and then he’ll get the notifications too. Basically you need to find...

@infomommax I put all appointments that affect work schedules on our work calendars. And on our shared Google calendars. It’s the only way to make sure we don’t double book meetings, since my husband isn’t allowed to take his personal phone into work and my memory capacity since having a kid has...

@southern_at_heart Is she teething? She could be nursing more for pain relief / comfort. Whenever our LO was teething we gave a dose of Tylenol before bed to help with the pain.

@cns I tried fingers foods first with my first but he didn’t really understand. We had much more success with purées first, then making them chunkier as he got older. Even when he got teeth it’s still a new skill to learn to chew.

@cns I would try going back to a schedule, instead of having her graze all day, so she gets hungry between tries. Make yourself a little snack or food when she eats too so you can show her / eat together. I read once on another post that someone’s kid didn’t eat solids unless it was “seasoned”...