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@binfoco My kid started daycare at 18 months. It’s just a normal daycare, but we’re in an extremely crunchy large metro area. I was shocked by how much sugar they immediately started doling out for snacks. Animal crackers, waffles, etc. I tried to provide him non-sugar snacks, because we were...

@javier_is_life I’ll go with my doctor’s advice. She sees a lot of IVF patients and I trust her. A lot of IVF complications have to do more with underlying issues that caused infertility and less with the procedure of IVF itself. My doctor knows me and my medical history and has delivered a...

@guilhermesilva Just model the correct way of talking. (You’re already doing this naturally, I just mean don’t pick up his habit of switching the two and echo it back because it’s cute/silly.) Don’t invite problems where there aren’t any or make your kid self-conscious. This is a very, very...

@javier_is_life Saving this! My doctor has already started talking about induction at 39 or 40 weeks because my belly is big and my first was 8 lb 13 oz with a 99th percentile head circumference. (He’s now an itty bitty 20th percentile 3.5 year old still wearing 24 mo clothes. Cool.)...

@lorenzomcgoo Things moved out of crisis mode pretty quickly - meaning no more nights where we’d sit with him on the potty while he screamed in pain for an hour or two. It probably only took a week or so to get out of that mode. But true resolution where we had regular pain-free poops probably...

@lorenzomcgoo Homemade popsicles maybe? Smoothies? Food coloring to make the water look fun? Competition to see who can drink a 5 oz glass the fastest? Something playful like that would be the direction I’d try. There are a lot of good suggestions on diet here, but miralax was the only thing...

@torn12 Nursing tops all kind of suck anyway. Either they function nicely and look like trash, or they look nice and are a bitch to use. I found a nursing tank I liked and just wore regular shirts/sweaters over those. Then I’d just take the sweater off and nurse or pump with just the tank on. If...

@anonymous9299 We generally have 1 activity for our 3 year old. At one point it was swim lessons (for safety and also for fun). Right now it’s gymnastics because he was just so cautious at the playground and I wanted him to be able to take risks with his body in an environment that maybe felt...

@streetlight I like LunchBots for their bento style but lightweight boxes. Ours has 4 compartments and I just fill each of them with protein, dairy/starch, fruit, vegetable for my 3 year old. His daycare doesn’t refrigerate their lunches so we’re in a similar situation. Example of what we use a...

@franciscovelasco Oh absolutely yes to the Target returns! You don't even need a receipt as long as it's something they are currently selling. I'd straight up return things to Target that I knew a relative had ordered on Amazon.

@brineheart For us the biggest thing was honestly just putting less on our registry. And getting some of the big ticket things ourselves second-hand. High chair, infant tub, baby swing, crib, baby carrier, barely used cloth diapers. We got all of those free from friends passing them down. Halve...

@maintjie Okay, cool. Just having a discussion, not criticizing.

@maintjie Um, you? You posted that kids will tell you that they want to be a ballerina as a signal they want dance classes. And that reading books is a good way to expose them to possibilities like ballet, baseball, music lessons, etc. And that makes sense. I was just offering a counterpoint...

@maintjie I think that misses the point a bit about what team sports or dance can provide. Sure it can teach you a specific skill like how to throw a ball or how to do a pirouette.But they can also show you how to be on a team or how to appreciate music. I know you know that as a parent, but...

@kmar123 Same. My parents put my brothers in sports and me in dance. I liked dance a lot but have always felt a little ripped off that I never experienced team sports or built friendships that way. My mom’s reasoning was that I never asked. Obviously I knew about the existence of sports from my...