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She's 16 months old and going through a clingy teething leap phase so she's waking in the middle of the night and bucking and crying and won't sleep. She clonked me on the bridge of my nose and I heard a crack and for the past few days it's been sore an my eyes look like I'm extra tired (black eyes).

I still love her though.

Has anyone else had a tiny person give them a serious injury??

My brother and I are 5 years apart and I was very much bossy and protective of him. I was also at times quite jealous because he was the baby and got attention for being littler and cuter and at times I treated him more like a toy than a person. We were never that competitive, but we were also opposite sexes. We have a good relationship now but aren't super close.

My kids are 17 months apart, both girls and now are almost 3 and 1 and a half. They are almost the same size in clothes and probably will be soon. What's it like to have a sibling very close in age to you?

I would love if they could be BFFs rather than competitive enemies. Is there anything I can do or not to things is should

My baby is almost 6 months and EBF (she has been at daycare for a couple months and barely takes bottles there). She just had an ear infection and a course of amoxicillin which she hated. I also gave her baby Tylenol to bring her fever down. After a few days of getting medicine every time she would see the syringe coming she would purse her lips and begin spitting, sometimes vomiting. My pediatrician even told me that she was a particularly difficult case when it comes to giving medicine.

The ear infection is gone but now she is refusing to eat any foods. We had begun to start giving her real food and she was eating a decent amount. Now she reacts to a finger or a spoon with that same purs

Just a vent. I think everybody has cycled through these feelings over and over again since the start of the pandemic. Going back to work after maternity leave during a pandemic is like waking up from a coma and trying to survive in a abandoned world.

I just returned to work after maternity leave, I left in March when everyone started getting vaccinated.

I guess I'm an optimist, I got pregnant in July 2020 when I thought the pandemic was on its last leg. When I left work I was looking forward to a long maternity leave but was also sad thinking that my work would return to normal while I was away and I'd miss the transition. I was excited to get back to work and be able to talk to different

My husband and I have a baby and toddler. This weekend we hung out with a new co-worker of his that has three school-age kids.

I suppose I am authoritative or authoritarian parent. I don't have any problem enforcing boundaries with my kids and teaching them to respect these boundaries. But I also make sure they know that I love them.

However seeing this coworker and his wife interacting with their kids they seemed very indulgent relative to how I parent. It was clear that they love their kids very much and showed it freely. They did and allowed a few things that I don't allow of my toddler, nothing huge neither of us have bad kids but I noticed that they were a lot softer in drawing and e

My older daughter is a very good mix of my husband and I, people often make this remark and tell us how cute she is. Even my pediatrician gushes over her. I assumed she said that to everyone until she didn't with my 2nd.

I think both of my girls are cute of course. People are quick to say they look similar but then go on to gush about the older one. My 2nd is also a mix of my husband and I but in the generic shuffle she got mostly different features. I always say I think they're both cute but I've started to get some comments about how my older daughter is really beautiful and should be a kid model.

The two girls are close in age and I'm afraid one day they will be known as "the pretty o

My husband has to travel for a week at the end of the month. On this trip he has to go to lots of meet and greets at a large regional event. It's in a state that has poor vaccination rates and increasing incidence of the Delta variant of COVID-19. He could wear a mask but it would affect his work since it's very much in a red state, and the point of the trip is for networking and schmoozing

He's not worried for his own health since we're both vaccinated but we have 2 under 2 that aren't.

He has to go in this trip and he probably can't do his job effectively while wearing a mask, so what should we do about his return? Vaccinated people can still get covid and still give it to others. Shoul

I have a formal event coming up, the last time I went to one of these I was 2 months pregnant with my first and picked a nice pencil dress (a la Jackie O). Prior to that I used to always pick slinky backless gowns because I was skinny and had small boobs.

Now I have 2 kids and I'm thicker in the middle than I used to be and have bigger boobs! I'm not sure how to dress this new mom bod. All of my old favorite brands seem too young for me now. I don't think I can pull off slink without a lot of shapewear underneath so maybe something with some more structure is in order. My husband likes Brooks Brothers dresses but I feel they are a bit too "politician's wife" for me.

Does anyone have any b

My daughter loves music and watching music videos. I personally can't stand the ones that have poor animation or annoying children's songs so I'm trying to find her real music with kid friendly and interesting videos.

So far her favorites are:

Ok Go - their videos are like art installation pieces lots of colors and interesting concepts

BTS - colorful outfits and sets, cute boys and dancing

Halsey - her lyric videos have the words and a drawing or painting

Any other suggestions for artists?

My older daughter is 18 months old and I think I was able to lay her down for naps. I'm not actually sure, how quickly we forget! All I know is that my 8-week-old is much clingier then my toddler was and now that I'm looking after two under two baby wearing is just how life has to be.

I have to go back to work when she is about 4 months old. As of now she is held or worn for most of her naps and will maybe take one of her naps in the pack and play. I enjoy baby wearing but I'm wondering if I should be trying harder to put her down for naps. Or if this is something I try after 3 months or so, so she is ready for daycare. Does anyone else have some advice here? I didn't baby wear with my firs

TLDR: Any advice on the best way to talk about race and when to introduce this concept? My daughter is noticing that people are different and I want to talk about this in the right way so she doesn't see differences as bad things.

I was going through Parents magazine with my 18 month old and telling her about everything she pointed at. The women were "mommies" or "ladies" and the men were "daddies." After a while I noticed she was pointing at only the black people. My dad went through the magazine with her too without me around and told me he noticed the same thing.

I'm white, my husband and his family are Latino/indigenous. We live in a very white area, though both my husband and I grew

I have a newborn and an 18 month old. The 18 month old is in daycare. For now I have my mom helping me so she either takes her or waits in the car with the infant, but once she goes home how do I drop off the older kid?

Do I leave the baby in the car alone?? Do I take her out and put her in a carrier for the 5 mins it takes to drop off? Do I take the car seat with me?? My older kid still needs carried quite a bit.

Once I go back to work how do I do it then? Drop off the big one then the little one? Vice versa? How do you do it? What works best?? This kept me up last night...

Longtime lurker because it makes me anxious to think too deeply about what my in laws have done to me. I definitely have some PTSD and have shoved down my feelings. I'm just going to skim my traumas and give you the highlights.

MIL is toxic, delusional and pitiful. I thought for a sloot second to involve her after the birth of my 2nd because it has been a wonderful year of NC but upon reviewing the events of the past... No way.

FIL is constantly cheating on/with MIL. They have been together off and on for 40 years. FIL has been married 3 times and only just recently married MIL because he's about to retire. My husband has at least 2 half sisters he is aware of. MIL only agreed to get marri

Currently 33 weeks pregnant though this has been going on since I started to show. There are people out there that think a woman should be at home with her feet up the whole 9 months of pregnancy. Good for them but I would find that insanely BORING.

Yes I'm still working. I have an awesome job that I love and pays well. If I keep working now I get 5 months of paid maternity leave and can come back to to my same job afterwards. Why would I give that up?

The types of people who ask "You're still working??" Shocked face are people who are either SAH or have only ever worked part time and have no problem being dependant on someone else for their livelihood. That's just not me, I love my car

There is a new machine being installed at my job. It grew into a huge project that kept getting delayed due to contractors and Covid and all these little things. I have been working my butt off to make it happen.

I have been coordinating everything from the purchase negotiation to the mess with the decommission of the old machine, and installation of the new one. I'm 32 weeks and we are getting down to the wire. If work doesn't start in the next 2 weeks there is a very real possibility I won't be at work to see the project through completion and get trained on the new machine.

My backup is a childfree guy and I really don't want to hand this over to him at the finish line and miss the ven