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Whether they are babies, toddlers or bigger kids, how much milk do your kids drink? We have a 15mo and she gets ~600ml milk per day and some of my friends think its too much.

She's healthy, on the right places on the charts at Plunket etc. She has a healthy diet which included heaps of veg, meat, finger foods etc.

We have a fireplace. We need wood. We used to get old pallets from husband's work which he would cut up and pop in the fireplace. He changed jobs so no more pallets.

I searched trademe but there are so many options and quantities! What's the difference between pine, hardwood, Ti Tree, gum, oak, macrocarpa etc.?

How much wood would be enough to last a good part of winter? How big is 1m2?

What's the going rate?

We're in Auckland so if you sell firewood or have a mate or a coworker who sells, let me know!

I have a cell phone account which I pay for and my work reimburses me the payment. Since these two transactions zero each other out, do I track these or just skip these?

E.g. Cell phone is paid from my checking account on the 10th. I put in an expense claim. Work pays my expense claim on the 21st.

Hi all

I'm pretty new to ynab (about 2 weeks) and I have religiously entered all expenses. Using example numbers, I had $1000 to budget (I didn't allocate all my money to categories; I know you must, later discussion). I entered by paycheck of $4000 in as "Salary" and added the value into the inflow column. My Check Account number is correct and corresponds to my bank account but my Available to Budget for January is still $1000. Where is the rest of the money? I have reconciled all transactions, nothing is uncleared or outstanding.

Why isn't my Available to Budget more? Am I missing something?

Hi all

So I bought the Steam special of YNAB and I have a few questions.

Apologies if this is covered somewhere. Please direct me if it is :)

1. I get paid on the 15th of each month. When I enter expenses, should I enter them for the calendar month e.g. January or the salary month e.g. 15 Jan - 15 Feb?

2. Do I track everything that I spend from 1 Jan to 31 Jan?

3. Do you enter stuff every day?

4. Do you enter expenses as they come up or do you enter every expense that will come up in the month? Should YNAB be like a running or up to date account of what's going on in my bank?

5. Do you have a generic "savings fund" where the excess money goes? Or must all money have a purpose e.

We haven't used a babysitter yet but with Christmas parties and the silly season, we need to pay a babysitter for a few hours.

How much do you pay your babysitter?

Do you provide them with dinner?

Do you allow them WiFi access?

For bonus points, how old is your kid?

I'm in NZ if the figures don't seem normal (US normal I suppose).

I bought a car in November 2012. It is a 2012 model so not brand new but had done 24,000km. I bought the car from a dealership for ~$26k and got it financed for the longest possible term of 5 years (the interest rate escapes me now). I pay $615 per month for the car and ~$80 per month on insurance. We bought the car 'newish' because we were planning on having kids and I didn't want an old banger of car that would leave me stranded somewhere or with heaps of repair bills.

We had our kid in April 2014 and I'm now back at work at a 60% capacity. Previously, paying $700 for a car didn't bother me as much but now I have a kid a

Hi parents!

We have a lovely little girl who is 7 months old. She started teething after 4 months and her bottom two teeth erupted around the 5.5 month mark. But, the bottom two teeth were accompanied by her first cold and ear infection.

All that has now been sorted but her top two teeth are erupting and now she has croup and a cold again!

Is this all just coincidence or do they get snotty sick every time they pop a tooth? I can't imagine her being sick every few weeks for the next 3 years.

She goes to daycare 3 days a week, on solids, breast and formula fed, fully immunised.

Hi all, our bubba is almost 6 months old and very recently started to roll. We have been pondering how to transition her from swaddle to no swaddle without too many tears.

She needs a pacifier to fall asleep but when she's unswaddled, she keeps rubbing her eyes and pulling the pacifier out which in turn upsets her and makes her cry.

It also almost summer time in New Zealand and I don't want her swaddled in summer because its hot and uncomfortable.

Please help!

Do your nipples "remember" or is it toe curling painful with every new child?

I have read a lot about the 4 month sleep regression monster and the 19th wonder week and you always hear about moms and babies who are having sleep issues. Did your baby skip the 4 month regression and didn't wake up 10 times a night?

Hi all, my daughter is 10 weeks old and EBF. 90% of the time, she relies on the breast to fall asleep. This is cool and all (bonding etc.). But this means she's latched for a big chunk of the day. Her day time naps are on the nursing pillow on my lap, latched. Today, she doesn't stay asleep when I unlatch her when she's asleep or she when she unlatches herself while asleep. At night, she will fall asleep on the pillow, she will unlatch when she's in a deep sleep and then I can transfer her to the bassinet.

Please share your stories and how your overcame being a permanent pacifier :)

Hi all,

I'm a first time mom with a 3 week old. I read in another thread that we should be "brushing" baby's gums twice a day with a wet face cloth. No one told us this at the hospital.

Is this true? Should I be cleaning baby's gums every day?