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My son is 13m, newly walking, and the weather has finally shifted towards cooler weather so we are looking at getting some new sleep sacks for fall/winter. Because he's now walking we want to get some of those sleep sacks with legs.

I'm confused though because I'm not sure what we're supposed to do with his feet? I know for a fact he's not going to keep socks on (it's a battle as-is) but I worry that his feet are going to get cold without something covering them. Do I throw a blanket in there too to help cover them? It feels like overkill to get him into footie pajamas AND the sleep sack.

We keep the house pretty cool during the winter (mid 60s) and don't have the ability to turn it up h

My son just turned 1yo. He has his next well visit in a couple weeks and I will bring these things up then but I'm spiraling and need some encouragement to just CHILL.

Son doesn't consistently respond to his name. A lot of the time I think it's just because he's super engrossed in whatever he's doing but I can be right next to him looking at him and it doesn't click at all. He responds to "hey" pretty reliably.

He has been clapping and mimicking us when we bang on things for a while now. The clapping started around 9m. He can also shake his head "no" but it doesn't really seem like he totally gets the purpose of it he just thinks it's funny, especially when we do it back to him. A few we

My son is 12m and has been going to daycare since he was 6m old. When he started the lead and co-lead were people who spoke English fluently. The co-lead left a couple months ago to move on to Pre-K at the same facility. As of last week the lead teacher has also moved on to the 2s room at the same facility. I'm not thrilled about the turnover but feel better about it knowing that both of them are staying with the company. Both of them have been working there for over 5 years which is part of what sold me on this daycare, but whatever. They're growing in their careers, good for them.

My issue is that the people who replaced them do not speak English very well. Their English is a hell of a l

We got our son one of those push walker things a couple months ago and he was really into it.

A couple of weeks ago he started doing this thing where he's obviously super eager to get up and use the thing but as soon as he hits an obstacle he just drops down to his knees and loses his shit. He doesn't even need to hit an obstacle to just lose it, like we have this big long hallway and if we line him up he'll get to 10-15ft and then just drop down and have a menty B.

We got sick of this so we "hid" the walker (it was just off in a corner) and he spotted it today and tore through everything in his way to get to it and tried to drag it out. So my husband and I were like ok he's had a reset,

The title is a little confusing but I didn't really know how else to phrase it. But, let me be clear and put this up front: the reason we are in this situation is MEDICAL. Not because I'm being lazy or have weird ideas on how this shit works.

My son 11m old. At 4.5m he was diagnosed with dysphagia and was silently aspirating on thin liquids. So we had to start thickening his milk and do feeding therapy.

We never found a cause but the good news is he's been doing amazing. Thickening feeds helped a ton, he started gaining weight appropriately, hunky dory. Unfortunately, because he was silently aspirating, we still have to be cautious. We technically don't know anything until we get our nex

So we had a rough start to feeding. My son wasn't able to nurse effectively (like at all, basically 0 transfer) so we went to exclusively bottle feeding and he was even struggling with that. He wasn't gaining enough weight, etc etc and we had a swallow study done at 4m showing that he had dysphagia and was aspirating on thin liquids. After that we started thickening his milk and doing feeding therapy and things have been going well, he's back on his curve, hunky dory whatever.

With all of this it meant that we had to be very deliberate about introducing solids. I had imagined doing a whole baby led weaning thing but that wasn't advised and we had to stick to purees. On top of that we had t

This may be better suited for an NYC specific sub but those are all massive and I don't know which one would be the right one.

My husband and I work for the same company and we are working on a project that is being installed in NYC sometime late next year, early 2028.

In my role it is ideal if I can be relocated for 3-4 months, but going back and forth is an option. My husband doesn't have to travel if he doesn't want to, but there is an opportunity for him to relocate with me.

I don't want to get too in the weeds on the logistics but the idea is we'd be there for 3-4 months and we would need to find childcare. For now let's assume that hiring a nanny is not an option, and we would be

LO is 9m. We had issues with his weight gain and feeding in general in the early months. That improved after a swallow study showed he has dysphagia and we started thickening his milk. That was around 5m. He's gained a bunch of weight, is solidly 50%ile, and feeding goes mostly normal.

He has a strong feed-to-sleep association and we just sort of rolled with it because we didn't want to pull back on feeding due to the weight gain issues. But we're at a point that we know we need to ease him off of that and it is going NOWHERE.

We start the day with the best intentions. Wake up, eat, give him a bottle about an hour before we anticipate him needing to nap. Nap time comes around, we do the

We're quite a ways out from toilet training, my son is only 8m old, but I've started looking into it to get a sense of what to look out for in terms of readiness etc.

Originally my husband and I were interested in elimination communication because we had heard good things about it making the potty training process easier. But VERY quickly, like by 6w, our son was down to one MASSIVE BM a day and it was always first thing in the morning. So we had no opportunity to catch when he was pooping and do the whole thing. Like I'm exhausted, I'm not going to wake up early just to catch him poop.

This has stayed consistent. He poops once a day, first thing in the morning, I assume it's what wakes