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lurkingdirk_sl said:
I think really strict bedtimes during summer months are silly. Some people need routine to function well, though. And my son didn't get off the get up at 6:30 AM routine all summer long. So, we didn't let him stay up very late all summer, simply because we knew he'd be up early. However, up late at night, and up early in the morning meant a good afternoon nap.

School has started here again, and bedtimes just got real again.
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I put my 7 and 9 year olds to bed at 9pm in the summer because they are up at 7am regardless of what time I put them to bed, and if they don't go to bed early enough they're cranky all day.

If they'd actually sleep in I'd be fine letting them stay up later.
 
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On a strange topic, my 4 year old has started masturbating... She calls it "squishing". She "squishes" her stuffed animals, her hands, anything she can fit in between her legs. It is hilarious but kind of uncomfortable at the same time. The books say it is normal (of course) and to just encourage her to do it in private rather than on the couch or at the dinner table or whatever.
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My 4 year old does that too. It is super awkward and she does it a lot, all over the place. We call it wiggles. Because of the whole speech delay stuff, I'm not sure I can communicate with her about it in a way that she understands. I don't want to make her feel weird about it, but it makes me feel uncomfortable, especially when my 6 year old asks what she is doing.

I read up on it too and it is supposedly normal, but yeah... still awkward.
 
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One of my 20 month old twins ran smack into the corner of the wall today. Here she is with my wife before getting it glued shut.

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Big, open sore: ow. Poor girl! Hope she's feeling better.

Huge, beautiful eyes and even a grin while being hurt? What a cutie.

Hope you spoiled her rotten with ice cream and such.
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Well, I am sure we will once she gets home. I stayed home with the other 2, wife should be home soon. I am just happy they do the glue now and she won't even have to deal with stitches. The amount of blood was pretty crazy, but that is how head wounds are.

EDIT: Here she is all patched up.

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"Ran into a wall" eh?

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That stinks man, I hope she's doing better!!

Freakiest blood related thing ever with my kids is when my oldest was like 5 he was running across the kitchen floor and face planted into it. Popped out two teeth, blood everywhere....holy shit he was freaking out and I was too but was trying my best not to so he wouldn't flip out anymore than he already was. Sucks when our kids get hurt for sure.
 
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I'm at day 2 of parenting. I mentally prepared myself for sleep loss and crying. It's worked wonders so far. The woman and I are making a good team and it's bringing us even closer. She has expressed fatigue and I detect crankiness in the future however. She doesn't take advantage of her sleep windows: She'll lie down but not drop the anxiety/worries.
 
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I'm at day 2 of parenting. I mentally prepared myself for sleep loss and crying. It's worked wonders so far. The woman and I are making a good team and it's bringing us even closer. She has expressed fatigue and I detect crankiness in the future however. She doesn't take advantage of her sleep windows: She'll lie down but not drop the anxiety/worries.
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It takes time man. I didn't take advantage of my daytime sleep windows until like 1 month post partum. Night time was better about 4-5 days post partum - I don't think I slept at all first two nights home because I was scared he wasn't breathing (despite the snuza monitor - which is the only reason I sleep now) and he also really did not like sleeping in the rock n play in our room (I was also concerned our dumb 15 lb tabby would crash into the thing and flip it). Night 3 at home we moved him to the crib and after I cried the first two nights of that EVERYONE slept better. But my son started having a 'big sleep' at like 2 weeks which was one 5-6 hour period a night. Colicky dude during the day but around 6 weeks he basically was sleeping through the night. We have the occasional (like last night) incident where he'll wake up at 3-3:30 am and we'll do a feeding then but for the most part its down at 9-9:30 up at 6-6:30. I don't really even mind the one feeding a night. Its kind of nice.

I also didn't sleep really well until about 6 weeks postpartum because that's when the crazy ass night sweats stopped. Only postpartum symptom I really have left at this point is hemmies
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ours slept from 10:30 to 5:30 last night... was amazing and definitely the longest stretch in her almost 8 weeks of life.
 
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he's currently asleep...been asleep since like 5:45. I so do not want to wake him to do bedtime routine. Yesterday I think he got overtired and didn't nap well and last night was a bear to get him down in the first place.

On the flip side I think we finally figured out how we can use our swings. Ever since he was a tiny 7lb dude the highest settings haven't been enough. My husband would have to push the swing and that's the only way he'd exist in it. As he got bigger and the swing obviously got even less effective on the highest setting and it would go from 5 mins of my husband not pushing it to 2 mins before he would start to wake up or fuss.

Tried swaddling him first then putting him in the swing on the highest setting and success.

I am so not looking forward to swaddle weaning. He loves being bundled up so much. But we've already outgrown our double swaddle technique at this point in terms of being able to put his legs up and hands in really snug in the muslin blanket before putting him in the swaddle me. I think the swaddle me Small Medium (ie 90% of the ones sold) are only good til about 14lbs...if our dude is 12lbs at our 2 month that means we're looking at end of October unless he slows down.
 
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lindz_sl said:
My 4 year old does that too. It is super awkward and she does it a lot, all over the place. We call it wiggles. Because of the whole speech delay stuff, I'm not sure I can communicate with her about it in a way that she understands. I don't want to make her feel weird about it, but it makes me feel uncomfortable, especially when my 6 year old asks what she is doing.

I read up on it too and it is supposedly normal, but yeah... still awkward.
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I grew up next to a girl who masturbated with her heel till she was about 8 or 9. She would walk outside her house and bring out this baby blanket and sit down on the front lawn with her legs crossed over each other. She would then proceed to go to town with her heel. At the time we would all just hang out with her oblivious to what she was actually doing, some would make fun of her but still ignoran. Looking back she would obviously orgasm because she would break out with a great big smile across her face and would then exasperate lol.
 
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still sleeping. my poor boobs
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. I'm used to this in the morning but day/night time? Thinking I'm going to have to pump here in about 30 mins if he doesn't wake up. Which means of course as soon as I do he'll wake up.

Maybe I'll just do one boob. Ooh or maybe I'll just go take a bath for 20 mins or so.
 
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yeah...somehow managed to avoid that so far.

I had a bleb (milk blister) show up on my left nipple like 4 weeks before I delivered (36 weeks) which was odd - aspirated it myself at 3 weeks postpartum. Hurt like a bitch for a few days but it hasn't resurfaced/no other issues. Ideally they say that nursing will aspirate them but it wasn't getting it done.

When I'm really engorged in the mornings I have this rice pillow I got on etsy for massages during labor (which I used only a few times) that can be microwaved - I pop that into the microwave for a minute thirty and put it on the girls and it really helps with letdown.
 
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Wife didn't really start getting it until he was 7'ish months old. Dunno if that matters. She describes it as trying to force out shards of glass. Yay!

In other news, I was kicking it with my son in his gated area of the living room, when he decided to take the hard plastic cube toy he was playing with, and bashed me in the forehead. My son loves me, I know he does.
 
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To date, my 4 month old son has peed on my wife a half a dozen times when she is changing his diaper, I've yet to be peed on once. I'm obviously the favorite parent.
 
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So a small update on my youngest son who has issues with talking.

He turns 3 on the 16th. We were able to get him qualified for what is basically Pre Pre School. He goes in from 9-11:30, 4 days a week and will be with other kids his age. They will work on social skills, speech and the normal things kids do while in school.

He's having seperation issues but they are gettin gbetter. They tell me he cries for about 5 minutes after I go and then will be okay. Here and there he will wimper but then they pull out a book of pictures of emotions and try to get him to tell them how he's feeling and he calms right now.

Those first few days were really hard to walk away from him but he's getting better with is slowly and I know it's really good for him in the long term. I've already seen a difference with him in terms of how outgoing he's become. It's nice to see some positive things coming from it alreadly.
 
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Tarrant_sl said:
So a small update on my youngest son who has issues with talking.

He turns 3 on the 16th. We were able to get him qualified for what is basically Pre Pre School. He goes in from 9-11:30, 4 days a week and will be with other kids his age. They will work on social skills, speech and the normal things kids do while in school.

He's having seperation issues but they are gettin gbetter. They tell me he cries for about 5 minutes after I go and then will be okay. Here and there he will wimper but then they pull out a book of pictures of emotions and try to get him to tell them how he's feeling and he calms right now.

Those first few days were really hard to walk away from him but he's getting better with is slowly and I know it's really good for him in the long term. I've already seen a difference with him in terms of how outgoing he's become. It's nice to see some positive things coming from it alreadly.
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Man, it's tough, but kudos to you as parents for doing what is right, and not what's easy. Well done!
 
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