Board 8 > B8 Parent Topic

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I don't know if this is something people are interested in, but I know there are a number of parents on the board. We can talk about parent things?

Let's start with a question:

How many kids do you have and how old are they?

And please, go from there. I'll start!

My daughter is 12 weeks old. She's going through some sort of growth spurt it seems like and is being upset while sleeping. Normally she's a great sleeper, but she's been sleeping up like at 3 or 4 in the morning again. I hope she gets back to sleeping until 6 again soon.
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21 Month old son, Vincent.

4 month old daughter, Fiona.

Fi is a terrible sleeper. Its rough.
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Great sleeper at 12 weeks?!

My daughters are 9 and 4 (soon to be 5).

I used to think shit was expensive when they were young, and it is, but holy hell wait until they are older.

I have four daughters.

My oldest is 14. She's a freshman in High School. She's doing pretty well too. If she didn't have trouble with a couple of words in English, she'd be getting straight A's.

The twins are 5 (will be 6 on Christmas). They're in Kindergarten and they love it (almost as much as they love Frozen).

And my youngest is 4 and in pre-school. She really hates going, but she's gotten better at it lately.
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My kids are 5(son) and 3(daughter.) My son started kindergarten this year and it will be his first real year of hockey. He is also taking judo and piano. My daughter started her first year of pre-school. Her second year of dance, in a new dance school because we moved. She is also in gymnastics. Her dance class is acrobatics and ballet, she calls it acroballics.
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Winry (5 about to be 6 in Dec.)

Kairi (4 years old)

Winry just started Kindergarten this year however PreK3 and 4 were in the same school, its offered by the Town, still had to pay for it but it was considerably cheaper than Day Care and you had a legit educational structure (not really sure how involved Day Cares are since we didnt' use them). Kairi is in K4 now. Both girls love school. Win and Kai are both in Dance and have been for years, this year they were finally able to take the same class which they think is amazing (And it means only staying for 1 dance at the recital this June. WINNING!) And Winry started soccer this year, not her favorite.
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Ha ha ha, my daughter says she loved soccer but refused to play or practice everytime we went. We arent putting her in soccer next year but we'll let her try it again when she is 5.
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She likes practices because there is more interaction with the ball. She doesn't like the games because its just a mob of kids constantly kicking the ball out of bounds. However her team is the only undefeated team, we have this one little boy who scores close to 7 goals a game.
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My son is just over three months right now. He pretty much always slept through the night, since we got him home. 90th percentile in both height and weight, based on his last appointment.
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FFnut posted...

My son is just over three months right now. He pretty much always slept through the night, since we got him home. 90th percentile in both height and weight, based on his last appointment.

Yay, large babies! Winry's head was always like top 99%, I look back at her baby pictures and compare them to her now and i'm just like "wtf was wrong with your head?"

Win was an amazing sleeper we'd get like 10 hour nights with her almost immediately, would have been longer but i'd always wake her to feed her cause thats just weird to sleep THAT much as a newborn. Kai was not a good sleeper, i guess you only get one.
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My son is 17 months old as of yesterday, his name is Zack. He sleeps from 7pm til about 3am when he needs a change/some milk, then he's back down til about 7am.

Full time job, Wife, Son, House, 3 pets, Youtube Channel with daily releases, I can't imagine having more than one kid right now. But hey it might happen sooner rather than later so who knows. Life is busy, and my body has been the sacrifice to handle all of life. I really need to get in better shape but holy hell I just never have any time or energy to do so.
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Son is at his hockey evaluation, apparently he is doing very well! Working today, but I get to go tomorrow, HYPE!
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i'm not a parent but i have parents
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GuessMyUserName posted...

i'm not a parent but i have parents

I don't believe you.
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I've got a daughter who is 9 weeks old, and she is a great sleeper at night (because this looks like the trait I need to comment on here)
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TheKnightOfNee posted...

I've got a daughter who is 9 weeks old, and she is a great sleeper at night (because this looks like the trait I need to comment on here)

but does she poop?
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Obellisk posted...

TheKnightOfNee posted...

I've got a daughter who is 9 weeks old, and she is a great sleeper at night (because this looks like the trait I need to comment on here)

but does she poop?

At that age they all do. 12 times a day like a McDonalds iced cream machine

Wreath posted...

Obellisk posted...

TheKnightOfNee posted...

I've got a daughter who is 9 weeks old, and she is a great sleeper at night (because this looks like the trait I need to comment on here)

but does she poop?

At that age they all do. 12 times a day like a McDonalds iced cream machine

On breastmilk its like a splash of poop maybe once a day.

Its so easy to change a younger babys diaper.

Not only can toddlers lay nasty bombs, but they kick and flail the whole time.
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Yeah sure. I would love to help in anyway I can I have 2.

Tommy (2 years)
Abby (7 months) Abby didn't start sleeping well until we moved her into her own crib and even then she still wakes up in the middle of the night.
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idk my daughter until just this week would save up her poop. She would poop like 1-2 times a week.

(Which means they were pretty much all blowouts)
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@eaedwards6400

Wrong topic. >_>

I once had to change a poopslposion on the floor of the men's changing room at Macy's. that was awesome.

tonight I had the 4 year old with constipation issues, poor thing just wanted to poop and other than juice her up there really wasn't much I could do.
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what's great is hes bringing more people into the topic now.
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Obellisk posted...

I once had to change a poopslposion on the floor of the men's changing room at Macy's. that was awesome.

tonight I had the 4 year old with constipation issues, poor thing just wanted to poop and other than juice her up there really wasn't much I could do.

I had to change a poopslposion on the floor of Shadwife's new classroom.
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oops sorry everyone. Guess I shouldn't have been working on that half asleep
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Shaduln posted...

Obellisk posted...

I once had to change a poopslposion on the floor of the men's changing room at Macy's. that was awesome.

tonight I had the 4 year old with constipation issues, poor thing just wanted to poop and other than juice her up there really wasn't much I could do.

I had to change a poopslposion on the floor of Shadwife's new classroom.

do not miss those days. glad they can regulate themselves now...well except for right now. but still.
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Obellisk posted...

I once had to change a poopslposion on the floor of the men's changing room at Macy's. that was awesome.

tonight I had the 4 year old with constipation issues, poor thing just wanted to poop and other than juice her up there really wasn't much I could do.

https://dr9wvh6oz7mzp.cloudfront.net/i/44c6759527fdf70e6c8960e5fbd0c559_ra,w380,h380_pa,w380,h380.jpeg

These work. Been there had to deal with that issue with my kids before when they were much younger

And prune juice if the kid will drink the stuff lol
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yeah I made an apple prune cocktail and we hung out on the couch till she got tired and in the morning she pooped.

it's just so sad when they are upset saying "my butt hurts". it breaks your heart but at the same time, so dsmn adorable.
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It's hard when they dont feel well. I've had a few nights when mine were young and really sick and they only time they'd sleep was against someone so I'd lay back the lazyboy recliner and shed just sleep on my chest all night.
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Mine has started to find her voice for things other than crying. A lot of cooing and screaming when she finds things funny. She's loud!
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Last Christmas we got told our daughter might have leukemia and we had to spend a week in the hospital getting tests and stuff done to make sure she was ok. Turns out it was an extremely rare reaction to the flu that causes white blood cells to drop and mimic leukemia symptoms.
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She had to have regular blood tests done for 6 months until everything was good again. Scariest shit in my life. It was only the second time in my adult life that I legit cried.
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Hi!

I have a two year old named Travis.

He slept by himself until we moved last year and now he wants company at night. If he wakes up and no one is there, he will leave his room and track us down. So one of us will typically just sleep with him in his bed while the other takes our bed. When hes a little older, well train him to stay in his room.
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IfGodCouldDie posted...

She had to have regular blood tests done for 6 months until everything was good again. Scariest shit in my life. It was only the second time in my adult life that I legit cried.

=( holy shit thats horrible. Im glad shes ok.
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StifledSilence posted...

Hi!

I have a two year old named Travis.

He slept by himself until we moved last year and now he wants company at night. If he wakes up and no one is there, he will leave his room and track us down. So one of us will typically just sleep with him in his bed while the other takes our bed. When hes a little older, well train him to stay in his room.

Our daughter does that now. She's old enough to just come to our room and climb in to bed so we just leave our door open for her.
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StifledSilence posted...

IfGodCouldDie posted...

She had to have regular blood tests done for 6 months until everything was good again. Scariest shit in my life. It was only the second time in my adult life that I legit cried.

=( holy shit thats horrible. Im glad shes ok.

Thanks. I am too, obviously ha ha.
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My son was born with a blood disorder where he had basically no platelets or white blood cells, and had to be monitored in the NICU for like 6, horrifying weeks, with his numbers going up and down every day.

Its in remission now, but he has to be monitored monthly until hes 5 because it could come back/turn into Leukemia.

Kids are scary.

Thankfully my daughter is absurdly healthy, it would have been so hard to go through that again.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

My son was born with a blood disorder where he had basically no platelets or white blood cells, and had to be monitored in the NICU for like 6, horrifying weeks, with his numbers going up and down every day.

Its in remission now, but he has to be monitored monthly until hes 5 because it could come back/turn into Leukemia.

Kids are scary.

Thankfully my daughter is absurdly healthy, it would have been so hard to go through that again.

Fuck THAT'S rough. How old is he now?
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well that got serious pretty fast.

All the kid illness is just horrible.

Stifled! buddy, how the hell are ya.
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Obellisk posted...

well that got serious pretty fast.

All the kid illness is just horrible.

Stifled! buddy, how the hell are ya.

SBell! Im doing ok. My girlfriend is rather sick, so Ive had to do everything Travis related for the past few days. Its frustrating, but hopefully she gets better soon.

How are you?
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My son turns 2 today!
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Well happy parental anniversary!
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StifledSilence posted...

Obellisk posted...

well that got serious pretty fast.

All the kid illness is just horrible.

Stifled! buddy, how the hell are ya.

SBell! Im doing ok. My girlfriend is rather sick, so Ive had to do everything Travis related for the past few days. Its frustrating, but hopefully she gets better soon.

How are you?

I'm great! Divorced and never been happier! I know all about having to take care of the kid all by oneself, it can be very hard. The first 2 months of Winry i was literally doing everything because of the complications of her birth and the following side effects for my ex. I hope she feels better.
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eaedwards6400 posted...

My son turns 2 today!

Today would have been my 13th wedding anniversary!

Your news is definitely more exciting. Happy birthday!
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This is a weird thing to post but this seems like the right topic to do it in since you guys might travel in the right circles.

My husband & I are in the adoption process. It's been a long slow process thus far. One of the things our agency tells us is to let everyone we know know that we are looking. Because someone we know might know someone who is pregnant and planning to put their kid up for adoption. If you do, consider putting us in touch with said person. It would save us a lot of time & money ($18k if our agency finds the match for us that we save if we make a match ourselves).

I know this is a long shot but hey, can't hurt.
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TotallyNotMI posted...

This is a weird thing to post but this seems like the right topic to do it in since you guys might travel in the right circles.

My husband & I are in the adoption process. It's been a long slow process thus far. One of the things our agency tells us is to let everyone we know know that we are looking. Because someone we know might know someone who is pregnant and planning to put their kid up for adoption. If you do, consider putting us in touch with said person. It would save us a lot of time & money ($18k if our agency finds the match for us that we save if we make a match ourselves).

I know this is a long shot but hey, can't hurt.

Are you dead set on a baby? I ask because as an orphan I can assure you there are a lot of kids that aren't babies that need good homes.
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I think for child #1 we are pretty set on something newborn to toddler age range.

For child #2 we are planning on doing foster care to adoption.
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IfGodCouldDie posted...

Are you dead set on a baby? I ask because as an orphan I can assure you there are a lot of kids that aren't babies that need good homes.

There definitely are. My sister and her wife went that route and adopted three older girls. The process was a lot easier than if they decided to adopt a baby. But I do understand some people wanting a baby first. There's a lot more time to bond.
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TotallyNotMI posted...

I think for child #1 we are pretty set on something newborn to toddler age range.

For child #2 we are planning on doing foster care to adoption.

Glad to here that.
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IfGodCouldDie posted...

TotallyNotMI posted...

This is a weird thing to post but this seems like the right topic to do it in since you guys might travel in the right circles.

My husband & I are in the adoption process. It's been a long slow process thus far. One of the things our agency tells us is to let everyone we know know that we are looking. Because someone we know might know someone who is pregnant and planning to put their kid up for adoption. If you do, consider putting us in touch with said person. It would save us a lot of time & money ($18k if our agency finds the match for us that we save if we make a match ourselves).

I know this is a long shot but hey, can't hurt.

Are you dead set on a baby? I ask because as an orphan I can assure you there are a lot of kids that aren't babies that need good homes.

My wife and I are done with newborns after 2 but we are debating adopting a 3rd in a few years. There are so many kids at all ages that need good homes we would probably be okay with almost any age below like 9.
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