:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@Luhmann said:
Belch as in a resident of Belgium. Obvious!
Isn't that commonly spelled Belg?
Not when pronounced with that ugly hard g sound you Dutchmen love
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Last day of the semester at my wife's school. Her Grade 10s figured out she's pregnant, and made her this:
http://i.imgur.com/TWwfg6z.png
It's a cake made from diapers, decorated with washclothes, booties and topped with a stuffed lamb.
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That's brillant. They must be a good bunch.
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Looking at video baby monitors. I just can't help but feel the "Baby Monitors" are just overpriced regular cameras. So many 'baby' things are just regular things with a soft color, the word "baby" on it, and twice the price.
They tout features like "night vision" and "listen and talk". Nice sounding things. But still...
Did anyone go the camera route? Did you go "babby product", or a different solution?
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We went with the "is-she-still-breathing" device (it's too early for me to google for the real name), and a two-way radio set that happened to also have one stationary sound activated listen-only unit. The radio set we then reused when driving caravan with my brother-in-law during the holidays.
These two (breathing monitor plus sound) took care of the emergencies. Otherwise we left the door ajar so that we could have a look when walking by, which provided us with many more aww-moments. Also, the smell and sound of a sleeping baby is rather endearing.
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Any news yet @jaloopa?
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Any news yet @jaloopa?
She's being induced on Tuesday@Lorne_Kates said:
Did anyone go the camera route? Did you go "babby product", or a different solution?
My plan is to set up my spare mobile phone with some sort of video call to my tablet. Free since it uses my wifi and devices I already have
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And now that I am awake and more coherent I'd like to augment my response.
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breathing monitor: With all the talk about crib death, this is a cheap safeguard (I know that the device is usually quite expensive, but it is still a lifesaver).
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camera: If you have a cat, this may be important since they have been known to lie down on top of babies and suffocate them. Otherwise, you're not going to miss your baby's first moonwalk if you haven't got one. If I absolutely wanted a camera, I would go with a regular surveillance camera that I could recommission back to its intended service once I was done crib watching.
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the endearing sleeping baby: I started wondering why I wrote that, and I realised that, aside from the smell and sound, it probably has more to do with that when your baby sleeps is the only time you can watch them without actually being needed.
Oh and one other thing that I just remembered, which may be too late for you and I may have already said it upthread, but on the topic of nursing bags: go with a proper rucksack instead of the common shoulder bag. Your are going to carry it around a lot, and you are also going to carry around the baby, its clothes, its toys, its pacifier, etc., and when you bend over to pick up that last item that the kid just threw on the floor, the shoulder bags tend to fall forward and you have to re-start the whole loading procedure.
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when your baby sleeps is the only time you can watch them without actually being needed.
so much this ... our little
burdenbundle of joy had the incredible power to wake up if you passed by the crib and you peeked in there ... and when facial recognition patterns matched the screaming functions where activateda proper rucksack
heavily depends on your usage ... we had a proper stroller thing and we mostly used these because we either ended up with using that or having it in the car. Also more practical to have it on the stroller if you are alone. But do watch out when strapping bags to the stroller, gravity is a harsh mistress. And babies fall enough as it is without adult aid.
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This also depends on the stroller. For our first baby we had a big MF of a thing (which goes under the name Potemkin), which was a PITA to get in and out of the car everywhere (and which also required a shoulder bag if you were going to hang it somewhere on the superstructure).
For our second kid we went with a much lighter version where you could attach the carseat on top when she was small, and use as a regular stroller when she got bigger. On this, it was easy to hang a rucksack over the handles.
Edit: But either way, there are plenty of situations when you are going to have to transport baby + gear without a stroller. The rucksack really saves the day then.
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The rucksack really saves the day then.
euh ... the stroller bag had shoulder straps too
although the bags where a bit different ...
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breathing monitor: With all the talk about crib death, this is a cheap safeguard (I know that the device is usually quite expensive, but it is still a lifesaver).
Picked up one of those on clearance a while back. It was long before we had confirmation of the pregnancy-- but it was almost something stupid like 90% off, because next year's models were coming in.
My plan is to set up my spare mobile phone with some sort of video call to my tablet. Free since it uses my wifi and devices I already have
Hmm, interesting. I do have a smartphone and some extra tablets. Admittedly, they're "extra" because they keep freezing or rebooting, so I'll see if I can get them in working order.
proper rucksack
I think we have one of each. I prefer the backpack anyways. The stroller has under-storage and handle hooks. It's one of those Peg Perrigo Book Popup (again-- next year's model was coming in, got a discontinued color at a heavy discount, yay!). It's one of those where the carseat detaches from a mounted base, and attaches to the stroller frame. It's the only stroller I tried out that felt like it was properly balanced. I've-- I've done a lot of running around shops, pushing strollers at high speed, weaving between displays and taking hard turns. A lot. This was the only one that never tipped over.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Did anyone go the camera route?
We got one of the Motorolas with video when we had child 1. Then got another when we had child 2. Having the video was a big plus for us. We found our kids made a lot of noise, even when fast asleep, if we'd had audio only we may have been tempted to check in on them. It's also handy when offloading the kid(s) onto grandparents who may be a bit more nervous about noises.
The talk bit only became useful after about 2 years. I can just shout "lie down and go to sleep" into it instead of trudging upstairs and doing it.
our little burden bundle of joy had the incredible power to wake up if you passed by the crib and you peeked in there ... and when facial recognition patterns matched the screaming functions where activated
Also, this.
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You know, the worst part about the fact that they made me OP of this thread is that while I read it, I don't really want notifications every time the title changes.
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camera: If you have a cat, this may be important since they have been known to lie down on top of babies and suffocate them
What? No documented cases, ever.
If I had a very young child I certainly wouldn't want my cat around it because they can be unpredictable, they don't suffocate children though as that's crazy.
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Fair enough. We heard it among all other scaremongering that surrounds parenhood and it got stuck among all the other junk that you can't really shake off.
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Although your second link has nothing to do with what I meant. What we heard was that they see the sleeping kid as a warm place to sleep so they snug up om top of the baby.
It may still be an urban legend, but your second link is waay further into crazy-land.
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SIDS must be an extremely frightening thing for parents so it does seem natural they'd be a lot of old wives tales like that.
I just felt offended on behalf of the poor maligned cats
Although your second link has nothing to do with what I meant
The second one says this about half way through:
A news story emerging in December 2000 appeared at first blush to be an instance of this sort of accident when a woman said she found her six-week-old son dead in his crib with the family cat laying on the baby's face. Further examination by pathologists laid this theory to rest — they attributed the 21 December 2000 death of 6-week-old Keiron Payne to sudden infant death syndrome.
It may still be an urban legend, but your second link is waay further into crazy-land.
The Koreans have a myth that electric fans can suck the oxygen out of rooms, cats sucking breath sounds slightly saner than that.
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Looks like it's happening. I won't be live posting but I'll update soonish
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Looks like it's happening. I won't be live posting but I'll update soonish
Good luck. Typical woman, decided not to wait for the induction?
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Pretty much. We've been sent home until the contractions get more regular but if there's no movement by Friday morning she'll still be induced
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We were at home for less than two hours before going back in. She's well on the way now
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We were at home for less than two hours before going back in. She's well on the way now
Good luck. Update us when you can. Congrats.
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We were at home for less than two hours before going back in.
At a point when she's in a bunch of pain, make sure to remind her of that and use the words "typical woman". She'll be momentarily annoyed at you enough to forget about the pain!
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This is going to be a PITA to organise, but should we pool up for two copies of @apapadimoulis' book for our two WTDWTF babies?
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She'll be momentarily annoyed at you
But don't forget to dodge! It's not because they are curled up in pain that they can't throw a mean punch.
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@apapadimoulis' book
Are we planning on traumatizing them before birth?
Who am I kidding ... given the dads the poor things where traumatized before conception.
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Thank you, and congrats @Jaloopa.
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we had a big MF of a thing (which goes under the name Potemkin)
So it was a battleship of baby strollers?
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Yeah, that. Born at 5:02pm, 7lb14oz. I'm now on my way home to get some sleep
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said:
we had a big MF of a thing (which goes under the name Potemkin)
So it was a battleship of baby strollers?
It certainly felt like it when packing it into the car or in uphill slopes. Juggernaut would aslo have been a good name but it doesn't work so well in swedish.
Morbid me never reminded my wife about the scene with the perambulator and the stairs in the movie, though.
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That was quick compared to the horror cases in this thread.
Congratulations and all the best to the three of you!
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I was gonna ask "Potemkin as in the battleship, or as in fake villages built to impress suckers?"
Both named after the same idiot. Quite an impact he made on history, huh.
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Congrats @jaloopa
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Congratulations to Mr. Jalapeno and his little Cinnamon!
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stroller ... Potemkin
Wait-- isn't a pivotal scene in Battleship Potemkin a mother getting killed, and her baby carriage careening out of control down the stairs, into a riot-- where the implication is that the baby doesn't survive?
Great naming there, Marketing department.
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I prefer the one where it's the name of a prisoner with an explosive neck brace.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@Jaloopa said:
to get some sleep
lolnope
If mother and baby are still in the hospital, yes. It may be his last chance for a few months.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Great naming there, Marketing department.
It was unclear to me from @Mikael_Svahnberg's post whether that was the actual name, or just what he called it because it seemed to be 115 meters long and weigh 13000 tonnes when he was trying to maneuver it.
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If mother and baby are still in the hospital, yes. It may be his last chance for a few months.
QFT. When our second was born and they were still in the hospital, I had to go home "to deal with some urgent work stuff". The urgent work stuff was that I needed to sleep for a few hours without nurses coming in so that I did not die of exhaustion.
That may have been the last sound sleep I have had in the last six months. I still remember how cool the leather couch felt and how quiet everything was. I am getting drowsy just thinking about it.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Great naming there, Marketing department.
It was unclear to me from @Mikael_Svahnberg's post whether that was the actual name, or just what he called it because it seemed to be 115 meters long and weigh 13000 tonnes when he was trying to maneuver it.
It is (of course) just what we call it. No true marketing department would name a stroller after something big and heavy that is built to spread death around it, and is indeed associated with the stroller rolling down a stair-scene. You might as well name it "Dicke Bertha".
...did I just troll @Lorne_Kates?
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...did I just troll @Lorne_Kates?
I couldn't resist making a joke at the expense of an obscure black and white movie.
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Good luck. Typical woman, decided not to wait for the induction?
Ha! For me, it was my daughter who refused to wait. My induction was scheduled for a Tuesday. Went in Friday morning for last monitoring and she had heart rate decelerations (for the first time during the pregnancy--I was monitored a lot in and out of the hospital). Also the day before she had a flurry of activity and then suddenly nothing. I kept poking and moving until she moved again. It probably wasn't that long but it sure felt like forever.
A 20 minute monitoring session turned into an hour turned into the nurse walking me to L&D and once there they said I would be straight admitted (no triage).
Everyone kept asking when was the last time I ate. I was so worried I would have to have a C-section. It was terrifying.
When my OB shows up, she says one way or the other I am having this baby today (which really meant within 48 hours because she later told me the induction could take that long).
Everything worked out in the end.
Good Luck @Jaloopa!