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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2012 15:20:32 GMT -5
actually, our ped recommends that we use nursery water with flouride, so we do.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jul 19, 2012 15:23:01 GMT -5
Wow, I had that problem at one point, but it was because I purchased cheap generic diaper. They didn't absorb fast enough & he liked to lay on his back with his legs curled up in the air, so everything just ran out the back.
We currently alternate between Parent's Choice and Huggies (through amazon subscribe and save) . We just went back to Huggies and they do worse overnight than Parent's Choice. I guess we are just going to give more to the evil empire until DS is potty trained.
I made some fleece board shorts for DS to sleep in because they contain any pee if he has a particularly wet night and leaks out of the diaper. In the winter we do fleece footed pajamas (actually DS wants to sleep in them and keeps asking for them and it is like it is 100 degrees out every day and you want fleece pajamas...no). So, new parents - fleece is a good second layer at containing pee.
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Post by Firebird on Jul 19, 2012 15:53:43 GMT -5
We buy spring water at the grocery store. Tap water here sucks. I think we'll just keep doing that
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jul 19, 2012 15:56:04 GMT -5
OT - Muttley, did you all abandon the CD's for now?
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jul 19, 2012 16:09:49 GMT -5
Yeah, for now. I figured we would have potty trained by now, but DS's verbal skills have been very slow to progress. Between my depression, DH's physical health issues, DH's depression, my PITA pregnancy, and DS's verbal issues we needed to take something off the table and try to simplify our lives for the time being. I'm actually considering not cloth diapering this new baby. I know you all can't believe it given how gung ho I was and how much I really do prefer cloth diapers. But the first year scares the crap out of me and I just cannot see adding another 3 loads of laundry a week at this point with all of our issues going on. I might change my mind when I remember how many diapers a newborn goes through compared to a should be potty-trained 2.5 year old.
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Post by Formerly SK on Jul 19, 2012 16:11:40 GMT -5
Kids will get used to room temperature formula if you let them. I'm late to this thread but wanted to say my SIL exclusively pumped for the first year with my niece (niece wouldn't latch onto breast). They gave DN breastmilk straight out of the fridge. DN totally took it.
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Post by Angel! on Jul 19, 2012 16:13:42 GMT -5
actually, our ped recommends that we use nursery water with flouride, so we do. Which is fine. I think the only risk associated is fluorosis, which only affects how the teeth look. Just everything I have read on the subject says the higher the flouride levels the higher the risk. Both the CDC & ADA say this & I don't know that there is an officially recommendation on the right amount of flouride, but they both say if you want to lower your kid's risk use pre-mixed formula or low-flouride water sources, especially for the first 6 months if the kid is not breast-feeding. Breastmilk apparently doesn't transmit much flouride, so if you are breast-feeding even part time you are lowering the levels of flouride intake. It wasn't something I was personally worried about. I would worry far more about other things that may be present in tap water. But, we have very good water here & low levels of flouride.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jul 19, 2012 16:22:57 GMT -5
First world problems... I swear.
We have one of the safest drinking water supplies the world has ever known and we spend all this time and energy to drill for oil halfway around the planet in order to make plastic bottles so we can import water from some tiny island in the South Pacific. Meanwhile there are people in third world countries that get their drinking water from the same local river or lake where they their waste. People be crazy.
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 19, 2012 16:30:58 GMT -5
We used tap water. Our ped said it was fine. I believe our city flourinates, so that may be why it was considered acceptable. I didn't ask any follow up questions just "I'm using tap water, is that okay?"
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Post by Firebird on Jul 19, 2012 16:36:15 GMT -5
We have one of the safest drinking water supplies the world has ever known and we spend all this time and energy to drill for oil halfway around the planet in order to make plastic bottles so we can import water from some tiny island in the South Pacific. Meanwhile there are people in third world countries that get their drinking water from the same local river or lake where they their waste. People be crazy.
Yeah, I'd have no problem drinking tap water... ours just tastes nasty. DH's aunt in Washington has a well and I LOVE their tap water... OMG... not only is it drinkable, it is delicious. I have no idea why.
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Post by Angel! on Jul 19, 2012 17:06:19 GMT -5
First world problems... I swear. We have one of the safest drinking water supplies the world has ever known and we spend all this time and energy to drill for oil halfway around the planet in order to make plastic bottles so we can import water from some tiny island in the South Pacific. Meanwhile there are people in third world countries that get their drinking water from the same local river or lake where they their waste. People be crazy. Yes, we have one of the safest drinking supplies in the world. But, some cities have better than others & if I live in a city with a crappy water supply I am filtering or buying bottled. www.dailyfinance.com/2011/01/31/ten-american-cities-with-worst-drinking-water/For some reason it never is big news, but many water supplies have chemicals that exceed EPA recommendations. Maybe it doesn't matter for an adult, but not something I want to give my infant, since I am a 1st worlder & have other options.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2012 9:01:53 GMT -5
"I'm late to this thread but wanted to say my SIL exclusively pumped for the first year with my niece (niece wouldn't latch onto breast). They gave DN breastmilk straight out of the fridge. DN totally took it. "
My son would latch at first, then wouldn't. So one of the NICU nurses recommended using a "nipple shield". If any of you moms out there have the same problem, try it. It worked an after a little while he started latching on without the shield again. My son would drink it straight out of the fridge too but it makes him spit up and I think that's why it is supposed to be room temperature.
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Post by formerroomate99 on Jul 20, 2012 10:49:28 GMT -5
Nope, just a run of the mill nutter. Just for kicks you should take the huge stroller grocery shopping before baby arrives. To make it super realistic pick up a watermelon right when you get there and carry it one hand through the rest of the store (it's standing in for the baby who inexplicably loves their car seat/stroller right up until you get to the store and they start freaking out). Now on your way out you've still got the watermelon in one hand, while you push the SUV size stroller with the other one and carry your groceries. Then you get to try getting it folded back up and in the car while still holding the watermelon. The kid is supposed to go in last according the books. People get car jacked fairly often while putting things in the trunk or whatever, and you don't want the guy driving off with the baby. Well first off, there is no reason for anyone to bring the big stroller into a grocery store when you can just put the infant carseat into the shopping cart. And yes, sometimes, you do end up pushing the SUV sized stroller while holding a baby that has decided he wants to be held. But many kids absolutely love their carseats, hate being moved into a stroller, and flat out refuse to ride in anything other than the carseat snapped into a stroller or shopping cart until they are 3-6 months old (like both of my boys).
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Post by formerroomate99 on Jul 20, 2012 11:00:47 GMT -5
On the subject of waterproof mattress pads, the waterproof covering on a crib mattress can tear over time, has crevices that are hard to clean and probably just doesn't feel too good with just a sheet between it and your baby. So I'd get a couple of them.
Dark, I agree with you that the umbrella stroller is better than the SUV sized one once the kid gets older. But during those first few months, getting boys out of the carseat into a regular stroller didn't ever work and being able to just pop the carseat into a shopping cart or a SUV sized stroller was the only way I had any chance of not ending up carrying them the whole time. For someone with a stronger back, carseat to sling might work, but alas, my back is far too weak for that.
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Post by shanendoah on Jul 20, 2012 11:38:17 GMT -5
formerroomate:I agree, it's super convenient to just prop the car seat on the grocery cart, but as I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, at least one of the top rated (by Consumer Reports) car seats can NOT be propped on the child seat of the grocery cart. You have to put it in the basket- which is a problem for major shopping trips, or you have to have a stroller. It's just one of those things to think about when buying a car seat.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jul 20, 2012 11:48:55 GMT -5
formerroomate:I agree, it's super convenient to just prop the car seat on the grocery cart, but as I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, at least one of the top rated (by Consumer Reports) car seats can NOT be propped on the child seat of the grocery cart. You have to put it in the basket- which is a problem for major shopping trips, or you have to have a stroller. It's just one of those things to think about when buying a car seat. We have that car seat - Chicco Keyfit 30. We just set it in the basket when DS was really little. We just made it. I actually prefer babywearing to carrying the car seat around. DS was sitting up by 6 months so it is truly a very short term problem. I do think about it with baby #2, but I'll probably just babywear even more since I have better carriers now than I did when DS was a newborn. I would not want a carseat to be snapped in on the top of the cart anyway. They are top heavy and hard to see around when you do that. Even though it seems like a huge problem thinking about it ahead of time, you work it out and it is over before you know it (FTR we only go grocery shopping once a week).
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jul 20, 2012 11:55:05 GMT -5
Also, the best car seat is one that fits your child and your car the best. We chose the Keyfit because it was easier for me to adjust and latch and unlatch. The probelm with the Keyfit is that it does not have the universal base that latches into carts and most strollers like Graco and Baby TRend. But we very rarely used a stroller with DS. I did buy a jogging stroller because I thought I was going to do that, but by the time the weather was good enough, DS needed a very strict bedtime to even sleep halfway decent at night (ie only wake up twice instead of every hour). I'm keeping the jogging stroller through next summer and if I don't use it next summer, then I'm selling it. We were given a cheapy umbrella stroller from a garage sale and my boss is buying us a sit and stand stroller for this baby (at least he said he wants to buy us the "stroller we want"). I've never had nor wanted a "travel system" stroller. I never would have used it.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jul 20, 2012 14:13:58 GMT -5
Unfortunately they don't make the super awesome infant car seat we had. It had a shoulder strap instead of a handle, and snapped into the base in the car. It had the convenience of a baby carrier, but the kid was comfortable in the car seat. There were times that we had to go shopping or whatever and the kids would sleep right through the entire thing, from getting put in the car, taken out and carried around, back into the car, and taken out again at the house. I've seen other kids do the same thing with those car seats that have a handle, but carrying them around is a pain in the ass. I don't know who designed those handles, but I have yet to see one that's actually comfortable to hold for any length of time.
I think they stopped making them for safety reasons. Something like it's possible for the car seat to flip upside down while you're wearing the shoulder strap, and the baby could fall out. We used ours with both kids and never even came close to having it happen, but I could see where it could if you tried hard enough.
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Post by econstudent on Jul 20, 2012 20:42:15 GMT -5
Car seats should never be propped up on the cart. It's very unsteady, even if it clicks, and presents a big falling hazard. It's a pain to put the car seat inside of the cart, but it's much safer. Better yet, leave the car seat in the car and wear the baby in a carrier or sling until the baby is big enough to sit up in the seat.
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Post by Firebird on Jul 23, 2012 11:56:01 GMT -5
So as it turns out, I'm having two baby showers! One here in the hometown and one in Washington next month. shanendoah gets to come after all, if she ever sends me her address SIL is planning the one in Washington. Some of you know a bit of the backstory with her. I'm rather touched that she's reaching out like this.
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Post by taz157 on Jul 23, 2012 12:04:15 GMT -5
That's great FB! That is rather sweet of your SIL to through you one too! Have a great time! Side question - How are things between SIL and her oldest kid?
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Post by Firebird on Jul 23, 2012 12:14:04 GMT -5
Side question - How are things between SIL and her oldest kid?
Eh. Your guess is as good as mine, I haven't been up there since December and the stuff we hear secondhand is heavily edited for content. DN1 has been in Arizona visiting her dad and my cousin all summer (she did the same thing last summer so this isn't unusual).
Best I can judge, things are going reasonably well for the time being.
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Post by taz157 on Jul 23, 2012 12:35:01 GMT -5
Maybe being away from her mom for a bit will help since she's with her dad and your cousin.
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Post by Firebird on Jul 23, 2012 12:37:39 GMT -5
I was hoping to see her next month but she'll still be there when we're in Washington I miss that kiddo. At least we'll get to see DN2. She's getting so big!
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Post by taz157 on Jul 23, 2012 12:45:12 GMT -5
Yeah about seeing DN2! Bummer at not seeing DN. I'm going next week to visit my DN for the 1st time. I'm taking my DD with me as they haven't seen her since Christmas! My DN is 5.5 weeks old now.
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Post by Firebird on Jul 23, 2012 12:53:58 GMT -5
Aww, yay taz!! That's about how old DN2 was when I saw her last time So cute.
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