u/Billyxmac

What age did crib naps become realistic for you? My nearly 5 month old can sleep well at night in the crib, but during the day wakes immediately if I put her in the crib. We’ve gotten 2, maybe 3 successful naps in the crib since she was born.

No matter what I do, she wakes as soon as she touches the crib. So I’ve been basically stuck only giving contact naps for her, which can be really difficult with a toddler at home, and the only break I get is when they’re both in bed at night.

Not sure how to move forward with this. Booted up the PC this morning and got sent to auto repair. No matter what I do, everything fails. Auto repair fails, can’t uninstall updates, can’t system restore. If I try to access safe mode via startup settings, it’ll just restart and go right back to auto repair. No menu for safe mode.

I tried to run repair commands but nothing seemed to happen either. And now I can’t seem to access bios either from boot. I’ll smash F2 and of DEL and I always just get sent to auto repair.

Is my only option to clean install windows? My wife uses this as her work computer and there’s tons of files that we can’t have deleted.

This post is a bit random, but I hope that it gives y’all the boost it gave me today.

Took my girls to the park today (2.5 and 4m), and was struggling with my 4m (was up for 3 hours with her last night, sleep regression fun), and as I was packing her in the stroller an older guy stopped with his dog. He said something like “great job dad, a lot of men don’t understand how tough it is for women that take care of the kids, but looks like you’ve got it figured out”.

I laughed and told him I’m actually a SAHD. I don’t usually mention it in public, not out of fear but just because I don’t care to bring it up, but I did with him. The look of acknowledgment and almost pride this guy had on his face when I said that, and his next sentence “wow, you’re doing a great job dad, that’s awesome” was one of the most randomly assuring and encouraging interactions I’ve had with someone since starting this.

It got me weirdly emotional, even with the crying 4m old in the back of the car, it was so nice to have someone just acknowledge that what we’re doing is all worth it. In a pretty thankless and tiring role, it really gave me the boost I needed mentally.

So hope y’all dads know you’re doing an awesome job, and I’m proud of what you’re all doing to help support your kids and your family.