u/Calieahrens

How to avoid head slump in car seat?

Whenever our baby naps in the car his head slumps pretty bad, I know that since he has neck control it’s less of a concern but it still stresses me out. The seat is in the furthest recline and in the bible section for newborn even though he is 9 months. Should we adjust the seat differently? Can this be prevented?

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u/Calieahrens — 23 hours ago

Is the real estate market really busy enough that realtors have poor follow through?

We are starting the process of buying a house in New Hampshire and so far two real estate agents have in my opinion had poor communication. The first one we were referred to by our mortgage company, the realtor sent an email with a short introduction and gave his number and said call or text any time. I sent him a text message saying I would love to set up a time to chat and get the ball rolling to which I did not receive a text back the entire day. The next day he called early on but I was taking care of my kid so couldn’t get to the phone he followed up with a text message to which I told him two times of day that I was able to chat, he said not a problem and then I didn’t get a call the rest of the day. I set up a meeting with a second one who seemed to be very highly rated, she called and explained that she had something in the morning and asked if I could move it later, when I told her it needed to be a phone call she was like oh that should be okay then and to just give her a call around that time. I called and it went to voicemail, I waited 15 minutes and again went to voicemail. Which I totally understand if what she had going on went long but then I didn’t hear anything the rest of the day. Maybe I’m just used to a very busy market of a city but I feel that a real estate agent should be more prompt than that, at least a text saying hey a bunch of stuff came up I can’t get to the call today let’s reschedule.
So I guess here I am asking for more real estate agent options to reach out to.

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u/Calieahrens — 1 day ago

Schedule or something else

Baby is 9 months we run a 3/3/4 schedule with the first and second wake window having flexibility on cues so sometimes 3.25 or 3.5. He is sleep trained for going to bed and naps. On good days I usually have to wake him from naps and first is 1.5 hours and second is 1.25, he goes 11 hours with about 3 night feeds first usually around 11:30-12.
About every other week we are hitting a rough patch with this week being the worst we’ve seen. It started out with an extra morning wake on Tuesday, then both naps that day he protested hard and the second nap was 28 minutes. That night super rough like waking up about hourly so upset, he was on ibuprofen in the chance it was teeth. Next day he went down for naps much better but second nap again was 28 minutes on the dot. Again early wakes and lots of them. Thursday his first nap was 58 minutes but second was more normal, that night he did his usual midnight wake but had an extra morning wake and then I couldn’t get him back down when he woke up at 5ish unless he was on the noon the whole time which wasn’t really sleep but I wanted to keep him in dark bedroom until 6:30. Friday again first nap was 58 minutes, second nap was normal, bunch of night wakes and again up for the day at 5:30.

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u/Calieahrens — 5 days ago

Are people not concerned with Instagram story trends?

I’m constantly seeing people’s stories where it’s a trend and it’s like add yours however many million people have participated. The latest one I’ve seen is “lil you or bad may” which really got me thinking. Lot of us are concerned about putting our babies online because of the mass amounts of creeps that are out there but then a trend like this pops up and they are so okay with putting baby version of themselves out there. Like I get that everyone is adults so they are consenting to putting their own pictures out there but when you click on the trend you can see everyone’s stories even those you don’t follow. So what if creeps are out there starting these to be able to see millions of baby pictures. I know this is just the conspiracy side of me but still quite a thing to think about.

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u/Calieahrens — 6 days ago
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I’m curious what food allergies symptoms were present when you found out your baby was allergic to a food. Especially if it was out of the norm or not obvious. My boy has been rubbing his nose and eyes like all the time and I’m starting to worry it’s an allergy to food.

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u/Calieahrens — 7 days ago

Just to preface we will be bringing this up at babies 9 month appointment on Friday just want to get an idea if we are in our heads about this.
Our baby constantly rubs his nose and eyes not just before nap time. At first we wrote it off as teething especially because the upper two were next on the list to come in. We’ve now started to notice some fussiness accompanied with it sometimes. I’m starting to worry that maybe it’s a food allergy or I maybe some kind of allergy causing this. Has your baby ever had just an itchy nose and eyes from food allergy?

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u/Calieahrens — 7 days ago

I’m not sure if we are quite at the right age yet as I don’t think there is enough of a drive to eat food to make a difference (but maybe I’m wrong) but we are seeing lots of spoon drops and food drops on the floor. Some are just cause he’s looking around or banging the spoon but it clear that some are purposeful and a game for him. He’s started to do other cause and effect “games” like during bedtime book he always has his own chewable book and now he’s started dropping it in the crack near the wall and wanting us to grab it. So what age did you start saying okay three spoon drops we’re done with meal?

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u/Calieahrens — 8 days ago

I’m not talking about someone offering to do a change for you I’m saying like your going to do a change and they say oh I’ll come help and just stand with you while you do it. I’m also not talking fresh baby needing pointers, like older baby you know what you’re doing.

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u/Calieahrens — 11 days ago