oh I feel this.
My kid is a puker, look at her funny and she’ll throw up. Getting her to use the toilet to throw up was a massive achievement but didn’t happen until she turned 3.
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I don’t recall when my kids first made it to a toilet to throw up, but 3 seems like a very precocious toilet vomiter. Congrats!
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Yeah. I’ve followed this strategy. But the little angel managed to find the one second of free air time to spray.
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humble brag, my kid is very advanced obviously lol
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I’m so glad my kids are now grown up (kinda, early 20’s)
So. Little Rugbino ate some kitchen paper this morning.
A quick google reassured me, with parents listing all the paper their babies had eaten safely.
Found this list though.
So apparently kids are unbreakable and can eat anything. The long list of “you’re baby will be fine” blew my mind.
It includes used cat litter, mercury for a glass thermometer, deodorant, hydrogen peroxide at less than 3% and fewer than 10 paper matches
They seem more worried by honey than anything else.
Yeah honey can have botulin in it and cause floppy babies.
I freak out about button batteries, blood pressure meds, opiates, and a few others
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Big one that I remember is small magnets.
One magnet, that’s ok!
Two or more magnets, yeah they’re getting those
Babytatop is on the verge of crawling and seems to have army crawling down pretty good now, which is cool but also means that he absolutely hates his playpen and screams when I put him in it. I’m not sure if it’s because he can’t move as easily on the playmat inside it or if he just hates not being able to roam free trying to grab cat toys/laptop bags/blankets (all to eat ldo) or anything else on the floor that catches his little eye.
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Each transportation-related milestone (crawling, walking, bike riding, driving) is exciting but they all come with lots of nerve-wracking consequences.
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You’re entering a long zone of your baby moving around and putting everything in their mouths. You’ve just gotta get your house to a place where they have room to roam. Obviously cover the safety basics first (baby gate on staircase, no heavy stuff on tables/shelves, cover outlets etc)
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He wants to be free. Second what zim said.
The part of this process that was weird to me is that I didn’t realize how my kid is going to fall down a ton starting about now. They’ll be fine but it’s hard to watch sometimes
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Whenever one of my beginning walkers fell she basically never hit her head and the other kid basically always hit her head.
Okay, always is a big exaggeration, but it was way too often.
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One of mine broke her front two teeth rollerblading. Parenting is hard.
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At 14 months my kiddo stood up in the bathtub, fell and chipped her tooth. I felt so awful about that. Still has a little chip.
My nephew fell in the bath tub around 20 months - ended up having a skull fracture. This might sound weird, but it was a minor one and after a minor kerfluffle caused by an anxious er doctor, he was sent home and did great
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When my younger son was in the 5-7 year old range there was nothing he loved more than being chased. So at recess he would goad someone into chasing him, then while being chased he’d look back over his shoulder at his pursuer and run smack-dab into stuff. Got to know the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles x-ray folks real well.
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When mine broke her teeth rollerblading she was 19…years old. It was still traumatic…for me.
It was peak covid which worked out well since she wore a mask in public the whole time until her teeth were fixed…though she wasn’t really shy about showing people.
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I find this all oddly reassuring.
It’s basically my every recent google experience.
“Baby did minor X. Will he be okay”
Parents of the internet: “lol yes. Let me tell about the much worse shit that my kiddo did and was fine”
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I see kiddo injuries a lot, and yeah that’s how it goes.
That being said, your kid should always be wearing a helmet on a bike or skateboard or whatever vehicle. Drives me up the wall when I’m at the park and see kids without them
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