Bee sting allergy

Well, we found out the hard way that our girl is allergic to bee stings. She got stung at daycare today and she instantly started coughing plus complaining that her throat was bothering her. They gave her Benadryl (with my approval) and were going to call an ambulance. Luckily I live half a mile down the road, so I picked her up and brought her to the doctor. After over two hours of monitoring, the doctor felt confident she was okay to go home but prescribed an epipen. She said that while her reaction was not severe, it could get worse as she gets older and potentially has subsequent stings. We have to follow up with an allergist as well. Anyone have any experience with bee sting allergies? Bees are my daughter’s favorite bugs so I think she felt very betrayed today. 😭

I’m not normally one for wives tales..

but first my October 19 daughter started doing the headstand thing and now my 6m old keeps doing it too 🤪 Coupled with the fact they’re being super cute just lately and making me broody (occasionally) 😂 Starting to feel less guilty at the thought of pushing them over the more they keep doing it 🤣

Where are you guys planning to have your little ones birthday party?

I’m struggling to figure out where to have my little guys birthday party 😩 We have pretty much all of the family birthday parties at my house, which is fine, but I want something a little different for my little man. It’s so hard to find somewhere since it starts to get cold around that time. What are you all planning for your little ones this year?

Cannot stand my toddler 😭

My daughter goes through phases where she is very pleasant to be around and I love being her mom. But, then the pendulum swings the other way and she is absolutely horrible. She has such a shitty attitude, throws tantrums over everything, and will not listen at all. It’s so bad that we refer to it as a demon has come to possess her again. She’s also super manipulative and stubborn in general. For instance, this morning she woke up after my husband left for work. She threw a massive temper tantrum, including kicking and screaming, because she wanted daddy to get her out of bed. I calmly explained that he couldn’t but we could FaceTime him. I also offered her some of her favorite food. Nothing worked and she continued her fit. She then pushed her one year old brother to the ground and I was done. I left her room and told her to let me know when she was ready to act like a nice person again. Putting her to bed is also a similar ordeal with lots of crying, screaming, manipulation, and stubbornness. I’m at my wits’ end with her. Even her daycare teachers say her attitude is over the top and they say she is turning 13 instead of 3 in October. Asking her to do the simplest tasks could set her off. She will flat out yell NO in my face. Of course I reprimand her but she absolutely does not care. I asked her if she listens to mommy and she said nope. I don’t know what else to do. I’ve tried not yelling. I’ve tried yelling. I’ve tried positive reinforcement. I’ve tried taking things away from her. Literally nothing works when she is like this and it gets worse every time. Usually when this happens she is going through something developmental and comes out of it with a new skill, but man do we have to work for it. I’m ranting now, but just really needed to vent. Anyone have any advice or can just commiserate? Thank god for wine is all I can say. 🙌🏻

Baby #2 is here💙

My October Babygirl became a big sister! Our son was born yesterday at 8:38pm . What’s the first thing she said to him? “Brother, your foot is dirty” 😂 He still had the ink on his foot from his footprints lol I can’t wait to see them grow together 🥰

Night time potty training

How did others do the night time potty training ?The restricting fluids in evening and picking kid up for a 'sleep wee' on your way to bed I've heard - the latter won't be a runner for us though as my son would just wake proper up. Can it be done just by restricting fluids in evening (upside down triangle of fluids?) Son sleeps 12hrs. The main issue doing so would be he wakes up cranky in the morning and refuses to go potty for a good while after he wakes up until he's less cranky. He's day trained.

Second Child Advice/Reassurance

I apologize in advance if this is long winded, but I’m kind of having an spinning out anxious type day already and hoping you guys can help give insight 😅 Long term my fiancé and I both have always wanted 2 kids, but honestly neither of us shine as infant parents. We definitely love the toddler stages more (honestly even after 6 months is better) so we’re super nervous to have a second child. Also it’s the anxiety of adding to the family changing the routine up, it’s just all so stressful. I feel like I don’t remember any of my sons baby time either thanks to covid happening and kind of just going on autopilot (which covid and the state of the US also makes me nervous). I got my IUD out 3 weeks ago and we’re waiting a few months so I can get a period and get my body a little bit regulated and I’m making the preparations for us to possibly get pregnant but it’s still doesn’t feel real and I feel like I panic and go back and forth between being 100% about a second kid and then being absolutely terrified and unsure. Anyone in the same boat? Or felt the same way and then had their second and have any wisdom to share?

How are we all surviving the Terrible Twos? 😮‍💨

Today has been one of those days 😅Tantrum upon tantrum with little logic to any of them besides toddler logic 🥴Today my daughter wanted a snack, I offered grapes or a banana, she picked up an apple. No problem! Takes one teeeeny bite out of the apple “I don’t want this one anymore I want grapes” so I said “oh dear you picked an apple and started eating it, so we can’t put it back now. But if you eat your apple first then you can have a few grapes” … wrong answer mama 😂😩 the apple was thrown and I decided to hold out for dinner in lieu of snack time because I didn’t want to give grapes after throwing the apple Then after dinner it was hot so my partner offered her an ice-cream - she picked a magnum style one. The chocolate had a little crack in it after it had been opened “I don’t want this one it’s broken I want a different ice cream!” we wouldn’t have changed it anyway but it was the last one so we explained it was still yummy to eat but if she really didn’t want it there wasn’t another choice. Literally triggered WW3 😮‍💨🥴What crazy things have your toddlers kicked off about lately?

Toddler going to sleep on their own?

Ok what are y’all doing to help your 2 1/2 year old fall asleep on their own and staying in their rooms all night?!The past few months have been rough. She won’t fall asleep unless we stay in her room until she is asleep. And 6/7 nights she’s up in the middle of the night coming to our room and we have to take her back to hers. I need all the tips and help i can get! Mom and dad are exhausted.

Potty trained?

are your LO’s potty trained already? my little girl will be 3 october 2nd and still is not fully potty trained.. she’s been sitting on the potty for months now and still has not grasped the concept.. she will tell me only sometimes. I just started putting her in underwear I mean she knows when she poos and pees on the pot but she won’t tell me she has to go she will just stand there and go.. I asked her did she have to pee and she shook her head no then went on my floor about 5-10 minutes later i’m exhausted with potty training 😩 what am I doing wrong?

Not feeling connected to my unborn child…

Hello October 2019 Mamas! Like many of you, Im on my way to having another baby after our October baby. My October 2019 baby is my first and only for now, and I seriously love him so so so so much, to a point where I really just want to love him and only him. My husband and I were on mutual feelings about starting again BECAUSE of how much we love our son and wanted to grow our family and give him a sibling. At the beginning of my pregnancy, my mom and stepfather lost custody to my siblings and I had taken them in until about the second half of my pregnancy to when they were able to go back. That alone got my mind completely stressed, depressed and too busy to really sit down and enjoy what’s going on. I’m on my third trimester now, but I just moved, I’m adjusting to a new place. My son is getting bigger and our relationship is stronger. I just love seeing him flourish each and everyday (I’m a SAHM). Im with him literally 24/7 and I love him so much. But when my unborn baby does kick.. I really don’t pay it any mind. I don’t really speak to my unborn son at all.. I don’t think about it as much as I did my first. No pictures. I am preparing material-wise but emotionally I’m extremely un-attached. I’ve tried speaking to my unborn son but it feels so.. akward almost. I hate feeling this way. My mom always treated me as her least favorite and I swore I’d never be the same. I’m not sure if all the (unexplained in this post) traumatic things that occurred just completely turned me away from being able to connect from the beginning. Now I have a fear my son will feel less than, and I regret being pregnant because all the depression and anger I felt during my pregnancy I wish my unborn baby would’ve never felt. I feel guilty not feeling more attached and my attempts feel.. empty. I don’t know what to do and I don’t want to tell anyone in fear of being judged. I love my son with everything I have, and I want to feel the same way about my second. I just don’t know how to, or what went wrong. I really thought that this was the best decision but then things went dark so fast in my life that now thinking about my baby feels odd to me. I’ve been asked if I’d like a baby shower by many friends.. but Ive denied all of them. I don’t want one. I didn’t have one for my first so that kind of makes me not want one now, but just thinking about who’s invited after everything that happened makes me feel uneasy. I haven’t taken a single photo bc we’ll, I just don’t want to. I don’t care to. I just wish to be at peace with home, love my son and husband and try to think about what’s happening without everything else. Which is hard when my siblings still suffer. Being happy feels almost selfish knowing they’re suffering still. But my unborn son doesn’t deserve that. He doesn’t deserve a mom who writes this post. I think about birth; and instead of thinking about meeting my son, I think about where my first born will go and who will be with him? How will he handle being away from me? How will I handle being away from so long ? I’ve never let him be babysat due to the same problem. No family and my mom is abusive. I’m all most 3 years he’s only been watched for about 4-5 hours. If I sound protective, it’s because I am. My raising was so shitty and babysitters abused us physically, emotionally and sexually. Therefore being a SAHM was an easy choice for me. But I feel guilty that I think about my son more than I do my unborn son’s ARRIVAL. I’m really sorry if this was all over the place. My mind feels that way a lot now. Please, I need advice…

Boy moms

Hello Oct ‘19 Mommas! I’m coming on to see if anyone else son is doing this? My son loves to stick his hand down his pants and look at you and smile and he knows what he’s doing and we tell him no all the time. He is not potty trained yet, but I am wondering is this a sign of potty training? He also pulls down his pants too, we just had our second boy in May so I just don’t want to start him and him regress on us, (he has been doing this before his brother was here). I can’t get him to stop, it’s all the time and then his shirt goes down with his hand and he ends up peeing on the bottom of his shirt. Anybody have any tips or tricks? Thank you!

Separation anxiety

Is anyone else dealing with terrible separation anxiety at bedtime? Any tips?

Potty Training

Any potty training tips? I think we’re about to embark on that journey 🙈

Weight and height percentile

What’s your LO current weight and height percentile?

Anyone TTC with Struggles? 😓

So we had Chase 10/1/19…he’s amazing! He’s so damn good! He is OBSESSED with his mama! We tried 10 months for him…now we are on month 10 with our future baby. We are both 32. It’s really getting to me, I didn’t want them too far apart. Anyone else experiencing this?Im annoyed, distraught, just over it. Like wtf?! Here’s our OPK this month…with ❤️ on sex days. We used OPK to conceive Chase, but now I’m thinking it was just luck 🤦🏼‍♀️Here’s my best friend 💙 I come from a family of 4 and def don’t want our son to be an only child! Especially in todays world, nobody should be alone…damn am I emotional 🥹