Your child falls asleep desperately clutching a water bottle. All attempts to remove the water bottle before bedtime are refuted. Do you:
A. Hope for the best, knowing the bite valve will probably leak and your child will wake up at some point drenched in water
B. Sneak in to remove the water bottle later, even though most attempts to do this kind of thing result in a wakeup
C. Go back in time to empty the water bottle before bedtime so there isn’t anything to leak out
Buy a new water bottle that won’t leak and don’t stress on it?
ETA Latte regularly sleeps with her camelback bottles and her mama bear cups and has zero issues with leaking from them. Non ice water helps- it seems like a big temp differential pushes(?) water out sometimes
But otherwise A for me. If it’s not so cold (ie camping) that it’d be dangerous.
It’s a camel back so fingers crossed! We keep the room at 75 in the summer (diaper + lightweight muslin sleep sack only) so no fear of being dangerously cold!
Latte is currently on night… probably 20 of sleeping with her camelback bottle so, so far so good! Fingers crossed it’s fine for you as well!
Kiddo had a cup of water in his room at one point and in the middle of the night he brought it to bed and it spilled all over, since then he’s been much more careful about it. The mattress has a cover on it, the sheets just got thrown in the laundry in the morning and we’d called it a learning experience.
Morning update: the water didn’t leak, as far as I can tell, until 4am when she was already sleeping in my arms in the rocking chair and it got pinched next to my boobs. What an odd sensation to experience 18 months after we stopped breastfeeding 
I got her back into the crib just long enough for me to fall asleep again and then she was up crying so came into bed with us for a rare attempt to snuggle back to sleep at 5:30am. Instead she sang us songs and patted our backs so we could fall asleep. Such a well meaning but ultimately counterproductive attempt.
We’re on week three of a new daycare and the fact that she slept in her crib from 8pm-4am on a Monday night is actually a huge win. Here’s hoping we’re on the upswing of transition anxiety.
I would mean to sneak in and then 76% of the time forget. We arw at 10% leaks
Random thought:
What if hyperactive wild child causes more screen time rather than the other way around?
Brought to you by my exhaustion and a friend of mine who does no screen time for her 2 year old but has a super chill 2 year old.
Pretty sure that is at least partly true. I have adopted the mom psychologist’s rule that it is fine to use screen time as long as my kid also gets all the other kinds of time
I’m confused. Your friend with a chill 2 year old thinks that you have caused your kid to be hyper by giving it screen time?
I’m judging this person pretty hard from here tbh.
I think she just meant she’s observing the two different children and screen time and noticing that correlation and causation may go in a different direction than screen time haters (not the friend but people who write parenting articles etc) generally suggest.
FWIW I have noticed the biggest correlation between my own exhaustion and increased screen time, the rest not so much (i.e. i get exhausted, we watch more screens.)
Oh! That makes more sense thanks. I’ve never heard anyone suggest that causation in real life. My kid gets shitty(ier) when I put tv on for her when she’s tired, but that’s because she’s already tired, not because the tv did it.
Hi, this keeps haunting me, so I gotta clarify. Blame my innate weirdness and deep socially anxious brain.
I was trying to create a juxtaposition between the creep factor of handing out cards and social media (ie - cards are so benign lol, the real world is actually just creepier).
I just wanted to be clear that I don’t judge or even think twice about people posting their kids pics on social media. I actually just consider it to be the world we live in? Like, my kid has his pic on the internet for all sorts of reasons I’m sure - group pics from family events, school events, etc. We can’t control our digital personas nearly as much as we’d like to pretend! The only reason I don’t post pics of my kid is because I have an anxiety disorder that makes it hard for me to do that 
Anyway. Idk how to finish this.
HUGS. Your initial reply had assured me you don’t think I’m a creepy creeper for being in a moms group, but I appreciate the follow up/clarification.
Thanks for the clarification. I didn’t feel negatively toward you but I did feel very judged by that response. I keep my facebook locked down to only my family members and friends that I have a current relationship with - including like 3 OMD people that I’ve “known” for years now. However I do post pictures of my kids on there and I do it almost every day if not multiple times a day because it gives my family members great joy even if I’ve gone through phases of having anxiety about it. Since they don’t get to see the girls in person except for a few days every few years I feel like it’s my responsibility to share the girls with them through that platform.
I’m sorry you felt judged, and very happy I clarified! I am a big oversharer on this forum where most people know who I am so please know I do not consider myself some sort of great privacy advocate LOL. We use TinyBeans which is… just another social network that monetizes my child’s memories but gives me a semblance of fake control that makes it easier for my brain to not freak out. 
We are in the same boat.
No worries at all! I tried to use a few different apps but I couldn’t get our family members to download them. I finally gave up and just used facebook because everyone was already on it and it was the easiest way to go. One of my cousins lives far enough away from our family that she’s not around all the time but she can drive to get there so she visits a few times per year. She absolutely will not use facebook and she uses google photos/email to share, but only with a few specific people and my aunt has said that it makes my grandparents really sad. I considered giving up facebook for Lent and my aunt begged me not to and said that I don’t realize how much joy my pictures give my grandparents. That really put it in perspective for me.
I love TinyBeans! My friend uses it because it’s the only platform she could find that doesn’t use facial recognition software.
I am making these for my kid (diaper and pyjamas have questionable steps).
If anyone wants then with their kid’s steps let me know! I want to put a bundle on etsy with a variety of steps, so having different routines helps me. Plus even if I don’t monetize it, doing it from under a baby makes me feel like a competent adult with a purpose
