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If you guys need resources about things like breast feeding education, postpartum physio, psych, etc. I can ask my wife about resources. If you feel like your partner needs it, you should definitely bring it up. |
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Just sharing this as it's presently the best part of my day. So I drop off my 6y.o kid at school every day - we usually walk, sometimes drive and seeing her grow up has been such a blast. She doesn't need me to walk her right to the door anymore, she just gives me a peck on the cheek, cheerfully goes, "Bye Dad" and runs off to her classroom. |
Lucky you. My kid is at the "Go away, Baba" stage most of the time now. I wasn't expecting this to happen for another 2 - 3 years. :tears: |
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My wife and I went through rough patches with post partum with both kids. With the first one, she was combative for about 6 months, then it slowly eased up. Of course our relationship took a hit but it recovered as we both evolved in our beliefs on how and what to do with the baby and each other. Before we had our second one I brought up the issues we had but we went ahead anyways. Lo and behold, much more of the same combative stance from her. I reminded her that we went through the same thing and she was at least conscious of the problems may be due to her hormones and overall lack of sleep (second baby slept extremely poorly compared to the first) I don't remember how old 6793026's baby is, but there's a good chance it'll pass with the hormones changing and also both of your beliefs changing, and setting clear boundaries with people who affect you guys Quote:
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My daughter is 4 mths old. Hormones will always change. I hate it as women use it blaming on that and every community member say it's hormonal. I'm hormonal too! LOL. I'm all for therapy, it's part of the benefits. * my wife is a health care professional who specializes in freaking child development so i'll never ever ever win in any agrument. LOL. I have to choose my battles. Right now it's Measles vaccine. Back 10 years ago, it's never an issue cause it's suppressed, how it's all over the place. ON + Calgary (esp a lot of Mormons area) so it's pretty crazy and top of mind for my kid to get that before we travel. Honestly, being on an airplane, ventilation is really good / much better but again, never going to win over my wife in "safety" for the child. |
No man, it literally is hormonal. The amount of changes a woman goes through from being pregnant, to not pregnant is a big deal. |
So wait your wife doesn't want to give the measles vaccine? |
Yeah that’s fucked if she’s a healthcare worker and thinks that’s a reasonable idea. |
or maybe it's the other way around? Please see the "Exposure Source" and "Vaccination Status" near the bottom of this page. I'm not sure if ventilation on the airplane is all you need to worry about. https://health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rubella/ |
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There ARE healthcare professional who don't get vaccines. |
Oh she's pushing it out to later if possible. I can see reasoning behind that, though IIRC some vaccines are easier when the infant is younger, weaker response to it. |
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They really aren’t as good at what they do as those that do it except in extremely rare circumstances. |
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If that’s the case, it’s a wee bit paranoid, but not something to really get miffed about. Like I could wait to get on a plane for a few months if that was something that was really important to my partner. |
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I'd say right around 6 months was when she turned the page and there was a big "up". Things continued to improve from there, but then 6 months was also right when Covid lock down happened and I'd say my demeanor changed from stress at work so I can't really give you an accurate map of things. With the second one it's different. Our relationship definitely hasn't been the same after each kid. We just have a lot less time to ourselves. |
^ I can't wiat for wife to 'turn the page' I have to say my wife did do one thing right - networking with other moms. I get some free time, but i get some more insightful adult conversation when she comes back and finds out what she discovers. Getting tired of the boring baby talks /gibberish so i do crave the adults 1 on 1 talk. |
My kid just started kindergarten, she know's her letters but now starting to learn phonics. I'm hoping to help her in starting to read. Did you teach your kids how to read? I've heard about a book called "teach your kid to read in 100 easy lessons", has anyone use this or any recommendations? |
My 6 year old figured it out on his own. Same deal with phonics in Kindergarten and he started sounding words out all over the place. Just be prepared for them to be trying to sound things out everywhere as you go. We recently had a parent teacher conference with his grade 1 teacher and they have a provincial official reading assessment. He's rated at exceeding without us doing anything special. What we do though is read with him every night, we've done it since he was around 2 and we read 4 books before bed. He can kind of get through some Robert Munsch books now which is a bit beyond his level. Of course I read better at this age, but I was also force fed in HK and it was more of a memorization of groups of letters as words than actually learning them. |
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The book teaches reading through word sounds, not ABC letter reading. We had that, the other friends that have used the book all had that. But it's worth it to get them reading early. Being able to read early sets up a good base for learning. |
^ i'm going to start getting kids to the library pick whatever picture book you want and slowly build from that. esp comics... then that's how was open to reading in my later years. |
It needs to be a book they want to read or is interesting to them. It seems like most kids are interested in Fly Guy and Pete the Cat. Both are relative simple and funny. Pete the Cat also has multiple levels of reading and also some comic style layout ones. Daniel Tiger and Bluey are decent too, but Daniel Tiger can be a bit boring. Mo Willems is an author that writes the Pigeon series, and also the Piggie and Gerald series. They are books that are funny and easy to read. I've tried to introduce books I liked from when I was starting read, and so far only Robert Munsch and Little Critter has gained any kind of traction. He refuses to touch Berenstein Bears and also not a fan of Franklin. Can't get him on Clifford either. Though admittedly Berenstein Bears can be a bit long winded. Don't worry about how educational or helpful the books are, and don't worry about the content too much as long as you don't find it highly objectionable, reading is reading, the more they read the better it is. |
^ lol. Berenstain Bears. Even though we all seem to remember it as Berenstein Bears. There's no conspiracy, we've all just heard it pronounced that way we think it should be spelled. |
Bernstein bears. The dad is an accountant. |
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