How do daycares bill? By the week? By the month? Like, do you have to pay a week at a time, biweekly, or monthly? If your kid ends up not going, do you still have to pay? Do they refund you for time your kid wasn't there?
my wife is pregnant again. just found out. were not actively trying, i guess you could say, so i am stunned. hope this pregnancy is a little less adventurous than the last one.
When we were looking, everything was quoted by a weekly rate. Now that we are there, the actual charge is twice per month and is deducted (via ACH) from my checking account twice per month on the 15th & end of month. At least one of the daycares had a "1-week vacation" policy where you could take a week long vacation and they wouldn't charge you for it but that was only available after your kid had been there for a year.
You'll get used to it. Spoiler Then when you get the first night of sleeping through the night, you'll be amazed how great you feel. Unfortunately, that is how you felt on normal days in the past. Enjoy!
it's still super early so she may not be getting milk yet and very little at that. First month sucked for us. My wife was pumping and all that shit.
Packed and Ready to go 24 hours after the birth, discharge paperwork for wife finished earlier for a quick discharge, yet we are stuck here waiting for the boy to pee post circumcision so we can get his discharge paperwork. Edit: now they are lettin us leave without a pee. So glad. Was not prepped for another night in here.
Spending my first of potentially three nights in the hospital. They're starting her induction slow tonight then ramping it up in the morning.
The best advice I can give is get the baby on this schedule Wake. Feed. Play. Sleep. That way they don't have to eat to go to sleep. Right now, most of the wake will be spent eating. But in a few weeks, they will stay up more after eating. My wife didn't care about schedules and what not, I did. I think a tentative schedule made things so much better. Keeping track when they slept, when they ate, for how long, etc and u can start to seE patters and it will help when planning things down the road
I told my wife I wouldn't try to have another kid until we went on a fun trip acting like college kids, so we went to brooklyn for some concerts a year ago, and then she got what she wanted.
We are figuring this out the hard way. My son is almost five months and his first four months were wrecked by colic, eczema, reflux, allergies, etc. Any ailment a healthy baby could have, he had/has. We now have a huge hole to dig out of because we could keep nothing close to a schedule and he relies on eating/rocking/swinging to go to sleep. We are pretty much fucked for the next few months fixing this.
Three has turned into four since little guy wanted to come out backwards. This feeding at night and sleeping during the day thing is for the birds, but it's worth it.
6 weeks to the day til lil miss baron comes. Time flying by now. Not sure if I am mentally prepared...
I have a former co-worker who had two children. He and his wife were done having kids. Dude scheduled a vasectomy but cancelled it and rescheduled for a couple weeks later because of a conflict with a concert they had tickets to. Knocked his wife up at/after the concert. Whoops.
Varies by daycare... My daycare gives you the option of paying month by month or week by week (weeks cost more, but you can take one off whenever you want). The month by month people get two weeks off per school year that they can deduct 20% from the monthly bill. You can also take as many weeks over the summer as you want. I still have to pay for days when he is sick and days when they are closed due to snow.
Yeah we have to pay regardless of if they are there are not- it's rare she misses a whole week but it has happened before.
That is BS. I have no idea if we would get charged for it but when we were interviewing daycares many mimic the local school district but the one we chose said something along the lines of "we haven't closed since we've been in this building which was 3 years ago. We try to be open every day since you still have to go to work regardless of snow on the ground." That streak is now 4 years since they didn't close this past winter either.
I think it's been 2-3 days in the past 9 years (my older two went to the same daycare) so I'm not that worried about it. The public school has been closed for snow for ten times that amount.
How did people test their infants for allergens? His daycare wants to start including him in their finger food snack time which usually includes cheerios, whole wheat crackers, cut up cheese or cottage cheese & fruits. Many of these fit in to allergen categories (wheat, milk, etc) and it is about time to start testing him but I'd rather do it earlier in the day so we have more time to observe before bed. I was thinking of making him Cream of Wheat for breakfast and sending him to daycare so they can observe him all day. He has already eaten yogurt with no problem so I assume other cultured milks like cheese and cottage cheese are fine. I may just ask them to give him cottage cheese for breakfast instead of snack. The allergens that I'm more curious about are nuts/peanuts. I was thinking of giving him almond milk in a sippy cup and moving on to cashew milk a few days later to test for tree nut allergies. If somebody has a better method I'd love to hear it. Peanuts had me more worried since peanuts and peanut butter are both choking hazards and even mixing peanut butter in to a puree of some sort seems weird. I did recently find this Israeli product (Bamba) that I was able to order from Amazon so I think we will go that route for testing.
Rabid introduce 1 possible allergen for 4 days then you should be good. We made all his own food for the first few months and this shit was my bible http://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com http://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/allergy.htm
We would do 1 allergin food for a couple days, spread them out, and watch- then one of our moms would give her something that we hadn't tried yet, luckily we didn't have issues with anything
What's the protocol here if you start seeing signs of a reaction when doing this sort of testing? Low dose benadryl? Trip to the ER or an urgent care clinic?
Yeah, I've been using that website as a resource as well as a couple books that somebody gave us at a baby shower. Too many of these books/websites go by the outdated info that doesn't introduce the allergen until after age 1 so they don't really talk about introducing it to an infant. I get the waiting period so you can identify the problem allergen, my issues is more the how can you feed a baby "nuts" when you can't give them an actual nut and even a nut butter isn't easy for a kid to swallow. So far, I've made everything he has eaten too and I have compiled a ready stock of purees and meats (with formula added to keep it stuck together) that I froze in ice cube trays and then bagged. He has been a great eater so I've started to get cunty to have some fun with it. Yesterday his breakfast was a fruit smoothie with banana, peach & blueberries (I liked it so much I made myself one) and for lunch he had "shepherd's pie" with lamb that I cooked and blended in to a powder combined with mashed potatoes that had formula substituted for the cream/butter. Today he got bananas with greek yogurt and for lunch he will have "chicken florentine" with chicken ground to a powder and added to spinach puree.
For the easy stiff we waited till the next day, worse stuff a few days. He never had any allergies so we didn't have to worry about what to do in case of a reaction. Wife is allergic to peanuts so we waited till he was 2 to give him those. Went to the farmers market, koped some boiled peanuts, gave him a few and he didn't die. Turns out my dad had been giving him mixed roasted nuts for months - fucker.
Lol about your dad. I've rarely waited the 3-4 days for introducing things as well. Like you, the real allergens like nuts I will though. Nobody in either of our families has a nut allergy so I'm not incredibly worried but the reactions can be so violent I really want to avoid it. I've been making my wife eat various nuts every day since she was pregnant because introducing the protein through her blood, through her milk, etc can all help.
It depends on the level of the reaction. Many of the reactions would just be an upset stomach and possibly diarrhea. If my kid started breaking out in hives I think I'd get him to a doctor to have a look.
I think most of the foods we tested the reaction would've been a rash than anything- but our plan was to do low dose Benadryl, followed by calling my wife's friend / neighbor 2 houses down who is a nicu dr and has a cabinet full of any drug you could need. Tonight we'll probably do shell fish (shrimp) for the first time- that's a scary one, as it can cause an anaphylactic reaction
Did/do any of your baby momma's have gestational diabetes? My wife failed the initial test monday and she is really worried about it. She has only gained 5 lbs and we are at 25 weeks, so she hasn't been pigging out or anything. It runs on her mom's side of the family. Just wondering what I need to be prepared for etc. if she does fail the "big" test
My sister-in-law had issues when she was pregnant with her 3rd child. I can't recall if she had it or if they were worried because the readings were close but I think she just adjusted her diet to low/no starch. The baby came out healthy, she came out healthy and continued on the modified diet and looks thinner than she did before having kids. Her youngest will be two this fall.
My wife had. No big deal if she is responsible and tracks her sugar level ect. Son was born and he was fine. If you don't manage it, there can be issues after birth.
protip: if your inlaws say to bring your 6 mo old to the beach for 5 days because it will be a great time and they will take care of them do not believe a word of it.