Working Moms Lunch: September Recap

Here’s a quick recap of what we discussed at my company's September Working Moms Lunch:

Potty Training

It’s a crap shoot (literally)

Try the peer pressure approach of training at the same time as schoolmates

Enjoy them while they are babies J

Girl Scouts

Some moms in the office will be selling cookies soon, contact them to buy some yumminess!

Sign up for Girl Scouts starting with Kindergarten

Biting

It’s a phase

It stops by the time they are 9 years old 

Teachers should be aware of “warning signs” that child may bite soon

Sleeping Through the Night

Don’t expect it to happen until they are in grade school (and sometimes not even then)

You aren’t weird if your kids are going to be at 9pm.

StitchFix

Personal Shopping subscription (you can pick different intervals- every 1, 3, 6 months)

Sign up HERE

Here are a couple reviews I wrote of my monthly deliveries: http://www.expectinghappiness.com/search/label/stitchfix

ThredUp

Online Consignment Store for Womens and Childrens Clothing

Get a $20 credit to start!  http://www.thredup.com/r/YZAVSL

Here’s a review I wrote: http://www.expectinghappiness.com/2015/07/review-thredup.html

TrunkClub

Subscription service for Men

https://www.trunkclub.com/

High Needs Babies and Toddlers

All babies are "high needs" but some are more than others. I pretty much (happily) catered to anything Keira wanted, right away. I breastfed her, carried her, slept next to her, nonstop. I loved being attached to my little baby- it was like an extension of pregnancy, which I missed.

Things got difficult when I needed to do something that requires me to be separated from Keira- like shower, go to the bathroom, laundry, Etc. She never wanted me to put her down. She tolerated the swing (when she was a newborn), but that only lasted the first couple months. I started coming up with work-arounds, like a water friendly baby sling for the shower, once she was big enough, I wore her on my back (then I could do laundry, dishes).

Nonviolent Parenting

I just found this great Facebook group called Nonviolent Parenting. I have already learned a lot from their page. This graphic about tantrums reinforced what I already thought to be true- your toddler needs you even more when they are having a tantrum! Young children are simply incapable of processing emotions and so they explode, just like adults do sometimes.

Article: Is It Normal to Breastfeed Your Toddler and Beyond?

We are at 15 months and still going strong... I fear the day that we get dirty looks.

The article states:

"The only downside to breast-feeding through toddlerhood is social stigma."

http://m.today.com/parents/it-normal-breast-feed-your-toddler-beyond-science-says-2D80489189

Here's to normalizing toddler breastfeeding for those who choose to do it!