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conni0205 · April 2020

Tell us your unpopular opinions

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willashbaby · April 2020

I just do not understand buying a 1,000 stroller. It's just a stroller and plenty of 200-300 strollers are excellent. It blows my mind. I'm planning on buying a Snoo which isn't cheap at all, but it'll get me and DH better sleep sooner so that's worth it. But a stroller? C'mon!

thankfullyamama · April 2020

DH and I are planning on our baby only sleeping in their crib in their own room. Aka not In our room or in a bassinet and lost of people think I’m crazy because I want to BF but the room is two steps away from ours and I’ll have a comfy chair in there to BF through the nights. DH is a solid sleeper and I’d be terrified of co sleeping (he would roll and not even know it) and I don’t want to wake him up all times of the night while he is still working so I figure if I leave the room it’ll be a little less disturbing to him!

thankfullyamama · April 2020

@willashbaby I don’t get why people spend crazy amounts on all the big stuff! My SIL bought a 5 thousand dollar crib like very unnecessary lol

willashbaby · April 2020

@tryingktogku We put DS in a full size crib in his own room after two weeks. It was perfectly fine and made sleep training much easier. We're doing doing that this go round because we don't have any extra bedrooms and we don't want DS to not sleep. But that's why we're investing in the Snoo

while expensive is not 5,000! What the fuck does a bed do for 5k! OMG!

luckypenny11 · April 2020

@willashbaby I'm definitely considering either buying or renting a Snoo this time. DD absolutely *refused* to sleep in a bassinet and it took months before she was a good sleeper in her crib. Sleep = sanity = take all my money!

dancingtreepose · April 2020

@willashbaby I had to google what a Snoo was, that is some Jetson's stuff!

But very cool, I'm interested to see how you like it.
I'm hoping for some type of all-terrain stroller since I live on a bumpy dirt road but I can't afford the Bobs or whatever. Jeep makes a stroller that is a couple hundred that will probably suit my needs. Hopefully, I can find something medium to high-end used at a yard sale this summer.

mom_of_the_vogels · April 2020

We spent a pretty penny on a Burley bike trailer with a stroller conversion set up. Nowhere near 1000 though, that's absurd.

My unpopular opinion: I don't avoid cussing around my boys (4 and 20 months). Not that I "let it slip" from time to time. More of a complete lack of filter compared to pre-child life. They're going to hear them. They're going to use them. I'd rather they hear it from me and learn to use them in context when they are old enough to understand the meaning.

That said, we don't allow name calling. When you understand the language you can drop an f-bomb, but you can't call someone or refer to someone with offensive language.

willashbaby · April 2020

@mom_of_the_vogels we are very much the same when it comes to "curse words", we're in NY, it's part of the vocabulary. Same on the name calling, as a decent human being (and especially as a special education teacher) THOSE are the words that are banned.

@dancingtreepose my City Mini GT has done very well as an all around stroller (basically anything but an actual jogger, they need to be heavier and have a locking front wheel). Super compact, well made, light-weight, and relatively low priced considering the performance. The GT is worth it for the tires and the hand break. It off roads easily.

akoros · April 2020

I hate the word "hubby" with a fiery passion. Can't stand it, don't know why.

@tryingktogku and @willashbaby I'm actually debating the opposite...partially for ease of night feeding, but also because the second bedroom is currently where my husband keeps his desk/computer and is his "hang out" space. I'm assuming my parents will want to visit a lot, which means they'll be staying in the family room/guest room, so he can't really use that to escape. Is it terrible if the baby doesn't really have his/her "own room" for a while? That early it's not like they'd really understand that, right? Wondering if it's possible to have a small crib in the office as well as his desk, and for naptimes figure out whether to put the kid in the crib or our bedroom. Also, do they really need anything other than a changing table/dresser and a place to sleep? It's a decent-sized room (with a huge closet...a little jealous that the kiddo gets that all to him/herself), so it should be easy to fit, even with the desk there.

willashbaby · April 2020

@akoros for us putting the baby in his own room was more about getting him away from us so we could sleep

DH (not even me) would find himself jolting awake several times each night because the baby made a noise. It's also SUPER hard to sleep train them with them right there. If you can put the baby in the office that works, trust me! I am not going to be breastfeeding (pumping and supplementing is the plan) and DH and I will both be going back to work so sleep training is a priority for us.

BmcD2016 · April 2020

@akoros our youngest slept in our room with us until she was about 6 months old, maybe more. Tbh, I fully expect the same with this one.

karmba · April 2020

@willashbaby no one prepared me for what a noisy sleeper DS would be! He slept in our room in a pack-n-play for about 6 months but it took some getting used to for sure.

@tryingktogku my only recommendation is to have something for the baby to sleep in that can be moved to your room in case you need it. When I was recovering from a CS it made it so much easier to be able to sit up in bed and grab the baby instead of having to get out of bed and go to another room.

thankfullyamama · April 2020

@akoros I think each mama and baby figure out what works best for them and it may be completely different to what any of us plans lol I also hate the word hubby!

akoros · May 2020

@willashbaby That's a good point on the sleep training, we'll also be going back to work (and I'm assuming his job won't have much in the way of paternity leave, particularly considering he'll only be there a few months).

Mostly trying to see if I should feel bad about not having a fully dedicated nursery, and if there's a pile of furniture the kid will need that I'm not accounting for (aside from crib, dresser/changing table, maybe a chair for me)

willashbaby · May 2020

@akoros as it is my son's room is VERY small. It's actually an "office" since it doesn't have a closet. All he had in there as a baby was a crib with an attached changing table and a very tall (floor to ceiling) skinny dresser that has an open shelf on the top. That's it. To build a hanging area for clothes we made an open closet out of floating ikea shelves and a towel bar, we also put ikea trones below for extra storage. Now he has a trunk in there too and a bed instead of the crib but that's it. We have the chair in the living room, not even in his room (not enough space). They really don't need much. Nursery's are like first birthday parties, more for the adults than the kids.

akoros · May 2020

@willashbaby Thank you! That's kind of what I thought, but wanted to be sure I wasn't being unrealistic. I have several friends who live in apartments, so at some point I was going to ask them for ideas on handling tight spaces with the kids, particularly when family visits. Their families all live very far away (California and India), so when they visit it's for months at a time.

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