BG Kids Thread!

[Xno Kappa]

Figured this is the thread to ask. The doctor is telling us to wait three weeks before giving our son a pacifier to reduce any sort of nipple confusion. We’ve used a bottle only a handful of times, and those were only for family members who wanted to feed him.

The wife and I feel like he might be ready for it. He has no problems latching on to the nipple for feeding. The problem is the last two or three days, my wife has noticed he’ll cry for the breast just for comfort and not for hunger. He’ll cry when he’s been feed, cleaned, and burped. But will instantly go quiet when my wife gives him the boob.

At this point, we feel the three week wait is no longer necessary. But at the same time, we don’t want to go against the doctors advice.

[kuronosan]

Wha? I've never heard of that before.

[Eurell]

Gave my kids pacifiers before we even left the hospital. Never had latching problems, never had trouble getting them off the pacifier. I don't want to tell you to ignore your dr, but uh...

I would ignore the dr lol.

[Xno Kappa]

Thanks guys lol. Wifey and I gonna try it out tonight and see if that calms down his fussiness.

[kuronosan]

Pacifiers have like a 99.9% chance of calming a baby down. Unless there's a reason you shouldn't be using it, I don't see why the doctor thinks it's a problem.

We have two kids. One was premature. Doctor is the same for both and never once told us to avoid pacifiers.

[Boyiee]

They are magic place random clean ones everywhere around the house to grab on the fly.

[Xno Kappa]

We used one last night and it was easily his best night yet. First time we were able to keep him in his bassinet for the entire night. His shortest nap was probably an hour and a half.

All in on pacifiers!

[Kalmado]

How soon will you have him farming gil?

[TsingTao]

Yeah, pacifiers are life. Keep spares everywhere, and make sure you have an emergency one in every vehicle. You can never have enough of them...they're always getting dropped or lost or some shit.

[zoobernut]

Our oldest is addicted to the pacifier. We have been trying to get rid of them for years now. They were great for him when he was a baby. Our youngest hates them and won't use them at all never shown any interest in them at all.

[Eurell]

Our oldest is addicted to the pacifier. We have been trying to get rid of them for years now. They were great for him when he was a baby. Our youngest hates them and won't use them at all never shown any interest in them at all.

We just threw em out. Can't be addicted to something they never have access to.

[Dantrag]

I was lucky my daughter used them for 1 day. Then didn't care. It's 0 issue now which is great. No finger sucking, no pacifier needed.

[Xno Kappa]

You guys have any suggestions with pet dander? We have two cats and one of them sheds like crazy. We keep her out of the nursery room, it’s when we’re hanging out outside of it is what I’m concerned with. I keep an air filter on every floor but I’m wondering if that’s enough.

[TsingTao]

We were a little more diligent with brushing our dog and 2 cats, didn't do much else different. No one showed any allergy symptoms so we didn't sweat it. We didn't let any cats sleep with them until they were old enough to fend off a fat cat on their own but otherwise everyone got to play together.

[Salodin]

You guys have any suggestions with pet dander? We have two cats and one of them sheds like crazy. We keep her out of the nursery room, it’s when we’re hanging out outside of it is what I’m concerned with. I keep an air filter on every floor but I’m wondering if that’s enough.

Make sure it's a HEPA air filter, otherwise it's not enough. Also, if your machine can fit it, consider fitting a smaller, more customizable filter (like those cheap cut-your-own-size filters) before the HEPA filter to both keep the HEPA filter lasting longer and also to make cleaning the machine easier and less frequent (you replace the prefilter biweekly or monthly depending on how bad the home is with dust and dander, the HEPA filter maybe biyearly or yearly unless your animals shed by the pound).

Once that's setup, consider brushing your cats more often with a deshedding tool. A lot of people don't brush their felines but you can control a lot of fur if you get them on a schedule for deshedding, usually weekly. My shiba inu sheds like mad, but with weekly brushing it's reduced the amount of noticeable fur on my hard floors by at least half. There's no preventing it, but it went from a heavy sweep + vacuum every weekend to just an enjoyable brush session every sunday with light sweeping once a week.

[archibaldcrane]

I can't imagine having indoor pets with my little kids around. They spend so much time on the floor, the thought of them getting constantly breaded with pet hair grosses me out.

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[Salodin]

True, but what are you gonna do? Get rid of the cutest animal in your home?

Spoiler: show

Why don't you love cute animals Archi?

[Tyche]

Pet hair is the least offensive thing a baby will put in their mouth on any given day.

I had two.dogs when all my children were babies. Did nothing special. Other than vacuum.

[Ksandra]

Pet hair is the least offensive thing a baby will put in their mouth on any given day.

I had two.dogs when all my children were babies. Did nothing special. Other than vacuum.

^ this x1000. Pet hair was never a concern regarding my kids.

[zoobernut]

Pet hair is the least offensive thing a baby will put in their mouth on any given day.

I had two.dogs when all my children were babies. Did nothing special. Other than vacuum.

We have two cats and one dog (had two until our older one passed recently) in a relatively small house and pet dander and hair has never been a huge concern. Kids that are far more resilient than people like to believe. Though I guess we do live mostly outdoors and my kids are constantly playing in the mud and around our outside animals.