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The advice for good indoor shoes is pretty solid.

I suffer from service-connected bilateral foot pain, so there are some mornings where I can barely walk when I first get out of bed. I wouldn't have even thought to have indoor shoes to help alleviate that.

Thanks to all who suggested it!
 
All the foot talk reminds me I need to ask my endocrinologist about my own foot issues. I have partial numbness in the ball of foot and 3 of 5 toes on the left foot now. Not sure if it's something like Morton's neuroma/metatarsalgia or early signs of neuropathy (despite good blood sugar control and A1Cs usually below 7, I have had type 1 diabetes for well over 25 years now). The left foot hurt a lot during pregnancy and has only gotten number since then. My obstetrician said pregnancy may have exacerbated it, but that I need to discuss the symptoms with my endocrinologist.
 
Looks like tomorrow is the big day. Wife made it to 37 weeks and has been a trooper while being in the hospital on bed rest for the last 11 days. Moving to labor & delivery tonight and will likely look to induce tomorrow morning. Wish us luck!
 
camakazee said:
Looks like tomorrow is the big day. Wife made it to 37 weeks and has been a trooper while being in the hospital on bed rest for the last 11 days. Moving to labor & delivery tonight and will likely look to induce tomorrow morning. Wish us luck!
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Baby boy was born this morning, is healthy and mom is doing great! Now we have to figure out what the hell we’re doing :chuckle:
 
camakazee said:
Baby boy was born this morning, is healthy and mom is doing great! Now we have to figure out what the hell we’re doing :chuckle:
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Congrats! Husband and I didn't know what we were doing for the first month or so. And that's with books, good internet sources, and a pediatrician. It's only in the 2nd month that we're finally getting more of a handle on things.
 
A few super practical, but gross, baby tips:

-- babies (at least mine) like to poop shortly after feeds. If you hear those special little noises down there, take him or her to the diaper station pronto. Grab several wipes beforehand, because those suckers like to stick together. Make sure you have about ten at least. (You can always put back the ones you don't use.) Make sure you wipe with the old diaper first. Then make sure the new diaper is down underneath the old one, to avoid accidents.

-- babies also like to spit up after feeds. If you hear a burp, a spit-up is soon to follow. Make sure there's a burp cloth underneath his or her clothes so he/she doesn't spit up on the clothes.

I just did this after a feed today, and I was so glad I'd learned from previous disasters. This time, I was prepared for two epic spit-ups and an epic diaper poop.
 
KevinLoveFan said:
A few super practical, but gross, baby tips:

-- babies (at least mine) like to poop shortly after feeds. If you hear those special little noises down there, take him or her to the diaper station pronto. Grab several wipes beforehand, because those suckers like to stick together. Make sure you have about ten at least. (You can always put back the ones you don't use.) Make sure you wipe with the old diaper first. Then make sure the new diaper is down underneath the old one, to avoid accidents.

-- babies also like to spit up after feeds. If you hear a burp, a spit-up is soon to follow. Make sure there's a burp cloth underneath his or her clothes so he/she doesn't spit up on the clothes.

I just did this after a feed today, and I was so glad I'd learned from previous disasters. This time, I was prepared for two epic spit-ups and an epic diaper poop.
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We are about to be grandparents ( may) trying to figure out best way to help out. They are on the west coast, so requires big travel.. but we are thinking about coming in a few weeks after for a couple of weeks to help.. we can get our own place so as not to crowd them. So looking for new parents perspective on what would be helpful..
 
KevinLoveFan said:
A few super practical, but gross, baby tips:

-- babies (at least mine) like to poop shortly after feeds. If you hear those special little noises down there, take him or her to the diaper station pronto. Grab several wipes beforehand, because those suckers like to stick together. Make sure you have about ten at least. (You can always put back the ones you don't use.) Make sure you wipe with the old diaper first. Then make sure the new diaper is down underneath the old one, to avoid accidents.

-- babies also like to spit up after feeds. If you hear a burp, a spit-up is soon to follow. Make sure there's a burp cloth underneath his or her clothes so he/she doesn't spit up on the clothes.

I just did this after a feed today, and I was so glad I'd learned from previous disasters. This time, I was prepared for two epic spit-ups and an epic diaper poop.
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Ahh, yes! Great advice.

Just wait until the poop starts smelling like an adult's poop. Also, when they start moving around and refuse to stay on their back so you gotta distract them with singing long enough to clean them and change the diaper. There will be some messy changes, that's for sure!
 
Forget if I shared but I have found shit-stained clothes to be salvageable by scraping off as much as you can with water and a brush, then soaking in oxi-clean until you remember to do the wash (hours, days, whatever). Good as new and it's even worked on clothes that were not addressed immediately after an accident, eg crusty dried poopy clothes.

We, or at least I, did pretty much no reading or research prior to having the baby. And she's turned out just fine so far at 15 months!

Definite zombie-like state the first couple months, whenever I think back to it it's like "how the fuck did we survive that" but...you just kind of do, and at least for us it wasn't that bad. Somehow we just adjusted to the constant 4-5 hours of sleep per day and...got by.

Now if I have consecutive days of 4-5 hours of sleep I just shut down.
 
My poor wife has to go do the gestational diabetes test for the second time today, as she made it about 2/3 the way through her first attempt last week and then proceeded to throw up all the nasty glucose drink into a garbage can before they could draw her blood.

26 weeks tomorrow... cannot believe how quickly time is flying. She'll be at the six month mark next week.
 
Oxiclean has saved me many a time already! Any of those stain removing sprays with hydrogen peroxide, like Oxiclean, are a must with babies. They've saved clothes, and have also removed terrible poop stains from accidents on the diaper station.

As for the grandparents situation, it turns out my father-in-law helps us once a week on an overnight so that husband and I can have a full night's sleep. He actually just covered last night, and it was great to get some more sleep again.

It's worth noting that some parenting recommendations have changed since the 1990s, particularly to reduce SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)...the big one is that babies are put on their backs to sleep now (stomach time for babies has to be done when they're awake and supervised by an adult). Elder Millennials and other people 35 and over, like me, were put on our stomachs as babies to sleep all the time, but that's no longer done, and it's cut the risk of SIDS from 1 in 1000 babies to 1 in 2000. The experts also don't recommend blankets anymore, although we let grandpa put small blankets on the baby because he's careful about it and puts it underneath the arms so that it's not a suffocation risk. On cold days, I just put the baby in warm clothing and keep the house temperature cozy. Husband and I also swaddled the baby using those nice velcro swaddles until two months (swaddling isn't recommended after two months because some babies can turn over on their stomachs at that point, and having their arms restrained in a swaddle can make that another suffocation risk).
 
Marcus said:
My poor wife has to go do the gestational diabetes test for the second time today, as she made it about 2/3 the way through her first attempt last week and then proceeded to throw up all the nasty glucose drink into a garbage can before they could draw her blood.

26 weeks tomorrow... cannot believe how quickly time is flying. She'll be at the six month mark next week.
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Update: success!
 
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