D1 literally pumped in front of me while we were chatting. I always took the first feeding in the morning. Even now at 15 months, I would sleep over and get up with GD in the morning while the parents slept. It is always my special time with GD.
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Mornings are the best!
Daughter has to go to a 3 day conference, leaving tomorrow morning. It will be the first time she will be gone from my Grandson in4 months. I didn’t ask the logistics, but she is planning on overnight shipping some breast milk, TX to Boston.
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Thx all. I will wait until asked, and be flexible with hotel. I don’t want to impose. Her parents could stay weeks or a month plus.
It is all so different. I was so happy my mom flew up to be with me, and a week later my dad came. In laws local, so could make quick visits.
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My friend’s DIL is from Europe, and when their first was born, DIL’s mom came for more than a month. Friend & her H were not welcome to visit the baby until after her mom left. It was really hard on my friend. Baby #2 came during Covid, and the mom couldn’t come … my friend got to be with new baby & older child right away that time!
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Spent part of the day helping my daughter with my grandson. Her husband went back to work this week. He is almost 7 weeks old and he is changing rapidly. He is now 10 lbs.
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I need to learn to keep a poker face around <3 yr old GD sometimes so my reactions don’t encourage her. When H asks her what’s she doing when she’s being silly, she giggles and tells him she’s teasing me.
Today she decided it was great fun to burp loudly (at will) then smile coyly as she said, “excuse me” until she was consumed by giggles. Later, she raced off as soon as her pajamas were removed after nap and ran around laughing about being a “bare bear” while stopping every so often to preen in the mirror. It wasn’t easy to persuade her to put on clothes. I resorted to bribing her with my iPad so she could either look at her favorite animated Sandra Boynton book or at videos of herself.
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Our son, DIL and GD are to fly here to visit tomorrow as they haven’t seen my 91 year old mother, and 97 year old MIL in quite a while. They were just notified that a child in GD’s class tested positive for Covid today; child was at school yesterday.
We of course don’t want to expose anyone, especially the great grandmothers, and are disappointment they may not visit. My husband and I know the right thing thing to do is not to have them visit, but our hearts want them to come. If any of us contracted Covid after their visit, we all would feel crappy that we allowed the exposure. It is also possible that GD has been exposed and/or had Covid previously due to being in preschool.
Not sure why I posted, other than I had to tell someone.
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Hugs to you!
Can they test GD in the morning, and board if negative?
Then test the mornings before seeing the elders?
Do you have the space to isolate them if GD turns positive?
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@mominva They all tested negative tonight. My son wants to still come and they would test again in the morning. I have plenty of home test, so everyone could test before we see all family members.
My husband and I planned on getting our 2nd booster next week as we are going to the beach with both of our kids and their families. The thought was to wait until 2-3 weeks before we left, thinking we would have the strongest boost while around people other than family.
I guess we will see what tomorrow brings.
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Many are having difficulty with seeing the grandchildren with the Covid cautions and concerns with travel. DH said there are some areas that are requiring masking again. Of course everyone who believes they need to mask as a caution with health issues - I do keep a distance from those folks out of respect for their need for caution.
The baby formula shortage hopefully is getting addressed, and a sensitivity to not have this occur again.
Best wishes on your beach time with family.
Babysitting 1 and 3 year old granddaughters this week while the other grandma is out of town. 3 year old has grown out of a lot of her terrible twos. 1 year old still very sweet but is definitely on the move now that she walks. They are so fun.
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I personally would have them come and test them before going to see great grandparents.
So many people are exposed to Covid now, it would be hard to find a window when everyone is completely clear.
We usually just test before we have a family gathering.
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@oldfort Kids have come and gone. They tested negative Saturday before flying in, and Sunday before seeing the great grandmothers. We had a great visit, and everyone is still well.
My MIL is out and about, my mother not as much. When mom is out in public, she still wears a mask; with immediate family, she does not.
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That’s priceless. I think we can take smart precautions and try to go about our normal lives. We make every effort to let my mom see her only great granddaughter as much as possible.
We were going to get together with my mom this weekend, but unfortunately SHE was tested positive for Covid. The good thing is she had very mild symptoms. Very thankful for the vaccines.
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Many children with the school situations during Covid are testing up to 2 years behind academic benchmarks. So sad. Our family was not impacted during this time when it comes to children/grandchildren being in school, but DD’s BF had his career sidelined 2 years. I was able to help out during GKids’ daycare shutdown spring 2020. Sad that many daycares are having limited openings due to difficulty keeping staffed.
Because of a daycare Covid outbreak, I am helping out with 2 year old GD this week. They did a three or five day intensive potty training thing with her. Oy. So, I was dreading it today…she just turned 2 on May 7…but it was pretty good. She had one poop in her undies, otherwise she did great. I’m going again tomorrow so I hope I’ll be more relaxed. I was the “when they’re ready, they’re ready” mom back in the day, not a boot camp type.
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What method did they use?
I just spent two weeks helping take care of my 16-month old GD. My SIL had to have surgery for a torn tendon, my D had to travel for work for the better part of both weeks, and their baby sitter (who also works in a daycare center) got COVID.
It was a great bonding time, but also tiring.
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Helping my daughter off and on this week. She works part-time from home, and counts on the hours the older one is at pre-school and the younger is napping. But Pre-S closed because of Covid outbreak.
Seems like everyone in our area has it right now, and all getting it from their school age kids since school mask mandate was dropped. Sigh. So many families that had gone okay for two years up to now. But as @oldfort said, thankful for vaccines. I wish the younger ones could get them–D’s best friend’s 3yo almost in ER because of breathing issues.
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GD was 3. Just before the weekend I was coming (and I told DD we will have GD potty trained), daycare asked DD to bring in regular panties for GD who was pottying at daycare. DD and I did the final potty training over the weekend while SIL was at Army Reserves. GD was good about #1. Saturday she had #2 in her underwear, but on Sunday - DD saw ‘the signs’ and put her in the bathroom and told her to sit on the potty with #2 (said “I will give you privacy” and shut the door) and she did it. Now that GD ‘knew’ #2 would go just like #1 on the potty, she was trained. Still uses a pull up at night. We had ‘saved’ a gift from Santa - had a note that when she was potty trained, she could get the toy (it was a shopping cart of cleaning supplies which she was excited to get) - and she had the biggest smile on the picture with the toy!
GS who will be 3 in July. Will see. SIL may be away with Army and then I will help in similar manner. I believe DD is trying with him, but they have busy go go timing during home/weekend time, and GS I believe needs a couple of days of ‘routine’ focused on pottying just like his sister had. Also has a toy with a note from Santa.
We gave lots of drinks and lots of encouragement/regularly saying “go to the potty when you need to pee”. GD did know what to do.
They do encourage GS at daycare and provide regular stop out time.
When DDs were small, they needed to be potty trained before going to Montessori (age 2/12 is earliest they would take, and planned with the start of their fall time that coordinates with school calendar). DDs were in full time daycare or Montessori through age 3 and 5 at which time I became SAHM, and DD1 finished kindergarten at Montessori. DDs were born in Feb and Mar, so the fall conversion to Montessori worked out well.
DD1 was with the goal to move to Montessori - and she was ready when we worked on potty training. DD1 slept so deeply at night that she kept a diaper at night later than her sister (25 months younger). DD2 was dry at night shortly after age 2, so she was successfully potty trained over a weekend and also was dry through the night. DD1 had a goal for a Mulan nightgown from Grandma with staying dry during the night, and she ‘learned’ to keep dry during the night at age 5.
A friend’s younger child got trained at daycare while her older son ‘learned’ with car time and having pooped in the pull up - and had to sit in it for a bit due to not being able to pull off expressway.
Best wishes!
I know DD/SIL were ‘stressed’ about potty training. We had a couple of books, and DD glanced through them during the weekend. I just uncovered a similar book I had when I was doing potty training with DDs, so I will bring that next time I see DD/SIL.
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