Marissa Comstock

@Chesedgirl You can vibe but I would say that with my first baby, I didn’t realize that she wouldn’t just tell me when she needed to sleep and so she started getting jittery and overtired when it was too late. I looked up the wake windows and realized they were surprisingly short for the

Do I need to look up what wake windows are or can I just ignore and vibe with my baby

We started our daughter (2.5) at an outdoor school for two half days a week and she loves it. We have a 14 month old and I’m pregnant with my third. It’s a nice activity for her, she gets to play in a creek and hike around. The 14 month old gets one on one attention and I can get some down time. We also have a wonderful nanny that takes both girls out two afternoons a week. I’m a stay at home mom. We have both sets of grandparents nearby. It’s still nice to get a break and I see no issue when the child is very happy with the situation.

Before I had my kids I was adamantly anti-daycare, no exceptions. And now that I do have them... For infants: still think it should be avoided to the extent possible (but sympathetic to those who can't manage that for various reasons). For older toddlers, though, I wouldn't write it off so harshly now. My almost-3-yo goes 3 hours a day to a nice little Montessori, and I think it's good for him. Still spends like 90% of his time with family but also get a change of scenery and dips his toes into socializing with others. There's a gradient here, needs are different for a 3-month-old and a 4-year-old.

@MotherGrundy Yes! Our babies cosleep with us till about 3 months and then we transition them to a crib and then outside the room. Then we sleep train at 4 months, meaning we teach them how to fall asleep on their own. Night wakings are still responded to, of course. That works for us.

Co-sleeping is only as good as it is useful to you! It’s cosy, convenient and precious, until it’s uncomfortable, inconvenient and literally a child sleeping horizontally between you and your husband. 🤪🥹 It’s certainly not a key to all mythologies, a world view or a religious conviction! Enjoy it while it’s helpful! Mature out of it when the family needs you to! GODSPEED.

My husband really wanted our children to cosleep with us for the first year and they did for about 3 months but I showed him videos that mom’s post on Instagram of cosleeping with their older babies and the baby is crawling all over the mom, spinning around, kicking, nursing whenever they feel like it. You name it. My husband was surprised and I was like yea! This is cosleeping. Not for me. Now that my oldest is 2.5, she gets in our bed sometimes but she sleeps like a rock at this point. That’s fine with me.

okay my final point of co-sleeping confusion is how tf you’re all sleeping with babies old enough to move. my baby can’t even crawl yet, but for months he’s been doing 360s in his crib and wedging himself into different corners. apart from the fact i’d have to sleep in a cage to keep him safe/contained, the level of movement seems super disruptive?

@TiffaniMarie483 I remember doing this with bugs when I was a kid. I had no concept of cruelty. It was just innocent curiosity. Grosses me out to think of now but seems like a normal kid thing. I don’t think my parents intervened at all.

My 5 yo just ripped apart a bug for no reason. I told him we don’t kill things weaker than us for no reason. He didn’t seem to understand. Normal boy trait? How do I teach him to be gentle and respect all God’s creatures (except wasps and mosquitoes and such)?

@wing171741 @IberianPikachu Yes! 😅

@marissaComstok @IberianPikachu Right. I knew I was pregnant this time around when I woke up to the smell of brisket that had been in the smoker all night and I said what is that disgusting smell? No pregnancy test needed

“Here’s how my wife avoided nausea in the 1st trimester” *Proceeds to explain how she ate eggs, leafy greens and sardines Hey man, it sounds like your wife just didn’t suffer with nausea to begin with lol

@goqitova @st_louis_stan What I’m forced to call my metro assailant

@st_louis_stan keking out loud

YOUR CHALLENGE: Find one (1) book in this children's section that might appeal to a normal boy age 5-9

@ploughmansfolly I like to think he translates into Italian and the back to English for extra sterility and strangeness.

@jiguhhboohoo @egreghost It’s fine.

@marissaComstok @egreghost Sleep training a 4 month old is fucking insane and I’m tired of pretending it’s not a sick sick method.

The two babies in my moms group that slept thru the night at two months are - congenitally hypothyroid - 2%ile weight just an observation

Yes! I think with my first I was like, we’ve solved sleep! And then something changes and all the sudden they’re waking up a bunch and then they’re toddlers and every night I’m at my wits end trying to get mine to STAY IN BED 🤣 baby/ toddler sleep is constantly evolving and again, I’ve been humbled.

@marissaComstok Mine *stopped* sleeping through the night at two months. No routine change, she just developed in five different ways at once

@IterIntellectus Toddler years are humbling and having more than one is humbling. That being said, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

all my homies are having kids all my homies saying this shit’s so easy

Being a food influencer and making those over the top faces of enjoyment with closed eyes after tasting your own food is so embarrassing.

@guapaathome @mercurygurl Yup! “Sparky” water for us too

@mercurygurl It is called “sparky water” in our house now thanks to our toddler 😂

does anyone else have a toddler who’s obsessed with sparkling water

@AJA_Cortes It’s like people have never heard of Armenians before

The American economy is such a Behemoth that we can somehow absorb hundreds of billions in fraud a year across state after state And barely notice it. Imagine what we could unlock if we cut this down by even 50%

@CBSNews It’s like people have never heard of Armenians before

A CBS News Investigation found that a California hospice doctor is linked to 20 times the average number of terminally ill patients in a single year. cbsn.ws/3NS0EBP

Amazing how different they can be! I actually weaned my first off at 7 months because i knew we wanted to start trying again at 8 months. I think that amount of breastfeeding is ideal for me honestly. I love newborn breastfeeding so much but after that it wears me down. It’s hard because they love it so much.

@marissaComstok My older two never bit like this! It’s crazy I wasn’t expecting this at all

Weaning baby off the boob after he took a literal CHUNK out of me and it’s NOT GOING WELL

That’s nice that church offers that but the reality is that if I have to drag my two young children, who already are a handful, at varying times, in and out of a cry room, I’m just not going to go to mass. I’m working on their attention spans, whenever they get too crazy. We go outside. Little by little, they’ll be able to experience mass like they’re supposed to.

@marissaComstok littler kids get a MUCH bigger pass. Still ideal to at least try to feed them before you get there and after. or take them to the cry room and snacks there

At church today, one hour mass, a lady offered her kids snacks 3 separate times. These were not toddlers! Ages 6ish through 13ish!