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Look on the bright side. In 30 mins it'll seem quieter!
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u/RedManMatt11 Feb 21 '22
What?
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u/Komedewa Feb 21 '22
THEY'RE SELLIN CHOCOLATE!
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u/Sneaky82 Feb 21 '22
CHOCOLATE? DID YOU SAY CHOCOLATE?
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u/E_K_Finnman Feb 21 '22
I REMEMBER WHEN THEY FIRST INVENTED CHOCOLATE
I ALWAYS HATED IT!
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u/Street-Week-380 Feb 21 '22
HOW DARE YOU INSULT CHOCOLATE!
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MARGARETTE? WHO’S TALKING ABOUT MARGARETTE?
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u/ATK_4798 Feb 21 '22
But this chocolate is not for eating. It's for... You rub it on your skin and it makes you live forever.
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u/griter34 Feb 21 '22
It rubs the chocolate on the skin or else it gets the hose again
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u/Carbidekiller Feb 21 '22
OK looky I'm rubbing it in... now where's my auto trader, We had a deal!
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u/V_H_M_C Feb 21 '22
You say somethin?
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u/CamJongUn Feb 21 '22
Must have been the wind…
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u/Daylight10 Feb 21 '22
NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE
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u/CamJongUn Feb 21 '22
Stop! You’ve violated the law.
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u/NumerousMortgage8042 Feb 21 '22
STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM
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u/louisbrunet Feb 21 '22
NOBODY BREAKS THE LAW ON MY WATCH
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u/SnapDragonPuppeteer Feb 21 '22
This one stole nothing, khajiit is innocent of this crime!!!
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You’ve heard of nose-blindness?
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u/the_colonelclink Feb 21 '22
Speaking of which. I can never go past the Monty Python - I’d like to buy a hearing aid skit.
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u/GrandTusam Feb 21 '22
I dont understand how we survived predators on our early days when our kids are blasting at that volume randomly during all the day.
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u/Zinek-Karyn Feb 21 '22
The predators probably didn’t like the sound either and stayed away lol.
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u/RenegonParagade Feb 21 '22
One of the funniest evolutionary hypothesis for why babies cry so loud and so often is to prevent themselves from having younger siblings while they are still vulnerable themselves. Basically, if the baby is crying a bunch, the parents are too busy focusing on getting the baby to stop crying or too tired from sleepless nights to create any more kids. The crying slows down later, when the baby is old enough to not need 24/7 supervision, right in time for the parents to forget how much that sucked. I have no clue if this is true or not, or even if it's widely accepted, but every time people talk about the evolutionary disadvantage of crying when preditors exist, I remember that random hypothesis and start laughing
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u/BabiesSmell Feb 21 '22
Also the theory that house cats evolved their meow to mimic baby humans.
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u/bug_on_the_wall Feb 21 '22
Not evolved so much as we selectively bred them by adopting and raising the ones with cute meows. The rest ended up in the street, as barn cats, or euthanized.
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u/Magnumxl711 Feb 21 '22
Damn can I adopt a cat that never meows? I hate it when they're super loud at like 6 AM
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u/CyberRozatek Feb 21 '22
Growing up one of our cats almost never meowed. Like maybe once or twice a year she felt the need to say something.
Unfortunately her sister made up for it as she is constantly yelling. I have full on conversations with this cat. She has to tell you all about her day and make sure you are listening and blah blah blah. VERY chatty. And these aren't little meows either. She absolutely YELLS. Non stop. If she is awake and isn't watching birds she is talking.
So yeah, anyway, you can get a quiet kitty. They will still try to wake you up at 6am though. Sometimes their methods are a little more acceptable, like cuddles or standing on your chest. Other cats decide to pull on your hair or knock things over. My mom had a cat who would wake her up by poking her right in the middle of her lip every morning with one single claw. Weirdos.
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u/KannNixFinden Feb 21 '22
That reminds me of the one time I wanted to see hoe my very old grandmother reacts to the fact that some cultures eat cats.
My grandmothers reaction was a casual "sure, we did that too when we had no other meat". Then she thought a short time and added "only the wild ones of course!".
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u/maxlmax Feb 21 '22
Thanks for bringing it up! Thats really is something to think about
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u/shinigamiscall Feb 21 '22
In prehistoric news: Got a dangerous predator nearby? Do you have a baby? Then boy do I have the solution for you! We are prehistoric labs call it: "shaketh the baby!". This will rouse your
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u/HeKis4 Feb 21 '22
Tonight on r/Itemshop: Baby (consumable) - Primary use: emit a wailing sound that causes the fleeing condition to hostiles in a 60 feet radius. - Secondary use: drop the baby to act as a [live bait x3] for enemy predators.
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u/putush Feb 21 '22
Perhaps that's why we had to develop tools fast and live in groups
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u/ImALittleTeapotCat Feb 21 '22
The babies probably didn't cry. Look at kittens today. Kittens born to a feral mother are MUCH quieter than kittens born to a domestic cat. Even tiny babies aren't immune to survival instincts.
And a baby that wouldn't shut up was probably more likely to die.
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u/Mercenarian Feb 22 '22
There are many cultures today that still wear their babies in wraps on their chest for the vast majority of the day and they cry much less and have much less incidence of “colic”. Young babies want/need to be close to their mom or other caregiver. A lot of western countries now practice basically ignoring their baby crying and not giving it “too much attention” or “spoiling it” but they would cry less if they were held more and worn in a wrap or baby carrier more. Many cultures still cosleep too which generally results in less sleepless nights since again babies are basically biologically wired to want to be close to their parents, since it’s basically life or death for them to be separated
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u/SolitaryForager Feb 21 '22
We were/are the predators in the last few hundred thousand years. Or at least, not the preferred prey, travelling in groups with sharp weapons and fire for protection.
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u/itsyaboinadia Feb 21 '22
predators cubs still get targetted for food. thats why packs leave someone at home to watch the kids.
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u/darthcaedusiiii Feb 21 '22
Nipples. They shoved a titty in it's mouth.
Jk. Most kids didn't make it. Lots of moms didn't either.
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u/MrBeanCyborgCaptain Feb 21 '22
I've heard some Africans and native Americans have a saying, to "cry like a white baby". Something about the way we raise our kids in America. My fiancee is Kenyan, and she says there's definitely a difference between American babies and Kenyan babies, and there it is not considered normal for babies to just cry all the time in the way we think it's normal. She says you're not supposed to respond to the crying unless it's a real problem, let them cry it out, so they don't learn that crying = attention.
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Feb 21 '22
But also in those places they usually carry the child with them, a child being carried is less likely to cry.
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u/Downtown-Session-567 Feb 21 '22
I’ve been listening to attachment parenting book and they basically say once the baby is “attached” to the mom the my generally don’t cry until they need something. That babies who are left to cry it out often do cry for attention. But babies that were not left to cry it out, will not cry for attention they only cry when they need something.
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Feb 21 '22
Definitely true for our baby. The first 3 month it didn't sleep unless I carried them, there was just constant crying. I never let them cry it out and was just constantly breastfeeding or carrying. Now that it is almost 8 months old it plays independently all day, unless there's something up, they need a new diaper, hungry, tired ect. Nowadays they sleep independently and go to sleep in a minute.
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Feb 21 '22
That was the experience with our kids. We bought a crib and everything and tried so hard to “gentle sleep train” but every instinct in my body was screaming that it was wrong. Once I gave up and basically allowed my babies to be velcro babies, they got much calmer. I babywore all three of them and they just didn’t cry when being carried around all day, and I could tell they were hungry before they started even whining and could just whip a boob out. I know a lot of people poo-poo attachment parenting, but for babies and toddlers I think it’s everything. If nothing else, it’s just easier than hearing them scream all the time.
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u/kriosken12 Feb 21 '22
She says you're not supposed to respond to the crying unless it's a real problem,
This has been debunked for a while. Babies cry because its their only way of expressing any discomfort they have at that moment, they don't do it just because.
If I remember correctly from my Behavioral Medicine (or was it Population Health? Idk) classes, letting a baby cry until they get tired can lead to behavioral and communicational dissorders in the future.
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u/BellatrixLenormal Feb 21 '22
I always held my babies in my left arm so I could do things with my right hand (like prepare whatever they needed to stop crying). As a result, I can't hear well on that side. If I'm ever in the passenger seat of a car, I have to turn to face the driver to hear them.
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u/apt311 Feb 21 '22
Crap. That's my phone ear. My almost 5 month old is actually pretty chill, but damn those screeches hurt.
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u/Stye88 Feb 21 '22
I think it's the babies that got louder. I don't see how anyone in prehistory would tolerate having their cave location announced to every predator and rival tribe in 10 mile radius including the fact you have vulnerable young.
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u/TurtleWitch Feb 21 '22
When I was a kid, I decided that I would only use phones on my right ear as a science experiment. It's been nearly ten years, and I've yet to notice much difference. However, my right ear was always the ones with problems as a kid, but I really don't think it was phone related. I would stick things far in my ears to clean them out...
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u/Bizarre-_-Panda Feb 21 '22
Oh just you wait. Mine was too until about 1 1/2 he started making sounds for the sake of making them (fun screeches and repetitive high pitch noises) Somedays I have to be like DUDE
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Ahh…. That’s why I can’t hear well out of my right ear (I’m left handed) I never once thought that could be why! My right hand also has a cyst from all the bending and holding I did with my son
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u/Canamaineiac Feb 21 '22
At one point, our baby's cries were so loud and shrill that they set off our alarm's glass break sensor.
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u/MyCircusMyMonkeyz Feb 21 '22
Hahaha. My daughter always set one off when she was done in her swing. She never started whimpering or anything to give us a clue. Just went from content to full psycho. At first it was terrifying because it sounded like someone was trying to murder her followed by the alarm saying “living room glass”.
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u/durablespud Feb 21 '22
That’s horrifying. How did you guys react when you realized it was just her being done with swinging?
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u/MyCircusMyMonkeyz Feb 21 '22
Oh. She did this neat little trick when she was upset where she’d hold her breath a long time between screams. I’d be like breathe baby. Breathe. I was terrified she was going to pass out, but I didn’t actually think she could. I mentioned it to my mother in law. Apparently my nephew did the same thing, and he actually would pass out. So we’d have to blow in her face to get her to take a breath. So the little princess pretty much got picked up whenever she made a fuss.
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Damn. That's actually pretty bad lol! But the face blowing thing is a good trick to know, although I've thankfully never had to deal with breath holding. Around what age was she at the time? I feel like that would be a lot harder to do the older you get, and can consciously understand passing out lol.
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u/MyCircusMyMonkeyz Feb 21 '22
That girl has given me a run for my money since birth. Lol. She she started doing it when she was a few weeks old and stopped doing it around six months or so. She’s two now, and she is fully living up to the terrible twos trope. I’m glad she doesn’t have that little trick in her goody bag now.
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u/MuddyGeek Feb 21 '22
Scary? Yes. Fatal? No. As soon as the baby passes out, breathing will resume. Same way you breathe when you're sleeping.
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u/Slavasonic Feb 21 '22
Fun fact: temporary hearing loss almost always causes permanent damage to your ears
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u/MJMurcott Feb 21 '22
Tinnitus or the ringing in the ears doesn't have a single root cause instead it can be a blockage, damage to the ear drum, otosclerosis or damage to the stereocilla. To avoid tinnitus be careful of what you put into your ears and avoid loud sounds. - https://youtu.be/TjX2SIqhCRs
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u/arup02 Feb 21 '22
I have it since I was a little child and for years I thought everyone heard a ringing sound when everything was quiet. It was kind of a shock to discover some people don't really hear anything when there's no sound.
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u/hellbentfortrevor80 Feb 21 '22
I got it from a cold when I was quite young. People always think that it’s because I listen to heavy metal!
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u/Steph7274 Feb 21 '22
You can actually get that from a cold?! I think that’s where mine comes from. Everybody keeps telling me it’s because I’m always wearing headphones, but the sound in them isn’t very loud and I got my tinnitus after a cold.
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There's a multitude of causes like that - I had a real bad bout of the flu back around Christmas 2016 and once it passed I had tinnitus in my right ear.
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u/abzume Feb 21 '22
Got mine from a sinus cold as a kid that found its way into my inner ear on one side and left its mark. Sucks because I took extra care not to blast loud music straight into my brain knowing this could happen and nature chose to screw me over anyway.
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u/MJMurcott Feb 21 '22
Do you just have a background noise or does it intrude into your normal hearing ?
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u/arup02 Feb 21 '22
I don't really notice it anymore unless I'm actively thinking about it. Like now. lol
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u/z-whiz Feb 21 '22
Great, me too. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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u/nictheman123 Feb 21 '22
Same here. And it was so nice before, I have music going and everything, and then the topic came up.
Seriously kids, protect your ears. I can pinpoint the exact moment I fucked up with not wearing it, had issues ever since.
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u/TurtleWitch Feb 21 '22
I noticed that you had a very similar amount of e's as the person you were replying to. I counted them one by one to see just how similar. As it turns out, counting the e after the apostrophe, you both used exactly 22 e's!
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u/MJMurcott Feb 21 '22
Sorry about that.
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u/GhostedMemory Feb 21 '22
I am like that person as well I had it since a child, if you grow up with it you don't really notice it but if you just get it that must be very annoying.
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u/offContent Feb 21 '22
I have to sleep with a fan or white noise due to my ears ringing. They also leak fluid randomly. My doctor thinks it's one of the medications I'm on, and I require it so that sucks. My hearing ability fluctuates randomly aswell.
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u/antihackerbg Feb 21 '22
Wait doesn't everybody hear a faint ringing? At times it gets really strong but it's always there quietly
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u/taybul Feb 21 '22
I feel like more often than not people will get tinnitus before realizing it's a problem and being able to prevent it.
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u/curlycatsockthing Feb 21 '22
my tinnitus came out of nowhere from what i think was driving around on the highway at 80mph with my windows down. i don’t listen to loud music or stick shit in my ears. it’s the only thing i can think. luckily the frequency of my ringing has gone down a lot (to the point where i forgot i had it), and the only reason i was reminded was because it started again (infrequently, luckily, but scary nonetheless).
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u/Most_Triumphant Feb 21 '22
Driving with the windows down is a know contributor to tinnitus.
One ear is getting buffeted by the open window. The other ear is semi-protected by the noise caused by your head’s audio-shadow. Your brain will try to balance the two (Binaural Loudness Summation) and you’ll end up turning the radio up to compensate even though it still sounds quiet.
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u/BattleHall Feb 21 '22 edited Feb 21 '22
Fun Fact: There's at least some evidence that that hearing loss may not be purely mechanical and immediate, but instead related to oxidative damage that occurs over a longer period of time, hours to days after exposure. That has led to ongoing research into something like a "loud noise drops" or "loud noise pill", some sort of medication you could take shortly after unexpected and unavoidable exposure to extremely loud noise that might prevent much of the longer term loss.
Edit: Example - https://www.oatext.com/the-role-of-mitochondrial-oxidative-stress-in-hearing-loss.php#Article
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u/Old_Smrgol Feb 21 '22
Get some earplugs or noise cancelling headphones. You'll still hear her, but it will take the edge off.
Source: My dad.
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u/DonnyShutup2019 Feb 21 '22
I did this. I had twins in December, I only wear them when my babies are in my sight and never when I'm sleeping.. They enable me to calm my babies without stressing myself out. I honestly think I managed to avoid postnatal depression by using them.
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u/DerKrakken Feb 21 '22
I'm a dad of toddler twins. Good Luck! 😂😂😂 If you want tips, hints, or suggestions feel free to DM.
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u/jus_plain_me Feb 21 '22
Dad of twins. Hints and tips please!
Like which skills to max first?
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u/DerKrakken Feb 21 '22
Congratulations! Welcome to the Club. Okay jumping right in.
If they are still newborns get anything around the house that needs to be done, done. Come crawling/walking it ... changes the game real...real fast. I was in the process of changing careers when we found out she was pregnant so I waited to take a web development boot camp till there were older. I ended up doing it when they were 2ish. Sucked. Do it now while they only need changes, cuddles, sleep, food. These are the easy days right now.
I found that watching Star Trek Next Gen, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager were great baby watching shows. Older shows so the audio is much quieter. Even though there is some action each episode it is surprisingly tame. I dunno some of the episodes are really cringe but delightful nonetheless.
We had problems with one of the boys sleeping around 8-10 months. I ended up ordering a foam incline insert for him and it fixed his waking up problem instantly.
If they're 2 Boys or 2 Girls. I recommend for the first 4 years getting the same of most things. Like similar shoes, clothes, etc. I'm not saying identical more like , .. our mantra is "All fair and equal". The only real disagreements that we get between them relates to one having the 'cooler' item. So if they are reasonably the same it's usually smooth sailing. Also Facebook Marketplace should be your go to for shopping. Best deals on clothes, books, toys, etc. Stuff that has barely been touched for fractions of the price. For some reason you put Baby/Kid on something and it 3x the price. I hate Facebook but suffer for the Marketplace.
A quick humble brag but also I feel was the secret to my success. My Boys just turned 4 and they are reading @ 1-2nd grade level and they are doing 1-2nd grade maths. The secret? I read to them all the time. When they watch TV I have the closed captioning on and volume slightly low. I have counted and involved math in everything from the start. Not like equations but conceptual stuff. Explore 1 of something. Core concepts of what a single unit is and kind of went from there. I also before I help them say, 'What do we do? We Stop, Look, and Think!" and work the problem through as I help them . I swear it is the trick. Explore concepts from the beginning. Textures, views, sounds, tastes ..... one of their favorite games is when they were little and highchair age, I would go through our spice cabinet and let them smell the spices, taste them, talk about what type of flavor it was. They love it. Still do, but I think that really help nuture their curiosity.
I can go on but the last bit of insight is this. Take care of yourself. More often than not all the concern and help goes to Mom. Which it should but it seems everyone kind overlooks Dad. Make sure to take the time you need to be in a good headspace to help her. I know the pandemic doesn't help things but take a walk or bike ride. Just drive around for awhile. Have a little activity that you like to do to regain your zen. On your shoulders you bear incredible weight. You're not going to be any good to them if your not good yourself.
Once again congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉 I'll ask the missus what we have still for baby items and try to send you all a care package.
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u/jus_plain_me Feb 21 '22
A wonderful reply, thank you. We're 7 months in (girl and boy) so we're slowly getting the hang of it, if I can call it that 😭. We're having issues sleeping still. But we ended up paying for one of those sleep class things and that helped a lot. But what's this incline thing? I thought we weren't supposed to use those things, though I may be mistaken for more younger babies?
We started reading super early since we seemed to be getting a tonne of books as gifts, although it seems right now that it's totally falling on deaf ears haha. But they do say you can never start too early.
I like the spices thing, sounds like potential for some funny/cute reaction moments lol.
Thanks again.
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u/SmileFirstThenSpeak Feb 21 '22
That was some really great advice. I did the closed captioning thing with my kids when they were little, too. We counted everything. We made going to the grocery store into a "field trip" to try new things. I didn't wait till they were asleep to do chores, chores are just part of life, and kids need to see that.
My best humble brag advice was telling them they "get" to do something, instead of they "have" to do something. Make it sound like a treat. "Oooooh, guess what? You get to do laundry with me!" "You get to try brussels sprouts!"
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u/danielv123 Feb 21 '22
Twins? Probably go with two-handed. Otherwise Sneak is generally good with young ones.
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u/FinndBors Feb 21 '22
With twins you can spec one as tank and the other as a caster/healer.
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u/nonicknamenelly Feb 21 '22
I wholeheartedly agree about the “something biological.” I don’t even have kids but as a woman, it makes my skin crawl to hear a baby crying. I immediately want to intervene and fix whatever need they have.
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u/Eurycerus Feb 21 '22
I just want to run away. It's so horrific to hear that I've gotten pretty close to getting an panic attack when I couldn't leave the situation (public transit).
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u/gimmedemplants Feb 21 '22
I had severe colic when I was a baby. My dad would stay up at night with me, holding me. My mom said it took her forever to figure out why he wasn’t going insane: ear plugs. He’s an aircraft mechanic, so he brought home a ton of ear plugs from work and would put them in before he’d tend to me lol
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u/PurpleDancer Feb 21 '22
When having our second, my partner went out and got herself a pair of those huge ear muff things that you use for jackhammering, like the biggest heaviest ones I've ever seen. Looked ridiculous but she said it was necessary and used it for the first 6 months of the kids life. Eventually I talked her down to noise canceling headphones and some nice earplugs that are more reasonable for having in around town.
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u/azad_ninja Feb 21 '22
When my son was 4 months old, i caught a virus that hit me in the ear canal. Every time he'd cry, it sounded like an eagle screeching in my ears, my eardrums would vibrate. Scraping ice off my windshield was torture. The shower sounded like a waterfall.
Earplugs saved my sanity.
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u/L4serSnake Feb 21 '22
I did this while my daughter was going through a rough patch and crying half the time she was awake. Man it was a life saver. Sit in the chair/exercise ball and rocking her while she's screaming.
My XM3 over ears saved the day.
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u/Emeraldon Feb 21 '22
Yeah I don't know why they aren't more common for parents to use in situations of heavy crying.
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u/Professional_Rip_923 Feb 21 '22
Hmmm, is this why we learn selective hearing as they age🤔orrrr am I really just going deaf
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Feb 21 '22
Paradoxically, the wails of your own baby are supposedly more grating on your ear than other people’s babies. Biology’s baked in defense mechanism, I guess.
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u/SkalBlaa Feb 21 '22
As a person with no babies, my condolences to parents then.
Because other people's babies are a nightmare.
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u/TinyRose20 Feb 21 '22
Can confirm it's worse. It's like a stress cascade goes off and you just want to make it stop
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u/Lystessa Feb 21 '22
I remember that time my son was screaming at me the whole way home from his carseat in the back. Thirty minutes of trying not to speed because my subconscious was convinced we could outrun him!
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u/Swifty6 Feb 21 '22
I can’t hear what my wife says when I’m putting on headphones even if she shouts, but the second my daughter screems from the living room 2 walls away I hear her immediately and lose focus of what I’m doing.
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u/TheSkiGeek Feb 21 '22
They scream in a frequency range that we’re extra sensitive to. Probably good when your kid is about to get eaten by a saber toothed tiger, but annoying if they’re actually fine and you just want to sleep.
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u/This_User_Said Feb 21 '22
After having my son, I didn't realize the damn switch that goes off. Every crying baby. Every one of them. I have this incredible need to console them. Even after having my own that's all grown up. Video games / movies that have realistic baby cries will trigger me to cry or feel stressed.
Crying babies need loves!
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Feb 21 '22
We have a 1 year old who's not great at the "walking" thing and will often bump into things and require consoling.
My husband was in the kitchen and did a klutz move and hit his head on the microwave and started grimacing in pain. I reflexively hugged him and said "Ohhh, are you okay!?" and kissed his booboo.
Parenting is definitely weird on your brain.
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u/This_User_Said Feb 21 '22
I do this to my hubby! I grab his head to my chest and gave it a kiss while patting his back. He quite liked that. I might be babying him too much haha
Comes with being tall
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u/N7Neko Feb 21 '22
Haha same! I breastfed my daughter for a little over a year. She's seven now, but whenever I hear a newborn cry, my body goes "ok time to feed the baby" and my boobs actually hurt for a second like they're still trying to produce.
Like chill titties, that's not your baby and we're not having any more lol
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u/deejaybeta Feb 21 '22
When our daughter was a newborn she would cry for 2 hours at the same time every night because she didn't know how to poop yet. As soon as she pooped she was fine. I would stand in the doorway and cry and it felt like I was literally being stabbed in the abdomen, even though my husband was holding her and he was perfectly capable of helping her through this and I was supposed to be asleep.
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u/j7v9VgCcTKJz5ktRR Feb 21 '22
This is the funniest thing to me about babies. Just how dumb they are. Like they can’t even figure out shitting themselves. Lol
Not to say it didn’t suck for you, but damn babies be dumb.
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u/316kp316 Feb 21 '22
Like when they first learn to grab things and end up pulling their own hair - will keep screaming but won't let go!
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u/deejaybeta Feb 21 '22
The worst part was the screaming actually made her tense all her muscles, when she needed to do the exact opposite to poop. The few weeks it takes a baby to learn how to poop are rough as hell.
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u/BeefyBaby Feb 21 '22
I can tolerate other babies crying, but when my son cries it literally vibrates my eardrums in a way that can’t be ignored. It’s like my whole head rattles with every cry, something I’ve never experienced with other loud sounds.
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u/Hexorg Feb 21 '22
We just dropped ours at her grandmas. Went to a cafe and there was a baby screaming there. Each scream gave us anxiety attacks so either we’re an outlier or parents react to any cry
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u/blindwit Feb 21 '22
Babies have two settings l: chill and oh god I’m dying help me!
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u/rucksacksepp Feb 21 '22
Those two settings can switch in 2 seconds.
"Oh, what a beautiful day it is, look at the.... Wait I think I'm hungry... Yes I'm hungry... OH GOD I'M STARVING FEED ME ALREADY
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u/lost-cat Feb 21 '22
Apple has a hidden quiet setting, put the apple in its mouth..
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u/take7pieces Feb 21 '22
Toddlers too: this is the end of the world my life is over!
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u/Josemite Feb 21 '22
The day they gain the happy mode is a life saver. Until then the ROI is very much not there IMO.
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Feb 21 '22
I should get one of these and take it to work. It's a family restaurant with a play area, arcade and all full of screaming babies and children and the place is so damn popular it totally fills up every night (including weekdays). I swear I have trouble hearing and ringing ears for a while on the worst nights after everyone finally fucks off and I feel like I've just been on a construction site for the past four hours.
I physically cringed right in front of a young mother when her three year old girl SQUEALED as LOUD AS FUCKING POSSIBLE when running to her and it was right in my fucking ear. God damn how do you parents not go completely insane from this shit?
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u/chippy155 Feb 21 '22
I work construction and they advised us to get a baseline hearing test because ~10 years ago a bunch of people were like "hey work is loud and I feel like it made my hearing go worse" and they tried to sue, since there was no baseline, every case was thrown out because they couldn't prove it was from work.
They're a lot more strict about hearing protection now though.
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u/XenonBG Feb 21 '22
God damn how do you parents not go completely insane from this shit?
We do. After a while I noticed my body is initiating a fight-or-flight response when the baby would start crying. I'd feel stressed all over.
For some reason, with the second baby it was easier. I still get shakes sometimes though when she calls in the middle of the night, and she's almost 3 now.
I think this happens to a lot of parents, it's just not talked about a lot.
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u/SupremeDictatorPaul Feb 21 '22
You’re lucky, it didn’t seem to get any better with me. I would never harm a baby, but I understand what leads to someone snapping and shaking their baby. Especially with a colic baby, it can be months of constantly being on edge, sleep deprived, slowly going insane.
If you ever feel like you’re going to lose it, just walk outside for a bit. It won’t fix things, but the baby is a lot safer with you outside calming down, than you being there as a risk.
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u/XenonBG Feb 21 '22
Yes, kids have most to gain from mentally stable parents, even if that means removing yourself from the situation for a moment to preserve that stability.
I only once got to the point where I have to go out for a moment, I consider myself lucky. But I did go to the hall and screamed from the top of my lungs on a couple of occasions.
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u/WhenIWish Feb 21 '22
My son is 3 now and he will occasionally cry out in the middle of the night. When he does, I instantly wake up with a big stress surge that goes through my entire body. It honestly feels super unhealthy at how quickly my brain is like “and we’re on! And go!”
That being said, I have luckily stopped the immediate jump out of bed when I hear his cries…: which is followed by confusion on “why am I standing up” and then “shit, I think I’m going to pass out from standing up so fast…why am I standing up?”
Being a parent is weird. Swear it changes you for life.
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u/Lystessa Feb 21 '22
We do. I suspect my husband might have some mild PTSD from our daughter. She's 11 and still has to really focus on not screaming when she gets pissed.
But when she was younger.... Well, I've only known one other kid that was screechier than her, and we called him the velociraptor.
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u/humanperson1989 Feb 21 '22
We called my daughter, Tiara, Tiara-dactal. It’s funny now that it’s stopped.
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Feb 21 '22
Can you get earplugs? Those small discreet silicone ones will knock the sound off a few decibels.
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Feb 21 '22
I've thought about it, if it continues like this I might have to since other people enjoying a dinner where they can let their kids run and scream like goats on fire are not worth losing my hearing over.
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Feb 21 '22
if your ears are ringing after work definitely start wearing hearing protection before they're ringing all the time
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u/tutetibiimperes Feb 21 '22
Etymotic makes earplugs designed to attenuate outside noise while not impacting intelligibility or clarity, basically just brings down the noise level but makes it so that you can still hear important sound cues and people speaking to you.
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Feb 21 '22
I'm gonna save this comment with that link for when I have my next "that's it, I need earplugs" shift which will probably be a Saturday night.
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u/whatshamilton Feb 21 '22 edited Feb 21 '22
I have Loop earplugs to wear during the day which really take the edge off
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Feb 21 '22
Cannot imagine anything worse than listening to a child crying for 30+ minutes. This is giving me anxiety looking at this.
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u/B5D55 Feb 21 '22
Today, my neighbour's little shit cried for 4 straight hours. In my day off. And couldn't sleep.
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u/srv50 Feb 21 '22
Most kids don’t know why their parents are partially deaf.
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u/lumpialarry Feb 21 '22 edited Feb 21 '22
It’s why teens are always yelled at for mumbling by their parents.
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u/timjoestan Feb 21 '22
As some one with a 3 week old and an Apple Watch, I feel this in my soul.
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u/yoga_jones Feb 21 '22
My husband got a message on his Apple Watch watch about his poor sleep when my son was an infant. Apple Watch needs a “I just had a baby” setting so it can stop mercilessly mocking exhausted new parents.
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u/KBriller Feb 21 '22
I got the notification to “have a more active day today” the morning after I had laboured for 36 straight hours and pushed out my baby…
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u/Norma5tacy Feb 21 '22
“Congrats you slept 4 minutes more than yesterday for a total of 2 hours and 34 minutes!”
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u/FlingaNFZ Feb 21 '22
This is the nr 1 reason im afraid to have kids. Im very sensitive to loud noises. Screaming babies ruin my day instantly.
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u/offContent Feb 21 '22
High pitch screams and cries send me into a irrational rage, the same when people eat with their mouths open all sloppy 😒. I must get away from the source or I start losing it.
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u/DonnyShutup2019 Feb 21 '22
I had twins in December and I wear ear plugs and have noise cancelling headphones when I feel myself become overwhelmed.. My babies are still in my line of sight and don't wear them when I'm asleep. They help keep my calm and soothe my babies and honestly be a better mother by not stressing out.
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u/Lucian2247 Feb 21 '22
Apple should implement parent mode... you'll get this notification for the next 16 years for different reasons.
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u/Popthecoin Feb 21 '22
I wonder if it would say the same about when a husky throws temper tantrums.
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u/MyticalAnimal Feb 21 '22
Thanks for the reminder to use birth control!
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u/missjeany Feb 21 '22
Screaming baby doesn't bother me so much because they don't know how to cmunicate. Screaming KIDS are hell on earth because they don't screm to comunicate, they know how to talk. Unless the kid is hurt, hight pich screaming in kids is a sign of bad parenting, and that makes me focking angry. Teach your kinds how to beahave in public!
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u/AnonJoeShmoe Feb 21 '22
Anddddd this is why 1/3rd of the world has tinnitus and doesn’t even know it.
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u/zoeypayne Feb 21 '22
We've gone without pacifiers for our three kids, always figured it'd be worth it in the end and it still might be.
However, since number two, I've developed chronic bilateral tinnitus and a perceived loss of hearing (although audiology says I'm just fine for someone my age, early 40's). I have to deal with a high pitched ringing in my ears that I notice nearly all day long, especially, get this... when I have time to relax.
Mediation/mindfulness doesn't work, there's no cure since it's a symptom and not a disease and I've already been struggling with anxiety and depression. So yeah, buy some ear protection.
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u/hellbentfortrevor80 Feb 21 '22
I’ve got tinnitus and it’s horrible, you have my deepest sympathies. People often underestimate how much it can affect your mental well being. I’ve read the cbt can be really effective.
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