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when did you stop letting you little one use the pacifier? my son will be two on friday. he uses his pacifier only when he goes to sleep. he hasn't used it while awake for almost a year. and even when he is sleeping most of the time it falls out or he may be taking it out, so i was going to just not give it to him anymore. but when did any of you stop it.

i am getting a fawn boxer puppy. we will be getting him early august. and he will be 8 weeks old. the family that have him right now have been calling him Jack, which i kind of like, but would like to get some other ideas. i have a two year old son so the name needs to be fairly easy for him to say and remember. the puppy is fawn with white paws white on his muzzle and black around his eyes. thank you.

my son will be 2 in august. he kind of picky when it comes to food. he not terrible but there just some stuff he wont eat. like most kids he not that into his veggies. he like corn and peas, but only if they are mixed in with potatoes. but other then that not so much.same with fruits, sometimes i can get him to take one bite of of something but he usually spits it out, he wouldn't even eat strawberries cut up into chocolate ice cream.! other then fruits and veggies he eats everything. so we give him V8 fusion juice to make up for what hes missing in real fruits and veggies. does anyone have some more secret ways to sneak fruits and veggies into his diet?

i love Dr. Seuss books and my son does too. but i was thinking, are these really good for him, i mean alot of the words are just completely made up. so what do you think, are they good or bad, or just for fun?

i am going to start potty training my son this summer, he is 22 months old and i know he is ready because he shows all the signs. but i have heard so many different ways to do it. like use a child potty chair and teach him to pee sitting down first. or use a potty chair but teach him to pee standing up first. or use one of the little seats that fits on your toilet and teach him to sit first, or use the same seat on the toilet but teach him to stand up first.. any way i just wanted to see what other people did, how it worked out for you and how long it took?

i hate it when people brag about their baby when there is really nothing to brag about. like a family member of mine has a 11 month old baby and she is constanly braging about how big she is and how smart she is and how advanced she is.. well if all that were true it would be fine but none of it is. they say she like 33 inches tall, NO shes more like 28 inches. they say she is soo close to walking, NO shes not even close to crawling and can not even hold herself up by herself. like that kind of thing.. it just drives me crazy!! i just want to smack them. i hate bragging to start with but if its not even true, im mean GRR.would this bother anyone else?

ok so i have an IUD (marina) and ive had it for about a year and a half now. my periods have been very irregular from the start, usually every other month. well its now May 18th and i havent had it since February 15th(i know its normal to eventually not have one at all). my breasts are sore, extra sleepy and ive been extra gassy lately.(both happened with my first baby) but i havent had any morning sickness yet. ive also been having dreams that im pregnant. now i dont really think i am but my husband keeps asking every time i mention any of the symptoms, and well its hard not to wonder if i am. if i take a pregnancy test the IUD would make a false positive would it? but if i dont have my period by next month i will take one anyways. thank you for your advice.

i am 20 (21 in august). i have an almost 2 year old son.i would like to go back to school and get into a good career. i dont want to have to go to school for 4 years or anything like that. my husband has a really good job so this isnt for money, its more for something to do and a little extra pocket money. and i dont want to work long hours either. does any one have a good idea on a career i can look into?

my son is 20 months old and wears pampers baby dry size 5 diapers. we use these because he always leaked out of huggies and got a ton of rashes from them, we used luvs once and wouldnt even finish the package because we hated them so much. the pampers he has never leaked out of them, except maybe at night once or twice. but i have heard that huggies is suposed to be better for boys(the opposite for us) so i was just wondering what you liked best and worst?

my husband and i are looking into buying a new car, and i have heard that a kia is a very nice car.but i know that kia is a foreign company but they do make them here. my husband will only buy an american made car (i really don't care, a car's a car) well since they put the car together hear, are the parts made here too? because that would make it american made.

i had a marina iud put in about a year and a half ago. my periods are every other month and last like 9 days. i talked to my doc and she says its normal but i was just curious how it was for anyone Else that had/has an IUD

how do you feel about your child learning new languages in preschool/elementary school?... i don't really like it. i know children are sponges and its easier to learn when they are young.. but i just think that these children should learn there own language first. now i can understand if you have mexican in your heritage and live in the u.s. that you want your child to learn spanish too. but if you are fully american i think the child should be taught proper english first. i just have seen SO many little kids that know a couple different languages but then when they speak english they mess it up horribly, and it drives me insane.. plus if they learn a language young they have too keep taking classes on it or speaking it everyday or else they will forget it and that also will hinder their learning of more important thing like math... what do you think about it?

P.S im not close minded so if you make a good argument i may consider teaching my son a new language.

my cousins baby is 9 months old. i think she may be behind in her development, but its hard to tell because my son was early with everything. she only just is able to sit completely by herself, but cant get into the sitting position by herself and obviously cant crawl. how old was your baby when they could do it?...she also doesn't even babel for more then a second. how old was yours?...she is also still in an infant car-seat( the kind you can carry them in) when did your baby switch to the next size?.... i am asking all this because i am concerned, but since i don't know how old most babies are when the do all this stuff i don't want to be concerned if i shouldn't be.

i know this girl who never takes her 9 month old out of the house, except to the grandparents house next door. any time they need to go somewhere they leave the baby at her parents house. is this wierd, or bad for the baby? i have always taken my son everywhere with me since he was born, he is now 19 months old and i can count the number of times hes ben babysat on one hand. yes i would have liked to get a babysitter more often buit it never works out right. but they get a babysitter everyday(literally). am i just crazy or is this really wierd?

my fiancee and i never fight, im mean like literaly the only thing we have ever fought about is what to eat for dinner and thats just because we want the other person to chose. and i dont really count that as fighting. but everyone i know fights with their spouse on a regular basis. so im starting to think that we are wierd. so do you ever fight with your spouse and if so what about?

my 18 month old son loves to try and feed himself using utencilsand has for a while now. he can use both but is alot better with the fork. just curius when did your child learn to use them and witch one one were they better at using?

ok so my brother got a girl pregnant. they met in a mental hospital(i know) so both of them arenot stable. my brother is now on meds and is almost back to normal. but the baby mama is still .. wel crazy. she has been back in there since being pregnant for threaaning to hurt herself and the baby. they are no longer together because shes such a pain in the but and is well really mean to my brother. my bro just wants the baby to be healthy and in safe safe place so he wants to put it up for adoption but she says no and that she will never let him see the baby. niehter of them are capible of taking care of a child the way it needs to be done. so my question is: will the hospital even let the baby go home?

PS i actually hope that it does get taken away.

so i know this girl who has a 7 month old girl. at 6 months old they said she was 16 lbs and 24 inches long. now only one month later she suposedly is 20 lbs and 29.5 inches long! now i dont think she looks even nearly this big. so my question is: Is it posible for a baby to gain 4lbs and grow 5.5 inches in just one month. by the waiegh i have a son who is 18 months old and the girl is the kind of person who has to make everything a compitition, which i think is dumb even though my son was bigger then her at every age so far and reached milestones faster. so is the girl i know just makeing this all up trying to seem better or is this actually posible?

my son is ten and a half months old. i have been giving him real food since he was 4 months old and finger foods soon after, but i have to give him it myself. he has always picked up the little tiny pieces but just seems to want to squish them. when i put them in has mouth he loves it and eats it just fine. same with the bottle, he just will not hold it by himself. to mater how hard i try to get him to hold it as soon as i let go he drops it. is this wierd or does it happen alot?

i would like to get a puppy. i have narrowed it down to a neopolitan mastiff or a bullmastiff. my husband is a truck driver so he is gone alot, and i have a 10 month old son. i want this dog as a companion/protector. does anyone have any opinions on witch would be better for my family?