Sadly Prez doesn't get home until 8pm usually, though Dashiell is still refusing to go to sleep at a normal kid bedtime (7-8pm until about 7am would be bliss) so he'll be awake when his dad gets home. He's pretty much always home at the same time because that's the train he takes and he can't leave any earlier really.
even now I feel like I can't even complain to my non AP friends
Thankfully most of my friends with kids are AP. Though they're mostly all overseas, so nobody local (anymore). So at least online I can commiserate with them. I don't know anyone local with kids, except for the landlord's daughter, and she's not exactly AP... scheduled hospital induction due to "big baby", FF'd her kiddo because it was easy (and she smokes), stuck him in daycare early on, early solids feeders and I'm sure they're the CIO type. So I don't really talk about much from the childrearing realm with them. I know they probably think PreZ and I are weird anyway, being mostly black clad freaks, lol, as well as having had a homebirth etc.
I think most people just lie about how their kid sleeps. Because you're eternally asked "so, is he sleeping through the night?" "Is she a good baby?" (because not sleeping like we'd want them to is being 'bad').
We have a crib for Dashiell (about 3 feet from our bed, lol), but he rarely sleeps in it. If I'm lucky he starts in it, but he usually transfers over after a while. It's from IKEA and converts into a toddler bed, which is one reason we got it, for when he's older.
At least I feel like I can vent to my son's therapists. His OT is very alternative therapy/granola (does cranial-sacral massage, that kind of thing), and his Special Instruction guy and his wife co-slept with their daughter until she was 14 (Latino family, where it's much more common... though I'd certainly draw the line personally before 14, lol). But at least they're on a similar page to me, and I don't feel like a total weirdo talking about the way I parent my son.
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even now I feel like I can't even complain to my non AP friends
Thankfully most of my friends with kids are AP. Though they're mostly all overseas, so nobody local (anymore). So at least online I can commiserate with them. I don't know anyone local with kids, except for the landlord's daughter, and she's not exactly AP... scheduled hospital induction due to "big baby", FF'd her kiddo because it was easy (and she smokes), stuck him in daycare early on, early solids feeders and I'm sure they're the CIO type. So I don't really talk about much from the childrearing realm with them. I know they probably think PreZ and I are weird anyway, being mostly black clad freaks, lol, as well as having had a homebirth etc.
I think most people just lie about how their kid sleeps. Because you're eternally asked "so, is he sleeping through the night?" "Is she a good baby?" (because not sleeping like we'd want them to is being 'bad').
We have a crib for Dashiell (about 3 feet from our bed, lol), but he rarely sleeps in it. If I'm lucky he starts in it, but he usually transfers over after a while. It's from IKEA and converts into a toddler bed, which is one reason we got it, for when he's older.
At least I feel like I can vent to my son's therapists. His OT is very alternative therapy/granola (does cranial-sacral massage, that kind of thing), and his Special Instruction guy and his wife co-slept with their daughter until she was 14 (Latino family, where it's much more common... though I'd certainly draw the line personally before 14, lol). But at least they're on a similar page to me, and I don't feel like a total weirdo talking about the way I parent my son.