This. My oldest was a 5 pounder who struggled to stay warm that first winter. We used to dress her in a onesie, 2 sets of feety pajamas, a fleece sleep sack and a hat. She looked like a puff ball with all that clothing, but she was warm!

When I was a kid in the mid 80s, a neighbor’s toddler fell down the basement stairs in a walker. He was fine, but hearing my mother and his mother talk about the experience scared me so much I never thought about buying one for my own kids.

You know, I have not really looked into it. This current baby never needed it a whole lot so I didn’t push it. My first though, we must have swaddled her until at least 6 months. (She’s 11 now).

My 5 month old baby is asleep on my lap on the Boppy nursing cushion right now! I have a 5 year gap between this baby and DS5, and I noticed a few things: everything is neutral and gray - bright colors look dated you aren’t supposed to swaddle them past the first 4-6 weeks they shouldn’t sleep in car seats anymore They are really strongly encouraging the vitamin D drops In the hospital they did not offer to bathe the baby. (I prefer to wait till I get home anyway to bathe them so it is nbd, but I was surprised they didn’t offer) Huge plus: much much more focus on mom’s postpartum emotions. Received a screening at the hospital, at all pediatrician checkups and at my own PP checkup with my OB. This can only help PP women!

Have you lost a significant amount of weight recently, changed your diet drastically, or picked up a new exercise program? Some women’s bodies are more sensitive than others in this area, and variables like that can affect it.

Have you looked at Introduction to Attic Greek by Mastronarde? It is very much parts to whole like the Forms series but goes much further and is quite in depth. Professor Mastronarde also has a website with vocabulary games, grammar fill in worksheets, etc that correlate with his text.

Hi there. It’s wonderful you are getting help and I wish you all the best with your recovery. I am recovering as well (I don’t know when to say I am recovered - although I’m weight restored sometimes I still struggle with thoughts and urges to engage in behaviors). I had a couple of thoughts for you - please feel free to discard if not helpful. 1) you know about extreme hunger right? That’s totally normal and not a binge. It’s impossible to binge in eating disorder recovery. Your body is trying to get those calories. It stops more quickly if you just continue with your meal plan and eat the next meal. And the next. If you start skipping and skimping the extreme hunger will be harder to get rid of. Just go with it. Look at your meal plan as a minimum. Not a maximum. If you want 3 pieces of chicken instead of 1, have them! 2) ask your team if you can replace 1 meal with a drink as long as it meets the exchanges as an intermediate step to help with the full feeling. Sometimes drinking a smoothie is easier than eating all that food. 3) I am so familiar with the full belly panicking. Sending hugs. It is so hard. Make sure you’re warm (wrap up in a blanket, wear a comfy hoodie - studies have shown this improves ED outcomes) and find something to occupy your mind for 20-30 minutes after your meals at home. Watch a favorite tv show or a movie, play an engaging game, read some fiction, do something to get your mind off of it. I know someone that used to play a strategy board game every night with her DH for months and months for this exact reason. Hard to think about being full when you’re trying to plan out how to win. best of luck to you in your recovery. You can do this!!!

Would she want to track distance virtually to get to a place? Like, across the country, or a place she thinks is interesting? You could help her plot where she is on the map every week and look up something about that area in Wikipedia or something.

Also a couple of sessions with a pelvic floor physical therapist (when feasible again) can help tremendously.

Build Your Library Level 5 might be worth looking at.

I was going to suggest Foerster! I presented it a little differently - I don’t think she ever even saw the book. I presented the lesson on a big whiteboard and then wrote some of the exercises in a notebook for her to solve. While I agree that learning to take notes from a textbook is important, I didn’t want to ruin DD’s zeal for math by trying to impose note taking or other executive function skills on her in that subject. We’ll do that in some other subject. (I should add that she did write down geometry formulas in a small formula notebook during geometry - she was fine with that and found it fun.) we are now in Precalculus with Trigonometry and it is by far my favorite of the 3 Foerster books we have used so far. It is so clearly written! There are little explorations in most sections that act kind of like the discovery method or at least a hands on way to experience the topic. i love Foerster for a young student because it’s deep but not weedsy, if you know what I mean. (DD has done AOPS summer camps and I have personally worked through all of AOPS PreA - that approach is not for her. At least not yet.)

Could you try some of the good old plugged duct remedies just in case they work? Hot shower, massage with wide tooth comb are the 2 that always help me the most.

Two great novels are: The Golden Goblet The Sand Reckoner - this is an amazing, memorable book

How much is the woman exercising? Does she restrict her food intake at all? The woman might be interested in reading articles on the female athlete triad - it really varies from person to person when the lack of a cycle begins to become apparent. (Anecdotally, my BMI was about 17 when I lost my period and I was running 5-8 miles per day. But, I know of women in the eating disorder recovery community who lost their periods at BMIs between 19-20.) If I were this woman, I would ask my dr if it made sense to stop the bcp for 6 months or so to see if the cycles came back. Then I would know whether it was the hormonal birth control causing the issue or whether there is an underlying biological issue to be addressed.

Is miso soup gluten free? My kids eat that for breakfast a lot (the kind with greens and tofu).

Moonflower, I am so sorry for your loss.

Ha, I must be the laziest person in the world. I just wrap the gift and write the recipient’s name on top with a Sharpie 🙂

My DD wants: fairy lights for her room air pods a hydroflask I am also getting her an assortment of multi colored duct tape (she keeps taking mine for various projects and I think she’d like having some colorful ones), and a few clothing items she needs.

That definitely sounds way too low for a man and would indicate eating disorder territory. What does his exercise routine look like? I wonder if adding some weight training or some sport that involves a bunch of heavy muscle work (rock climbing or rowing or something) might help him add muscle and feel hungrier.

Stepping in gently as this is not a forum I typically post in. When was the last time you had her vision checked? Some of the issues with reading sound a lot like one of my kids before they got their prescription corrected. Just a thought.

We used Oak Meadow Beginning and Intermediate Recorder. They are the only recorder resources we used, so I don’t really have any comparison, unfortunately. I do have a music background- played flute and piano. The introduction in the Oak Meadow book for the parent is pretty good - explains the fingerings and the notes pretty well. We often learned the music together and played together, which was a lot of fun for both of us.

I taught one of my kids recorder with the Oak Meadow recorder series starting in first grade and it was very easy, fun and painless. He didn’t choose to continue with the instrument but I was glad he was exposed to reading music and things. It’s there for him if he wants to pick it back up again.

Oh, my kids do this and I hate it! Especially when it was something that they all liked last time, argh. I have taught them to say “That doesn’t suit my taste.” If they don’t want what I am serving, they are free to help themselves to something else. Even my 5 year old can get a yogurt cup and the baby carrots out of the fridge. But I make one dinner and that’s it. Much whining ensues. And I would really like to know how to make tortilla soup. It sounds fantastic!

Have you seen Pearson Physical Science with the lesson plans from Kolbe Academy? I had the same reaction to Apologia and this seems to be suiting us nicely.

My 5th grader is an owl compared to your all’s kids! She usually starts school around 10 and is done by 2ish with breaks. She also chooses to work ahead the night before on some independent assignments (maybe an hours’ worth?) so she doesn’t have to get up quite as early in the morning! She literally can’t fall asleep before 11-12 so this has been a good compromise for her this year. Extra activities are martial arts (5 hrs a week) and spelling (7 hr a week - aiming for NSB). She’s very active and social and can usually be found outside with friends during her free time. She has asked for voice lessons and I am trying to figure out how we can fit it in. She loves screens and sometimes has a difficult time self regulating that so we have been working on that a bit recently. Oh, and we have homeschool enrichment one afternoon a week where she takes classes and hangs out with friends.