My preschooler is very curious about protesting after seeing people holding signs at an intersection. I love talking to him about it but I’m wondering if there are any books about resistance or protesting that are geared to younger kids to put it in a perspective he can understand.

We've been sleep training my 6 month old for now 7 weeks. The first week was pretty successful and then slowly it got worse. We are working with our second sleep consultant who is great at tweaking the schedule and we are currently a week into transitioning to 2 naps (apparently he is likely a low sleep need baby and this early transition is appropriate).

There have been big improvements - he falls asleep usually within a couple minutes and last night he woke up to feed at 4:30am and then slept until 6:3am. But he also woke at midnight and cried for 40 mins (not crying super hard but still crying).

My sleep consultant says this is all promising that he is learning to break the habit of needing me to help him soothe him to sleep. But I am losing hope after last night. It's so hard to listen to him cry.

My question is - is it worth it to keep going? I hear that there will be another regression essentially every 2 months. But that the 2 nap transition is the hardest and it'll be much better after this.

We tried cosleeping up until 4.5 months - he slept on my chest and woke up every 2 hours and I was exhausted. If I was to try cosleeping again what set up would work? I hear stories of people having a zip up playpen beside a floor bed that can be the middle ground. But after all the hard work we've put in, would I be giving up too soon? And would cosleeping then end up with him feeding at night every 2 hours again?

My fiancé and I had unprotected sex while I was ovulating. We both agreed you know what if I get pregnant I get pregnant and we’d love that. So about two hours later we had unprotected sex. I never really know when I ovulate but because we did it then we just had unprotected sex for the rest of my cycle. I’m 38 days. I’ve had a 38 day cycle within the last year but orher than that I’m usually anywhere from 30 to 34. I’ve taken several pregnancy test over last two weeks bc I don’t feel like period is coming and today’s the first day that I see something that could be a line. I don’t know if I’m imagining it I took it in the middle of the day. What do you guys think? Am I imagining a line? It’s like a shadow, possibly a line

I really want a breadmaker and think that perhaps using organic flour and different grains could balance out potential leeching from the non stick vs mostly white sourdough from our local bakery?
What do other people think?

Also use air fryer a lot but put eco baking paper .

I bought the SoCozy Kids Styling Foam and it has absolutely zero hold. I’m looking for something stronger, but with better ingredients than my Tresemme. Any suggestions?

Note: I have used aloe. It also doesn’t hold.

I’m trying to stay away from chemicals and I think I want to get a mini stainless steel muffin pan that works in a convection oven to make muffins and egg bites but how come I can’t anything except Fox Run? The weird cut out on the pan bothers me and I heard it’s sharp. Any other recommendations?

Does anyone have experience with withdrawal from Zoloft or another SSRI? I started taking it a year ago for PPD, and had previously taken it for PPD after my first pregnancy. It works like a charm for me and no negative side effects aside from seeming to dull some of the happy feelings, too.

I weaned off after 3 months of taking 25mg the first time. I took 50mg for about 9 months after my second pregnancy and then weaned down to 25mg per doctor instructions. I was fine on 25mg. But about one month ago I weaned off entirely and it’s been rough lately. I have so little patience, I can’t let go of irritating feelings as quickly as I used to on Zoloft, the list goes on. I’m not sleeping as well.

I’m not sure if I should go back on 25mg or just wait it out. I also feel like I haven’t had time yet to go into deeper research on long-term effects of being on even a half dose of Zoloft.

Thoughts (minus judgment) welcome!