New stupid question thread:

[turtle]

jessila, budders, but I thought Tylenol changed the formula a few years back so now the infant and children's formulas are the same concentration: 160mg per 5mL. Not sure if that's the case everywhere though, so that probably accounts for the difference for michyme123.

www.tylenol.com/children-infants/safety/dosage-charts
www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm284563.htm

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Dec 3, 2016 12:32:01 GMT -5 turtle said:

jessila, budders, but I thought Tylenol changed the formula a few years back so now the infant and children's formulas are the same concentration: 160mg per 5mL. Not sure if that's the case everywhere though, so that probably accounts for the difference for michyme123.

www.tylenol.com/children-infants/safety/dosage-charts
www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm284563.htm

In Canada they still sell infant separate from children's tylenol. I plan to use the infant one as long as possible because DD hates the taste of tylenol so this way I can give her 1.5 or 2ml instead of 5 ml

[turtle]

So every time we go out, some random stranger always comments on how tired A looks. They say this when he is acting perfectly normal, so it's clearly his looks. He is usually well rested so I can't imagine he's actually tired. I'm kind of worried something is wrong, but I don't know where to start. I mentioned it at his 15 month appointment but his pediatrician didn't seem worried. The comments are getting more frequent though.

Do strangers comment on how tired your kid looks, even when they're not?

[dogmama22]

Dec 3, 2016 18:01:20 GMT -5 turtle said:

So every time we go out, some random stranger always comments on how tired A looks. They say this when he is acting perfectly normal, so it's clearly his looks. He is usually well rested so I can't imagine he's actually tired. I'm kind of worried something is wrong, but I don't know where to start. I mentioned it at his 15 month appointment but his pediatrician didn't seem worried. The comments are getting more frequent though.

Do strangers comment on how tired your kid looks, even when they're not?

Has his iron been checked recently?

[jillywilly]

turtle, we also get the "oh, he's tired," based more on behavior as well, for us it's normally if he's in a new situation - it usually takes him a bit to warm up and feel comfortable, so until then, he's very clingy to me or H, and will bury his head in our shoulders and insist on being held. Otherwise, there's no harm in mentioning it to the doc again at his check-up.

[turtle]

dogmama22, budders, no I don't think he's had his iron checked in awhile. Thanks for the suggestion, will insist on that at his appointment on Tuesday. Does low iron actually make someone tired or just make them look tired?

jillywilly, today when the "he looks tired" comment was said, he was eating lunch at a restaurant and waving to people walking by. So I don't think it's behavior, based on what you shared.

[dogmama22]

Dec 3, 2016 19:57:00 GMT -5 turtle said:

dogmama22, budders, no I don't think he's had his iron checked in awhile. Thanks for the suggestion, will insist on that at his appointment on Tuesday. Does low iron actually make someone tired or just make them look tired?

jillywilly, today when the "he looks tired" comment was said, he was eating lunch at a restaurant and waving to people walking by. So I don't think it's behavior, based on what you shared.

I think it could be either. Anemia can give a different look to the skin, paleness, dark circles, etc.

[beersandweirs]

Dec 3, 2016 18:01:20 GMT -5 turtle said:

So every time we go out, some random stranger always comments on how tired A looks. They say this when he is acting perfectly normal, so it's clearly his looks. He is usually well rested so I can't imagine he's actually tired. I'm kind of worried something is wrong, but I don't know where to start. I mentioned it at his 15 month appointment but his pediatrician didn't seem worried. The comments are getting more frequent though.

Do strangers comment on how tired your kid looks, even when they're not?

Ugh, people do this all the time to LO too. I think it is a mix of people not really knowing what to say when a kid is just sitting there and her having a line under her eyes. The ped mentioned that she had the line under her eyes when we were talking about her having allergies and she said they can be correlated sometimes.

[billyhorrible]

@akwild - BH dropped the pacifier at 6 months, but here's my experience with LBB.

He moved into the toddler room at 18 months. At the time he just used the pacifier for naps and bedtime. Personally I wanted him to be off the pacifier by the time he went to preschool at 2, so I started trying to wean him. The plan was to drop nap first, then bedtime. But I didn't know how to deal with daycare, because I didn't want him disturbing the other kids at nap time.

I told his teacher I was going to start trying to drop it on the weekend, and she said they would work on it at school. The first day she told him Big boys don't use pacifiers and pointed out his friends that didn't use them. And he cried a little but went to sleep without it. By the third day he was telling me at bedtime that big boys don't use pacifiers and we were done.

I think it's just another example of how daycare is magical. I would definitely talk to his teacher.

[Widget123]

@akwild, we weaned LO from pacis in three stages:

1. elimination of middle of the day just because sucking at home
2. elimination of daycare paci use including nap times (and nap times at home)
3. elimination of nighttime paci use

each stage was cold turkey. for us consistency was key.

[jillywilly]

@akwild, we're planning on pulling the paci over Christmas break also. We've all but eliminated random daytime use for a while now, and since we both 100% decided this is happening over the weekend, we've also stopped car use cold turkey now. So we keep telling him that he's a big boy now, and that when Santa comes, he's going to bring him all these big boy toys, and he won't need his binky for sleeping anymore. I think for us, since he's using it naptime/nightime it'll be easier to just get rid of everything at once. A friend with a two-year old suggested we pick a day he'll be pretty tuckered out anyway so he hopefully has less energy to protest. So our plan is to let him nap with his paci on Christmas day so he doesn't get completely overtired that day, but that night, tell him we have to leave out the paci's for Santa as a thank-you for all his big boy toys. Then get rid of them all, cross our fingers, and hope for the best.

I have no clue if this is a good plan or not, but after talking to people with slightly older kids and doing all the reading on the internet, it's the plan we've got.

[holliberry28]

I never want to get rid of the pacifier. lol. FFTC?

[holliberry28]

Dec 13, 2016 11:31:25 GMT -5 budders said:

Dec 13, 2016 11:04:37 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

I never want to get rid of the pacifier. lol. FFTC?

Same, at least until he has all of his teeth. V can sleep without it, but he really needs it for teething/not biting. I don't know what I would do if daycare made us get rid of it!

Last night he was in rare form after the babysitter left.  Screaming for 30+ minutes nonstop and trying to bite my shoulders, arms, when I was trying to sooth him.  Even advil barely worked.  I blame the molars. 

[billyhorrible]

Dec 13, 2016 11:04:37 GMT -5 holliberry28 said:

I never want to get rid of the pacifier. lol. FFTC?

I wish BH would use the pacifier. Maybe then he would sleep!

[bookninja]

I'm at the paci only for night and naps stage... i keep hoping one night she will forget to ask for it... nope! "keeeey!!!" Every time. I'm intentionally keeping it longer than I had originally planned (I was thinking 18 months like many of you) because we will be moving in late January/early February and I think she might need the familiarity of it.

[stinybean]

turtle I know this late in commenting, but strangers say that J looks tired to me too. I assume it's because when we're out she sucks her thumb & it probably has to do with the time of day, too. But, now that I think of it my mom says it sometimes too...

[jillywilly]

Is there a reason to be concerned about a bloody nose? DS was fine when I put him in the car last night, when we got home, his whole nose, face, and hand were bloody. I think he maybe scratched the inside of his nose (he's constantly shoving his finger up there). It stopped pretty quick, but then this morning I noticed some blood mixed in with the snot still, but no more actual bleeding as far as I can tell. Normal, right?

Also, how the hell do you get an 18 month old to stop picking his damn nose?

[dogmama22]

Dec 16, 2016 8:46:11 GMT -5 jillywilly said:

Is there a reason to be concerned about a bloody nose? DS was fine when I put him in the car last night, when we got home, his whole nose, face, and hand were bloody. I think he maybe scratched the inside of his nose (he's constantly shoving his finger up there). It stopped pretty quick, but then this morning I noticed some blood mixed in with the snot still, but no more actual bleeding as far as I can tell. Normal, right?

Also, how the hell do you get an 18 month old to stop picking his damn nose?

Normal especially with cold/ dry winter air.

[pghtruelove]

Completely normal. Jules has had a couple from dry air and scratching at her nose. I have to make sure to cut her nails all the time.

[turtle]

stinybean, the doctor recommended blood work to check for any issues and everything came back clear. I think he just has resting tired face... Glad to hear he's not the only one that looks like that.

[bookninja]

Okay. This is a dumb question... but what are your tricks for getting LO to take meds? J actually loved meds until just recently and all of a sudden it's like WW3 to get her to take it. Last night she realized she could just spit it all out. This is after I had to totally immobilize her to get the dropper in her mouth. I'm at a loss.

[wegrowsheep]

Dec 17, 2016 14:34:43 GMT -5 bookninja said:

Okay. This is a dumb question... but what are your tricks for getting LO to take meds? J actually loved meds until just recently and all of a sudden it's like WW3 to get her to take it. Last night she realized she could just spit it all out. This is after I had to totally immobilize her to get the dropper in her mouth. I'm at a loss.

Well...when I worked for a vet we had a trick: just blow on the puppy's face and he'll swallow. I tried it on my kid and it worked....

[wegrowsheep]

Anyone else's toddler have an issue with slamming their forehead on stuff (walls, floors, windows) on purpose? T will do it for a laugh, but also during tantrums. And he does it hard. I tried to cushion it with my hand once because I was afraid he'd break a window, and it hurt so bad.

[jessila]

Dec 18, 2016 2:40:09 GMT -5 wegrowsheep said:

Anyone else's toddler have an issue with slamming their forehead on stuff (walls, floors, windows) on purpose? T will do it for a laugh, but also during tantrums. And he does it hard. I tried to cushion it with my hand once because I was afraid he'd break a window, and it hurt so bad.

I was a headbanger during tantrums using mostly the floor and leaving imprints from the linoleum on my forehead. I seem to have turned out okay.

[jillywilly]

wegrowsheep, it's never for a laugh, but when he's really pissed, DS will sometimes bang his head on the floor, furniture, whatever. This normally results in him getting more pissed off. I'm told it's a phase and am looking forward to its end.

[veggiemo]

jillywilly we've been having some nose issues here too, LO was bleeding a bit and DS was complaining of pain. Aquafor always seems to be the magic potion. I put it inside their noses with a q tip (very carefully). It works!

[pghtruelove]

Dec 17, 2016 14:34:43 GMT -5 bookninja said:

Okay. This is a dumb question... but what are your tricks for getting LO to take meds? J actually loved meds until just recently and all of a sudden it's like WW3 to get her to take it. Last night she realized she could just spit it all out. This is after I had to totally immobilize her to get the dropper in her mouth. I'm at a loss.

We ask J if she wants to play Dr, SO
and I will pretend to take some of it ourselves. Sometimes we will give her the syringe to hold and she'll put it into her mouth and then we'll push it.

[silv3rlining]

Dec 16, 2016 8:46:11 GMT -5 jillywilly said:

Is there a reason to be concerned about a bloody nose? DS was fine when I put him in the car last night, when we got home, his whole nose, face, and hand were bloody. I think he maybe scratched the inside of his nose (he's constantly shoving his finger up there). It stopped pretty quick, but then this morning I noticed some blood mixed in with the snot still, but no more actual bleeding as far as I can tell. Normal, right?

Also, how the hell do you get an 18 month old to stop picking his damn nose?

jillywilly wish I could help you on the nosepicking! We still have a hard time getting our almost 3.5 year old to stop (which he frequently gets booody noses from-especially during nap/overnight). LO just recently figure she out she could stick her finger up her nose so I keep trying to redirect every time I see her.