I need advice on how to protect my daughter. I’m 48 years old and I’m getting a divorced. My future ex-husband filed a few months ago and I’ve had no choice but to follow through. We were married for 8 years and have a wonderful daughter who is 7. But 2 years ago a selfish homewrecker 20 years younger than me (and my still husband, as we are the same age) came along and destroyed everything that we had. I found out about it last year, and asked of him to leave her, which he allegedly did, but they soon got back together and next thing I knew he told me he thought WE should get separated and 6 months later asked for a divorce. We did have our problems like all couples, but our marriage was not so much on the rocks or at the verge of an imminent split, much less already over emotionally, as they claim. But the present is that we’re divorcing, he’s engaged to that "girl", and, after losing my husband to her, I feel like I’m also losing my daughter. Obviously he had our child meet his little whore and, in great part because I have gone to great lengths so as to make this time as easy and less traumatizing for my girl, she’s finding it "easy" to build a relationship with my baby. Not to mention that she is young and hip, and "fun" according to what I hear, so apparently she knows how to shorten a bridge or something. Often times when my husband has our daughter, his mistress (which is what she is as long as our divorce isn’t final) comes along, and makes my daughter laugh, and tells her nice stories, and helps her pick out clothes, and buys her treats, and watches disney movies with her, and sits her by the piano when she plays, and all kinds of crap. I know all this because when my daughter comes back home to me, she tells what she did, where she went, etc, and because she’s so young I feel I can’t tell her to leave his dad’s gf outside her comments. Obviously I gotta be thankful that this heartless bitch is not so heartless and treats my daughter well, but it also is very painful for me to see that a woman who stole my husband is working her way into my daughter’s life as well and I don’t know what to do. What am I supposed to do, how should I cope with all this? I feel so lost and hopeless, and I just wanna cry and cry all the time. I’m still in love with the man I’m divorcing, I still don’t understand what it is that I did wrong and what it is that she has and I don’t that made him choose her over me and leave me, and I still wish I could push her out of the picture and remake my family, if only for my daughter’s sake. I’m so very hurt but I would forgive him and I’d take him back, I just miss him so much and I don’t want that woman in my daughter’s life but I also can’t ask my daughter to hate her. What am I to do now? Please help.

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We are a young couple that has been together for 8 years now. We are just recently married and wanting to have a baby so badly that we can’t stand it. It’s not just that we want a baby… We want the experience of being parents. Waking up all hours of the night to feed a crying baby, playing peekaboo and hearing their first words, waking up to a thunderstorm to a scared child, watching cartoons for every season and holiday. We want to be parents. We are not rich by any means. We aren’t even close. But why shouldn’t we be allowed to be parents? I am having a very hard time getting pregnant. We have been trying to get pregnant for two years now and it just isn’t happening. I’m currently taking Clomid but we still aren’t having any luck. His sperm count is good. It seems like everyone around us is having children that don’t even want them. They say they were accidents or they just have to deal with them. It seems so wrong. What I would like to find is a young woman who can’t provide for their child that wants to see them go to a loving home. We may not be able to provie designer clothes and diamond encrusted cribs but we can provide clean clothes and a safe loving home for them to live and grow. I am tired of watching everyone treat their children like they are a chore. I guess I’m just venting though. I’m sure it’ll happen when the time is right… I’m just tired of waiting and getting my hopes up.

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I need tips and tricks for storing.

This morning, I put away our baby’s bottles- she didn’t have many because she is breastfed and only took a bottle when I was at work. So, to make room for the X-Mas stuff my husband and I are reorganizing and storing her stuff away.

Can you reuse the baby bottles? Our son is 11 and by the time his sister was born last year, they no longer made the bottles that he had used. She used Dr. Brown’s. I saved 1 nipple to remind myself of what it looked like.

So, have you got ideas on how to store efficiently?

I don’t have to tell you my baby yearning has gone into high gear as I looked over her infant stuff. *sigh*
Our son has autism- which is one reason for the age spread. We were consumed with getting his treatment and now everything is flowing along really well. We also needed to get out of credit debt- and we were heavily in it. That is also cleared up- no credit cards and last march we finished building our first house and moved in this past April. So, much was happening. You can be financially a mess with 1, but it’s not fair to the child. It took 8 years to clear it up and pay it off, but it’s been worth it. No more credit cards here- we pay cash for everything.

We will need to buy a new swing since the one she used was dropped by the movers and was never the same. As well as some other stuff- her infant seat is still being used by her, etc.
Oh- I am 36 and my husband is 40. We’d like to get pregnant this summer- at least we hope we will be blessed with one more.

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We estimated that he’ll probably be changed roughly 10 to 12 times a day, but how long do they usually stay in the newborn size? My boyfriend keeps asking me about all this stuff thinking I already know because I have a son, but he’s 8 years old and I don’t remember anything really. I’m having to re-learn everything.

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The four fang teeth in the front, the last of the teeth to come in before the 2 year molars? Bradley is 17 months old and the poor thing is getting in all 4 canines at the same time! He hasn’t slept a good night’s sleep in two weeks, he wakes up everday from his nap with a fever and drooling and he’s is grinding his teeth constantly. He calls his medicine (ibuprophen) "satin" and constantly whines that he wants "satin" which tells me he is pain a lot (I try to only give him it at night). When did your toddler get their canines and how did they do with them? Any suggestions for helping the little guy? Orajel is useless and he hates frozen washclothes.
Very Proud Mommy: I ALMOST felt stupid…..until I made sure I WAS right about calling them canines.

Primary Teeth Development Chart
Upper Teeth When tooth emerges When tooth falls out
Central incisor 8 to 12 months 6 to 7 years
Lateral incisor 9 to 13 months 7 to 8 years
Canine (cuspid) 16 to 22 months 10 to 12 years
First molar 13 to 19 months 9 to 11 years
Second molar 25 to 33 months 10 to 12 years

Lower Teeth
Second molar 23 to 31 months 10 to 12 years
First molar 14 to 18 months 9 to 11 years
Canine (cuspid) 17 to 23 months 9 to 12 years
Lateral incisor 10 to 16 months 7 to 8 years
Central incisor 6 to 10 months 6 to 7 years

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