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djm08:02:50

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otfrom12:02:46

hmm... wondering how this translates to open source work: https://craigmod.com/essays/successful_memberships/

reefersleep21:02:48

Evening! Parenting is crazier than I had thought itā€™d be. Mad props to every parent out here šŸ‘

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ordnungswidrig08:02:28

Welcome to a land of sleep deprivation and weird moments of joy and fun.

orestis11:02:13

It gets marginally better after a year!

reefersleep09:02:44

We got an motorized sling cradle up and running yesterday. He slept like 3-4 hours unassisted! It was amazing.

reefersleep09:02:06

We should have bought it earlier,

orestis10:02:34

You will receive tons of unsolicited advice, Iā€™m sure, so Iā€™ll just give you one: try to read up on the neurophysiology of sleep in infants, if you havenā€™t already. It helped us a ton, if not with actual results, but definitely with understanding, expectations and minimizing frustration. I can recommend some resources if youā€™re interested (and, uh, when my wifeā€™s back home šŸ˜³)

ordnungswidrig07:02:27

> You will receive tons of unsolicited advice What I tell all new parents: my only advice: donā€™t take any advcies. (And buy a palette of kitchen paper)

reefersleep20:02:32

@U7PBP4UVA go ahead! We love reading about stuff like that in this household. I donā€™t mind advice in general, though thereā€™s some that I prefer more than other. My in-laws have lots of shallow, unresearched ideas, and are pretty adamant about them, for some reason, much to my girlfriendā€™s annoyance. Other people are more thoughtful both in the presentation and evaluation of their ideas šŸ™‚

reefersleep20:02:09

@U054UD60U Oh yeah. Weā€™ve stocked up on toilet paper like itā€™s the nuclear winter!

reefersleep20:02:56

@U7PBP4UVA thereā€™s so much more interesting stuff to learn about infants than I expected. For example, thereā€™s something about 5 universal sounds that infants all use, and which can give you hints on what they need (e.g. ā€œNehā€ for food, because the sucking reflex causes the tongue to go against the roof of their mouthes and create the ā€œNā€, and ā€œEhā€ for ā€œA burp is stuck in my system and Iā€™m working on itā€)

reefersleep20:02:22

Sadly, itā€™s not been very applicable with our son, who apparently always says ā€œEhā€, just in varying volumes.

orestis20:02:46

So a few books in no particular order ā€¢ our babies, ourselves by Meredith small ā€¢ Cribsheet by Emily Oster ā€¢ The science of mom by Alice Callahan And a very very nice website with even more resources: https://www.parentingscience.com/

orestis20:02:46

Sounds fun with the deciphering sounds :) how old is he? We never got to understand ours when she was tiny!

reefersleep22:02:35

Heā€™s 5 weeks šŸ™‚ Lots of pooping, just started smiling a lot more and babbling cutely. Iā€™m optimistically already baby signing at him, though I donā€™t expect heā€™ll respond until heā€™s 6 months or so. How old is yours by now, and what are her newest tricks?

reefersleep22:02:39

This video shows the 5 universal sounds I was talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMNp6Q4u7s

ordnungswidrig10:02:42

Thatā€™s quite interesting. I think I can confirm based on my own experience. And I think as parents youā€™ll understand this inuitively. Except if whe start to overthink this šŸ˜›

orestis16:02:53

Ours is 14 months old and climbing everywhere. Her latest trick is pushing various stuff to step on, to climb onto taller places. Scary!

ordnungswidrig07:02:12

Thatā€™s how invention works. This is the time when you realize not only the floor is no longer a safe ā€œstorage locationā€ but also anything stored below the one meter mark is doomed.

orestis09:02:01

I've already pushed my hifi amplifier to a higher shelf šŸ˜„ she likes to walk around with her water bottle and spraying things šŸ’¦

reefersleep16:03:54

ach, weā€™re lacking in higher shelves!

reefersleep16:03:59

Guess we gotta nail things to the wall

ordnungswidrig09:03:41

Hooks, lot of hooks. Or just training šŸ™‚

slipset21:02:32

Itā€™s ok. Youā€™ve got about 18 years to figure it out. It becomes a lot less crazy until it doesnā€™t I guess.

slipset21:02:59

On that note. Would anyone be interested in a zoom call around noon CET tomorrow Friday? No agenda, no plans, just some informal chitchat for half an hour or so?

dominicm12:02:59

Even though I'm late, this sort of thing sounds like fun šŸ™‚

slipset13:02:42

It didnā€™t happen since noone showed interest. Maybe next Friday?

Vincent Cantin14:02:32

@U04V5VAUN you may have more success using the #remote-meetup channel

otfrom21:02:57

Woo! Percy landed

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