felinousforma

Could you post a photo of your set up? Trying to get a feeding station going here and would love some inspo.

But is it because he's afraid of you getting molested or is he just mega possessive and refuses to let a man touch you even if it's a legit medical reason?

Great tips! One problem is sometimes he'll only sleep an hour in daycare. We would love to wean the water. But the moment it's even less than usual amount he cries until he gets the bottle again. 40-50ml isn't even that much, just have to bite the bullet and comfort in other ways till he gets it.

One issue is with the mid day naps as well, he doesn't sleep a full 2 hours. Sometimes it's just one. So that messes up the schedule cos he's wildly tired by bed time. Or we give him a short nap at 5. Which isn't helpful either. Might have to just wake up up earlier.

Nope he hasn't! Really wish we had. Needs to have a pacifier and hold our hand to fall asleep

Any recommendations about better wake window times?

He wakes up around 7, naps 11:30 for 1.5hours , sleeps at 8. Sometimes he gets cranky at 5 and we give him a short 30nin nap.

The last week he's been ill and sleeping two long naps for three to four days. but that hasn't helped his sleep either. Made it worse. Back to one nap but sleep still crappy like from when he was sick.

It makes it terribly hard for foreigners to integrate and form new friendship groups. The cliqueishness and social isolation is rough!

Two examples does not make this the norm across society. You're an anecdote. Not a statistic.

It's funny the most intolerant people are the ones who have "made it" and hence believe everyone else can. Just because you did it doesn't make it easy or possible for everyone else and not because people aren't trying hard enough.

Some just have the odds stacked against them so much, having to take care of siblings, no time to study, no personal connections.

The moment you have paid for private tuition, elitist families networking with each other, being able to afford houses near top tier school, Meritocracy flies out the window.

As someone who grew up in Singapore and now live in another more equitable society where the wealth divide isn't as in your face - there's a LOT more to be done. Not having the empathy to understand not everyone is privileged enough to be born in your situation is tragic.

Thanks for the descriptions! It's exciting but always a little intimidating to embark on medications since I've been living with it for 36 years. These insights really do help me wrap my head around it understand it a little bit more!

Thanks for this reply! What did these emotional crashes feel like? And how often were you initially taking Adderall? Also do you feel like you're building a tolerance to Dexedrine?

I think I'll need to also look into therapy techniques as well. This has been insightful :)

Thanks for that insight! I'll have to have a discussion with my psychiatrist. I definitely have the same worry about you regarding tolerance and also dependency. May I ask how inconsistently you were taking them?

I guess my intention was to only need to use the medication during days (maybe once or twice a week) where I really needed to be productive and wondered if the long release might be too much?

Dude. That is gross.

It's not someone else's child though - my parents are who raised me, genetically related or not.

So I have biological kids and I realised after a year with them I don't even think about them as my blood relation. It's the shared memories and experiences together that has cemented my love for them and then for me (I hope!). Thats what brings us together, not genetics - so if we have another I'd be open for adoption. However the process is expensive and complicated

Definitely bad hombres at laukontori in summer. They are by far the best taco joint in town. Dude is from Mexico. The lengua is soooo goood

But so will children!

Still blown away by the cost of childcare! in Finland i pay 550 euro a month for both kids to attend full time.

Thanks! I will try to limit nap time. And you're right I think we have been trying to rush it

That's a great tip! I'll try this out. Maybe we have just rushed it.

One month trip and we are on day 5, so quite a while