School me on being a Dad

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Originally Posted by 16hypen3sp

Figured I'd just put this in this thead.

DTaP vaccine. Did any of you guys get it to be around a newborn? Was it recommended? Sister in law wants everyone that's going to be in close proximity to baby to have a DTaP shot. She's due mid next month.

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I remember being told I needed this before ours was born, so I got it.

Yes, both the wife and I got it at the pediatric clinic before our daughter was born.

strange, my wife said she got it, but she didn't make me.. and she's a vaccine nazi nurse haha.. maybe i should for baby 2.



for anyone who doesn't know this, the new red diaper genie refills are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better. there's no more gnarly smells coming from the genie anymore!

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Originally Posted by 16hypen3sp

Figured I'd just put this in this thead.

DTaP vaccine. Did any of you guys get it to be around a newborn? Was it recommended? Sister in law wants everyone that's going to be in close proximity to baby to have a DTaP shot. She's due mid next month.

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Yep we both did. Its highly recommended. My arm hurt like a bitch for a few days after but when you realize how susceptible baby's are to that sort of illness it was worth it.

Was gonna post in pet peeves thread but thought it might be more fitting here.

Going through a parental right of passage at the moment, whole fam has food poisoning. Thought it was somehow just me and my wife up all night puking, turns out both my kids puked silently in their beds then went back to sleep in it until morning came around. Also after breakfast I was holding my son and he threw up on the both of us.

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Originally Posted by cjblair

was gonna post in pet peeves thread but thought it might be more fitting here.

Going through a parental right of passage at the moment, whole fam has food poisoning. Thought it was somehow just me and my wife up all night puking, turns out both my kids puked silently in their beds then went back to sleep in it until morning came around. Also after breakfast i was holding my son and he threw up on the both of us.

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r.i.p

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Originally Posted by JfuckinC

for anyone who doesn't know this, the new red diaper genie refills are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better. there's no more gnarly smells coming from the genie anymore!

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I'm gonna buy these asap. Every time I change the bag in the diaper genie it takes a year off my life, I'd light a candle but the house may explode.

It's these right?
https://www.playtexbaby.com/products...-scent-refills

The problem I see with any scented product is that the human waste smell mixes with the "fresh laundry scent" of the bag. Add a little bit of heat as the weather warms up, and then you have a new, more potent, absolutely disgusting odor. Similar to what air fresheners do in stinky washrooms. Be careful friend.

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Originally Posted by cjblair

Was gonna post in pet peeves thread but thought it might be more fitting here.

Going through a parental right of passage at the moment, whole fam has food poisoning. Thought it was somehow just me and my wife up all night puking, turns out both my kids puked silently in their beds then went back to sleep in it until morning came around. Also after breakfast I was holding my son and he threw up on the both of us.

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Did you find the culprit?

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Originally Posted by nismodrifter

The problem I see with any scented product is that the human waste smell mixes with the "fresh laundry scent" of the bag. Add a little bit of heat as the weather warms up, and then you have a new, more potent, absolutely disgusting odor. Similar to what air fresheners do in stinky washrooms. Be careful friend.

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Damn, I was hoping for odor absorbing. Maybe I'll just light a match and end it all.

Empty that Genie more often guys. If you can smell it, empty it. This phase don't last that long.

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Originally Posted by DonJuan

Damn, I was hoping for odor absorbing. Maybe I'll just light a match and end it all.

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the bags are thicker it seems? i dunno, seems like a different product. i don't actually smell the laundry scent, just less poop haha.

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Originally Posted by ExtraSlow

Empty that Genie more often guys. If you can smell it, empty it. This phase don't last that long.

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We empty often, they don't even really hold that many cause im not squishing them in with my hand or something haha.. it jus smells awful quick usually. not anymore though

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Originally Posted by DonJuan

Damn, I was hoping for odor absorbing. Maybe I'll just light a match and end it all.

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Take the thing outside to change the bag! Then you can squeeze the shit-air out of it (DOWNWIND), tie it up and throw that consolidated sausage of stink directly into the outdoor trash can.
Profit.

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Originally Posted by Buster

Did you find the culprit?

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Ya, had to be the eggs we ate. It’s the only thing the four of us all had.

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Originally Posted by cjblair

Ya, had to be the eggs we ate. It’s the only thing the four of us all had.

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Wow, that's rare. Eggs last like 5 weeks until "best before" and I think you'd need another 1+ weeks after that to get sick.
I have to buy 60 every fucking time I'm in Costco to keep up with our demand.

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Originally Posted by ThePenIsMightier

Wow, that's rare. Eggs last like 5 weeks until "best before" and I think you'd need another 1+ weeks after that to get sick.
I have to buy 60 every fucking time I'm in Costco to keep up with our demand.

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Yup super weird. We just bought them, best before is like mid April. I noticed they had a funny texture, my wife told me I was being silly. Well look who’s laughing now!

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Originally Posted by cjblair

... Well look who’s laughing now!

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Totally!!

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Originally Posted by JfuckinC

the bags are thicker it seems? i dunno, seems like a different product. i don't actually smell the laundry scent, just less poop haha.
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We empty often, they don't even really hold that many cause im not squishing them in with my hand or something haha.. it jus smells awful quick usually. not anymore though

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Just thought I would update.

I bought the scented "orange" diaper genie refills. Has a kind of light bounce smell to to them, does seem like a slightly different product. Packaging is also slightly different.
Main point is the scent does nothing really. The excrement overpowers the supposed fresh scent easily and basically get this "methane" gas that is released anytime you open the diaper genie. Only solution is to empty often or outside and save the $0.87 by buying the regular blue ones.

Empty often and cleaning the genie is the correct choice.

Put my 3yo (almost 4) daughter into a real bed last week. First couple nights were perfect, went right to sleep and didn't come out of her room til her awake light came on.

ffwd to last night, she went to sleep fine, but spent the hours of 1:45-3:45am getting up every 5-10 min to open her door and check the hallway or play pretend games with imaginary things flying around her room and "letting them out of the door". Anyone have any tips and tricks for getting a kid to stay in their room (short of locking the door from the outside)? I don't really expect her to sleep perfectly all night quite yet, but at least want her to stay in her room. I don't want her waking my 1yo up... or my wife, as she gets miserable when she doesn't sleep.

We've already tried bribing with gifts in the morning if she stays, sticker chart to work towards a big gift, threatening to cancel fun activities the next day. She just dgaf, calls our bluff on everything.