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Pat
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Date Posted: 12/ 7/06 3:18pm
Hi, Nikki!
It sounds like overall things are going well for you! Keep up the fantastic work!
As far as the fussiness is concerned, I never had that problem, with seven kids, so I can't offer you a lot of really concrete help. However, Luka had some good thoughts. Here's what I'm thinking. If it looks like she is overtired, and you know she's not hungry, I'd put her in the bed and leave her alone. She will cry a lot for a couple of days, and then settle into a routine, and she will be a lot happier. So it seems cruel, but it's really not. The same thing in the middle of the night. Feed her, change her diaper if need be, but don't do anything else. Just put her back to bed. Really young babies do need to eat during the night, but they don't need to be awake and alert.
After I had had a few, I found that I could take the baby into bed with me, and feed, and both of us could fall asleep, and we could lie like that until I was awake enough to put the baby back in the crib. We kept the crib in our room. I didn't change diapers in the middle of the night. If the baby is primarily sleeping, she probably won't soil the diaper at night.
I don't have any experience with getting ears pierced, either. I have seen babies with their ears pierced, so I know people do it. I would tend to wait until it can be explained she needs to leave them alone, and you can trust her to do it. But there may be a window when she isn't likely to flail her arms around and she probably won't bother them, either, but that is probably very, very narrow. You might want to talk to someone who has done this a few times with daughters.
As for these online businesses, be VERY VERY careful. Most of them are scams, and they'll make your situation far worse. Among the scams are read emails, surf the web, stuff envelopes, and multi-level marketing. With reading and surfing, they're counting on you to buy more than you get paid. With stuffing envelopes, they will make you pay for envelopes and postage, and you will lose money. MLM is a scam that is poorly understood, but unless you are prepared to exploit people, and to alienate friends and family, leave it alone. These companies are constructed so that you get a cut of the sales made by people you recruit. Supposedly, this will produce residual income that means you won't have to work for this. The problem is, the people on the bottom won't even make minimum wage. The average for one supposedly reputable company was $1.57 per hour. You have to pay all your own expenses. If you make money, you can ONLY do it by taking advantage of several people who won't. It can destroy your friendships, your marriage, your family, and your finances. If you see that a program lets you get ANY money from sales of people you recruit, it's MLM, no matter how much they disguise it. These are basically business cults, and they are run with cult mind control techniques. If you're not making money, they may urge you to buy motivational tapes. This is strictly a scam. You aren't making money because the business model is fundamentally flawed.
Also, if you encounter a web site that wants information from you without telling you first what they are doing, run away screaming! Most of these are sources for spam for scams. I got burned that way. Also, avoid web sites that want you to sign up for information and have checkboxes for the kind of information. These are sites that set up lists of victims for spammers to buy. And avoid web sites with slick presentations. YOU seek out the companies to do business with, by using search engines and surfing. The good sites will have a link for affiliates (you can find these at bookstores, also, for example), but they don't tout this, and this is just a single link on an otherwise normal online store where you can buy as a stranger. An example of this is Amazon.com. If you want to collect books and sell them second hand, that's one possibility, if you have storage space and don't mind packing up single books as soon as you get an order, and mailing them. You will have to buy books, of course. And you will have to inventory and supply information to Amazon. You can also put links to specific books sold by Amazon on a web site, and become an affiliate that way. That's a lot easier. Fulfillment (sending out products) is time-consuming.
Here are some suggestions for things you can do to make money from home. You can start an affiliate business. This is different from MLM, even though both use the term "affiliate". So it can be confusing. An affiliate business requires that you have a web site. You surf the web for things you would like to sell, where the company will allow you to link in for a cut of the profit from the sale of an item. They will give you a special link that will let them know that the customer was recruited by you, and whatever that person buys provides a payment to you. Another possibility is to set up a web site selling things that you either make yourself, or buy from people you select, and you buy from more than one vender. For example, you might decide to sell baby things. You take orders on your web site, and you have to do fulfillment, which means you have to obtain the ordered item and send it to the customer. Don't keep a large inventory. This will cost YOU money. Or you could do the same thing with jewelry or whatever. You can choose any product where you can get it wholesale. Just make sure that the company is NOT MLM. Once you have a web site set up to do either of these, you can get search engines to list you (I know quite a bit about that), and you can join webrings to get traffic. I also run a couple of business webrings. Let the owners of this discussion group know you want more information about any of this, and I will contact you privately. Good luck with this! It is a worthwhile thought. If you need help designing a web site, I can also help you a little with that. Be wary of these free sites like FortuneCity and Geocities. These will drive your visitors batty with ads, and it's not worth it. If possible, get a domain name. You can pay a small amount per month for hosting, and if you are making any money at all, you can cover this cost, though you will have to pay for it out of pocket to begin with. But it beats renting store space!
Hugs,
Pat
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