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I totally believe in this and I knock on wood constantly!!! With the stuff my son does, I try to wait until I have at least a week or two of consistency before I "tempt fate" by saying anything about it! It's still backfired on me plenty of times!! Every time he starts eating well and my husband and I congratulate ourselves on what great and patient parents we are, bam, we're hit with a day/days/week of extreme fussiness!

In medicine we're generally pretty superstitious. No nurse or doctor will ever say the Q word (quiet). I can say it right now because I'm having a not so good admitting night...

I believe in it 100%. Every time I think "wow, things are going really well" ... something comes along to crap all over it. And this isn't even me saying anything aloud. It's just the thought!

Yup, I'm pretty superstitious.

Uhh, yeah. Dh was away from Sunday-Wednesday. Inward talking to my sis on the phone about how LO hasn't dislocated his arm in a long time, and DH has been the only one to pop it back in, so as soon as I said it out loud I said, oh no, I shouldn't have said that. Guess what. He dislocated it on Tuesday. I popped it back in though.

I believe in it. But also, when things are really bad, I believe they will right themselves into a full circle.

@lawbee11: Same.

Yea sort of. We knock wood when we say good things. And we rarely comment when things are going well with LO. Like, you will never hear us say "she's sleeping." Or "she's been really happy today." etc.

When it comes to parenting, I do not want to tempt fate, so I never say anything out loud about how things are going well (sleep, illness, behavior, etc.), because kids seem hell bent on making you eat your words. But in the rest of life, I don't really think about it.