I agree completely with the emphatic comments about not asking for medical advice on the internet.

As an aside… some of you big guys are wearing your belts really tight and strangling your assholes into hemrroids to desperately keep your pants up. Consider switching to suspenders for the love of God. It can make a huge difference in the health of you asshole vasculature, stop the itching and bleeding after a few months. You can wear the suspenders under your shirt it you don’t like the style.

Well that’s probably a good thing and means you have some social connection or empathy with the baby! Lucky baby!

It’s usually the air pressure causing the kid some pain from mild barotrauma / airplane ear. They can’t help it. No amount of good or bad parenting changes the pressure differential in the inner ear.

Investment in some noise-cancelling headphone would be justified. It’s a sanity-saving expense!

It does not spark joy. Don’t let it take up your precious real estate. Out it goes.

He’s just renting.

They tint the light yellow orange. Blue light can make it harder to settle down and sleep. Kind of like the nightmode for your computer screen but in real life.