Temporary Random thread

KTdid81

This cold is killing me and LO is going through a leap.  I need some sleep.

saisongbird

Random bitch/vent: I hate that breast milk doesn't keep her full as long as formula does.  I am working my ASS (well, boobs) off trying to get my supply up - I pump 6 times a day in addition to nursing her in the morning - and if I'm lucky, I can make 4 3 oz bottles.  Now, granted, this is a big improvement since before the domperidone I was making maybe 1 and a half bottles a day, and I have another 8 weeks on the meds, but still.  She takes 8 bottles a day on average.  The breastmilk goes through her in 1.5 hours!  I think I make a lot of foremilk and not as much hindmilk so she's not staying full.  On a formula bottle we get more like 2.5 hours.  I'd feed her more but she just spits it up.  So we do the lesser amounts more frequently.  I just wish the breastmilk sustained her longer...so much effort for so little time.

SurpriseAt39

mommyKT310 said:

It has been very windy in Nebraska (not sure if that's the norm) and I went to target and bought some toys for E. When I was trying to put it all in my car the cart kept rolling away! I was fighting with cart and trying to get everything in my car all while I had E in my Moby wrap. I'm pretty sure anyone watching got a good laugh!

And for that reason, I sometimes think shopping carts should have wheel locks like strollers do, so you can lock/unlock while loading/unloading them.

kstar83

So I left the other random thread alone because. Holy. Cow. This is much more doable.

I tried to do Facebook group cause it would be easier on mobile. But I think I finally figured out how to stay signed on my phone...

EML2011

saisongbird said:

Random bitch/vent: I hate that breast milk doesn't keep her full as long as formula does.  I am working my ASS (well, boobs) off trying to get my supply up - I pump 6 times a day in addition to nursing her in the morning - and if I'm lucky, I can make 4 3 oz bottles.  Now, granted, this is a big improvement since before the domperidone I was making maybe 1 and a half bottles a day, and I have another 8 weeks on the meds, but still.  She takes 8 bottles a day on average.  The breastmilk goes through her in 1.5 hours!  I think I make a lot of foremilk and not as much hindmilk so she's not staying full.  On a formula bottle we get more like 2.5 hours.  I'd feed her more but she just spits it up.  So we do the lesser amounts more frequently.  I just wish the breastmilk sustained her longer...so much effort for so little time.

Can you mix bottles half and half? That's what we do when we don't have enough BM for the day!

saisongbird

@EML2011 - we've done that, but I find this way easier to prepare the bottles.  I also realized that she had really bad gas today and when that happens all she wants to do is eat, so today may have been a bad representation.